Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. 36, No. 7 (Jul. 1, 1965)
1 July 1965 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

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This Issue

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MERAL

ale Attacks Trimaran 23 lanese Theory on Polynesians ... 25 x>s Island 82 n Theory on "Bounty" Mutiny 91 (her Islands Freight Rates 97 ns Philp Ship Sold 97 igh" Attempt Fails 105 een's Birthday Honours List 125 stralian Concern Over Trade 126 I Profit Down 128

LERICAN SAMOA

limum Wage Law 16 lerican Trimaran Missing 107

OK ISLANDS

icter Aviation Controls Likely ... 16 nuae First Day Covers 23 Clears Way for Albert Henry ... 37 appointment for Eclipse Watchers 71 arious Book by Julian Dashwood . 87 ne Encouragement for Tourism ... 121 >st for Bananas Likely 127 des for New Guinea 9 ispects Brighter for London Talks 13 uncil Privileges Bill 15 ak Censorship Trouble 21 de Ship's Visit 33 w Order for Legal Profession 41

BOAC Service to Nadi 123 Australian Import Concessions Likely 127

FRENCH POLYNESIA

Eiao: Island Ruined by Erosion 77 Trading Schooner Refloated 101

GILBERT and ELLICE ISLANDS COLONY

Spectre of Over-Population 8 Russian Mercy Call at Fanning Is 15 Tarawa, Funafuti Hotels Doing Well 121 Resident Commissioner Honoured 125

LORD HOWE ISLAND

Flying Boat in Mishap 10 Tourist Boat Launched 123

NAURU

Higher Royalties, Legco Plan 36 R. S. Leydin, "Forgotten Man" 67

NEW CALEDONIA

TV to Start in Noumea Soon 51 Absinthe Makes Heart Grow Fonder 81 Offers for Wrecked Ships 101 New Botanical Gardens 121 Mont Dore Tourist Centre 123 More UTA Services 123

NEW HEBRIDES

Trade Ship's Visit 31 New Trading Ships 105

NIUE

Land Survey Team's Visit 15

NORFOLK ISLAND

Sydney Tourist Bureau Opened 121

PAPUA-NEW GUINEA

Accusations of Racial Discrimination .. 10 No Surprises in UN Mission Report 12 World Bank Report Available 16 TV, Radio Documentaries 27 Trade Ship's Visit 29 Lae in Pictures 53, 55, 56 Lae: Busy Territory Centre 57 Hydrographic Survey 99 Lae Harbour Dredging 101 New Wharf for Oro Bay 101 Travel Business Growing 113 Extensions for Hotel Madang 123 Sugar Cane Experiments 127 12-Storey Building for Moresby 128 Tariff Board Hearing on Coffee 128

SOLOMONS ISLANDS

Honiara Riot Picture 13 Political Party Formed 15 New Chief Secretary 37 Mission Ship Breaks Up 101 Trade Ship's Visit 126 New Company Formed 128

TONGA

Queen's Record Reign 11 Falcon Island Rising Again 23 Change in UK Consular Post 37 New Master for "Aoniu" 105 More Air Services from Samoa 123

WESTERN SAMOA

Independence Celebrations 123 More Air Services to Tonga 123

DEPARTMENTS: In a Nutshell, 15; Tropicalities, 21; Territories Talk-Talk, 45; Magazine Section, 77; New Books, 87; Shipping, 97; Cruising Yachts, 107; From the Islands Press, 111; Travel, 113; Schedules for Cruise Ships, 119; People, 125; Commerce, 126; Produce Prices, 133; Shipping, Airways Time tables, 135; Deaths of Islands People, 145.

Spectre Of Over-Population

pp. 10-11

With Phosphate Deposits Running Out ...

LOOMS OVER G.E.I.C.

The spectre of a rapidly increasing population with de creasing Ocean Island phosphate resources to support it was a major theme of the fourth meeting of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony’s Advisory Council in Tarawa in May and June.

OPENING the meeting, the Colony’s Resident Commissioner, Mr. V. J. Andersen, said that every thing must be done to limit the growth of population in the Colony, and that the islanders should practise thrift “because of our bleak, long-term financial future”.

“Today,” he said, “with ap proximately 51,000 persons on our small, infertile islands, we can just find enough food and money for a standard of living which is not high and which cannot be compared to that of our neighbours.

“The position will be infinitely worse in 1978 when the population, at its present rate of growth, will be at least 75,500, and employment and revenue prospects on Ocean Island will have disappeared or be disap pearing rapidly.”

Mr. Andersen said that two urgent tasks ahead were the mounting of a full-scale family planning campaign and the need to find more employ ment overseas for the people. It was becoming more difficult to resettle

the islanders in the British Solomons and the New Hebrides, due, in the main, to the increasing interest of these territories in the development of their own resources by and for their own indigenous populations.

“However, at the request of the BSIP Government, the Colonial Development Corporation is in vestigating the feasibility of planned agricultural settlements on Guadal canal and it is hoped some of our people will participate in any schemes which may eventuate,” the Resident Commissioner said.

Mr. Andersen said an investigation was being made into the possibility of setting up a merchant marine training school to teach the skills required by crews of overseas vessels.

Referring to the mining of phosphates on Ocean Island, Mr.

Andersen said that estimated royalties from the British Phosphate Com mission for 1965 were £356,000, based on the export of 310,000 tons at the current royalty rate of 23/a ton.

Higher Royalties

But permission had been given for the extraction rate to be increased to 350,000 tons a year “as a temporary measure, and in anticipation of an improved royalty rate . . . applying to all phosphate exports after February 6, 1965”.

Mr. Andersen said it seemed to be the consensus of opinion that the Colony was ready to take another political step, and consideration was being given to what that step might be.

But “no early results” could be promised as the difficulties of internal communication and the smallness of the Colony’s scattered island com munities had to be taken into account in devising possible constitutions.

Referring to a resolution by the United Nations Committee of 24 last year that progress towards self determination in the GEIC was far

too slow, Mr. Andersen said although United Nations interei the country was welcome, “we dc accept that it has any right to di to us”.

The Government would be fluenced “only by the needs of Colony and the opinions of its pe in determining the rate and typ constitutional development”.

Mr. Andersen also made t points: • Arrangements had been r for a thorough survey of the cultural potential of Christmas Is to be financed by United King Technical Assistance Funds Christmas Island Plantation. It also hoped that the survey t would be able to visit the souti Phoenix Islands to advise on 1 worth as copra producers. • The Cable and Wireless sta on Fanning Island, which was cL down when the COMPAC cable inaugurated, had not been despite a “lengthy sales campaig

Mr. Andersen.

I Tarawa would soon be linked : radio telephone with Honiara, •an Island and Fiji, and, by the . of COMP AC, with the rest of rworld. n the subsequent debate, Council libers appeared to be divided on of constitutional develop at. tome members seemed to think it t better for things to remain as y were rather than for the Colony be driven into over-hasty advance the Committee of 24 or before sent progress was fully understood t consolidated. hhers thought the Advisory incil was outdated and that it i time for a Legislative Council. )n the question of Ocean Island •sphate, two members, in parti n’. had provocative questions to

Gilberts?

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Anyone For T[?] Gilberts?

The difficulty in getting a retaining overseas staff in t senior posts in the GEIC Ci Service is both depressing a frightening, according to t Resident Commissioner, Mr.

J. Andersen.

Mr. Andersen told t Advisory Council in May tl such staff were badly need because of the urgent necess to intensify development so tl the GEIC could be prepared control its own destinies a withstand the loss of employmt opportunities and revenues frc Ocean Island phosphate.

He said the Administrati was at present recruiting ov< seas for 11 vacant posts; tl eight of the 28 overseas contn officers on the staff were r renewing their contracts; and tl two of the 24 permanent i patriate officers were retiring Although localisation of posts in the Civil Service h “very firmly” the Governmer policy, not much more could done in this direction “until c young men and women sti returning from overseas wi full technical and profession qualifications.”

[?]hy Should NZ,

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[?]stralia Dictate?

loeafu Moti wanted to know why British Phosphate Commission, more precisely Australia and New land, had to dictate the price of ►sphate to the Colony, le also asked: “Why should two 1-developed countries enjoy the efit of the Colony’s only valuable )urce? And had the people of : Colony been sufficiently well resented when the first agreement the exploitation of the phosphate ► signed?” dr. E. H. G. Blacklock, an LMS sionary, said the GEIC should m the right to levy export tax on :an Island phosphate without ing to go cap in hand to the three nber governments of the BPC— itralia, NZ, and the UK.

'wo of these governments, Mr. cklock said, “do nothing for us, one even looks upon us as unfit live with”. The last part of his iment was presumably a reference White Australia. n reviewing the history of Ocean nd phosphate exploitation from 0, Mr. Blacklock said that “one y be forgiven for thinking that fish protection was being extended the phosphates rather than the in stants” when Britain, in Nov ?er, 1900, declared Ocean Island form part of the Gilbert Islands tectorate that was set up eight rs earlier.

Ax. Blacklock said that in the

65 years that had passed since then conditions had changed greatly, and “the time had arrived for the three powers to have regard to the altered circumstances, and, in particular, that Ocean Island is part of a Colony on the threshold of some kind of in dependence.”

The world would judge Britain hardly if she held the territory as a colony only so long as the phosphates were of value to her. The world would judge her no less hardly if any earlier grant of self-government were to omit the transfer of control of the phosphates, the Colony’s main economic asset.

"Time Of Need"

Australia and New Zealand should beware also, for judgment would be no less hard on them if they, having received by far the greater share of the phosphates, did nothing to help the people of the Colony in their time of need.

Commenting on members’ speeches, the Assistant Resident Commissioner, Mr. R. Angeloni, said the people of the Colony must not look on the next step in constitutional develop ment as the final one. There was no suggestion that the next step would be independence.

The Government wanted to create

a situation where the people could say what they wanted.

Mr. Angeloni said the speeches made on Ocean Island phosphate would make Australia and New Zealand realise that the people of the GEIC were “not happy” about present arrangements.

"Not Ogres"

There were many aspects of the present arrangements that could be improved, and he thought Australia and New Zealand would be prepared to help.

But it was a mistake to be over critical about what happened in 1900 or 1920, as the conventions then used were then acceptable.

“The United Kingdom Government whole-heartedly supports the Colony in its request for a maximum return, and Australia and New Zealand understand the problems,” he said.

“They are not ogres, but they do have their own countries and con sumers to think about.”

In reply to a question by Mr.

Blacklock, Mr. Angeloni said the Government had “no information whatsoever” on the possibility of a transfer of sovereignty of Fanning, Washington and Christmas Islands to the United States ( PIM , April, P- 41).

BRIDES

FROM FIJI

New Guineans who have attended the Fiji School of Medicine over the years have

occasionally returned

home with something more than a medical education—they have returned with a bride from Fiji. Latest to fall for Fiji's beauties are Gabriel Gris, left, of Manus, and Ruben Kila, of Hula, who recently became the first New Guineans to qualify as dentists.

Both married in Suva.

Mrs. Kila, right, is a nurse. They were photographed in Port Moresby on their ar rival.

Racial Discrimination

pp. 12-14

NEW GUINEA EXAMINES

ACCUSATIONS OF

From a Port Moresby Correspondent

June was a sort of ‘'Discrimination Month” in the Territory.

The matter of discrimination, real or imagined, forced itself into the news from half-a-dozen different sources. A judge, a clergyman, an hotel keeper and a New Guinean member of the House of Assembly were all involved, and at the end of the month people were asking, “Is there serious discrimination in New Guinea today?”

THE Anglican rector of Port Moresby, Father lan Stuart, was one who said so, in a report published in the Northern Church man, the magazine of the Diocese of North Queensland. (There is no diocesesan magazine in New Guinea).

Father Stuart is a pleasant and very friendly clergyman—smiling, easy to meet, never blatant in his work. He looks young, in his open necked white shirt with the simple cross on the collar, but the grey is stealing through his crew-cut hair.

And he is frank and forthright.

Those who know him were not surprised to read his warning: “The outward peace and calm of Port Moresby could be deceptive—under the surface are tensions, resentment, niggling insecurity, a nagging sense of guilt, and a small cloud of fear on the horizon.”

Dual Standards

Dual standards of wages, working condition, housing and rents, he said, had made nonsense of the theory that there was no racial discrimination in the Territory. He contrasted the high salaries, generous leave conditions, special allowances and housing subsidies offered to attract Australians to the Public Service, with the living conditions of a much larger group who existed barely above subsistence level.

Father Stuart freely admitted in his report that the Australians were needed to do jobs that the Papuans could not do, as yet. But he warned of the consequences of abandoning the principle of equal pay for equal work in a country where the economic contrast was rapidly be coming more marked, along racial lines.

The average Papuan public servant, he added, paid twice as much rent

as his Australian counterpart, and for a vastly inferior house. His salary could be one-tenth of the Austra lian’s.

Father Stuart apart, there wouldn’t be many residents of Port Moresby who haven’t been aware, in recent months, of the increasingly widening gulf between the Australian and the New Guinean, in the town. The new

Public Service pay scales, w came into force last Septen sharpened the division at a where people of different races at last beginning to find com ground—on the job.

Then came the new system economic rentals which provided people of all races would pa> increased, but by no means rental by Australian standards, their homes. However, only Au lion public servants would get additional allowance—an am which exactly offset the ] Segregation of living, Borok Hohola, Kaevaga v Kaugere, thus enforced economically.

This situation moved one Ar lian mother, the wife of Bo United Church Minister, Paul Pa to write to an Australian newspj “During this past year, some Pa and New Guinean families m into Boroko, previously a Euro area. In our years in the Terri this is the first time our childrei within walking distance of a ft with whom they can share their cart and their books. The childre to school and church and

jether. I think we’re beginning to H common ground. And then this! onomic rents] What do I say? id luck you weren’t born white?’ ere are a lot of people in the rritory today who live only for i quick quid.”

As a visiting politician once suc ctly, but unpopularly, put it, Port )resby is a case of “hordes of idle-class Australians trying to live upper-class existence”, Port >resby undoubtedly contains a her proportion of these people ,n any other centre of Papua-New inea. Backyard baby-minders jrish as mother goes back to work pay off the Mercedes. These )ple exist in a national vacuum, r them, New Guineans provide only blurred background to their own lity and cupidity.

But there are many Australians in i rapidly-expanding urban areas of pua-New Guinea frustrated to find mselves in an emerging and ex ing country, but not really of it. ere is a genuine disappointment it their contact with the people fer extends beyond the master vant relationship with their house h

No Official Help

Rising educational levels and new rfessional abilities have given hope ■ better social contacts and an ier path to friendship between the :es, in towns like Port Moresby, t at this promising time, govera nt wage and housing policies ire effectively prevented the develop nt of the integrated suburban com inity—the most solid foundation racial understanding.

Criticism of the official wage policy ne from an unexpected quarter ring June. Dealing in the Supreme urt with a New Guinean found :lty of stealing from the mails, Mr. itice Frost said the temptation to al had come from under-payment s to the freezing of salaries and sitions as part of the Public rvice conversion, Ihe New Guinean, Gigiba Agia, m Daru, was a postal employee rking for £3/3/- per week, when stole £2 from a registered letter, i £3 from another letter the follow ! day. The judge pointed out that i freezing of positions had pre ited Gigiba’s promotion to a ary range of £177-£230 a year, fact, he had become worse off, ;ause on completion of training,

his bus fare allowance of 12/- a week was withdrawn.

Mr. Justice Frost said, “One can not live in Port Moresby and not know how real this burden is for the Papuan people. He has to pay the same price as Europeans for his food.

Living and working here in Port Moresby, it is inevitable and indeed proper that he should acquire some European tastes. I do not see how he could have lived on his salary of £3 a week in Port Moresby.”

He added, “This must concern a judge because men who are under paid are tempted to break the law.

This affects the steady observance of law and order.”

Gigiba was sentenced to nine months gaol, mainly, the judge in dicated, because his second theft could not be regarded as due to want.

Mr. Justice Frost put his finger on the point that is most riling to the New Guinean public servant about the new pay scales—lower wages in the service, but the same prices in the shops.

What appeared to be a straight forward case of discrimination, however, arose over a complaint about differential treatment in the Hotel Papua, Port Moresby’s “top pub”.

The matter was first aired in the House of Assembly, when the member for Ramu, James Meanggarum al leged that Simogun Pita, veteran legislator and now member for Wewak-Aitape as well as Under secretary for Police, had been un fairly ordered from the hotel for appearing in the lounge with only rubber thongs on his feet.

He claimed that Simogun had pointed out, unavailingly, that Euro peans in the hotel were similarly dressed. It was said that two Euro pean members of the House, later identified as Graham Pople (Gumine) and John Stuntz (East Papua), who were wearing thongs also, walked out in protest.

Investigation

The Administrator promised an immediate investigation, and set about collecting sworn statements from Messrs Pople and Stuntz that would make a charge of racial practices stick under the Government’s Dis criminatory Practices Ordinance. So far this law has not been used.

He also took the matter up with the Burns Philp management, which carried out its own inquiry into the affair.

After some weeks delay, Sir Donald was obliged to admit defeat. In a prepared statement, he announced that he had not received adequate supporting evidence to warrant pro ceedings under the ordinance.

“However,” he said, “as a result of consultations between the pro prietors of the hotel and myself, the person who was responsible for the act in question is leaving the Territory and will not return.”

This seemed somewhat less than fair to Mr. George Rooke, manager of the Papua Hotel, who was not named but was squarely identified just the same.

Sir Donald Cleland’s statement seemed to mean, firstly, that an act of discrimination had been com mitted, but could not be proved, and secondly that hotelier Rooke was being banished from the Territory.

At this stage, it is doubtful if any one could say how many Europeans were in the lounge that day wearing scuffs when Simogun was told to leave. But it does not appear that Sir Donald learned that, in fact, both

Record Reign By

Tongas Queen

Queen Salote became the longest ruling monarch in Tonga’s history on June 20 when her term on the throne reached 47 years, two months and 15 days. This eclipsed the reign of her grandfather, King George Tupou I, who died on February 18, 1893.

Queen Salote succeeded to the throne on the death of her father, King George Tupou II, on April 5, 1918.

Mr. Pople and Mr. Stunz were ordered out of the hotel at the same time as the member for Wewak- Aitape.

The hotel has a rule, ratified and approved by the Licensing Commis sion, and displayed publicly, requiring trousers, or shorts with long socks, to be worn in the lounge and saloon bar. The manager was within his rights in asking Simogun to leave, but did he discriminate? Certainly not between members of the House of Assembly, at any rate!

Burns Philp found it necessary to make clear, after the Administrator’s statement, that Mr. Rooke’s contract was not being renewed, but that this decision had been taken some months earlier.

The incident has served to em phasise the official determination to pounce upon any flagrant public dis criminatory act, now that the statute book has been wiped clean of almost every ordinance differentiating on the basis of race. And in its way, this highlights the segregation that exists in those areas beyond the reach of the ordinance.

Little Association

Despite the legal guarantee of racial equality, the right to equal service, equal treatment, equal op portunity and freedom from deliberate racial insults, there is little racial association, except by convenience. A law can only protect against injustice, it cannot change attitudes.

Not one European licensed club has admitted a New Guinean member since drinking was de-segregated two and a half years ago. Few visits are exchanged between families of dif ferent races.

Sportsmen meet in temporary equality on the field, but assume their tradition-dictated reserve towards each other on other occasions.

Not many government officers and under-studies ever meet outside work ing hours. New Guineans and Aus tralians retreat, on every possible oc casion, to the safety and seclusion of their own communities.

This apartheid, noticeable through out the Territory, becomes more exaggerated and more tragic in towns like Port Moresby, where New Guineans make the closest approach to the Australians’ standards in education, social conduct, employ ment and living conditions.

We find Australian superiority, complacency and indifference, and allegations of native jealousy, and desire to get something for nothing.

We find also, a distressing reluctance by New Guineans to invite the Aus

tralians to become real citizens of their country, and join their circles.

Yet the initiative for closer ties probably lies with the European, and at times it seems surprising that there is not more overt resentment to Aus tralians.

It is hard to determine the real Papuan feeling towards the European in the towns. Publicly, if questioned, the “we want Australia to stay” line is put forward. Sometimes with sin cerity. Sometimes, one suspects, merely because it has been found to please. The New Guinean, like the Chinese, would deceive rather than insult.

But there are signs—the rebellious ness shown in the streets, when New Guineans deliberately walk in the path of cars, throw stones and call insults, the attacks on women, the attacks on Australians seen in com pany with native and mixed race girls.

Is this merely hooliganism? Or is it deep-seated resentment boiling over? Is it the payback for years of taking second place at every shop counter and foodstall to that loud mouthed, ill-mannered Australian element? Or does it really spring from economic envy?

It is difficult to assess the real temper of the local people. For half a century criticism was not invited, and the lack of plain speaking by New Guineans about Australians is a bar to better understanding. There is an air of unreality about, with every second person professing to know “what the natives think”. So when a critical outburst does come,

it tends to be given more weight 1 it may really merit.

This happened when a membe: the House of Assembly, Gaudi Mi who represents the Markham e torate, was before the District O at Lae, in June, on a charge offensive behaviour. He was convi( and fined £5.

There was some evidence drunken behaviour and obsc language, but what aroused interest was the claim in court 1 he used the words: “I am going tell my people to rid white men fi our country. And I will tell tf again—rid white men so even dust will not be left behind them., that is why I am in the House Assembly.”

Gaudi Apologies

Later, a humbler Gaudi issuer public apology through the ne papers: “I love the Australians, i want them with all my heart to s with my people in this country . . . help Papuans and New Guine; develop this country in close assoc tion as friends and irrespective colour or race. I must apologise myself as an elected member of House of Assembly. I am very so for saying those words if I did : those words.”

Whether Mirau was venting dei rooted hatreds or merely blasting in a moment of drunken petulance not possible to tell. At this time change in New Guinea, Europez may look too hard at small straws see which way the wind is blowii

Second Island Mishap In Two Years

p. 12

On May 31, for the second time in less than two years, a fiyi boat of Airlines of New South Wales broke its moorings and was drh ashore in the night at Lord Howe Island. On the first occasion, July, 1963, the aircraft became a total loss.

This time, only a float and a wing of the plane were damaged, I a week elapsed before the “Tulagi”, the first Burns Philp ship to vi Lord Howe for 11 years, arrived with a team of engineers to ma repairs. Almost another week passed before the plane was ready to again. Meanwhile, 70 tourists who were stranded on the island enjoy a holiday at the airline’s expense. The airline’s commercial manag Mr. J. Buchnan, commented: “We shall never moor a flying boat the lagoon overnight again.’’

No Surprises In Un Mission Repor

p. 14

From a Port Moresby Correspondent One Administration official commented: “I suppose there is son excuse for Russians going off half-cocked in the Trusteeship Coum when they are not allowed in New Guinea to see for themselves. Wi not let them come in? We’ve got nothing to hide."

His view is shared by a number of other senior officials here, wl think it would be a good idea to give Russian journalists a permit visit the Territory. Last year a Tass correspondent was refused a perm Port Moresby Pressmen asked the Administrator, Sir Donald Clelan in June, whether he favoured the admission of Russians. Sir Dona replied that this was a matter for Canberra.

The Russian question has come up because of the usual ill-informi criticism of Territory conditions made by Soviet delegates at tl Trusteeship Council, which this year discussed the report of the Nam mission to the Territory.

The mission’s report held no surprises, and was generally constructs and sound. It suggested that more effort should be made to train Ne Guineans to occupy key Public Service positions; that local councils I given more powers and more money; that a national anthem and flag I adopted to give the Territories unity; that there should be politic, education at all levels and roads should be improved.

Fiji Political Horizon

p. 15

Dark Clouds Lift On The Fiji Political Horizon

From a Suva Correspondent Virtually on the eve of the London constitutional con ference to begin on July 26 some of the dark clouds that menace Fiji’s political future are being blown away.

pHE clearing skies are the result L of a Suva meeting on June 25, rtween members of the National ongress of Fiji, and Fijian and uropean members of the Legislative ouncil—described by those present > a “turning point towards racial iderstanding and tolerance”.

Its significance was that responsible idians challenged the manoeuvres ; the A. D. Patel group. The Indians the meeting condemned the action r Mr. Patel in refusing to co-operate ith other Legislative Council embers in an effort to work out pre-conference solution, and said e vast majority of Fiji s Indian tpulgtion were dismayed by the grettable atmosphere created by .. . . r , The National Congress was born the efforts of Ayodhya Prasad, meral secretary of the Indian cane rmers union, the Fiji Kisan mgh, and others. It has emerged an implacable opponent of Patels idian Federation Party, which for onths has been noisily holding the age j n Fiji.

The Congress kicked off on the rong foot several months ago when suggested to the UN that Indians ight leave Fiji unless they got a ;tter deal on land. But it has since ade up leeway, and even increased \ stature among both Fijians and

Indians, by its efforts to come to an understanding with the Fijian As sociation—the leading Fijian organisa tion.

At public meetings Congress speakers have repudiated the Patel Federation’s demand for a common roll, saying that if the Fijians didn’t want it, then the Indians didn’t want it. The moderate policies of the Congress have been helping con siderably to lower the political tem perature.

Federation Party members ob viously haven ’ t liked the success of the Congress and there has been much heckling at Congress meetings, one Nadi heckler was removed by police Congress pres ident, Mr.

Manikam V, Pillai, at that meeting, did Mr Pate ,. s position no good by quoting from spee ches by the late Pandit NehrUj who told Indians jn Africa that he would not support , hem in their demand for privilege , ha , went against the AfrimrU ’ , ft you can t get on with the r ! car f, s ’ y° u have to get out of N e liru had told them, Mr.

Pulai pointed out that this advice applied with equal force in Fiji.

The Suva meeting with the Con gress leaders was attended by all six Fijian members of the Legco, and by

Mr. R. A. Kearsley, MLC and Mr.

J. N. Falvey, MLC.

The meeting agreed that at present elections on a common roll were neither desirable nor acceptable. To attempt to force a common roll at present would aggravate racial dif ferences. So many things in Fiji were not common to all races that it would be illogical to try to superimpose a common political structure.

As an example of the opposition of many Indians to the Patel, campaign for a common roll it was stated that the Muslim League had said it represented 38,000 people who were for a communal roll and against a common roll.

There will be further meetings between Congress and Legco members before and after the London con ference. All 18 unofficial members of the Legco will go to London.

Earlier in June, at a Suva meeting attended by about 500 people of mixed nationality, the general sec retary of the Fijian Democratic Party, Apisai Mohammed Tora, a Fijian, declared “Fiji for the Fijians!” and added that “any other respect able aliens may stay with us if they wish to do so—with the exception of the Indians. The Indians must go!”

He said if the Indians stayed in Fiji the inevitable result would be “bloodshed, with capital letters”.

It was fighting talk and inflamma tory stuff not needed in Fiji, from a man generally regarded as being in the political wilderness.

But it was an indication of the strengthening opposition to Mr. Patel and his supporters, and further proof, if any were needed, that when Mr.

Patel speaks at the London con ference his views will not be re presentative of Fiji opinion, what ever he might claim.

MOVE TO IMPROVE BSIP

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

Improvement in the machinery for settlement of industrial disputes is one of the platforms of the Democratic Party, formed in Honiara in June by elected members of the BSIP Legisla tive Council (see p. 15). This aim follows the strike of labourers in Honiara in April, which resulted in tear-gas being used to break up an ugly demonstration (PIM, May, p. 15).

In this picture riot-equipped police face the demonstrators.

Photo: David Hilliard.

Objectionable

p. 17

UI ALTERS

[?]RIVILEGES BILL

From a Suva Correspondent •A Fiji Government proposal to produce a bill which curtailed tess freedom was defeated in June Mowing strong opposition from the ress. The bill was passed at the me 22 meeting of the Legislative 'ouncil, but with amendments re ilting in most of the objectionable matures being withdrawn.

TNDER the original bill, which J defines the powers and privileges f the Legislative Council, it was an [fence to “insult” or slander any icmber of the Council, or to publish ny evidence or document which the touncil or any of its committees rohibited from publication, or -here the evidence had been heard ehind closed doors. It laid down unishments to a maximum of a 200 fine or two years’ gaol, or both. [ put Fiji councillors in a special Dsition of privilege and encouraged oncealment of information. [Publisher of The Fiji Times, Mr. .en Usher, led the attack on the roposed bill, and as a result there rere protests against some of its jatures voiced in Britain, New ealand and Australia.

The Sydney Morning Herald said Lustralian politicians would “surely nvy” members of Fiji’s Legislative Council for the “truly remarkable revisions” which made it an offence y insult members, without indicating mat an insult was. Was it an insult, or instance, to say that a member iad not fulfilled his election pro lises?

Some of the clauses represented a quite intolerable infringement of tie freedom of the Press,” said the Jerald.

Under the amended bill it is not n offence to insult a member out ide the House, and other safeguards ►n other clauses were written into he bill.

South Seas

p. 17

Lae: Host To The South Seas

A special feature on Lae, host town to the Sixth South Pacific Conference on July 6, begins on p. 53 of this issue. The article was written by Jim Huxley, until recently managing-editor of the "New Guinea Times Courier", Lae.

Nutshell

pp. 17-18

In A Nutshell

SELF-GOVERNMENT

AIM FOR BSIP

AT the inaugural meeting of the first elected BSIP Legislative Council in June, the eight elected members announced they had formed themselves into a political party to be known as the Democratic Party.

Main aims of the party are self determination for the BSIP within the Commonwealth, free education for all, improved industrial relations and improved machinery for dispute settlements, unification of all peoples of the Solomons, and greater partici pation by women in Protectorate affairs.

First president of the party is a Melanesian, Mariano Kelese, MLC, an excellent speaker and clear thinker who is regarded as Prime Minister material. Party secretary is Honiara businessman E. V. Lawson, MLC, an Australian.

First meeting of the new 21member Council (11 official members, 10 unofficial—two of whom are nomi nated) caused great public interest.

Star attraction was the BSIP’s first woman Council member, Miss Lily Ogatina, who spoke clearly and cleverly and frequently received applause. • The Russian oceanographic re search ship Vitjaz put into Fanning Island, 1,100 miles south of Hono lulu, in mid-June with a sick scientist. Mr. P. F. D. Palmer, manager of the Burns Philp copra plantation on Fanning, radioed for assistance from the United States Coastguard in Hawaii. The Vitjaz was on her way from the South Pacific after visiting Manuae, Cook Islands, for the solar eclipse on May 31. Earlier, she paid a visit to Apia. • A three-man survey team from the New Zealand Lands and Survey Department was due to leave Wellington for Niue on June 22 for three months with the Department of Island Territories. The team will continue making control and title surveys, which were begun last year.

It will also establish a system of land registration and survey records.

• A Rarotonga report in 1 June said Civil Aviation auth( ties were shortly expected to I DCS aircraft from operating tween Samoa and the Cook lands, thus cancelling Polynes: Airlines’ present weekly service the Cooks. It is proposed that new service using Electras oper direct from NZ. • A new law setting a mi mum wage of 49 cents an ho came into effect in Americ Samoa on June 12 for employi of the Government and privi industry. In addition, time and half will be paid for any hoi worked in excess of 48 hoi weekly. The law will affect abc 600 Government employees a at least 200 employees in privi businesses.

C Printed copies of the Woi Bank’s economic report on Papi New Guinea ( PIM, Jan., p. 4 left New York by ship for Ai tralia in late May, and the should now be available from t Director of Publications, Cover ment Printing Office, Canben The report is cloth-covered, co tains 240,000 words and 5i pages, and has 10 maps and eig charts. Copies are 55/- each, pi 1/8 postage in Australia and 3, overseas.

One of the largest sums to be rai at this year's Red Cross appeal Rabaul, NG, was £201 by the chile of the Court Street School. Here Pe McKee presents the cheque to Raba Red Cross Association president J Mills while headmaster Alan Wool[?] looks on.—Photo: M. R. Hayes.

T ropicalities

p. 23

n Australia, the question of literary censorship is one that we are sldom allowed to forget for long, because the Customs )epartment, which has sweeping powers over what might Drrupt our morals, is always banning books that are freely vailable elsewhere in the English-speaking world.

TtACH time a new ban goes on a -4 book of recognised literary icrit, there are angry, but usually uitless, howls in the Press from :ader writers, university professors, [id the like, who claim with truth lat, when it comes to books, Aus alians are treated like children.

As a result, the public’s curiosity , often aroused to read such cur mtly-banned books as Nabakov’s olita, and The Carpetbaggers, by [arold Robbins, which most people mild not otherwise bother about.

A further result is that Australians avelling overseas in less prudish, or iss particular, countries, are tempted > buy copies of the forbidden books nd smuggle them home for their lends.

One country that itinerant Aus alians have always looked on as a >urce of forbidden fruit is Fiji. This i not because its morals are anywise ixer than Australia’s, but because, ookwise, Fiji’s Customs Depart icnt does not trouble itself about rotecting the public’s morals except here a book is patently porno raphic.

Own Censors

Fiji’s booksellers take it upon lemselves to be their own censors, nd if they find that they have un fittingly imported a book, which, i their opinion, would be offensive ) the public, they remove it from leir shelves. The system seems to fork pretty well.

One bookseller who is especially articular about this is Shanti Lai )esai, of Suva, Fiji’s leading book ;ller. At one time he was chairman f a now-defunct unofficial censor hip committee.

But no bookseller ever manages > read all the books he puts on his helves, and so it happened recently, s it was bound to, that Mr. Desai ut on sale several copies of a book diich had won for itself some nemies.

The book was the giant-sized My Afe and Loves by Frank Harris,

which George Bernard Shaw once described as “abominable” and which has so many lurid passages that the ban on it by the Australian Customs Department is likely to stay forever, although you can buy it freely in America and the UK.

One day in January, someone in formed the police that My Life and Loves was on sale in Mr. Desai’s shop; the police forthwith made a raid; and early in June Mr. Desai found himself in court on a charge of importing and having in his pos session copies of an obscene book.

He pleaded guilty.

Helped Search

In evidence, it was stated that Mr.

Desai had assisted the police to make a search of his shop without a search warrant; that he had not read the book before importing it or before putting it on sale; and that he had relied on lists of best-sellers supplied by publishers when importing the book rather than on any personal knowledge of its contents.

Mr. Desai’s counsel, Mr. D. M. N.

McFarlane, quoted a letter that Mr.

Desai had received from an English firm of publishers, W. H. Allen and Co., in which they stated that the book was available in public libraries in England and that they had had to reprint it five times.

Mr. McFarlane said that the law in Fiji was about 100 years out of date in its attitude towards censor ship in literature; and that it was not possible to set up artistic or literary merit as a defence as it now was in England.

He added that if the book were banned in England, and Mr. Desai had then ordered it, it could be argued that he had imported it with intent. But this was not the case.

Fining Mr. Desai £lO, which was about the smallest fine he could im pose, the magistrate, Mr. I. R.

Thompson, said a considerable burden was cast on booksellers by the law, but that was something which persons

entering that trade would have to accept.

“It is clear that the accused has not deliberately imported obscene printed matter, and did not know it was obscene,’’ the magistrate added.

“What he has done is to fail to find out that it is obscene before im porting or selling it.”

In view of this judgment, and in view of the wide intepretation that can be placed on the word “obscene”, Fiji’s booksellers are likely to be far more circumspect in future when ordering books, especially from lists of best-sellers.

In fact, they may go so far as to consult the Australian Customs Department’s banned list before put ting in a single order.

If they do this, they will certainly be protected from all possibility of error. But they will also cut them selves out of a lucrative trade with travelling Australians and gain for Fiji a reputation in censorship as narrow and restrictive as Australia’s.

END OF THE ROAD

Usaia Tikoicina, who had been a chauffeur at Government House, Suva, for 21 years and had served under six Governors, retired from the Fiji Public Service in May, and before a gathering of the staff at Government House was presented with a silver salver by the present Governor, Sir Derek Jakeway.

Usaia began his career as a drier in 1934, when he went to work for the Public Works Department.

In 1953 the Queen personally presented him with the medal of the Royal Victorian Order, and he received a bar to the medal in 1963 during the Queen's second visit to Fiji.

He is seen here with his wife.

Photo: Rob Wright.

On The Ball

p. 25

[ Late last year, following a series of volcanic eruptions on Raoul Island in the Kermadecs, we peeked into our crystal ball |uand predicted that the western lisland of Tonga might be “the scene of spectacular volcanic I, activity soon" (RIM, Dec., p. 23).

One of the Tongan islands 1 which might suffer “a chain re daction" from the Raoul Island \eruption, we said, was Falcon, “which is at present submerged and is sometimes called Jack-in \the-Box because of its appear ances and disappearances”.

Well, in late June, Falcon was ■reported to be rising again, and to be only one fathom below the surface its highest elevation since it last disappeared in 1959.

How Many

p. 25

Tenpences in 1/11?

i STAMP collector we know who x sent off to Rarotonga in April >r a couple of first day covers from le special post office on Manuae 1011, the solar eclipse island, came > us in some consternation towards le end of June, more or less emanding his money back.

He said he had sent 2/9 New ealand currency to get two first ay covers—one with a 1/9 stamp nd one with a 6d stamp.

But all he had obtained was one rst day cover with a sixpenny and penny stamp on it.

“That means I’m 1/11 down the rain,” he said, “as the cost of each rst day cover was advertised as ireepence.”

We consoled our friend somewhat y pointing out that the Cook Islands Ldministrat'ion had not gone ahead ith its plan to issue a 1/9 stamp P/M, April, p. 13), and that the emand for the 6d stamps that were sued had been so great that all rders could not be filled, and more amps had had to be printed.

“No doubt you’ll get covers to :>ver the rest of your order when le new stamps arrive,” we said.

“But,” put in our friend, whose rithmetic is much faster than ours, if the cover I’ve received so far 9st a total of lOd, how many covers ill they send me for the 1/11 I still ave on account?”

Chastened, we assured our friend lat his guess was as good as ours, le then wanted to know whether le covers still due to him would e postmarked from Manuae, and

whether they would bear the date of the eclipse (May 31), like the one he already had.

“If they do bear the date, May 31, and the Manuae postmark,” he went on, “I will suspect that all is not fair and above board. And if they don’t, then I won’t be getting my money’s worth, as the covers I ordered were to be first day covers from Manuae.”

To which we answered that some people were never satisfied and that we were glad we were not stamp collectors ourselves.

Moby Dick?

pp. 25-29

Is It Another Moby Dick?

LAST September in our yachting columns (p. 107) we reported that an American yacht, Easterling, had arrived in Tahiti from the Marquesas with patches over a couple of holes in her hull caused by a 50 ft whale, which attacked the vessel between the Galapagos and Marquesas.

Now we’re beginning to wonder whether there isn’t another Moby Dick at large in the Pacific. (Over)

A Rarotonga correspondent, Mr. . H. Percival, reports that while I New Zealand trimaran Highlight is on her way from Auckland to iely Rapa (French Polynesia) in ay, she was attacked by a whale me 400 miles north-east of ickland.

It was dusk at the time, and ipper John Glennie and crew *mber Oleg Whimp were resting the main cabin. John’s brother, ive, was on watch.

Without warning, Dave saw the lale’s tail shoot out of the ocean d slam down on the starboard at, smashing it in. Then the lale swam under the vessel, lashed |it again and damaged the port at, before swimming away.

Highlight shipped about 80 gallons water, and the crew decided to ad for Rarotonga, 1,200 miles for repairs.

For the rest of the voyage, the ;w had to bail continuously—a \k which John Glennie, on arrival Rarotonga, likened to a night ire.

FOOTNOTE: Moby Dick, Herman elville’s famous novel about a tale of that name, was inspired by i story of a whale that attacked 5 whaleship Essex near the [uator in the eastern Pacific in 20. That whale stove in and sank 5 Essex, forcing the crew to make r South America in open boats, me of the crew were picked up tside Valparaiso; some reached mderson Island and were rescued >m there; and the rest were lost sea.

,nd THEY Think It

tight Be Mongolia!

THERE did the Polynesians come r from?

Captain Cook had the idea that might have been South America, nes Morrison, the scholarly boat ain’s mate of the Bounty, had the ne idea. And so did the Rev. illiam Ellis, an early LMS mis >nary, who published a cele ated book on the Pacific in 1829 [led Polynesian Researches.

Thor Heyerdahl, leader of the >n-Tiki Expedition in 1947, is of j opinion that the Polynesians ly have come from South America, d North America, via Hawaii.

But most modern scientists go >ng with the idea that the Poly sians originated somewhere in the lucasus and found their way into 5 Pacific through the corridor of uth-East Asia.

No one, however, has yet pro ced irrefutable proof of the

frectness of his theory, and it tns probable that he never will, flit there’s no harm in trying [ and that is what a team of six ianese anthropologists with what -believe is a brand-new theory are [ to do. fhe six Japanese, led by Professor ro Shima, of the Osaka City iversity’s medical faculty, left an for New Zealand, Tonga and btern Samoa early in June in an Hnpt to find basic proof that the fcnesians originally came from

jngolia.

h'ofessor Shima said in Tokyo ore leaving that Mongolia was ieved to be the place of origin the Japanese, and that linguistically I physically there were many amon traits between the people the South Pacific and those of [ Japanese islands.

ew Guinea Misses

n Opportunity

fDNEY freelance journalist Keith [Adam, widely known for his ABC io sessions and documentaries st year he did an excellent series six half-hour documentaries about w Guinea) has just returned from P-NG film-making trip. Textbook ms, a company formed by him and > colleagues, is producing educa aal films on the Pacific and South -5t Asia to be sold to libraries and Ication departments in Australia, ' US and Britain. \dam tells us they had excellent operation from individuals and lanisations in P-NG. but the Ad jistration was “another story”.

To our astonishment,” he says, e were told that District Adminis tion had given orders that no help s to be given us for a short [uence we had hoped to film in pua—a mock-up of a patrol leav a patrol post. We were not told y; and no amount of inquiry h the public relations staff seemed I sort out the matter. The net ult was that our film will show fling of the work of Adminis tion officers in the field. What a s! Seeing that one patrol officer 1 a few police would have been olved for no more than a couple hours, we were quite baffled. All i more baffled because we had a :at deal of useful help from the Ad nistration in the Western High ids, where the District Commis ner couldn’t do enough for us.”

It seems to us that the Department Information and Extension Services ght to correct this attitude if the rritory ever wants to build up a irist industry.

The Floating Showcase

pp. 31-35

Some Stone-Throwing At The Floating Showcase

From a Rabaul Correspondent In Papua-New Guinea a chamber of commerce has ex pressed disappointment and concern at the Sletholm floating xhibition which has been attempting to bolster Australian xport trade in the South Pacific.

LJSTRALIAN, English, New Zealand, Chinese, French and an businessmen in the islands of South Pacific inspected the ibition in May and June as it red from port to port, he predominantly Australian abership chamber of commerce Rabaul, New Guinea, might in circumstances be accused of onal sabotage and lack of iotism in its outspoken criticism the trade promotion venture. unfortunately, the criticism in jral is only too true. In any it might be best in the interests Australian industry to support the nber of commerce and point out t seems to have gone astray.

Trade Loss

he venture was organised by Aus an Export Promotions Ltd. in unction with the Australian artment of Trade. Export Pro ions is made up of the Chamber Manufactures and the Associated mbers of Commerce in Australia, he Australian Trade Com lioner for the South Pacific, Mr.

H. Sullivan, who took part in the tour, said that Australia’s earnings from exports to the South Pacific were increasing from year to year.

The project had been organised, however, to increase Australia’s share of the trade which was pro gressively falling.

The hold of the Scandinavian ship Sletholm was fitted out as a two-storey display hall, and the ship left Sydney early in May. It was preceded from port to port by a chartered aircraft carrying 25 officials and sales representatives.

In Papua-New Guinea the ship visited Port Moresby, Lae, Madang and Rabaul, and then it moved on to Honiara, Vila, Lautoka, Suva and Noumea where the tour ended on June 8.

There was some trouble in the early stages of the venture in filling the available display space, although this was offset by a last-minute rush of applications.

Criticism of the venture started early when New Guineans at the first port of call, Port Moresby, accused the organisers of catering for sophisticated markets rather than

for the mass of the Pacific Islands native population.

Stronger, and perhaps more significant, was the criticism which arose later in the Trust Territory of New Guinea when the ship began to contact the hard-core commercial interests of the territory.

The criticism centred round the almost complete absence of the raw requirements of construction and maintenance so essential in the South Pacific engineering, wood working and general purpose tools, building materials, constructional re quirements, water craft and equip ment, and agricultural equipment and aids.

Australia has made rapid advances in recent years in the development of specialised building materials— internal and external surface sheets, roofing, partially pre-cut materials for speedy construction, fastenings and builders’ hardware. Yet the only representation in this class was a display of door locks and fittings.

They were of fine quality, but repre sented only a fraction of what the construction trades could have shown.

Mr. Chipper's View

A submission criticising the absence of construction materials and of other essential products in the South Pacific was submitted to the Rabaul Chamber of Commerce by one of its executive councillors, Mr. J. L. Chipper. The council endorsed Mr. Chipper’s submissions, and a dispassionate analysis seems to bear out what was said.

Reporters who visited the ship

Australia in June completed an xtensive six-week trade drive to the Western Pacific with he trade ship "Sletholm" (pic ured at right in Rabaul). It was Australia's most concentrated Pacific trade drive ever. On the text pages PIM correspondents eport the varied local reactions.

ere met by a hard-sell publicity ficer whose main worry seemed to * making sure that the popularity : the venture did not get missed in e Australian Press.

But no-one was arguing about the >pularity of the mission. In terms : visitors per day—or even per inute —the response was outstand g. Thousands trooped on and off e ship. They drank sample drinks f the gallon, ate quantities of really [cellent cheese and filled their arms ith booklets and advertising aterials. They enjoyed the lavish ispitality of their hosts at a party -every-port. It must be mentioned, cidentally, that the foodstuffs Ivertised formed the strongest part ! the display but most of the •oducts were already well known roughout the Pacific.

The popularity of the venture, jwever, does not necessarily bear ly relationship to its success as a les promotion tour.

Officials announced at the end of e Papua-New Guinea leg of the ur that orders had been taken for \500,000 worth of goods. Many wnmercial interests feel that the 'ders were going to be lodged lyway, and that the buyers had erely held off pending the arrival : the ship.

Some of these interests had hoped r something new out of the visit, id when nothing new materialised ey followed their normal ordering ittern, which was channelled rough the representatives in the ade ship.

It would be wrong to say that the sit was ineffective. On the mtrary, it gave Australia credit for

laking an attempt to contact her rer-the-seas consumers.

Two important lessons must be arnt from the project.

The first is the vital need to send i advance party which can meet immercial interests in every port id find out exactly what sort of K>ds fits the local market. This Ivance party needs to make its trip ell before any space is allocated in trade ship.

The second point is that a central ithority should then decide the type goods which should be displayed id should invite—or even persuade •the appropriate manufacturers to ke part.

It is no good merely throwing icn the space for any manufacturer 10 wants to use it, and it is bad r prestige to leave home without presentattion from some of the ajor industries.

New Hebrides

p. 33

Warm Welcome In New Hebrides

From a Santo Correspondent [ The “Sletholm” received a \warm and interested welcome in Vila, and many businessmen flew from Santo to Vila to view the ship. They were pleased with the assorted goods on dis play.

Comment has been made on the fact that the “ Sletholm ” did not call at Santo, and this certainly was a mistake in the itinerary. Business here is much more keen than in Vila, for Santo is the economic centre of the New Hebrides and exports almost four times more produce than Vila does.

Really,’ Says John

pp. 35-37

A Bit Dull, Really,’ Says John Carter, In Suva

It was all a bit dull really. As a owcase for Australian goods the letholm” exhibition was adequate i d nothing more. It lacked the \aginative touches that would have ven it more appeal.

'HE only real excitement came on • the ship’s last night in port at iva when she was closed early be use of what was described as an nsavoury local element”, which got it of hand and began pilfering and maging stands.

It was said somewhere that the ip’s converted holds were air-con ;ioned. If that was so then the air nditioning didn’t seem to work be use the heat in the exhibition halls is stifling. And those nasty jagged ges on part of the stairs could have /en someone a bad gash on the hand.

Opinions differ as to the success of 5 mission.

Mr. A. P. Whitington, mission ider, declared: “We are well satisfied it the mission has achieved the jects we set out to attain.”

But the comment from a Suva busi ssman, which was echoed by many ier people, was: “Generally I found i mission disappointing.”

He spoke of stalls with no attend ts, difficulty in getting information d said there were very few leaflets ailable.

The feeling among most Suva busi ss people is that the Sletholm visit is a let-down after the Australian

fade fair held at Suva in 1963. It was inti-climax. [ But that wasn’t the view in Lautoka, vhere local people hadn’t seen a previ ms exhibition and were impressed. >erhaps Suva is getting a little blase.

Mr. G. D. Smith, Australian trade iorrespondent in Fiji, pointed out that nost of the company representatives yere delighted with the results in Fiji.

Replying to criticism that much of he exhibition contained exhibits imilar to those already seen in Fiji it the 1963 exhibition, Mr. Smith aid that with the exception of a few xhibitors, who did well, the majority if them were showing products which irere new to Fiji.

There were, of course, limits to the xhibition because it was held on a hip, he said. But a ship had been used iccause the mission wanted to cover ;s much territory as possible as quickly is possible.

Anyhow, the Sletholm venture was tertainly enterprising, and for that the irganisers deserve credit.

They Swarmed

p. 37

Aboard ,' Says Fred Dunn, In Noumea

It is too early yet to evaluate the esults of the “Sletholm’s” visit to tew Caledonia, because commercial elations with Australia are governed >y the amount of foreign money illocated to New Caledonia by 7 ranee.

BUT if no great commercial con tracts follow the visit, Australia an be satisfied with the great mount of goodwill the visit has reated.

The quality of the goods exhibited ►pened local eyes, especially of hose people who thought Australia vas merely a land of sheep. Despite he fact it was a holiday in Noumea, md a big football match was being ilayed, about 7,000 people swarmed ►ver the Sletholm during the first lay’s visit. The second and third lays were reserved for commercial ►eople and the vessel could easily lave remained a few more days to ;ater for the crowds.

One suggestion: If the firm ;xhibiting television receivers had lad a closed circuit system in action Australia could have had the honour >f providing Noumeans with their irst look at the “little screen”. TV *>mes to Noumea late this year. • See Mission leader's reply, p. 126.

For The Nauruan

pp. 38-39

THE "HARD SELL"

HAS PAID OFF

By a Staff Writer

The Nauruans’ decision to ei ploy economic and legal advise (PIM, June, p. 15) to help the get a better deal from the At tralian Government has paid o AT talks in Canberra in June, th negotiated substantially high royalties for phosphate and an agn ment to set up a Legislative Coun and an Executive Council on Nau next January.

The royalties for phosphates ha been increased from 3/8 a ton 13/6 a ton for 1964-65 and 17 a ton for 1965-66. But the extract! rate has been increased from 1.6 rr lion tons to two million tons annual The Nauruans have also extract promises that: • An independent technical coi mittee of experts will be establish as soon as practicable to look ir the question of rehabilitating worke out mining land on Nauru shipping soil to the island. • The Australian Governme will co-operate with the Nauruans “actively pursue” any promisi proposals that might lead to the i settlement of the Nauruans elsewhe on a basis acceptable to them a with their national identity present These concessions came towar the end of a conference which di ing the first few days looked li ending in an unhappy stalemate.

No Independence

The Nauruans did not get ar where with their demand th January 31, 1968, should be set a target date for independence < Nauru.

The Legislative Council, whi will have an elected Nauru; majority, will have no say in t phosphate industry, external affa and defence, and its ordinances w be subject to disallowance by t Australian Governor-General; ai voting rights in the Executive Couu will be such that the Austral!

Administrator will have fir authority.

Even so, the concessions that t Nauruans have achieved are betf than they almost dared to hope, a: their Head Chief, Hammer deßobu went off to a meeting of the Unit

lations Trusteeship Council in New brk after stating that the results f the Canberra talks were “most itisfactory”.

However, he was still concerned bout what would happen to his eople when Nauru’s phosphate was idiausted in about a generation, and e was still adamant that Nauru lould have independence—whether r not the Nauruans knew how to irvive when they got it.

In the Trusteeship Council, the lead Chief found (as usual) that le Soviet delegate supported him n the question of independence.

But otherwise, no one seemed to ave much to complain about.

In fact, Australia got what was robably the biggest pat on the back has ever had over Nauru when le British delegate, Mr. Peter Hope, lid he believed Australia had “fully let and overtaken” the recommenda ons of a UN visiting mission to the jrritory in 1962 and of the Council ist year.

The report of this year’s visiting IN mission, released in June, made ;w recommendations because of the nminence of the Canberra talks.

NEW CHIEF SECRETARY

Mr. Lewis Mervyn Davies, has been jpointed to succeed Mr. M. D. Irving ass as Chief Secretary of the Western icific High Commission. Mr. Davies, who ns been Financial Secretary of the IHPC since September, 1942, is at resent on leave in the UK and will iturn to Honiara in October.

Mr. Davies was born in 1922 and is iarried with one son. He served in the eet Air Arm in World War II and joined le Colonial Service in 1946. He was an ssistant District Commissioner in the old Coast (now Ghana) from 1948 until is appointment to the WHPC as Senior ssistant Secretary (Finance) in 1956.

Photo: Ted Marriott.

N.Z. Chars Way

p. 39

FOR ALBERT HENRY

TO TAKE OVER

Four important amendments to legislation, setting out the con stitution for the Cook Islands under self-government, were rushed through the New Zealand Parliament early in June.

THE amendments will enable the era of self-government to get under way soon, almost certainly with Albert Henry as first Premier.

The amendments were passed at the request of the recently-elected Cook Islands Legislative Assembly, which, at its first meeting in May, refused to adopt the constitution for the Cook Islands, as approved by the NZ Parliament last October ( PIM, Nov., 1964, p. 21).

Fourteen of the 22 members of the Assembly are members of Mr.

Henry’s Cook Islands Party, but Mr.

Henry was debarred from standing at the last election by a residential regulation.

Amendments

The amendments to the legislation on the constitution provide that: • Functions which were to have been performed by a Council of State comprising the New Zealand High Commissioner and two arikis (high chiefs) will now be performed solely by the High Commissioner. • A House of Arikis, whose members will be appointed to repre sent the various islands, will be established. This will be an advisory, not a legislative body. It will be con sulted by the Legislative Assembly mainly on such matters as custom and land tenure. • The number of Ministers other than the Premier will be a mini mum of three and a maximum of five so that the Cabinet will have flexibility. (Previously, the number of Ministers was fixed at four). © Electors in Legislative As sembly elections must have been “ordinarily resident in the Cook Islands for the three months prior to registration;” and election can didates must have resided in the Cooks for at least 12 months—at any time—before the elections.

A meeting of the Cook Islands Legislative Assembly is expected to be held in mid-July to adopt the constitution, as amended. Mr.

Henry’s sister, Mrs. Marguerite Storey, will then stand down from her recently-won Assembly seat to allow Mr. Henry to contest a by election.

Assuming he is elected, Mr. Henry will almost certainly be appointed Premier, and self-government in the Cook Islands will get under way.

Celebrations to mark the start of the new era will probably be held about mid-September, after NZ’s Governor-General, Sir Bernard Fer gusson, returns from a vacation in England.

Consular Post

p. 39

CHANGE

After six years' service in Tonga as British Commissioner and Consul, Mr. E. J. Coode left Nukualofa with his wife on June 3 to return to England. For a month or so before their departure, the Coodes were feted almost without a break.

Mr. Coode was succeeded tem porarily by Mr. lan Thomson; but the permanent appointee, Mr. A. C.

Reid, was expected to take up his post about the end of June. Mr.

Reid, who was British Commissioner and Consul in Tonga from 1957 to 1959, has been Secretary for Fijian Affairs in Fiji for the past six years.

An interesting feature of Mr.

Reid’s appointment is that he will be directly responsible to the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, and not to the Governor of Fiji, who, hitherto, also held the office of British Chief Commissioner for Tonga.

The removal of responsibility for Tonga from the Governor of Fiji is the second such change in the last 12 years. Before 1953, when a separate post was created with head quarters in Honiara, Fiji’s Governor also held the post of British High Commissioner for the Western Pacific. Photo: Hettig.

Mr. and Mrs. Coode.

For Fiji's Legal

pp. 43-45

A New Order For Fiji's Legal Profession

From a Suva Correspondent Maybe no one was really in

erested in wordy exchanges with

mother session due on June 22, ir perhaps members were too >usy clearing decks for action at he constitutional conference in

xmdon in July.

iITHATEVER the reason, the early Ft June meeting of the Fiji Legis itive Council was one of the shortest, nd friendliest, on record. It lasted our hours.

In that time the council polished ff 10 bills and a score of motions onnected with finance, and only with ne bill was there anything like a ebate. And that was more like a ne-man band.

The event was the Legal Prac tioners Bill, which will amend the iw relating to lawyers—of which the Colony has more than its share. It rill stop up a few gaps through which ny lawyer with dishonest intentions ould wriggle with ease, and it also ffurbishes the Fiji Law Society [hich, until now, hasn’t been the ower in the profession it should be.

Under the new law, every legal ractitioner in Fiji will have to join le Law Society. The society will have charter and the legal machinery to isbar, suspend or otherwise punish ny lawyer bending the ethics of the rpfession.

The lawyers themselves, both the ix who are among the unofficial mem ers, and the other members of the ,aw Society, vetted the bill before the ouncil handled it.

But one member, a lawyer, Mr. . M. Koya, declared his dissatisfae on with much of it. He said he idn’t like the business of a lawyer eing suspended until accusations of nprofessional conduct had been in estigated and proved or cleared.

“Who’s going to look after his lients while he is suspended?” Mr. loya wanted to know.

He didn’t like the clause which lade it compulsory for newly-qualified ractitioners to acquire practical ex erience at the elbow of a senior be 3re being allowed to practise in the igh courts.

And he didn’t like the clause which ays applications for admissions have

jto be made by petition to the Chief [justice, who will be supplied by the f Law Society Council with a con fidential report of the new man’s suit

lability.

Mr. Koya said: “We are not living ►Jn an Iron Curtain country that we >uld be treated in this way.”

He added that people might say [ .at the existing lawyers were trying : o bring in a “closed shop” by re stricting intake.

No one else criticised the bill, and New Zealand-trained lawyer Acting Attorney-General Mr. Don McLoughlin had an easy task to get the measure through.

He said that suspension of a lawyer accused of malpractices was a sure way of protecting the clients against further malpractices. The bill was not only for the benefit of legal prac titioners, but for the public.

So far as the “Iron Curtain” sug gestion was concerned, the substance of an adverse report would be made known to the lawyer concerned, Mr, McLoughlin said.

Mr. McLoughlin complained that as lawyers had been asked to make rep resentations about the bill before it reached the council, he thought Mr.

Koya could have voiced his critic isms then.

Much Business Done

Another member, Mr. R. A.

Kearsley, also a lawyer, thought Mr.

Koya in opposing the bill in its present form was seeking to overrule the Law Society which had approved the bill.

Mr. Koya retorted, quite rightly, that a decision on the bill was a matter for the council, not the Law Society.

And the bill went through, together vith all the other nine.

Some were amending measures for )bscure little laws like the Diplomatic J rivileges Ordinance or the Lautoka electricity Ordinance. There was a fill to amend the Charity Trusts Ord nance to make life harder for the :rooks who skin the public under the jenevolent guise of charity.

There was also a bill to repeal the detected Industries Ordinance and mother to amend the Traffic Ordin mce 1965, which was only approved it the last meeting and is not yet on he Statute Book. But somebody bought the fines were too small, and he new bill will remedy that.

All the bills went through without my opposition or unnecessary chatter, nd obviously the members had serious hings on their mind now that Fiji’s •olitical future is soon to be decided n London.

Territories TALK-TALK

pp. 47-51

With Tolala

The following quote from a New Guinea newspaper is the sort of thing that makes you sigh and go “Tsk, tsk!” when you read of the wonderful House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea: “Speaker of the House of Assembly, Mr. Horrie Niall, on Monday told native members they would have to find for themselves people who could assist them with the translation and explanation of documents and reports presented in the House.”

NATIVE members had complained in the House they could not understand the World Bank Report and other documents.

Muriso Wareba, of the Okapu Open electorate, had said he was now invited to address the House on the World Bank Report, but he could not read it. He said if they were advised of the contents of the report they would be able to participate in the debates.

That seems a fair enough request to come from the people who are, to say the least, the most interested, i If we are sincere in our drive towards integration (call it what you will) how come we create these iifficulties in such a glaring manner?

It is hard to see how the Speaker, with his long experience in New Guinea, should adopt such a >ontifical attitude.

If education means what I think t means (and there’s no need for i capital “E”) there is no greater )pportunity for putting it to practical ise than in telling a member, repre lenting thousands of native people, iomething about the subject on which le is expected to debate in the ■louse.

Who are you batting for, Horrie?

VIEW BRITAIN'S

ADMINISTRATIVE H.Q.

r’S nice to know that Administra tive centres, other than those in J ort Moresby, are being opened, and hat some of the same amenities as mjoyed long since in the sacred wecincts of Konedobu, are now ivailable to centres on less-hallowed pound.

God knows these neglected servants ►f the public have not only earned his recognition for adequate office pace under reasonable conditions

but, especially in Rabaul, are entitled to amenities commensurate with the centre’s productive potentialities.

Noticed in the local paper’s report of the opening that “the contractors still have to balance the air con ditioning”.

Also noticed two pre-war identities on the staff were guests-of-honour at the opening: Mrs. Joan Brierley and Mr. “Henry” Kassi. This is a gesture nice to see, for it shows a kindlier spirit between the old and the new; let us hope it continues and grows.

Mrs. Brierley, as 1 remember, arrived in Rabaul in the middle thirties, hailing from New Zealand.

It was a year or so before she went to Central Administration as a stenographer. As for George Kassi (for some unknown reason in the report called “Henry”) he was a

landmark at CA for many years before the war.

He was a little beaut, at clerical records; and he should have been, too, being well trained by no less an expert than Steve Lonergan, Assistant Government Secretary in Rabaul, himself an expert at records as I remember him as far back as 1918-19 in the CR of HQ AIF depots in UK, at Tidworth (England) after having done his stuff in France.

Another pleasing factor in con nection with the opening is that it shows officialdom has recovered

George Kassi, "a little beaut at clerical records," holds the record of his naturali sation as a British subject.

sufficiently from its qualms over the safety of Rabaul insofar as eruptions and all that sort of thing are con cerned. If you remember: There was Billy Hughes’ selection of Salamaua as “the new capital” in 1937; the transfer of officials and iepartments to Lae in 1941, and then, after the war, the selection of Rapopo as New Britain’s future ;apital.

I I hope this changed optimism regarding Rabaul’s future has not lessened the need for routine seismic/ Ihermal readings which are an ever kecessary precaution where Tavurvur |nd Vulcan are concerned, j As is customary in these days, the report carries no description of the irchitectural aspect of the building; Nothing of its aesthetic beauty (if my), but the cost—as usual—gets i mention: “in excess of £144,000”. fhe odd £44,000 was just about what t cost to clean up Rabaul after the 1937 eruption!

\ GRADUATE FROM NODUP

LAST month I mentioned some of the ex-pupils from J. H. L.

Waterhouse’s Nod u p School.

Itrangely enough I had a telephone ing from one such pupil a few days ifterwards. He is Thomas To lunbun, a senior school teacher now, ind president of the Rabaul Workers’

Association for the past three years; le was en route to Geneva to attend in ILO conference. This is the first ime that P-NG representatives have iccompanied an Australian delega ion to the ILO at Geneva.

How I Lost My Pants: It was rom To Bunbun I learned of a very indly gesture which was made by lim and his father to me when I Fas in the Jap boob in Rabaul dur- Qg the war.

His father gave him a pair of kussie Army pants and some fruit o give me in the Rabaul freezer, /here I was chief cook and bottle washer. It appears a Jap guard ►ulled up the 15-year-old To Bunbun, ic was arrested and charged with tealing. Nothing daunted, To lunbun (with the agile brain irobably trained on mental rithmetic in the Nodup school) told he Kempei Tai the trousers and fruit /ere owned by his father who had sked him to take them to a apanese guard, whose name he did ot know.

“OK, OK!” said the Japs, com aandeering the pants and fruit, and eleasing him. And that’s how I early got a pair of pants and some ruit when such luxuries were at a Ternium.

But perhaps it was just as well

it ended as it did. I heard of several cases where natives had taken presents to our POW’s or internees in Rabaul and both the giver and the receiver had been severely dealt with. Artie Schmidt, the teacher at the Malaguna Government School, was one who suffered disciplinary action” by the police for receiving some fruit from an old pupil, who was also put in the calaboose. There were numerous others who paid dearly for any friendly tokens or gestures from the native people.

From a true appreciation of what racial discrimination means give me the man, or women, who has been interned in a black country by an Asian invader.

It is the actions during the war of people like To Bunbun and his father which proved to me how solid are the ties between friends, no matter what the colour.

Thank you, To Bunbun. Ma a bona Winawana uro Geneva. Yoko!

JAP WAR AIMS

TN Editors' Mail Bag ( PIM, June, A p. 53) I see where one, “Mercator”, infers that the Japanese did not intend to attack Australia, It was “in accordance with Australian mythology but not with the facts”, says “Mercator”.

I can make no comment on such

pressions of self-assured know jge of the Japanese war plans in (42-44. During that period 1 was terned in Rabaul, and there ►served and heard the general talk I the common Jap soldiers as they ed to collect all Australian money ►ssible and sought details of the Lot spots” in Sydney where they ►uld see women. .“Mercator,” apparently, has a eater credence in the war histories, ritten in the temperate climate of p post-war cooling-off period, than ■ the direct statements made by panese troops when the fur was

Ing.

As an internee, cut off from the ftuence of any Australian “myth” ft viewpoint, my opinions were sed entirely on my observations d contacts with Japanese officers, ivate soldiers, Taiwan clerks and 10-sen labourers, all of whom pressed the hope that eventually ty would land in Australia.

As for the sting in the tail of his ter about Aussies not having a her understanding of Japanese ns, “Mercator” should know that e of the last things an Aussie ►rries about is international politics i overseas trade.

tOSPHATES WANTED

fATIONAL Development Minister I Fairbairn is reported as saying i search for phosphate deposits in istralia and its Territories was in sasing. He added, “phosphate has io been found in Papua”.

It might still be worthwhile to have look at the islands in the Purdy oup (south-west of Manus). In esting deposits were found on these es in old German days, but at the ae they were said to be of no com jrcial value.

With the passing of 50 or 60 years,

improved working machinery, added scientific knowledge and the effluxion of time—for they do say phosphate. like wine, improves with age—it should be an idea worth toying with.

CSIRO would probably come up with something if they were asked and given the chips to do it with. It might also solve the Nauru puzzle as well.

DEATH OF A STRONG MAN

AUSTRALIAN strong man Don Athaldo died on May 24 at his home at Ettalong (NSW). Obituaries

made mention of his early years of ill health and that he was “six times rejected for the AIF”. They did not mention, however, that “Tiger”

Lyons, as he was known in his early days, was a corporal in a reinforce ment to the AN&MEF and was stationed in Rabaul in a Pioneers’ unit for some time in World War I.

During this time he started what I imagine was his first physical school —he taught the native boys employed in the blacksmith shop (where Tiger was a striker) how to box and develop their muscles. “Tiger” was 70 when he died.

Burdensome!

p. 51

i Constable Sumbu, of the Rabaul police, told the Rabaul Wistrict Court in June that a htone thrown into the police motion during the month had uped past his head “with the upeed of a bullet”, missing him fey inches. The constable was ► giving evidence against Wamai Poxi, 23, who said he had been I carrying a large stone in his [pocket for some time, and as it was getting rather heavy, he dhrew it away while passing the [police station. Poxi was fined 1 13.

Noumea's Tv

p. 53

FRANCE GETS A

[?]OVE ON (No One

Knows Why) WITH

NOUMEA'S TV

I From Fred Dunn, in Noumea When the French Minister for fo rmation, Mr. Alan Peyrefitte, was New Caledonia last October, he omised the people of Noumea that ey would have television within the I xt couple of years, and that every f ort would be made to have a station aerating in time for the South Pacific ames, towards the end of 1966 IM, Nov., 1964, p. 63).

THINGS have changed since then, . and it is now expected that aumea will have TV by the end of is year—and possibly by October, As in France, where there is no •mmercial TV, Noumea’s station II be Government-controlled.

It will be the second TV enter ise to be established in the South cific —the first being American moa’s educational TV station last itober.

To get Noumea’s station into ser :e, technicians have been rushed >m France, and one of the three oposed TV towers has already been scted. (The sites for the three wers are Semaphore Hill, Mt. >ffyn in the centre of town, and 3 former Fort Ouen Toro which minates Anse Vata Beach.)

New Building

Meanwhile, work is going ahead lidly with the construction of a w radio and TV station building, d local stores are advertising three ands of TV receivers at prices iging from 27,000 Pacific francs 135) to double that sum. The re vers may be had on terms.

No one seems to know for sure tat the reason is for the sudden ste to get TV into action in mrnea. But the majority party in :al politics, the Union Caledonienne, ?gested in its roneoed newssheet re itly that the French Metropolitan wernment wanted the station to ready for the coming presidential ctions.

If this is correct, it will surely ike the election propaganda to be t over the world’s most expensive, the rush technique now being used install Noumea’s TV station must

be costing French taxpayers a huge fortune.

In its newssheet, the Union Cale donienne bewails the terrific waste of money in installing this “plaything”, when many more important projects —schools, hospitals, etc. —are needed.

Noumea’s cinema-owners are not looking with a kind eye on the ar rival of TV as they know what the small screen has done to the big screen in other countries.

But most local picture-goers will not be able to afford TV sets, and if the TV authorities put on little but culture (and propaganda), then those who have sets will not hesitate to re turn to the big screen.

At present, it is expected that broadcasting hours will be three per evening, starting at about 7 o’clock.

Because of the mountainous nature of New Caledonia, few areas outside Noumea will receive transmissions.

/aet HcM te the £wth £eaj

pp. 55-58

Lae is a garden town.

This is Coronation Drive, in the business centre.

Voco Point, Lae, where small ships tie up.

Busy Fourth Street with the new A[?] ministration offices [?] the background.

Photos this page by Lac Camera Shop. Aerial photos previous page by Australian News and Information Bureau.

PAPUA-NEW GUINEA ISSUED THIS STAMP

IN JULY TO COMMEMORATE THE SIXTH

SOUTH PACIFIC CONFERENCE.

Fascinating New Guinea

pp. 59-67

LAE IS THE BUSY CENTRE OF A

Visitors from all over the Pacific who will be in Lae, New Guinea, for the Sixth South Pacific Conference in July, will find themselves in the heart of a fascinating Islands territory which has no equal in size or variety anywhere in the South Pacific. The island of New Guinea is the world’s largest with the exception of Australia and Greenland, and the eastern half of Papua- New Guinea has a population of more than two million. There is eternal snow on some of New Guinea’s mountain tops.

DELEGATES and visitors to the conference at Lae will in most Bses be seeing the mainland of New guinea for the first time, so it is p their advantage that Lae happens o be the most central of all New Juinea towns. [ From Lae, roads wind through he great valleys and mountain anges for hundreds of miles, and laily air services link the town with post other centres, big and small.

It is possible, and most desirable, or visitors to the area to travel to nany places by road or air and eturn the opposite way.

And in a day’s travelling visitors an see New Guineans in many stages f development; from the sophisti cates of the coastal areas to the (rimitives of the hinterland. [ Lae, the administrative centre for he progressive and fast developing rtorobe District, is also the port for me of the other quickly developing md most interesting areas, the Eastern Highlands District, with its leadquarters at Goroka, more than t,500 feet above sea level.

Goroka is a 50 minute flight from ,ae in a Douglas DC3 or a day’s Irive by car.

Before the war Lae was one of wo towns which serviced the tforobe goldfields—at Wau, Edie >eek, Bulolo and Bulwa. The other own was Salamaua, 16 miles across Juon Gulf.

Roads out of Lae in those days vere practically non-existent, and here was none to Salamaua, ilthough a possible road over the Cuper Range to Wau had been surveyed. However, it is easily seen vhen one flies over these mountains ust what a mammoth task it would lave been in pre-war days, especially, o have such a road put through. 1 Aircraft, instead, were used to supply the goldfields. Guinea Air ways, Mandated Airlines and others operated out of Salamaua, and Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., in

conjunction with Guinea Airways, developed Lae as a port to receive from overseas ships and dispatch, to Bulolo and later Bulwa by big three engined Junkers many thou sands of tons of goods and equip ment, including, in all, eight dis mantled dredges each weighing 2,000 tons and more. The dredges were put together on the goldfields.

Occupied By Japs

When the Japanese entered the war both Salamaua and Lae fell to the enemy, and each town was occupied for 18 months before being recaptured in September, 1943.

During those 18 months Salamaua and Lae were practically destroyed.

At Lae only two pre-war buildings were still standing, in part, when the town was won back from the Japanese.

Prior to the war Lae had been named as the future capital of the then Mandated Territory of New Guinea, following the shocking volcanic eruptions at Rabaul in 1937. But very little had been done

about the transfer before the Japanese onslaught.

Army engineers built, in 1944, a serviceable road from Sunshine, where the pre-war Wau road finished, to Labu at the mouth of the great Markham River, on the opposite bank to where Lae is situated.

Barges were used to link Lae with the Wau-Labu Road.

This road, the masses of land available for developmental purposes, and the fact that Lae had already been named as the future capital of the Mandated Territory, made Lae the logical choice for the new town.

But Lae was never to become the New Guinea capital, because the now Trust Territory of New Guinea was linked with the Australian Terri tory of Papua, to form what is now the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, with Port Moresby the chosen capital site.

Although Port Moresby has one advantage over Lae —a good harbour —many Lae residents still think Lae should have been made the capital because of its central location, its vast area of available land and good water supply.

The building up of Lae, as in all Territory centres, apart from Port Moresby where a big proportion of funds are spent each year, was slow but sure, and the town today is probably the most attractive and best looked after of all the country’s bigger settlements.

Lae is a garden town. Most main roads are tar sealed and lined with trees and beds of multi-coloured lilies. In the centre of the town is the Botanic Gardens which includes the beautiful War Cemetery where nearly 3,000 Australian and allied servicemen rest, a magnificient orchid house and lakes covered with water lilies of many colours.

The Lae Botanic Gardens, developed and cared for by the staff of the Division of Botany of the Department of Forests, covers more

Sir Donald Cleland, Administrator of the host Territory of Papua-New Guinea, has held his post since 1952 and will probably retire in the next 12 months.

ban 100 acres, and has been [escribed by visiting botanists as the »est tropical botanic gardens in the outhern hemisphere. Only recently

j 1 herbarium, costing £lOO,OOO, was

ipened in the gardens, I Another feature of Lae is its Jrport. which runs through the own. splitting the business and bsidential sections from the in bstrial area. Lae’s airport, follow ag recent extensions and improve lents, can now take aircraft as big iS Electras, but the airlines have not et seen fit to replace the older )ouglas DC6B’s with faster and lore modern aircraft for the Sydney- Jew Guinea flights, which terminate t Lae.

Plenty Of Rain

A town with an annual rainfall ►f about 180 inches, Lae is at all imes tropical and attractive. Most inds of tropical plants grow in bundance and need very little care, "hree weeks without water could be lassified a drought and the seasons ould almost be rated as the wet eason and the wetter season. How ver, a big percentage of this rain alls at night—anything from three o six inches is not uncommon—and lost days are sunny and hot.

The wettest months are from May o July. Some miserable days are xperienced during this period.

The town, with a population of bout 3,000 Europeans and Chinese tnd about 5,000 New Guineans, has nany amenities. It can boast a ►eautiful golf course which will soon ►e the first complete 18-hole lay-out

in the whole of the Territory. And the course has a clubhouse to match the links.

Lae’s bowling club has two greens which are in use most afternoons, weekends and sometimes at night.

As yet the club has to build a permanent clubhouse.

Rugby League, Soccer and Aus tralian Rules football competitions are conducted within the town, and Lae representative teams participate in inter-town and inter-district com petitions. This also covers other sports such as cricket, tennis, golf, hockey, basketball, softball.

Lae Rugby League and Lae Amateur Basketball Associations

have developed their own grounds while there are plenty of grounds for the other sports.

Those who like to play squash are well catered for at the Lae Squash Centre where there are two courts and a filtered swimming pool which are open seven days, and most nights, each week.

Lae Aquatic Club is popular and caters for those interested in sail and motor boating, water skiing and fishing. Those interested in under water diving and fishing are catered for by the Lae Underwater Fisher men’s Club, which explores the coastline.

Visitors to Lae have the choice of the Hotel Cecil and the Transair Lodge to stay at, and within a year or so a new hotel, to be built by Steamships Trading Company at a cost of something like £330,000, will go up right in the business section of the town. A motel is also being planned.

Drinking Habits

Europeans do most of their drink ing in the various clubs, and the New Guineans prefer to drink at the Hotel Cecil and the recently completed Beeps Tavern. A few can drink at the licensed Native Ex- Servicemen’s Club.

There are three theatres at Lae.

Theatre Lae is situated right in the main business centre, in 4th Street; The Stewart, built in 1963, is situa ted in the new suburb, Bulae, about a mile from the post office, and the Star Theatre (also used for boxing and other indoor sports) is found in the industrial area. Theatre Lae

FROM LAE, VISIT

THE HIGHLANDS

There is plenty of air or road transport available to the visitors to the High lands. At right, a planter watches a DCS take off at Bam.

Below, one of the supurb views on the road between Bam and Goroka. This Australian Holden is

operated by Mr. A.

E. Scott, of Tutt Bryants, Goroka, who can arrange tourist transport.

and The Stewart cater for mixed audiences and the Star’s patrons are mostly New Guineans.

A variety of stores cater for all lastes. l Lae is also the cultural centre of the Territory. Each September a Festival of Drama is held there and in the not-too-distant future the town will be able to boast a modern Little Theatre, to cost about £20,000. [ Lae will be the outlet for a beef cattle industry which is fast develop ing in the Morobe and Eastern High lands Districts. Many thousands of acres in the Markham and Ramu Valleys are already carrying big herds, while lesser herds are being raised in the Mumeng, Wau, Lae, pinschhafen and Kainantu sub districts, The present cattle popula tion—mostly beef—of the Morobe District alone is nearing 14,000.

Wau By Road

In the Eastern Highlands, and in piany parts of the Morobe District, village cattle herds, which will play an important role in the future of the industry, are being established.

An abattoir is being built at Lae at a cost of about £40,000 and will be operative later this year. The abattoir will process an anticipated 1.000 head of cattle a year for home and export markets. The freezing section will store about 100 carcases at a time.

An interesting day for visitors to Lae is a drive to Wau and back— about 200 miles. Initially the drive takes in several miles of cocoa plantations, a dairy farm and a low land coffee plantation in the lower Markham Valley before the Mark ham River is crossed by bridge.

From then on the road winds through the hills and the odd planta tion and native village until the Zenag Plateau is reached. There, New Guinea pioneer and explorer Mr. Mick Leahy has established a mixed farm on something like 200 acres.

Mr. Leahy grows vegetables, runs about 6,000 laying hens and about 1.000 meat birds, ducks, turkeys, pigs and until recently he conducted a dairy which helped to supply Lae and Bulolo with fresh milk and cream.

But following a difference with the Administration he stopped supplying these products and is now putting his milkers to Brahman Cross bulls so that all future calves will be beef producers. ■ Across the Snake River from

Zenag, Mr. Leahy runs a herd of several hundred beef cattle on his Baiune property.

There are other farmers in the Zenag-Mumeng area, and from the surrounding district native villagers grow a great quantity of vegetables and fruit which mainly is disposed of at the Lae market, some 50 miles away.

Twenty-seven miles from Zenag

is Bulolo, where the visitor can see Bulolo Gold Dredging Company Limited’s last dredge in operation.

The dredge, on the Wau side of Bulolo, is the last of eight the company has used since 1932 to take from the beds of the Bulolo and Watut Rivers many millions of pounds worth of gold. But now there is little gold left for the dredge to remove economically and soon

the dredge’s bucket line will turn over for the last time.

Anticipating the coming of such a day, BGD in the early post-war years formed a company 'with the Commonwealth Government and established a plywood industry in the area. Thousands of acres of mature pine stands were there on the hills bordering the Bulolo Valley just waiting for someone to utilise them.

BGD and the Commonwealth formed Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers Limited, built a mill cover ing something like 3-1/3 acres and went into production. The mill, one of the most up-to-date in the world, can produce each year 35-million square feet of 3/16th inch plywood, plus quantities of various other Sizes.

To ensure that there would be a never-ending supply of pines the Department of Forests introduced a reafforestation scheme and now nurseries and plantations are being established in the Bulolo area and at Wau. An Administration Forestry School at Bulolo is training young New Guineans in all aspects of the industry.

Besides plywood, there are saw mills at Watut, Bulolo and Wau which cut timber for export, as well as help supply a very demanding local market.

Winding Roads

At Bulolo the visitor can enjoy a short respite at the picturesque Pine Lodge Hotel, built on a ridge over looking the company-owned part of the town.

From Bulolo the drive is con tinued to Wau, about 16 miles farther along the Bulolo River, and before the journey is completed the newcomer has a few worrying moments as the road winds around

the cliff face with a sheer drop of some hundreds of feet in places to the swirling boulder-dotted river below.

At Wau there are native-conducted gold claims to be seen along with the workings of New Guinea Gold fields. New Guinean miners, who are advised and assisted in their work by officers of the Department of Lands, Surveys and Mines, in the last financial year extracted gold worth £81,370 from their diggings.

In all the Wau-Bulolo area produced gold worth £648,000 in the same period.

In early 1943 at Wau there was a bloody fight. A Japanese force of about 4,000 men marched on the town after using an old miner’s track from Salamaua, a track long for-

gotten by Australia. They by-passed Australian soldiers who had just completed an unsuccessful assault on the village of Mubo, and descended on Wau where no more than 50 Australian soldiers, mostly cooks, medical people and sick and wounded remained. But for some unknown reason the Japs decided to work out a plan to take Wau, instead of just walking in and taking over.

While their plan was being put into effect, more than 370 Dakotas, carrying troops, equipment and supplies, landed on the uphill strip.

In all about 3,000 men, of the Aus tralian 17th Brigade, Commandos and Corps troops, piled in.

Soon the Japs were put on the run.

They were by this sick and sorry, and soon were also out of food.

They became easy prey for the Aus tralian 25 pounders and flights of whispering Beaufighters which cut them down from treetop level. Very few of the invaders returned to Mubo. Instead they fell to the Aus tralians, who, from then on, were in full pursuit of a soon-beaten enemy.

Kainantu

Also at Wau the visitor can call on mixed farms, and it is an ideal place to spend a night, as the climate, at more than 3,000 ft, is exhilarating and most pleasant, especially at night.

The return trip to Lae by road is also agreeable, but after having

New Guinea's Highlands towns have a charm of their own. Above is an aerial view of bustling Mt. Hagen, which is quickly challenging Goroka in size. Below is a leafy view in Kainantu, in the mountains just above the Markham Valley.

gone up, the easy way back is by feircraft, a flight of 30 minutes. This way many native villages can be seen and it is a further opportunity to have a look at New Guinea’s mighty I The trip by road from Lae to poroka by way of Kainantu is also Goroka can be reached in a day, and a lunchtime stop at the Kainantu Hotel is recommended. On this trip the visitor can see for the first seven miles or so the cocoa plantations of the lower Markham Valley. Nine miles up, the Department of Agriculture’s Lowland Experimental Station, Bubia, is worth seeing. At this station all lowland crops are experimented with and many acres of ground carry a great variety of crops. Agronomists at Bubia work in close touch with local and outside planters, and help them with their problems.

Wartime Airbase

? Further on is the famous wartime airbase at Nadzab, which in 1943/4 housed something like 100,000 servicemen and women and hundreds of aircraft. The main wartime strip is still used and at present extensions and improvements are being made to it. Neptune bombers of the Royal Australian Air Force will probably use Nadzab as an important base one day soon.

And around Nadzab many planta tions and farms have been estab lished. Peanuts, and coconuts are grown and beef cattle are being introduced to most properties. Pigs are run on some. At nearby Erap, the Administration Lowland Stock Station is located.

Further along the valley big cattle properties are now in full swing.

BGD have developed Leron Plains on the Leron River; at Gusap, R.

L. Atkinson and Sons have a big holding; and further on still at Dumpu, in the Ramu Valley, Dumpu Pastoral Company is well established.

Up over the hills at Arona another large cattle property is being built ip.

Coffee Riches

The climb from the Markham Valley into the Kainantu area is by way iof Kassam Pass, where Commonwealth Department of Works engineers are fully occupied >n a road project full of hazards ind heartbreaks. However, the job is well on its way to completion and wen now big trucks are continually hundering along this road to the highlands from Lae, and back again,

carrying stores in and produce out for shipment to overseas markets.

The Kainantu sub-district, like the neighbouring Goroka sub-district, is rich in coffee. Plantations are many.

Every village has its coffee.

In early post-war years when the Australians began to settle in the area and plant coffee the practical native people went along with them, and, besides, they helped the Admini stration in every possible way to build roads to make sure that their produce could make its way to a market.

These roads also permitted agri

cultural extension officers to travel to the villages with the know-how on bigger and better crops. Last financial year 3,578 tons of coffee were produced in the Eastern High lands District. Of this 2,053 tons came from the efforts of New Guinean planters. Many of these natives are members of the High land Farmers and Settlers’ Associa tion, a body which has also en couraged and helped the villagers in many ways.

The visitor to the Eastern High lands will also see other projects which have done well, for here he is in a rich and busy district.

"Forgotten" Man

pp. 69-71

OF NAURU HAS

DONE MUCH FOR

NAURUANS

By a Staff Writer

Amid all the publicity over the Nauruan question, among the thou sands of words poured into the Aus tralian and New Zealand Press about the efforts of Head Chief Hammer Deßoburt to get a better deal from the Australian Government and the British Phosphate Commissioners for his people, there is one important name that is seldom mentioned. r’S that of Reginald Sylvester Leydin, OBE, Administrator of Nauru for more than seven years, and a man to whom the Nauruans owe much, whatever the outcome of the present situation.

Mr. Leydin was among the group of senior Australian Government officials who sat around the Canberra conference table with the Nauruans and their advisers in June.

His knowledge of local affairs and his goodwill towards the Nauruans are items the Nauruans are aware of, for they, anyway, know that it is merely because of a quirk of tim ing that Mr. Leydin happens to be on the opposite side of the political fence. He just happens to be the instrument of the Australian Govern ment on Nauru at a time when the mana of Canberra there is not high.

But his personal popularity has

Mr. R. S. Leydin.

not waned, nor has his reputation for being an honest, efficient and dedicated Administrator. If any body else but Mr. Leydin had sat in Government House in Nauru in recent years the political situation today would probably be much Stickier than it now is.

Aged 60 last May, Mr. Leydin has been a Government man all his fife —and for all his life he has been working in Australia’s tropical terri tories (if one regards Norfolk Island, too, as being tropical). [ His longest single spell in the tropics was in Darwin, in Australia’s Northern Territory, where he was Town Clerk from 1928 to 1937.

After a four-year stint in the RAAF which he continued his tropical service, but in New Guinea!) he went back to Darwin, this time as the Territory’s Government Sec retary.

Spy Incident

I It was when he was in this position that he received unexpected plaudits as the man who prevented the wife of Russian spy Petrov from being kidnapped from the country by Russian strong-arm men.

From his Darwin post he was appointed, in 1954, as Administrator of the mid-Pacific phosphate island for the first time. He liked the Nauruans from the first and they liked him. [ At this time they had hardly re covered from the war (during which many of them were shipped by the laps to the Caroline Islands) and he worked hard to put the islanders on a better footing. He concentrated particularly on education and public service organisation.

Meanwhile, his wife put in a lot of effort to break down the social barrier between the Europeans and Nauruans, as it was virtually un beard of then for people of the two races to fraternise socially.

The good relations that the Ad ministration now enjoys with the Nauruans are no doubt due, to a large extent, to Mrs. Leydin’s friendly personality, which has brought the people together. But some of the older Nauruans apparently have not completely for gotten or forgiven the social dis crimination of the pre-Leydin era, and this may account for some of he difficulties that Mr. Leydin now bas to face.

In 1958, following a heart attack, Mr. Leydin moved to the milder climate of Norfolk Island as Admini strator—but May, 1962, found him

on Nauru again—where he has since remained.

These last few years have been a period of change on Nauru.

There has been a complete re organisation of the public service; the powers of the Nauru Council have been extended (the council now controls its own budget and elec tions, and does not need the Admini strator’s approval for many of its other actions); the percentage of Australian public servants has been reduced and the Nauruan percentage increased (with an increase in salaries); the Nauruan basic wage has been raised; a Nauruan, the late Raymond Gadabu, was appointed Official Secretary, the top official under the Administrator; and all six magistrates are now Nauruans.

All these developments, coupled with the increase in higher education for Nauruans, have been planned in Mr. Leydin’s time to help the Nauruans achieve complete control of their affairs.

Despite their current fight for higher phosphate royalties and for political independence, the Nauruans enjoy many advantages that other Islanders would give their right arms for—such as no taxation, cheap rents and transport, cheap consumer goods, and regular and fast shipping services.

No Financial Worries

They are not plagued with financial worries in the running of the Ad ministration, because the phosphate pays for it. (Out of a total 1963-64 revenue of £919,921, all but £41,000 was provided by the Phosphate Com missioners).

Mr. Leydin probably has not much longer to serve on Nauru before retirement. Although he is not likely to reveal it, the present Nauruan clamour for independence as not made him happy, because he honestly feels the people would be better off on an island of their own near the Australian mainland, or somewhere else where they could have close connections with Aus tralia.

Those who know him suspect he feels that it is his fault that they have asked for independence, because he has failed to convince them to follow a different course—a course which he honestly believes is in their best interests.

But the important fact is that his friends, the Nauruans, know him for the dedicated man he is—and in these days of swift-changing winds, no colonial administrator could ask for more than that.

Island Eclipse Watchers

pp. 73-74

’Black Disappointmen t' For Island Eclipse Watchers

From W. H. Percival, on Rarotonga

Heavy cloud formations over Manuae and Rarotonga on May 30, the day of the solar eclipse, brought black disappoint ment to the scientists of six nations based on Manuae, and relief to parents on Rarotonga.

THE eclipse attracted the largest gathering of solar astronomers sver to observe an eclipse from a jingle site.

Manuae, their base, is an atoll of 1,524 acres, leased as a copra plantation by the Manuae Develop ment Co-Operative Society.

The atoll’s normal population is a jcore of copra labourers. On May JO, there were also 85 scientists and their assistants from the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, fapan, Russia and the United States.

A post office set up on Manuae iuring the scientists’ visit issued a special 6d stamp depicting a coco aut palm and the partly eclipsed sun.

On the day of the eclipse, the skies over Manuae were clear at irst, but just before totality occurred i large cloud appeared and spoiled the scientists’ efforts. They had hoped to make records of the :hromosphere, the structure of the solar surface in relation to the tsorona, and a photographic search for faint comets near the sun.

Radio Was Successful

All that could be seen were glimpses of the corona through breaks in the cloud. This meant that only a tenth of the optical sxperiments could be carried out.

However, the radio observations, svhich were unaffected by cloud, were successful; and a few photo graphs were taken.

The Press and radio had warned Rarotongans, particularly children, of the danger of viewing the eclipse with the naked eye, or through sun glasses or film. It was therefore a relief to many parents when black Houd masses over Rarotonga obscured the phenomenon.

But the cloud cover did not mar the work of the American scientists based on Rarotonga, who fired five Nike-Tomahawk rockets to an altitude of 300.000 feet —175 miles

—into an area close to the zone of eclipse totality. Their object was to measure low energy X-rays from the sun.

The rockets were fired from a base built by the Sandia Corporation of New Mexico on the property of Captain Andy Thompson, well known Cook Islands skipper, now retired.

The rockets were the solid propellant, two-stage type. The first stages were Nike-Ajax with 40,000 lb thrust and a flight duration of 3i seconds, the second stages, Tomahawks with 10,000 lb thrust and a flight time of nine seconds.

The rockets shot into Rarotonga’s skies with the velocity of anti aircraft shells. White vapour trails marked their ascent, and a rumbling sound like distant thunder marked

This launching pad on Rarotonga was used by American scientists to fire five rockets to an altitude of 175 miles, in two stages. The rockets were suspended from the under part of the arm. —Photo: Van Eijk and Meers.

the first breaking of the sour barrier.

The white vapour trails appear as spirals. This effect was caused I contrary winds of high velocity ; high altitudes, and it gave mar people the false impression that tl rockets were spinning off course.

When the first stages droppe towards the Pacific Ocean about tw miles out from the reef, they wei visible to the naked eye. A fe seconds later there followed anothi loud rumble as the Tomahawk ah broke the sound barrier.

The rockets had to be aimed awg from the sun so that the first ar second stages would fall well clej of the island. Then they wei directed straight at the sun b remote control. The nose com contained intricate apparatus whic transmitted information to the contn point by radio signals.

The blast-off of the rockets scare nearby livestock. Pigs jumped 01 of their enclosures and ran will As the blasts echoed round the hil dogs hurtled in all directions, tc over-awed to bark. When the eclip; brought premature night, Rarotonga chickens went to roost. Even tb noisy mynah birds were silent.

First Class Views

Although clouds obscured tb eclipse over Manuae and Ran tonga, two groups of sightseers o the Moana Roa and Tagua enjoye first class views.

The Moana Roa left Rarotong on the night before the eclipse wit a full booking of cabin and dec passengers to view the eclipsi Double-smoked glasses were pn vided for the trippers. At 8.20 a.n Sunday, the start of the eclipse ws clearly visible and there was onl three-tenths cloud. By 9 a.m. th cloud had increased to seven-tenth and hopes vanished. At 9.20 mo: of the cloud disappeared and th total eclipse was plainly seen.

Suddenly it was dark—an eeri darkness with an almost supernornu quality. Stars appeared over tb black, heaving sea and a suddenl frigid wind made the spectatoi shiver. The corona, the sun atmosphere which is usually see as a white light, appeared as blazing blue and orange halo. On star shone brightly close to the sue Three minutes later it was ligh again, and an intensely bright flas; was seen on one side of the dar circle.

Trippers on the Tagua viewed th eclipse and saw the rockets pass ove from a position 25 miles north-wef of Rarotonga.

Airborne Scientists

p. 73

HAD LONGEST

VIEW ON RECORD

Although observations of the eclipse from Manuae were marred by cloud, a team of 30 scientists who "raced" the eclipse across the South Pacific in an aircraft had the longest and steadiest view of the phenome non on record.

Dr. M. Bader, leader of the ex pedition, said the results were "highly successful", reported AAP.

The scientists travelled at 600 miles an hour in a modified Convair 999 which set off from Hawaii. It carried thousands of pounds worth of instruments and spent nine minutes 42 seconds in the shadow of the moon. This was more than double the viewing time for any pre vious eclipse.

The shadow, about 100 miles across, raced over the Pacific from New Zealand to Peru at 17,000 miles an hour and in less than 10 minutes had outdistanced the plane.

The plane's cabin lights were turned out as a final flash of light came from the sun before the eclipse, and the scientists remained almost motionless to avoid disturbing the balance of the plane and so blurring their photograph time exposures.

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pp. 79-83

EIAO: WHERE PIGS

AND SHEEP FIGHT

OVER THE LAST

BLADES OF GRASS

About 470 miles north-east of Tahiti in French Polynesia are the isolated, depopulated, Marquesas Islands. One of them, in the north of the group, is called Eiao. Its little-known story is told here by an American ecologist, WALTER H. HAMBUECHEN, who visited the island recently under a research grant from the US National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council.

There are many lonely islands dotting the ex >anse of the South Pacific, but none perhaps so emote and forlorn as Eiao in the Marquesas. 7 ormerly habitable, but now deserted and de itroyed, Eiao is a striking example of tragic leglect, folly and ecological disaster.

TOURING the past century, Eiao has been destroyed as a result f sheep, cattle, pigs and donkeys eing allowed to multiply on the dand unchecked.

The animals have eaten virtually 11 the vegetation, and this, in turn, as caused the erosion of most of the >psoil, so that it is now next to npossible to grow anything again.

Eiao lies 70 miles to the northorth west of Nukuhiva, the island lade famous by Herman Melville i his book Typee. The voyage from lukuhiva is easily made overnight, ut the scene greeting the voyager n the dawn is one far removed ■om the usual concept of a South eas island.

Grim, barren, black and buff liffs fall sheer into a murky, foam- Slv oCe u„ n br^i Ch h b UrlS relent ; K 3? b k by ree^s against le ,[°f v ks ,. . , Above the cliffs is a scene of utter isolation. Great black basalt oulders stand as isolated sentries bove the gullied and eroded soil. he bleached white skeletons of trees If and trvive, Fian is ahniit i u mr ° - -a eig T - mil f s long PV i es wi e, and is the remains

of a blown-out volcano. In form, it resembles an inverted pie dish, cut in half and mashed down the centre.

The island is high, attaining almost 2,000 feet, but the highest portion is an almost continuous ridge facing south-east, and falling very steeply I°*° ocean below.

Sheltered Anchorape

The opposite coast, facing northwes t, is probably the inner remains *he cra ter, and slopes more gjmfiy towards the sea. But directly a j .£ ve wa t er » it falls off in abrupt £l|. severa l hundred feet in height.

Jms coast is embayed, and in favourable weather affords sheltered anc horage but in quite deep water.

Sr ifca Id Va y i S ,uh d a eePer ‘ han ““ res ‘’ called V j a,tul ’ a it . , A centu /y and a half ago, Vaituha Ba Y must have been one of the loveliest places in the Marquesas, or, for that matter, in the Pacific.

The walls of the bay rise steeply to a lmost 1,000 feet, while the head X gradUa " y ‘° h, ' Bh f° - - difficult is an st r eam , over which the swell foams without cease.

On the sides of the bay, there

are narrow shelves, and if you are agile, you can land by waiting for the surge to lift the boat to the level of the ledge, then leaping out before the boat drops again. Only on the calmest days can you land on the shingle without danger of the boat being dashed to pieces. if y OU can disregard the absence of undergrowth by the stream, the scene is beautiful and romantic, The stream falls ledge after ledge into natural rock basins, carved smoothly over untold centuries, Above, the fronds of coconuts, pandanus, and a few immense Pisonia interlace, forming a green and refreshing tunnel—a soothing contrast to the rest of the savage, barren landscape, Here in the silence of the

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old Marquesans bathing in the stream. Testimony of their former presence are the great basalt honsp platforms or vaepfe Eiao in ancient times was a centre for the distribution ’ of bipb grade hard stone for the manufac

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on Eiao during the rainy years, but during long droughts which occasionally occur in the northern

Marquesas, the inhabitants probably ’eturned to the higher islands of the louth, [ From the number of house re hains found on the island, it is mown that the population was never arge. But the little bay of Vaituha, dthough very steep, must have been veil planted, especially near the tream. The remnants of various iconomic plants indicate this fact.

But even more significant is the lescription of Eiao given by Captain foseph Ingraham, an American lading captain, to whom the Euro lean discovery of the island in 1791 s attributed, Ingraham wrote: “The island is ibout six or seven leagues in circuit; t appears fertile and pleasant to the ye on all sides; but more particu arly on the west and north-west ides, which are well-wooded and lave many fine groves of coconut rees”.

No People

Captain Ingraham sailed away without landing because of the rough eas. He saw some houses, but no •eople, so his visit probably took dace when the inhabitants had re timed to their native island.

There were still no people on Eiao /hen Lieutenant Richard Hergest nd the astronomer John Gooch anded there from HMS Daedalus a the following year, but Hergest eported finding coconut trees and xcellent water in Vaituha.

Little is known of Eiao’s history uring the next 60 or 70 years, but o doubt the Nukuhivans and parties rom other islands visited and ccupied it from time to time. They robably continued to plant it, and o the vegetation prospered.

Then, around 1870, an American lanter, John Hart, introduced sheep 5 the island, and it was not long efore the weathering and eroding of iiao’s grass-covered upper slopes egan.

Hart apparently obtained the heep from Nukuhiva, where he had pme large holdings.

But it seems that he was not

responsible for bringing them to the Marquesas, for C. J. Lambert, an English visitor to Hart’s plantations on Nukuhiva in 1881, recorded that although sheep, goats, pigs, fowls and cattle were running wild all over that island, no one seemed to know where the sheep and cattle had come from. Lambert added, how ever, that the animals had “very likely” come from Mexico.

Anyway, there is no doubt that Hart introduced the sheep to Eiao, as Bob McKittrick, a well-known trader, who still lives at Taiohae Bay, Nukuhiva, once saw some memoranda written by Hart on his ventures in the Marquesas, and he distinctly recalls that these notes mentioned the introduction of the sheep. (The notes, by the way, were then in the possession of a trader

called McGrath, but their present location is unknown).

It is not certain how long Hart’s sheep-raising venture on Eiao lasted, but after it was abandoned, the sheep were left to multiply un checked—there being nobody to slaughter them, and no animals to prey on them. By the turn of the century, their numbers had reached 10,000.

It was not long before they were “eating themselves out of house and home”. This process was further aided later by the introduction of cattle, horses, donkeys, and pigs.

It was impossible for the vegeta tion to withstand their onslaught, particularly because the island has regular dry seasons, and occasionally suffers droughts.

McKittrick says that in 1916 there

Eiao, the forlorn, eroded island in the north of the Marquesas Group, is seen in the top picture from its smaller neighbour, Hatutu. Because Hatutu has no readily accessible water, no animals have been introduced there, and vegetation, especially after rains, covers the whole island. Eiao, by contrast, is always stark and barren.

The lower picture shows part of the eroded uplands of Eiao above Vaituha Bay.

ere 3,000 sheep in the Vaituha alley alone —this being the only (hnanent source of water.

It was in this year that a man imed Verhag, of Papeete, was given lease of Eiao to butcher sheep for e Tahiti market. But lack of ipping and other complications icmed the venture to failure.

Eiao then became a penal settle pnt and Marquesas criminals were it there to serve their sentences, iturally, they killed a few sheep d pigs, but not nearly enough to ve the island’s vegetation.

In 1927, a Frenchman named an leased the island for coconut mting. Cattle were also intro ced around this time.

By then, the estimated number of sep on the island was 6,000, and i island was looking like a desert, hardly a single tree or blade of iss had a chance of escaping the ngry thousands.

Osan’s labourers planted most of t plateau with coconuts, but the jep immediately attacked the trees, an therefore asked the French Iministration for permission to kill t sheep, but this was refused. In speration, he put up miles and les of barbed wire to keep them t; and although this proved xessful, his venture failed, like j previous one, because of shipping ficulties.

Although much of Osan’s barbed

wire is still in place today, the sheep have breached it, and they now reign supreme over what is left of the vegetation.

These sheep have adapted them selves to climb like goats to get to the last remaining plants, but these are so few, that the sheep are dying from starvation.

Meanwhile, the cattle introduced about 1927 have all died through lack of grass and their inability to get to water in the steep Vaituha Valley; and the donkeys have dwindled to about five head. These five, in their struggle to survive, are eating the bark of the few remain ing trees, girdling them, and killing them.

Savage Predators

As for the pigs, they have become savage predators. They hunt stray sheep and lambs in bands, run them down, bring them to the ground by breaking their legs with their power ful jaws, and then devour them.

The pigs are vicious, razor-backed, red and black creatures. They subsist on whatever they can find—pandanus seeds, candlenuts, roots, bark, and occasional fruit from the nono tree.

Their special habitat is the Opituha canyon, a long, winding former stream canyon, now barren and dry because the life-giving, water-holding topsoil on its watershed was washed

and blown away after its plant life was destroyed.

Opituha resembles a canyon in the desert country of Arizona.

In contrast to the barreness of Opituha and other parts of Eiao is the small island of Hatutu (three miles long by less than one wide), which is separated from Eiao by a channel three miles wide.

Because no readily accessible water exists on this island, no animals have been introduced, and almost no economic plants are to be found.

But other plants grow in every nook and cranny of Hatutu’s 1,400 ft high plateau, and cling to the steepest places on the wild, high coast. After rains, Hatutu is a picture of green—emerald green— bursting with vigorous plants grow ing in soils that attain over 20 inches in depth. On barren Eiao, on the other hand, few places have even one inch of topsoil.

The contrast between the two islands is dramatic proof of what foraging animals can do if they are not controlled. The sum of their destruction and official indifference adds up to the total economic loss of an island, which, before the intro duction of the sheep and other animals could undoubtedly have supported more than 1,000 people, especially with the addition of modern water storage facilities.

Today, it is doubtful if Eiao could support even one family.

McKittrick, the Nukuhiva trader, who vided some of the details about Eiao's ep. He is holding a couple of Mar quesan tikis.

When Absinthe

p. 83

Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

For days around Noumea’s docks recently, the air was heavy with the perfume of aniseed.

Old-timers in the neighbourhood raised their heads and sniffed like retriever hounds. A furtive tear or two might have been shed.

The Noumea Customs men had seized 1,600 flasks of aniseed essence and had poured it down the Customs House sink . . . and into the gutter.

The seizure was made aboard a Messageries Maritimes liner which had just arrived from France. It is generally supposed that the aniseed was destined to be clandestinely sold in Noumea.

Aniseed concentrate is used for making a broken-down type of absinthe sold in France under various trade names such as “Fastis”, “Pernod”, etc. It is a

national beverage in France.

But its importation into New Caledonia has been forbidden for some years.

When taken in excess, the drink seems to induce temporary madness; and when it was freely available in New Caledonia, there were many incidents. The New Caledonian natives, who procured it (illegally), drank it raw.

The flasks seized recently had an alcohol content of about 45 per cent. There has always been a “discreet” traffic in this product in New Caledonia, but this time someone wanted to hit the

jackpot.

The nominal value of each, flask seized would be about 500 Pacific francs (£2/10/-). But sold as it was intended to be by the would-be traffickers, the price would be anybody’s guess.

Even at 500 francs, though, 1,600 flasks would represent a nice sum . . . £4,000. —FRED

DUNN.

A Piece Of The Pacific In

pp. 84-85

The Mid-Indian Ocean

The two photographs reproduced on these pages may have a familiar Pacific appearance at first glance, but they were, in fact, taken o nthe Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean.

THE pictures were sent to us by Ken Mullen, a former PIM correspondent and cable station operator on Norfolk Island, who is now employed at the Cocos cable station.

Fhe Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Ken writes, consist of two atolls of 27 small coral islands with a total area of five square miles.

They lie 1,700 miles north-west from Perth, Western Australia, and 600 miles south of the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra.

Discovered in 1609 by Captain William Keeling of the East India Company, they came under various administrations before being accepted by Australia in 1955.

They were uninhabited until 1826 when Alexander Hare, an Englishman, and John Clunies Ross, a Scotsman, settled there with several boat-loads of Malayan men and women.

After five years, Hare left Cocos entirely to Clunies Ross who soon established plantations and built up a thriving trade in copra, oil and nuts with Singapore.

Clunies Ross ruled his followers as a benevolent patriarch but he was shrewd enough to realise that he had need of a more substantial backing for his small but beautiful empire.

Support came in 1857 when the islands were annexed by the British Crown and formally declared part of the Dominions, In 1886 j Queen v ictoria granted the land comprised in the islands to John Clunies Ross in perpetuity, Succeeding heads of the family enjoyed semi-official status as resident magistrate and representative of the British Government,

Australian Territory

7 But when the islands became Australian territory in 1955, their administration became the respon sibility of the Minister for Territories and an Official Representative was appointed to take charge of the local administration. This representative is now Mr- C. J. Buffett, a Norfolk Islander.

In 1910, Cocos Island became a key point in the world submarine cable network through the opening of a relay station there linking South Africa, Batavia and Australia, This relay station attracted the attention of fhe enemy in both world wars.

In 1914, the German cruiser Emden landed a party with orders to destroy the station. But the plan

was abandoned when the Austi cruiser Sydney providentially ai on the scene and put the Emde. of action in a short engagemer In World War 11, an attem destroy the cable station closer to success when a unit c Japanese Navy opened fire on close range at 8 p.m. on Mar 1942.

A direct hit at one end o cable office damaged the roof, c part of the office to collapse, scattered many of the delicat struments. But there was no se damage, and the cable station tinued to function for the re the war, although the Jap believed it had been destroyed.

In 1945, thousands of ccx palms on West Island, the I; motu, were destroyed to enab* airfield for the Royal Air For be built.

This airport is today use* Qantas and South African Aii on their weekly services acros; Indian Ocean, and West Islai the home of most of the Him residents of Cocos.

However, the two airlines an pected to abandon calls at early next year when improved ai facilities at Mauritius and make it possible for Boeing 701 to make the long haul between points non-stop.

It appears, though, that the 0 airport will not be abandonee

A Cocos Islander casts a the shallows—in typical South fashion.

ms were recently announced for [series of joint Anglo-American mmunications bases on islands in ; Indian Ocean, including Cocos.

Meanwhile, life for the 500 Cocos anders of Malayan descent is still ich as it was in the time of the iginal Clunies Ross, as they live art from the West Island Euro ans—on Home Island, some six les across the lagoon. Home Island [the centre of the Clunies Ross late.

Visits by Europeans to Home and are by invitation only and is provides maximum privacy for I islanders.

They sail to neighbouring islands [gather coconuts for copra in teak ats called jukongs or djukongs, th red, blue or striped sails.

These boats make a brave showing [they scud over the green waters the lagoon. [The Cocos Islanders”, as the finds’ wartime military admini ator once wrote, “have a keen ise of humor and a solid Scots bit of industry and pride of crafts |mship grafted upon the natural lirtesy and charm of manner mmon to all races of the Malay

jthipelago.”

They appear to lead untroubled es in an environment that has no rallel on earth. But with the hstant trouble in the north, it hains to be seen whether this will pays be so.

o Cocos Islanders, father and son, on a copra-gathering expedition.

Few Words

p. 85

A Brett Milder Profile

A MAN OF

DR. JOSEPH OTTO ANDERS

is Rabaul’s only private dentist at present. He studied dentistry at Bonn, Berlin, Vienna and Leipzig, where he was granted his Doctorate. (It was not a Doctorate of Music.) “ A NDY” was born at Cologne, before 1939”, when he migrated to Australia and practised in partnership there.

In 1948, he joined the New Guinea Administration as a Dental Officer, and worked in many parts of the Territory. He left the service in 1952 to enter private practice in Rabaul.

In 1955, he married Miss Elva Eaborn at Brisbane. On returning to Rabaul he took up land in the Kokopo district, having it cleared and planted with 60,000 cocoa trees. This is now known as Wairiki Plantation, and Andy, who is not a talkative person, concedes that his “cacao is now in satisfactory bearing.”— Brett Hilder.

Dr. Anders.

yesterday

p. 87

In July, 1945, with VJ-Day only a matter of weeks away, Japan was being heavily bombarded by two US naval forces, supported by more than 1,000 carrier-based planes; troops of the Australian Seventh Division were establishing a beach head at Balikpapan, the important Borneo oil port; \md troops of the Australian Sixth Division were mopping up the Japanese in the Prince Alexander Ranges, overlooking Wewak, New Guinea.

jl/B'E AN WHILE, a conference in San Francisco had mapped out detailed plans for the establishment of the United Nations, ♦ * • * Among other items in PIM for July, 1945, was the news that Mr.

A. W. G. H. Grantham, Governor of Fiji, had been knighted in the King’s Birthday honours. The knighthood had been expected since his arrival in Fiji from Nigeria earlier in the year. * * * The Fiji Defence Regulations dealing with the sale of liquor were changed to allow hotels to sell alcoholic liquor by the bottle, except to members of the armed forces. Under the previous regu lation it was possible to buy liquor in hotels only by the glass.

Hotels in many parts of the Colony reverted to the pre-war trading hours of 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Australia’s Minister for Terri tories, Mr. E. I. Ward, had out lined plans for a new deal for the native people of Papua and New Guinea. A new Native Labour Ordinance proposed by Mr. Ward provided, among other things, for a 44-hour working week, the elimination of the indenture system and of pro fessional recruiters, a limit on the number of natives who could be taken from any village for em ployment, and the raising of the minimum wage from 5/- to 15/a month. * * * A Cook Islands Native Medical Practitioner, Manea Tamarua, performed an emergency opera tion at Mangaia on a native whose life could only be saved by that last resource. The operation was successful. The practitioner was the first since the NMP system was instituted to attempt on such an isolated island, a task that would seem hazardous, even to a European in a fully-equipped hospital. (Dr. Tamarua is now

officer in charge of the Cook Islands Sanatorium at Arorangi, Rarotonga. He is also deputy leader of the Cook Islands Party and Leader of Government Busi ness). * ♦ * The story was revealed of two men and a woman, all of the United States Army, who lived for six weeks in a previously un known (to Europeans) valley in the Oranje Mountains of Dutch New Guinea after their plane crashed there on May 13, 1945.

When radio communication was established between the castaways and their base, the first message sent by the woman in the party was; “Send me some pants—any kind”. The woman was Corporal Margaret Hastings of the US Women’s Army Corps. * * * Information from various parts of the Western Pacific indicated that trochus shell beds had benefited from the spell they had had since the Japanese invasion of the Pacific.

Lae, New Guinea, site of the Sixth South Pacific Conference this month, was nothing much to look at when this picture of it appeared in PIM in February, 1931. The wharf shown had just been built for the Bulolo Gold Dredging Co., and a railway line was being built from the wharf to the aerodrome, half a mile away.

Hilarious, Earthy Account

pp. 89-90

HE MONTH'S NEW READING

Hilarious, Earthy Account Of Life In The Cook Is.

Among the 66 candidates who contested the 22 seats in he recent Legislative Assembly elections in the Cook Islands vas one, Robert Julian Dashwood, 66, whom a New Zealand ournalist described last year as a lean, knobbly, eccentric inglishman “with an impeccable accent, a nimble mind, and in uncontrollable urge to shock the rest of the world.”

R. DASHWOOD was the only • European to be elected in the mbly poll—beating his Polyne opponent in the Mauke elec te by 197 votes to 43. He has e been made a member of the k Islands Executive Committee >inet).

Mr. Dashwood has lived on Mauke, an island of 41 square miles, 150 miles north-east of Rarotonga, since the late 1930’5.

He went there as a £25-a-month branch manager for a Rarotonga trading firm after a varied career, which, according to his own accounts, included studying for the ministry, serving as a midshipman in the Royal Navy and reaching the rank of lieutenant in the Royal Air Force during World War I, representing a motor firm in the north of England, working as a schoolteacher in Con stantinople, farming in South Africa, rubber-planting in Malaya, and running a school of applied psychology in Australia.

According to his self-supplied biography in the Pacific Islands Year Book and Who’s Who, he has been decorated with the Greek Order for Valour N class, which sounds rather like the sort of decoration the Greeks would award to the Duke of Plaza Toro.

Correspondent

Anyway, there is no doubt that Mr. Dashwood has lived in the Cook Islands since the 1930’5, as in those days—under the pseudonym Julian Hillas—he used to act as PlM’s cor respondent, and we have his stories on file to prove it!

However, Mr. Dashwood eventually found that collecting shells and selling them to conchologists throughout the world was far more profitable than writing, and little has been seen from his pen for the last 25 years or so.

Now, at last, Mr. Dashwood— still writing as Julian Hillas—has broken the long drought with an earthy, light-hearted and often hilarious account of his life in the Cook Islands.

The book was originally published in the United States under the title

Today Is Forever. But the English version, which is the only one we have seen, and which we understand has been much edited and ab breviated, is called South Seas Paradise (erk!).

South Seas Paradise begins in Sydney in 1930, where the author, with an incompatible wife in tow called Winifred, was on his beams ends, and one of more than 100,000 unemployed.

A silent movie, White Shadows in the South Seas, moved him to sell his last remaining asset, a decrepit car, and buy a steamer ticket to Tahiti.

When the steamer sailed, Winifred was left behind, and Dashwood decided to “remedy a lack of ap preciation shown by the war office some years previously” by adopting the rank of captain.

On reaching Rarotonga, he met an old friend, James Carfax-Foster (now

of Fiji), whom he had last seen in Constantinople “organising a football game on the floor of a night club and insisting that the White Russian hostess take part.”

Carfax-Foster invited him to visit a plantation he was running at the far end of the island, and Dashwood wound up running the place himself instead of going to Tahiti. His self adopted captain’s rank helped him to bluff officialdom into permitting him to stay.

He subsequently made a living by trapping rats and collecting a bounty from the Administration-delivering the rats whole, and very dead, when officialdom refused to accept only their tails; and by serving in a Rarotonga store.

Then he spent an idyllic year on Rakahanga atoll in the Northern Cooks—a place where “today is forever, and tomorrow never comes”, and where he wrote a novel called I Know An Island, which is his only other published book.

In Rakahanga, the author married a Polynesian girl—Winifred having divorced him, presumably for desertion; but wife No. 2 got divorced herself after Dashwood found her in bed with someone else; and the author eventually married a third time after his third wife’s Polynesian grandmother found him in bed with the girl.

Rabelaisian

The Dashwoodian descriptions of the dereliction of wife No. 2 and of the author’s premarital adventures with wife No. 3 are among the more Rabelaisian episodes in South Seas Paradise. But also high on the list is the author’s account of his highly profitable life as a “pox doctor’s clerk” during a visit to Tahiti in the ’thirties.

Another highlight—a cruel one— is a side-splitting account of the visit to Mauke during the war of New Zealand’s vice-regal pair, Lord and Lady Galway.

Throughout the book are many acute observations on Polynesian life as the author sees it and some brilliant pearls of Dashwoodian philosophy, which clearly explain how the author has managed to live where he has all these years and to enjoy every minute of it.—RL.

(SOUTH SEAS PARADISE. Robert Hale

Ltd., London, 26/6).

A Worthwhile Do-It

p. 89

YOURSELFER

The Reader’s Digest Associa on of Sydney and Wellington is developed lately a substantial usiness in book publishing, ate apart from its magazine '.tivities.

Its latest Australian book is handsome 500-page “Do-It ouself Manual,” written speci ally for Australian and New ealand conditions, and which is the rare distinction of being rserving of most of the high aise the Association’s own pub ■ity staff are currently lavishing i it. This manual is available rough regular retail outlets.

Whether the problem is paint g or plumbing, building or icklaying, fencing or furniture aking, roofing or rockery anning, this extraordinarily ell illustrated manual really )es supply the answer.

All handymen and not-so indymen will have nothing but Imiration for it. Plantation anagers should find it a worth hile investment, for the detailed awings are large enough and ear enough to be followed by e carpenter boy whose reading nlity is not so hot. Definitely commended.

fTHE READER’S DIGEST DO-IT

>URSELF MANUAL. £5/4/6).

Surveyed

p. 89

Australia s Defence Surveyed

“Australia’s Defence”, by Dr.

T. B. Millar, of the Australian National University, Canberra, is a clearly-written handbook for laymen on all aspects of Aus tralia’s defence commitments and problems—and with the pres sures on Australia from South- East Asia and Indonesia it couldn’t have come at a better time. Dr. Millar believes there should be more public discus sion in Australia on the country’s defence planning.

Dr. Millar enlarges on the view he has expressed publicly at lectures in recent months— that Indonesia must be presumed to be a potential threat to the security of Papua-New Guinea and thus to Australia. But he warns that while P-NG’s defence must be ensured, Australia must discourage any antagonism by New Guineans towards West New Guinea or Indonesia.

(AUSTRALIA’S DEFENCE. Mel

bourne University Press. 20/- paper bound, 35/- cloth.)

Aussie English

p. 90

AS SHE'S SPOKE

Although few of the literary experts expected John O’Grady (Nino Culotta) to keep up the standard of They’re a Weird Mob, that hilarious epic of Australia’s impact on a New Australian, the fantastic sale of subsequent O’Grady books has proved them poor forecasters.

Aussie English, the latest from the O’Grady production-line, keeps up the good work of pro viding Australians with a good laugh at themselves; and giving foreigners some sort of insight into the weirdness of the Aus tralian culture, or way of life.

The small book goes through the Australian alphabet from A (for Acid—i.e. “to put the acid on”) to Z (for Zac—a small coin—otherwise known as six pence—as used in “not worth a zac”).

Although this takes no more than 104 pages, the book comes in a hard cover and sells at 19/6 —which, we seem to re member, is somewhat higher in price than the original edition of the much larger Weird Mob. (AUSSIE ENGLISH. An Explanation of the Australian Idiom. Ure Smith.)

Australia's Off-Shore

pp. 90-91

ISLANDS

Australia is a continent, everyone knows that. It also ha countless off-shore islands ranging in size and usefulness fron Tasmania to those like the Monte Bello Islands off the Wester Australian coast which were used for some of Britain’s firs nuclear experiments. Bill Beatty writes about most of thes> outliers of Australia in a new book, Next Door to Paradise.

ALTHOUGH his publishers have fallen for the out-worn idea that any book about islands must have “Paradise” somewhere in its title, some of the places that Beatty de scribes scarcely qualify. As, for example, the Monte Bello and the Houtman Albrolhos group, off West ern Australia, which have a back ground of murder and mutiny, ship wreck and disaster dating right back to the days of the Dutch East India Company.

It was on one of the Albrolhos that the Dutch ship Batavia ran aground in 1628, to be followed by

the mutiny of the crew and slaughter of over 100 men women for the sake of the trea she carried.

The mutineers were eventi brought to justice, but before coins and valuables could be rem( from Batavia she slipped from reef on which she was perched, b: in two and sank, carrying her trea with her. Skindivers relocated wreck and some of the treasur 1963.

These isolated, uninhabited n islands swarm with seabirds and s carry large numbers of Austn mainland animals, including labies.

Beatty writes also of Cock Island, the 10 square mile, ru; hunk of iron-ore in Yampi So on the far north-west coast of It is an industrial phenomenon hardly a paradise, in the ventional use of the term.

There is little soil on Cock but 500 people live and work the remote island in a townshi] modern homes that have all veniences, ocean views down Sound but problems with fresh w much of which has to be backlo to the island in the ore ships, weather is glorious from Ma; October and like hell with humidity for the rest of the yea]

Nauru

However, Australia’s off-s islands are not all coral rocks burning iron-ore. The islande Torres Strait and the Barrier are as delightful as any in the publicised regions of the Pa Beatty also has something to< about Norfolk Island, Lord H and although it can’t by any stl of the imagination be called air shore island, Nauru.

The short chapter on Naurui evidently written before the N ans had turned down the idee migrating en masse to Curtis I! off the Queensland coast and; author is one of those who doe; have stars in his eyes when he tl

the Nauruans’ nationalistic ibilions.

Dn the question of their demand \ sovereignty on Curtis, he says, he idea that Australia should ate a sovereign nation with a mlation no bigger than that of a intry town, on an island within ht of the mainland, is prepo rous . . . The Nauruans will have right to manage their local affairs, r the rest, they should be grateful what is being offered them. Many lerelict mining community in Aus tia would have been glad to be ited half so well.”

Jill Beatty has specialised in un thing the odd and unusual in the stralian scene and what he has [say about the islands off the itinent will give Australians new its on places they have taken for nted; and provide interesting

ding for non-Australians.-

IT.

lEXT DOOR TO PARADISE. Cassell.

I).

Off-Shore

p. 91

FORMOSA

aiwan—or Formosa—is also a ific Island, when it is not being off-shore Chinese island and part Asia. For the past century it been the mission field of \adian and other British Presby ins, and “Angel at Her Shoulder ”, Kenneth L. Wilson, is the story the island, the mission and of lan Dickson who earned her ■name of Typhoon Lil the hard L and her husband, Jim Dickson, arrived in Taiwan in 1927, n it was dominated by Japan, remained almost until the out ik of war in 1941. During the they served in British Guiana, in 1945 returned to Taipeh to that little remained of what they created and that the new masters he country could be more difficult ive with than the Japanese, s part of the surrender in Tokyo [ Taiwan, which had been ipied by the Japanese for 50

years, was returned to China whose first appointed governor was a disaster.

The Taiwanese, mostly Chinese who had lived on the island for generations, spoke a different language from their new bosses and probably would have preferred the Japanese, to whom they had adjusted, to the backward, uncouth Chinese occupying-troops.

It was among the Taiwanese, and among the aborigines— supposedly related to the Polynesians —who lived in the remote mountains, that the Dicksons worked.

In recording the effort that one five-foot-nothing American woman put into the business of providing spiritual and physical care of the afflicted, the author also has much to say about an island that remains one of the problem spots in the world.

As well as its Christian message, the book has its leavening of humour. —JT.

(ANGEL AT HER SHOULDER.

Hodder. 32/6.)

Startling New

pp. 93-94

THEORY ON CAUSE

OF THE "BOUNTY"

MUTINY

Ever since 1790 when Captain igh published his first account the mutiny on the Bounty, off ; Tongan island of Tofua on ?ril 28, 1789, people have en arguing over why the itiny took place and who was jponsible for it. iLIGH, himself, did not profess to 1 know the answers to these estions. But he conjectured that i mutineers hoped to lead a happier ; in Tahiti than they could ssibly enjoy in England, And he d that this “joined to some female mexions, most probably caused i whole transaction”.

Certainly, Bligh was of the opinion it the mutiny was not his fault, ad [the sailors’] mutiny been oc ioned by any grievances, either ,1 or imaginary,” he wrote, “I ist have discovered symptoms of ir discontent, which would have ; me on my guard; but the case s far otherwise.” >ther people, however, have taken very different view. They have jmpted to show that Bligh gave mutineers plenty of cause for intent through frequent and ere floggings, parsimony in the le of provisions, abusive language, uments with his officers, and lerally tyrannical conduct.

"Brilliant"

[he Swedish writer, Bengt Daniels 1, said in a book on the mutiny dished a couple of years ago, that mutiny could be interpreted most as a class struggle” and that was “a revolt of the oppressed, lected, poverty-stricken and home i seamen against a privileged and rbearing gentleman-class, the chief resentative of which in their eyes i Captain Bligh”.

Tiere have been all sorts of other lanations for the mutiny.

Jut possibly the most plausible lanation ever put forward is that Madge Darby, a young English orian, who has just published a -page book called Who Caused Mutiny on the “Bounty”?

Her book is a brilliant piece of analytical writing. It first examines and disposes of the various charges that have been laid against Bligh, and so eliminates Bligh as the person responsible for the mutiny. Then it eliminates other members of the Bounty’s crew until only Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian and Midshipman Edward Young are left.

But Miss Darby shows that right up to the Bounty’s departure from Tahiti with her cargo of breadfruit for the West Indies, Bligh and Christian were on the best of terms.

So the problem she next has to face is: “What changed Christian from the captain’s best friend to a

desperate mutineer ready to plunge a bayonet into his heart?”

Her answer to this is that after leaving Tahiti, where Christian had had a love affair with a Tahitian girl, Christian’s mind became so deranged that he became convinced —and he convinced several other people—that Bligh was ill-treating him beyond the limits of human endurance, whereas in reality Bligh was still treating him like a younger brother.

Miss Darby goes on: “Those taking part in the controversy [over the cause of the mutiny] have failed to pluck the heart out of the mystery because they have seized upon one

of these facts and tried to disprove the other, regarding them as mutually exclusive, but they are not. If they are both accepted and added together, they lead to the conclusion that Christian was suffering from paranoid delusions.”

Quoting the Encyclopaedia Britan nica, Miss Darby says that a person suffering from paranoid delusions often feels he is being “controlled, observed, influenced, criticised, called upon to give an account of himself, and punished” . . . and that such a person occasionally “explodes into action, either fleeing from his alleged persecutors or attacking them.”

Christian, of course, did plan to flee from his “alleged persecutor” on a raft before he staged the mutiny.

So his behaviour corresponded pre cisely with the Encyclopaedia’s des cription.

Miss Darby lends further weight to her argument by comparing the classic case of paranoid delusions of a Dresden judge, Dr. Shreber, with that of Christian. And she adds to this a quote from Freud, who said that these delusions could be detected from the fact that “the person who is now hated and feared for being a persecutor was at one time loved and honoured”—a definition which appears to fit Bligh completely.

Miss Darby is far less convincing in trying to make Midshipman Edward Young out to be a sinister third man and the cool-headed organiser behind the mutiny.

In the first place, she produces very little evidence in support of her contention; in the second, she appears to exaggerate the amount of organisa tion needed to stage the mutiny; and in the third, she does not seem to know of the existence of quite a bit of evidence that definitely con tradicts her theories on Edward Young.

Miss Darby, in fact, is like a number of recent writers on the Bounty. She has made good use of all the documents on her subject that have been published in books. But she seems to be completely ignorant of a considerable body of un published documents and periodical literature—most of which is in Sydney’s Mitchell Library—that any student of the Bounty story must consult to get a complete picture of the affair.

It is fortunate for her that little of the literature that she has not consulted has much bearing on the behaviour of Fletcher Christian, and so her book as a whole is not impaired.—RL.

(WHO CAUSED THE MUTINY ON THE

“BOUNTY”? Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 30/-).

Best of the Paperbacks

p. 94

Factual

RUM REBELLION, by H. V.

Evatt, deals with the overthrow of Governor Bligh by the New South Wales Corps in 1808. Published first in 1938 and reprinted many times since. This edition in Sirius Books. (Angus and Robertson; 18/6.)

WOMAN AND LOVE, by Dr.

Eustace Chesser. “Clear, calm advice on sexual problems”—should anyone be still unaware of the questions or the answers. (Pan; 6/-.)

HERBS FOR HEALTH AND

COOKERY, by Claire Loewenfeld and Philippa Back, contains 336 pages of information and recipes— including how to make cocktails of rosemary and such. (Pan; 9/-.)

FUNNY HA HA AND FUNNY

PECULIAR, by Denys Parsons. The book contains 600 published howlers and oddities all from real newspapers and magazines. Examples (Ha Ha): “Lost vicinity Milton-Cameron roads, brownish black cat; light in side tail tip”.— Ad. in local paper. (Peculiar): “When examined by the Divisional Surgeon, defendant was very abusive and when asked to clench his teeth, he took them out, gave them to the doctor and said, ‘You clench them.’ ” Woking Herald and News. (Pan; 4/-.)

SELL THEM A STORY, Jean

Leroy. The-author is an experienced literary agent, and what she has to say should be of practical value to all aspiring writers of fiction. (Pan; 6/-.) Fiction COP THIS LOT, by John O’Grady (writing as Nino Culotta).

This sequel to They’re a Weird Mob has sold 135,000 copies (The Mob has sold 350,000, at latest count).

This many old and new Australians can’t be wrong . . . it’s a very funny book. (Humourbooks; 8/-.)

THE COUSIN FROM FIJI, by

Norman Lindsay. This isn’t a story about Fiji; it’s a story about Ballarat, Victoria, in the 1890’s. The cousin could have been from anywhere—so long as it was different. Cousin Ella and her merry widow mother give the straight-laced country town some-

thing to think about—all in Norman Lindsay manner, (Hume books; 10/-.)

SHEAR NONSENSE, by J(

Brimblecombe, who sets out to pr that farming in Taranaki, NZ, be very funny, indeed. (Hume books; 8/-.)

NO GLAMOUR IN GL

BOOTS, by Marian Warren. Fen version of funny farming on other side of the Tasman. (Hume

books; *B/-.)

WHAT HAPPENED TO T

CORBETTS, by Nevil Shute. 1 is one of the earliest of this writ stories—written in 1938 when he still actively engaged in aircraft ] duction. In it he is uncan prophetic about the terrors of t air war on Britain. (Pan; 6/-.)

THE SEA HAWK, by Ra

Sabatini, writer of 17th and ] century adventure stories that pleJ many in the 1920’5. (Pan; 8/-.) THE ROBE, by Lloyd C. Dou* has been called one of the publisl phenomena of the 20th cent Over three million copies have I sold in the English editions al The story is of Marcellus, one c group of Roman soldiers who d lots for Jesus’ blood-stained i after the crucifixion. Marcellus \ and his life was changed. (Pan; 9 THE GUN, by C. S. Foreste a story of the Peninsular War an band of Spanish guerillas who fc a three-ton bronze gun which used to destroy the cream Napoleon’s troops. (Pan; 4/-.)

THE PASS BEYOND KASHIV

by Barkely Mather who was the lan Fleming’s favourite adver writer. This story is fast-moving; exciting enough to please even Js Bond. (Fontana; 5/6.) (Pan and Fontana Books from Collins (Overseas) Ltd.; Humour!' from Ure Smith Pty. Ltd. t

Pacific Shipping

pp. 101-109

Cruising Yachts

Higher Freight Rates On Services To Islands

Shipping companies trading

tween Australia and the Fiji— >nga-Samoa triangle lifted their sight charges by 15/- a ton on ne 1.

HE increase caught many ship pers by surprise; they had been )ecting that increases, if any, iuld be made for freight carried ports between Australia and the r East.

The Australia-Far East freights re lifted early in June, but the :her charges do not apply to in mediate ports in P-NG, West New inea, etc.

Fhe new rates, from Sydney, are: Suva and Lautoka, 197/6; Apia, I/-; Nukualofa, 215/-; Vavau, nshipped at Suva, 240/-. [he rates from Melbourne are higher than those from Sydney, ile from Adelaide they are 30/her.

The companies which benefit from the new charges are the USS Co.

Ltd., American Trading and Ship ping Co. Ltd., Matson Lines, and CSR Co. Ltd.

Other companies which operate between Australia and some or all of the groups in the triangle, are also expected to increase their charges.

These include the P and O-Orient Line, and the Tonga Copra Board, which operates the Niuvakai.

"MALAITA" SOLD TO

HONG KONG

The Burns Philp passenger-cargo ship, Malaita, has been sold to the Manners Navigation Co., Hong Kong, for an undisclosed price.

It is understood that the Manners Co. was nominee for another com pany as far as the sale is concerned.

The Malaita was on her last run from Sydney to New Guinea ports and return in June-July.

She will be replaced by Burns Philp’s new ship Moresby, which is expected to go into service about the third week in July.

The Malaita, built in 1933, was well-known in the Western Pacific.

She had traded to most P-NG ports, including Bougainville, the BSIP, and the New Hebrides.

She was torpedoed off Port Moresby during World War 11, but managed to get back to Sydney, and after repairs returned to the Aus tralia-Islands run.

The torpedo hit the Malaita just about No. 3 hold. The chief steward, who was injured, was the only casualty.

SHIP ON FIRE

AT SEA

A fire in the Greek cargo ship Eurymedon, while she was 300 miles south of Suva on May 30, burnt out all accommodation and had a flying boat and a cable ship racing to her aid.

The fire broke out near the bridge about 3 a.m. Although the blaze lasted only about 15 minutes, it burnt out parts of three decks, the navigation instruments on the bridge, and the radio room.

Despite the damaged radio room the ship was able to get an SOS away to Suva.

The SOS to Suva brought an RNZAF Sunderland flying-boat to

The "Malaita" just after she went into service in the Pacific in 1934.

»scene to keep watch until the le ship Mercury arrived.

Tie Monterey, on her way to Suva n Auckland, steamed towards the ymedon, but her services were required, and she resumed her mal course.

Tie master of the Eurymedon, ttain John Miskias, 36, was badly ned while fighting the fire, and was treated by the Mercury’s »eon, Mr. S. Raverty, when the ships met. The ships then sailed Suva, where Captain Miskias was ;n to the CWM Hospital.

Le Eurymedon, 8,631 tons, was her way from Los Angeles to ilong with a cargo of petroleum e when the fire broke out.

G HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

IRLY FINISHED

he Australian survey vessel luma has completed the major ; of a 14Tmonth hydrographic r ey in Papua-New Guinea waters, he Territory’s Superintendent of ■ine, Captain G. A. Hawley, said in Port Moresby early in June le the Ataluma, under the com id of Captain Peter Wiseman, was *ort Moresby for a routine check )re continuing the final stage of survey at Collingwood Bay, north- Papua. laptain Hawley said the hydro pic survey was being undertaken the Administration by Australian Irographic Services Pty. Ltd., ney, and was expected to be corn ed by September, is a result of the survey, waters ch previously had not been quately charted would be ac ible to overseas vessels wishing engage in Papua-New Guinea’s art trade. tbout 30 per cent, of the final ;e of the survey, including the iping route between Cape Vogel, ne Bay and Wanigella, Northern trict, had already been corn ed. laptain Hawley said a useful route been found in these areas through dangerous shoals of Collingwood hrveys already completed were approach to Dam, Daru borage, and the entrance to amo River, Gulf District; Tonolei hour, Bougainville; Stringer and derson Bays in the Milne Bay i near Cameron’s Plateau.

) START FOR NEWCOMER

i newcomer to the P-NG coastal le is the 158 ft Karalta, which is rated by British East Asia Marine Hong Kong, for the Western

Australian firm of Garnew Ship ping Pty. Ltd.

Her trade run is expected to be Port Moresby-Samarai-Lae-Madang- Rabaul-Kwalakesi (near Talasea, New Britain)-Port Moresby, and other ports if cargo is offering.

She was scheduled to make a voyage from Port Moresby to Wakunai and Kieta early in May with a cargo of concrete pipes, but a breakdown in her auxiliary engines delayed her departure until May 26.

However, she broke down again off Hood Point, about 60 miles south-east of Port Moresby, and drifted towards a reef.

The possibility of abandoning her was considered, but the tides finally took her away from the danger area and the engineer managed to get her

going under reduced power. She returned slowly to Port Moresby.

Early in June she was being repaired, and the agents, Steamships Trading, hoped she would be ready to sail about mid-June.

The Karalta was formerly owned by the Adelaide Steamship Co., and operated on the North Queensland coast as a sugar lighter.

"ALDEBARAN" REPAIRS

TO COST £12,000

A Suva ship repair job on a pre fabricated basis on the French owned Aldebaran is expected to cost about £12,000. The work is under way at Miller’s engineering depart ment in Suva.

The Aldebaran went on a reef at Nanukulevu, off Taveuni, on Nov

The Greek ship "Eurymedon", which caught fire 300 miles south of Fiji on May 30, spent a week or so in Suva early in June for repairs. Her master, Captain John Miskias, who was badly burned in the fire, was left behind in hospital. He will be flown home to Athens when he is better.- Photo: Stan

Whippy.

er 16, and was refloated about 1 months later and towed to [. [survey showed that the bottom le hull was badly damaged, venty-six tons of steel plating frames have to be removed and iced in a complicated engineer operation. 1 the steel work is being pre cated in Miller’s workshop.

lION SHIP

U<S UP

ic Kambuhu, 40 ft mission ship, broken up on a reef at Cape lie. New Britain, after running md there recently, lother mission boat went to the le and was able to take off the and cargo, but the Kambubu, hull badly smashed, was not l salvaging. e Kambubu belonged to the ith-day Adventist Mission.

HARBOUR

IGING

edging of the harbour at Voco , Lae, New Guinea, started late lay to remove silt which had up considerably in the last five e P-NG Public Works Depart hopes to cut the harbour shore 30 to 40 ft. is the first time the harbour has dredged.

NEW WHARF FOR

ORO BAY

Oro Bay, in the Northern District of Papua-New Guinea is to have a new wharf for which there are two estimates—£l4o,ooo and £250,000.

Engineers will soon start test pile driving.

The lower estimate was made by a sub-committee set up by the Northern District Advisory Council 7 the other by the Department of the Administrator.

The sub-committee forecast that tonnage in and out of Oro Bay would rise to about 23,000 tons in 10 years.

By that time the wharf charges would be 12/6 a ton, which would cover the overhead costs of operating the wharf.

TRADING SCHOONER

REFLOATED AT HUAHINE

The Society Islands trading vessel Tamarii Raiatea, which ran aground last November on a reef at Huahine, about 100 miles north-west of Tahiti, was refloated in May.

The ship, which has had a severe battering from the sea, was at first thought to be a total loss. It is now expected that repairs can be made to put the ship into service again.

FORMAL INQUIRY INTO

COLLISION NEAR RABAUL

A formal inquiry will be held into the collision between two New Guinea trawlers, the Jason, 54 ft, and Leilani, 66 ft, off Tavui near Rabaul, on May 19 {PIM, June, p. 27).

The Jason, which sank after the collision, was carrying about 350 bags of copra, worth £2,500, and a small quantity of deck cargo.

The Jason was built in 1961 by the Toboi Shipping Co. and cost £20,000.

10 OFFERS FOR

WRECKED SHIP

About 10 offers, by tender, have been received for the Liberian ship.

Ever Prosperity, a 1,000-ton former Liberty ship, which was wrecked

The Rabaul-built trawler "Jason" which sank after a collision with the trawler "Leilani" near Rabaul in May.

t four miles off La Foa, New donia, on February 26. te tenders are being studied by ance company representatives, ic fuel, oil and life boats from Iver Prosperity were sold in New lonia.

A/LER UP FOR

i IN MORESBY

ie 4H ft trawler, Wongawill, ms, owned by Mr. Walter God of Palm Beach, Sydney, was >r sale in Port Moresby in June, e hull of the Wongawill, ;hed in 1964, was built at ton, Newcastle, and the trawler ed by Mr. Goddard on his own ay at Palm Beach. ■. Goddard sailed the Wongawill isbane early this year. Then he ;red the 51 ft motor vessel \eo to Malekula, New Hebrides, the Noelo, former Tasmanian g ship, to Vila. . his return from the second ;ry trip Mr. Goddard sailed the krwill up the Queensland coast ooktown and Thursday Island, From there he sailed her alone >rt Moresby.

FUA" TO BE WITHDRAWN

UN THREE YEARS

e USS Co’s Matua, which has ted a New Zealand-Pacific Is service since 1936, will be rawn towards the end of 1967 irly in 1968. e chairman and managing or of the company, Mr. F. K. arlane said this in Suva in June, aid the Matua would be sold, )ly for scrap. new ship, about the size of the i, or slightly larger, would be to replace the Matua. wever, the new ship was not m the drawing boards. It was )le tenders would be called mid-1966.

tICAN PIONEER

CHANGE

•rell Lines Inc. of New York iken over the Australian service irican Pioneer Line) of the d States Lines Co. along with ix cargo vessels now operating s service. 5 service is from the US tic coast, through the Panama 1 to Sydney. Occasional calls lade at Tahiti. £ six Pioneer vessels will be led Australian Galaxy (for Pioneer Glen), Australian Australian Gulf (formerly er Star), Australian Isle, Aus n Reef and Australian Surf. But vessels will be replaced “at

the earliest possible date” with new tonnage, already at an advanced planning stage.

The general agents in Australia and New Zealand are Wilh. Wil helmsen Agency Pty. Ltd.

FOR PACIFIC SERVICE

The Chandris Line will extend its passenger liner operations in the Pacific in September with the intro duction of the 35,500-ton, one-class Australis, formerly the America.

The Australis (Greek for “Austra lian Maiden”) is scheduled to call at Suva only on her first two voyages in the Pacific, en route from Sydney to Southhampton, via Panama.

I TRADING SHIP

P-NG

new Islands trading vessel, the >n Fortunate Treasure, has tied Port Moresby from Hong g after more than her share of ble. Plans are for her to trade g the south coast of Papua, een Port Moresby, Samarai and Milne Bay district, le ship was scheduled to make lelivery voyage from Hong Kong '-NG early in December, 1964, was delayed by engine trouble, le second time she set out the lin was lost overboard in the a Sea. ntunate Treasure is owned by Fortunate Co. Ltd., of Hong I , whose principals include pro nt Chinese businessmen in Port ;sby, Hong Kong and Rabaul. r. Anton Lee, of Port Moresby, okesman for the owners.

TRADING SHIPS

NEW HEBRIDES

iptain Athol Rusden, of Vila, taken delivery of two ships for -island trade in the New ides. ley are the 260-ton MV Altair, li was bought from Morris trom Ltd., Suva ( PIM, May, p. and the MV Darega, of 205gross, which was acquired in Moresby. The Darega was built ydney in 1945 and is 110 ft

LAUNCH FOR

: WATERS

e Sika, a 25 ft river launch, >o into service in the Gulf Delta ■s, Papua, after trials and run in in Port Moresby harbour, e Sika, owned by the Australian Jeum Co., was built chiefly for as a fast, weather-protected nger launch to transport oil ag shift crews from the APC camp near Beara across Romilly d to the drill site at Ibiri Inlet. :mpt to emulate bligh

S ONLY FOUR DAYS

i Australian seaman’s hopes of wng Captain Bligh by sailing pen boat 9,000 miles across the ic ended 150 miles off the nsland coast early in June after ad been at sea for only four e man, Douglas Olifent, 43, of ane, is a former naval and hant navy officer. He set off Surfers Paradise, 50 miles i of Brisbane, on June 2 in an

18 ft boat, with the object of reach ing the Tongan island of Tofua. He then planned to turn about and re trace the 3,600-mile route to Timor which Captain Bligh took in 1789 after the mutiny in the Bounty.

From Timor, Olifent proposed to sail back to Surfers Paradise.

If he had been able to carry out this plan, he would have achieved the longest open boat voyage on record. As it was, he abandoned his boat, called Bird of Juno, and boarded a passing New Zealand freighter after battling almost con tinuously heavy seas from the time of his departure on June 2.

The freighter, the Waikure, landed

Olifent in Brisbane on June 6. She had gone to Olifent’s aid after officers had seen a distress flare.

The Waikure’s master, Captain J.

J. Lyon, told the Brisbane Press that he had been able to rescue Olifent “only by the grace of God”.

He said Olifent was exhausted and was lying in his boat when the Waikure came alongside. He was too weak to catch a line when it was thrown to him the first time. But he took the rope on the second attempt and made what Captain Lyon described as “a superhuman effort to climb a rope ladder”.

Captain Lyon added that Olifent appeared to be quite a capable sea man, but he had obviously been beaten by the weather conditions.

His mind was still wandering after eight hours’ sleep.

Olifent’s only comments on reach ing Brisbane were: “I was delirious when I was picked up, and I am still a bit groggy now. I do not even know what day it is”.

He has since stated that he would like to make another attempt to carry out his 9,000-mile mission.

An American millionaire, Mr. G.

H. Peacock, who lives on Queens land’s Gold Coast, financed Olifent’s venture.

NEW MASTER

Captain C. H. Filmer, 49, has been appointed master of the Tonga Copra Board’s motor vessel Aoniu.

He succeeds Captain I. G. Fraser, who has resigned. Captain Filmer spent 20 years in the Royal Navy and Fleet Air Arm, and retired with the rank of lieutenant-commander.

Douglas Olifent.

In The News This Month

p. 101

ebaran lir erica luma m tralian Galaxy tralian Gem tralian Gulf tralian Isle tralian Reef tralian Surf tralis bara Allen 1 of Juno ronade ega e ymedon ended dolescence tunate Treasure »n li mtara nbubu alta

Lakeleo Leilani Malaita Matua Melika Mercury Monterey Neophyte Niuvakai Noelo One Step Pioneer Glen Pioneer Star Popeyduck Sika Solano Solo Tamarii Raiatea Tangaroa Tofua Traveller Tri-Odyssey Tubuai Manu Waikare Wongawill Woomera

uising Yachts

pp. 111-113

I CARRONADE, 30 ft Sydney j. was due to leave Auckland une 1 for the French Polynesian ds of Rapa, Tubuai, Rurutu and ti. Her crew comprises Andrew f (skipper), Ken Mills and Des ■ns. From Tahiti, the crew hope ike Carronade round Cape Horn, r. Kearns (who served as a member of the trading schooner ? Taporo in the New Hebrides year) told us in a note from dand that Carronade sailed i Sydney on March 21 and made Hiree Kings in seven days. After ort stay in the Bay of Islands, moved down to Auckland to >ut for her voyage to French nesia.

BARBARA ALLEN, 30 ft

eman ketch, left Honolulu re y for Fanning and Penrhyn ds, Western Samoa, Fiji and ;a. Skipper of the ketch is Earl xtell, who has Dick Gehring and i Ferneding as crew. The trio d to visit as many South Pacific ds as possible. There is no time on their cruise.

KAHUTARA, a new 45 ft ketch, was wrecked on a reef daiao, Society Islands, in late . Maiao (also known as Tubuai u) is a small island about 40 j west-south-west of Moorea. ihutara, was on a trip to the ed States from Russell, Bay of ds. New Zealand, with Mr. and R. R. Kershaw, of Russell, and four children, the youngest of n is nine. le French Administration vessel tai Mann was due to sail from etc to Maiao on May 31 to le the castaways.

TRI-ODYSSEY, 35 ft American Iran, arrived in Pago Pago from ►tonga on May 20 with Ron ey, Leßoy Fry and Jerry Allen, f California, and John Brink, of on. le crew expected to stay in Pago several weeks, refitting and isioning their craft for a voyage onga and New Zealand. i-Odyssey has been sailing the ftc since June, 1963, when she San Francisco for Honolulu with a and Fry, who built her in a yard at Redwood City, California /, June, p. 117).

• NEOPHYTE, 45 ft American ketch with Lee Quinn, 38, and an all-girl crew of three, was sliced in two just outside Sydney Harbour about 4 a.m. on June 13 by the 4,000-ton freighter Woomera. Quinn and the three girls spent half an hour in the sea before being picked up by a lifeboat from the Woomera.

Two of the girls, who were asleep below when the collision occurred, suffered minor injuries and shock; the third girl also suffered shock; and Quinn escaped unscathed.

The ketch was on a voyage from Hobart to Sydney when the collision occurred. The fore section sank almost immediately, but the after part, containing Quinn’s personal papers and other valuable personal items, was salvaged.

Neophyte has been a familiar name in PlM’s yachting columns since she began a Pacific cruise from Sausalito, California, in December, 1963, with Quinn and an all-girl crew of four.

Since then, 37 other girls have sailed with Quinn; Neophyte has visited most of the main island groups in the South Pacific; Quinn’s first wife has been granted a divorce from him on the ground of extreme mental cruelty; and Quinn has married a second time. (His second wife, formerly Mrs. Bernice Berkson, is a one-time crew member). • SOLO, 57 ft Sydney ketch with owner-skipper Vic Meyer and another all-girl crew—of two —left Cocos- Keeling Island (Indian Ocean) on May 28 for the Seychelles after a stay of just over 24 hours. Solo left Sydney at the end of February on a round-the world cruise, which has so far in cluded a week stuck fast to Cow lishaw Reef, off Cooktown, Queens land {PIM, May, p. 117) and a visit to Darwin.

The two girl crew members are Miss Elsa Wanstall, 21, of Sydney, and Miss Wendy lies, 26, who joined the yacht in Darwin after another girl, Miss Rhonda Figgis, withdrew because of persistent sea-sickness.

After leaving Darwin, Solo called at Christmas Island, 533 miles ENE of Cocos-Keeling, where the staff of the British Phosphates Commission repaired a faulty pump.

Mr. Meyer intends to cruise in the Mediterranean for some time before sailing across the Atlantic to Panama and back to Sydney via the Pacific Islands. • SOLANO, 35 ft Alden sloop, reached Honolulu from Tahiti re cently after a 25-day single-handed voyage with Leo Woyshner, of Honolulu.

Woyshner bought Solano, in Syd ney and left there solo on January 7.

Sixteen days later he arrived at Whangarei, New Zealand. On his next leg to Tahiti he had a New Zealander, Gerald Griff, as crew.

Woyshner is well-remembered in Honolulu for his single-handed voyage from New Zealand to Honolulu aboard the cutter Traveller last year. • TANG ARO A, 37 ft ketch, arrived in Hilo, Hawaii, in the first week in June after a year’s cruise in the Marquesas, Tuamotu and Society

nds. Aboard the husky Vancouver [t boat were Wendelvborg Hansen, wife Ann and their two children, fy, 15, and Dirk, 11. \x. Hansen, noted a stiff official tude in French Polynesia which Felt was a direct result of President Gaulle’s increasing coolness ards the United States. But he ssed that the coolness was con d to French officials, saying his lily was warmly received by the pnesians wherever they went, he Hansens interrupted what was irst planned as a world cruise to back home and put their children chool. They will sail for Edmonds, ihington, after a short rest in lolulu.

I ELSIE, 30 ft cutter, owned and ;d solo by a 60-year-old Ameri , Frank Casper, arrived in Port •esby from Whangarei, New land, on June 1 after a 26-day, ■stop voyage of 2,600 miles. lr. Casper, a retired electrical neer, of Melbourne Beach, ida, left Miami on a voyage round world in December, 1963. He since visited Tahiti, Bora Bora, 3tonga, Pago Pago and New and. He stayed in New Zealand six months because he “loved place and the people”. bie, which once took Mr. Casper a solo voyage from Miami to •altar and back, is fitted with a 1 vane rudder, which enables vessel to sail on a given course tended, provided the wind main -5 direction.

Mrs. Casper was to stay 14 days in Port Moresby and then sail through Torres Strait to Cocos Island, Durban, the Cape of Good Hope, and home. © ONE STEP, 63 ft Chinese junk, which is on a cruise of the Pacific with a crew of Australians filming underwater documentaries, returned to Noumea early in June from a four-week trip round New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands.

One Step arrived in Noumea from Sydney early in April.

Skipper Noel Stroud tells us in a note from Noumea that on the night of May 14. while sailing from Touho to Ouvea, in the Loyalties, heavy seas and high winds smashed One Step’s 14 ft aluminium runabout from the davits.

“On discovering the loss, we turned about but were unable to find it,”

Mr. Stroud writes. “I am reasonably certain it will have missed the north ern tip of New Caledonia and will eventually arrive in the Solomon Islands. The local authority has been advised.”

Mr. Stroud adds that the runabout is a De Havilland Topper. His address, in case anyone finds it, is: Boite Postal 235, Cercle Nautique, Noumea, New Caledonia. © ATOM, 30 ft Tahiti ketch, lone-handed by Jean Gau, a French born naturalised American, reached Port Moresby from Auckland on June 5 after a voyage of 51 days, 18 of which were spent in battling bad weather. Gau had intended calling at New Caledonia but the seas were too rough outside the reef.

Gau, who is 63, has been cruising the world in yachts since 1931. His philosophy is to work ashore for four years, then cruise for four years.

During his periods ashore he works as a chef in New York restaurants.

He has crossed the Atlantic solo in yachts seven times. This, he claims,

is a record for such crossings. Six of his crossings were in Atom, which has also taken him to Port Moresby previously—in 1955.

From Port Moresby, Gau plans to sail through Torres Strait to South Africa, possibly via Cocos Island, and on home to New York. • JINNI, 42 ft double-ender American sloop, was due to sail from Whangarei, NZ, about the beginning of June for Tahiti and her home port of Honolulu.

The crew comprises Ree m s Mitchell, of Tennessee (skipper), Derek Craman, 25, an English merchant seaman. Miss Carol West gate, a 21-year-old Whangarei hair dresser, formerly of Eastbourne, Sussex, and Miss Carol Lucas, a Hamilton masseur.

Neither of the girls has had pre vious ocean sailing experience. • MELIKA, 28 ft trimaran, with two Australians, Noel Burchill, 33, and John Doolan, 25, arrived in Santo from Suva on May 13 en route to Cairns, Queensland. • POP EY DUCK, 20 ft yacht, built and sailed single-handed by Mr. W. A. Procter, an Englishman and former civil servant, left Vila for Santo, the BSIP and Port Moresby on May 29.

Popeyduck (Cornish for puffin, a sea bird) arrived in Vila on May 25 from Noumea and New Zealand.

The yacht is on a voyage round the world.

She crossed the Atlantic in 30 days, passed through the Panama Canal and reached New Zealand by way of islands in the south-eastern Pacific.

Mr. Procter will cross the Indian Ocean to Mauritius, and will return to England via the Red and Medi terranean Seas.

Casper's cutter "Elsie" in Port Moresby in June.

Veteran lone-hander Jean Gau, 63, paid his second visit to Port Moresby in June in his Tahiti ketch "Atom". His last visit was in 1955 (see be low).

Missing Again

p. 111

A merican Trimaran Missing Again

For the second time in less than 18 months, the 32 ft American trimaran “Extended Adolescence” is missing in the mid-Pacific.

The trimaran, with 2 3-year old David Meigs, of Atherton, California, sailing solo, left Pago Pago for Honolulu on April 12. Since then, no word has been received from him. ‘‘Extended Adolescence” was also lost on a voyage from Tahiti to Honolulu early last year with a crew of three, including Meigs.

She was finally located 165 miles south-west of Honolulu by a US Coast Guard vessel and towed into port (PIM, Sept., 1964, p. 105). On that voyage, which took 149 days instead of an expected 30, the trimaran lost her mast and had to sail under jury rig.

She also took water in the after cabin and the outboard motor well.

Meigs’ mother, Mrs. Harvey Richards, of 14 Flood Circle, Atherton, California, 94025, USA, has written to PIM in the hope that we may help to locate her son.

Mrs. Richards says he is 6 ft 4 in. tall, with fair skin and hair, and probably a beard.

She adds: “He had a 70 watt marine radio telephone, a Bendix, I believe. Last year, the US Coast Guard in Honolulu contacted him and friends near Hawaii on 2182 Kcs. If any of your readers have any informa tion about my son, I would be most grateful if they would phone or cable collect. My telephone number is Palo Alto, California, 325-3407.”

from the Islands Press

p. 115

STATEMENTS made by the Apostolic Delegate, Arch bishop Domenico Enrici, at Wairiki, [Fiji], underline the right of individual racial communities to preserve their identity in es sential matters . . .

The Archbishop’s reference to standardisation in the present-day world brings to mind the endeavours made at times in Fiji and elsewhere to propagate a theory that some kind of “national unity” can be achieved only by standardising racial groups in ways which would produce nothing better than a hideous jumble of mediocrity.

A reasonable amount of give and-take is essential in a country like Fiji. But in the last 80 years or so the Fijian people have too often been called on to make un necessary sacrifices in order to conform to alien ideas of what is best for everybody.

In its highest forms, Fijian ceremonial still has a significance that should be kept secure.— Editorial in “The Fiji Times”, Suva.

THE great success of last week’s festival of sports has almost certainly ensured that similar inter-island games will be a regular feature of the annual independence holidays [in Western Samoa]. The various sports events drew larger crowds of spectators than has ever been the case before; and the very high standards of per formance raised enthusiasm to a new peak among spectators and competitors alike.

As an inevitable result of in creased interest and more players in the various sports, the already meagre sports facilities available in this country will be more than ever inadequate for our own sportsmen and women. Any thought of conducting another in vitation tournament next year on a bigger scope is out of the question.

There can be no argument about the present disgraceful lack of sporting facilities. Facilities at the race course are so primitive and the course itself so dangerous that according to an experienced New Zealand jockey riding at the independence meeting, if the

course was in New Zealand it would be impossible to get any jockey to ride on it.

There is no tennis court of international standard in the ter ritory, and an admission was even forced out of a Tongan official, whose team proved to be the most sporting and accommodating of people, that facilities for athletes at Apia Park “could have been better”.

The aggravating thing to sports men and officials is that they have been pressing for years for as sistance from those who control the purse strings.— Editorial in “Samoana”, Apia.

ONLY a few years ago, people could proudly say that there was almost no juvenile delinquency in America Samoa. Now the story is very different. Teenage boys wander around in gangs, starting fights among themselves, insulting older people, and beating up in dividual outsiders when the mood strikes them. Many of these children seem destined to grow up into morally diseased adults.

Behind this problem are many causes, but they essentially amount to one thing, neglect on the part of parents. Many Samoan parents look upon 12-year-old children as adults. When their son gets drunk or starts a fight, they think he isn’t doing any harm . . . What they fail to undestand is that when children are not trained to show respect for others, they get worse as they grow older.— Editorial in the “Samoa Times”, Pago Pago.

WE would like to take this opportunity of drawing your attention to our circular concern ing “Christmas Orders for Turkeys, Ducks and Hams”, and point out that we will be unable to accept orders for these items after the end of June.— Wholesale Society advertisement in “Colony Infor mation Notes”, newsletter of the (far-flung) Gilbert and Ellice Islands.

HTHE [American Samoan] Gov- A ernment, and in particular the Department of Public Works, is to be commended for another achievement the bringing of electricity to Aunu’u Island.

[Aunu’u, an almost circular island of about one square mile, is about a mile from the south-eastern tip of the main island of Tutuila].

When the Governor pulled the switch that brought the elec tricity ... it marked a new era for the 700 people who live on the island. It means the end to the dangerous transfer of gas and kerosene for lights. The residents of Aunu’u may now have refri geration, watch television, and benefit from hundreds of other uses of electricity.— Editorial in “Samoa News”, Pago Pago.

WITH the sharp increase in the number of consumers draw ing upon the electricity supply [on Norfolk Island] the present generating plant is fully taxed at peak hours. Several blackouts have occurred through the system being overloaded at these times.

The risk of blackouts and their associated inconveniences can be minimised if all consumers co operate. Editorial notice in “Norfolk News”.

AT this critical moment when Fiji is passing through a serious political change, it is very important for the people of Fiji to have more mutual understand ing and goodwill among them selves.

The present situation demands from all the races of Fiji peace, tolerance and foresightedness, without which mutual understand ing and goodwill can’t be achieved.

If one race starts attacking another race and seizes their rights, then there will be a danger of enmity and racial tension.

There are some “opportunist” and “self-interested” leaders who are trying to injure the future of Fiji in this way. Some are threatening that they themselves will go away from the Colony, while others are being threatened they will be expelled by force.

Some papers are trying to put fat in the fire by praising one race and denouncing the other.

All this can’t be regarded as goodwill and mutual understand ing, but a way to push Fiji towards destruction.— Editorial in “Jagriti”, (Hindustani weekly), Nadi , Fiji.

travel

pp. 117-121

NEW GUINEA'S TRAVEL

BUSINESS IS HARDLY

AN INDUSTRY YET

travel

A REGULAR PIM DEPARTMENT

REPORTING NEWS OF SOUTH

SEAS TOURISM AND TRAVEL

FROM THE INSIDE

From a Port Moresby Correspondent It is a remarkable thing but the travel business in Papua lew Guinea is rather similar to the political state of the country -disjointed and disorganised, with pockets here and there that re on the move, but with no overall unity or even conscience, "he travel business here is just not an industry yet.

JT, as with the political state of the country, it is emerging, i though nobody can predict when > likely to be a going concern. In meantime it is a matter of just ng your luck and hoping for the Wiile it is possible for travel nts overseas to arrange, from a ance, for a grand New Guinea r for their clients, neither the tit nor the client can expect the i of smooth service in New Guinea ; they will get, say, along the l-trodden tourist trails of Tahiti, and New Caledonia. ti the east the traveller can have itinerary planned to the hour, i all his connections, his hotels, cars, his shopping. So well will it ow the time-tested patterns that can just about guarantee meeting the people he met everywhere else his tour, so they can all compare

the prices they paid for the same transistors at the same shops.

In New Guinea there are no well defined trails, although the Austra lian domestic airlines are doing their best to develop some. But the Ter ritory is so big, and so expensive to move about in, and the hotels are so small and so little tourist-con scious, that development is not a quick process.

Hotels Needed

New and better hotels are pro mised—they have been promised for years—but meanwhile tourists will find themselves jammed two or three to a room with the commercial travellers and touring Government officers who keep the hotels in busi ness—together, of course, with the bar trade.

For this privilege they will pro

bably pay tariffs higher than they did in Fiji and get none of the little services that matter. In a leading Moresby hotel for instance, the traveller is required to individually mark each piece of his own laundry before he puts it out, well before breakfast, for attention.

A little matter, perhaps,—but an irksome little matter—and similar irksome little matters give most of the Territory’s hotels an air of the second-rate boarding house.

Everybody is agreed that some thing has to be done about the hotels before there can be a real tourist industry. But also something has to be done about getting some overall organisation that will develop and smooth the Territory’s tourist trails.

There is an organisation called the Papua-New Guinea Tourist and Travel Association, but it is not really functioning and certainly doesn’t have the unanimous support of the Territory’s many travel agencies. (If you might wonder how the agencies make a living out of an under-

leal of small tourist enterprises slowly being built up in Papua-New Guinea is tour of Port Moresby Harbour by lakatoi (native canoe). Passengers squat on the I deck and are guaranteed a wet bottom, but the tour is something different for the Territory.

veloped local industry, it’s because »w Guinea residents do a very sat deal of travelling overseas).

Nearly every Territory town has own local sight-seeing arrange rs—buses, boats, planes, organised ig-sings—but mostly they aren’t blicised outside the town and there no overall tour pattern which >uld allow a tourist to tour the ;hts cheaply and smoothly.

It's Trial And Error

Agencies build up their own in rmation, usually the hard way, by al and error. Sometimes what ap ars to be a simple query by an ending visitor turns out to involve ich work and original planning, Mrs. A. J. Chandler, managing •ector of Port Moresby’s New linea Travel Service, recently dealt th a request from an American d his wife who wanted to climb ;w Guinea’s Mt. Wilhelm during a -day vacation. Could they do it, d if so, when, and where else in 5 territory could they get some jgh walking?

Mrs. Chandler wrote to the ADC Kundiawa, who suggested the )0 at Gembogl patrol post might able to help. The ADO, W. H. scoe, obliged with a long and Ipful letter explaining just how ; visitors should start on the ex dition, what they might expect in ; way of weather and native rest uses, what their carriers would st, what they should carry in the ly of food and bedding.

He added: “If they want long ilks in rough country I would :ommend the Koroba-Kopiago

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Laiagam area in the Western High lands.”

“Co-operation like this from all sorts of people makes New Guinea unique and the more fascinating for real travellers,” says Mrs. Chandler.

“New Guinea is really an experience, but examples like this illustrate the present situation of the tourist busi ness here. It’s not organised, although lots of little people in lots of little places try to do what they can.”

Two examples of small enterprises in Port Moresby are typical of the kind of thing which is slowly developing, independently, in various areas of the Territory. People like Mrs. Chandler would like to see more of them.

Lakatoi Enterprises is a co operative venture between native lakatoi skippers and native women’s clubs. The skippers are all retired Administration servants who run their own lakatois (with the aid of outboards). The big canoes take tourists on a two-and-half hour trip of Port Moresby Harbour for 25/per head (children half price). The canoes leave a small jetty near the main wharf and take passengers to the native villages of Hanuabada, Elevala and Tatana—and the cause way built by the Americans in World War ll—and give a close-up look at the bombed Macdhui wreck.

Wet Bottom Guaranteed

At Gabi the canoes beach so that the local village women can display their skills at grass skirt making, weaving and pottery. Curios are for sale.

Another trip, in the afternoon, takes the visitors to a local coral reef where Hanuabadan fishermen demonstrate native fishing methods.

Says an unpretentious typewritten sheet which advertises the tour: “You

new venture in [?] Moresby is ner's Tropic Tours. ere passengers [?]ht for a swim at Ela Beach.

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! guaranteed a thrilling morning, possible wet bottom and a chance meet the native people. Please nember this trip involves primitive :ive type (but safe) transport, mitive village conditions and your operation to sit on the deck :hout chairs, native style, is es itial. Swimming may be permitted your native crew if they consider safe and free of sharks.” fhe native skippers arrange “tour desses” —local girls in grass skirts vho present a necklace made of ills to each traveller. This is in iition to his wet bottom, eighty per cent of the profits go Hanuabada village, tfrs. Anne Carter, of Port Moresby, o handles the publicity and ar ges things from the Port Moresby 1, says that in spite of initial op dtion from the shipping lines she ieves there is a demand for this rice and that eventually all op tion will be overcome. But she nits that things are very slow at moment and that there is not ch business offering.

Mr. F. C. W. Turner, owner of rner’s Tropic Tours, is another in purveyor of tourism, hopeful t business will develop. After 27 irs in the Territory doing some ng different, Mr. Turner not long

ago saw the opportunity for con ducted tours round the Port Moresby area. He had been asked one day to drive some tourists round by car, because nobody else was available and he knew the area.

Now he has a Toyota bus which takes 21 passengers for a full day’s tour, for only £2/5/-, plus 10/- for lunch in the mountains at Rouna Hotel. There are half-day tours too.

Surprisingly, his tours are the only conducted ones available in the Ter

ritory’s capital.

His tour includes a lot of wartime points of interest on the Kokoda Trail, including the Hombrom Bluff,

Blarney’s famous lookout. He gives a running commentary on the way and is known locally as “The Man in the White Topee”.

“There are many opportunities in the Territory,” says the friendly Mr.

Turner. “But they need building up.”

The Mt. Hagen and Goroka agri cultural shows—which are colourful spectacles of native life—are helping to develop an image abroad, but they, too, lack proper publicity. This year’s show, at Mt. Hagen, will be on August 21, but many intending visitors—and overseas travel agents —have complained of the lack of advance information.

POSTING. New manager of Fiji Air ys Ltd., Captain Ron Duffield, pictured, now taken up his post in Suva. He [?] Qantas manager in Tokyo for five years.

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Schedules For 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. 135.

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. 31, 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. 1966 “Arcadia”, February; Sydney Feb. 14, Auckland Feb. 17, Pago Pago Feb. 20, off Niuafou’ou Feb. 22, Suva Feb. 23, off Norfolk Island Feb. 25, off Lord Howe Is. and Ball’s Pyramid Feb. 26, Sydney Feb. 27.

“Orsova”, March-April; Sydney Mar. 25, Nukualofa Mar. 31-Apr. 1, Suva Apr. 2-3, Noumea Apr. 5-6, Hayman Island Apr. 9, off Lord Howe Is. and Ball’s Pyramid Apr. 11, Sydney Apr. 12.

Toyo Yusan Co.

“Oriental Queen”, Auckland July 20-21, Sydney July 25. July 27-Aug. 11, Sydney July 27, Brampton Island July 30-31, Cairns Aug. 1-3, Noumea Aug. 7-8, Sydney Aug. 11. Sept. 23- Oct. 15, Sydney 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, Sydney Oct. 30. Nov. 18-Dec. 9, Sydney Nov. 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. 8, 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.

Holiand-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

“Fairsky”: 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. 24.

“Castel Felice”: Sydney Jan. 27, Auckland Jan. 30-31, Suva Feb. 3-4, Noumea Feb. 6-7, Auckland Feb. 10, Sydney Feb. 14.

Lloyd-Triestino Line

1966 “Marconi”: Sydney Apr. 7, Nukua lofa Apr. 11, Suva Apr. 12-13, Noumea Apr. 14-15, Sydney Apr. 17.

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Briefs

Profitable Start For First Hotels In The GEIC

The Gilbert and Ellice Islands dony may have to increase the pacity of its two hotels at

kenibeu, Tarawa, and Funa

i, Ellice Islands, following the

rease in services of Fiji Air ys from Nausori and Nadi, i.

HE GEIC Resident Commissioner, Mr. V. J. Andersen, said this in awa at the end of May when he ned the fourth meeting of the IC Advisory Council.

J iji Airways inaugurated a fort htly service to Funafuti and awa in July, 1964, and stepped up to a weekly service on June Jr. Andersen said that the number passengers travelling by Fiji Air 's had exceeded expectations, and ; the hotels at Bikenibeu and lafuti had been running success y and profitably. le added that if better com lications between the GEIC and outside world resulted in an influx tourists, serious thought would e to be given to providing ac imodation and facilities “to cater what may well prove to be a •ce of economic gain to the any”. ☆ ☆ ☆ ORK is going ahead rapidly on the establishment of a Botanical dens and Zoological Park in imea. At the end of May about ' miles of roads had been pre d, six small bridges constructed many acres of land cleared, fith the great variety and itity of flora to be found in New sdonia, the local tourist bureau wes that the gardens will become of the leading attractions to ors to the island, undreds of tree and plant speci s are now ready in nurseries for splanting in the gardens.

THE leader of the Cook Islands Party, Mr. Albert Henry, who is expected to be the Cooks’ first Premier under self-government, said in Wellington at the end of May that tourism in his territory would be “encouraged to a certain extent”, but that “unfettered tourism was not desired”.

He added that he would discuss with the New Zealand Government the possibility of a public relations office being opened in New Zealand to issue permits to people wishing to make short visits to the Cooks.

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A NORFOLK Island Tourist Bureau has been opened at 22 Hunter Street, Sydney, to cater for the increasing number of Australian visitors to Norfolk Island. It is the island’s first overseas bureau. Mrs.

A. N. Dickson is manageress. ☆ ☆ ☆ MONT DORE, which is about three-quarters of an hour’s drive from the centre of Noumea,

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[ long been known as one of the st popular drives out of the city, ny local people have built week- I cottages along the beach, and s profit from the excellent fishing the area. |low tourists can share the tsures of Mont Dore by staying l new hotel called “Bungalows of nt Dore”. ts yet only three in number, these lanesian-style bungalows are corn able, attractively furnished and d with all modern conveniences, re is a restaurant on the sea shore. ☆ ☆ ☆ r ORK began recently on the building of 16 single suites, iplete with private baths, refrigera i, air-conditioning and hot and 1 water at the Hotel Madang, New nea. When completed, the suites bring the hotel accommodation to a maximum of 78. lore than £20,000 has been spent modernising the hotel in the last years. A recent addition was Bar, which is 80 ft tost at the Hotel Madang is Mr. a Abberton. 3LYNESIAN Airlines, which re cently bought a second DC-3 raft m the United States, is to ease its flights between Faleolo Jstern Samoa) and Nukualofa nga) from once a fortnight to 2 a week. his will mean that there will be e regular flights in and out of

Tonga each week. The third flight is provided by Fiji Airways—be tween Nadi and Suva, and Nukua lofa.

However the second DC3 was not due to arrive in Samoa until early July, and in June a routine check on the existing DCS resulted in the air craft being grounded by New Zealand Civil Aviation officials because of a suspected weakness in a wing con nection. It was possible the aircraft might have to be flown to NZ for repairs and a lengthy overhaul. ☆ ☆ ☆ THE French airline UTA will double its services between France and New Caledonia in November. There will be two weekly services via India, and two via the United States.

THE British airline, BOAC will extend its London-Auckland service via Sydney to Nadi, Fiji, in November when the new inter national airport is opened at Mangere, Auckland. The airline will use Boeing 707’s on this service instead of the present Comets.

APIA ATTRACTION. Apia's annual three day Independence celebrations look like establishing themselves as a major tourist attraction, reports R. F. Rankin. This year's celebrations, held from June 1-3, were the third since the territory became inde pendent and proved the most successful yet. The weather, as is usual for the time of the year, was perfect. Main feature this year was a sports tournament be tween Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga, and this is likely to become a regular fixture. There was also a regatta, horse racing, dancing and a march of youth at a ceremonial opening of Parliament (pic tured above, photo "Samoana").

For Lord Howe Visitors

p. 127

“Alena”, a 45 ft work boat for tourists, belonging to Mr. Alan Williams, of Somerset Guest House, was launched at Lord Howe Island recently, some 4i years after work of building her began. The boat was built about a quarter of a mile from the launching site, mainly with voluntary labour on weekends and holidays. Two large tractors and several volunteers equipped with props to keep the boat upright moved the boat, inch by inch, to the launching site. Two other boats, “Pacific Chief tain” and “Wide Awake”, towed her into deep water.

People

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IE Resident Commissioner in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands )ny, Mr. V. J. Andersen, re ;d the highest award in the fic in this year’s Queen’s Birth ' Honours List. He was made a ipanion of the Order of St. lael and St. George (CMG). ir Pacific awards were:

HERN PACIFIC HIGH COMMISSION

BE —K. W. Trenaman, Chief stry Officer, BSIP; J. B. Twomey, missioner of Lands and Survey, ) BE —Miss E. C. Pyatt, matron odden Memorial Hospital, Aoba, Hebrides; G. S. Nitz, Senior utive Officer, GEIC. iM —Martin Maeheta, chief n, BSIP; Nei Mereta Auatabu, nurse, GEIC.

FIJI

lE —J. M. Hedstrom, chairman iji Broadcasting Commission.

IE (Civil division) —D. J. es, Commissioner of Inland nue.

IE (Military division) —Lieut- :-Colonel G. S. Mate, MC, MM, 2nd Battalion, Fiji Infantry nent.

BE —P. R. Allen, manager of national Aeradio (Fiji) Ltd. and rary manager of Nausori Air- Osea Kaloumaira, senior field r. Department of Agriculture; J. M. L. Lloyd, director of ari Division of British Red ; C. C. Sachs, head attendant, iles Hospital.

M —C. W. Southey, head super of Public Works Department ausori; E. E. M. Bull, senior anic, Post and Telegraphs rtment. ) —B. A. O’Connor, senior lologist, Department of Agri e; H. A. Ragg, Deputy Post r-General.

PAPUA-NEW GUINEA

E —J. K. McCarthy, Director of ct Administration. —lan McDonald, chairman, . Marketing Board.

E—J. M. Cameron, Director of >; M. J. Healy, former District lissioner, New Ireland.

E (Military division) —Warrant r W. Mills, Royal Australian ry, Port Moresby.

Imperial Services Order was warded to a former well-known Suinea man, Mr. J. A. Collopy,

of Ivanhoe, Victoria. Mr. Collopy retired recently from the Australian Department of Civil Aviation. He played a prominent role in aviation in New Guinea before World War 11. • Mr. Ron Kellner, formerly of the PAA sales staff at Nadi and Suva, and now living in Sydney, be came the father of twins for the second time on June 4. The first pair, daughters, were born on June 2, 1962. The latest pair are boys.

Ron’s wife was formerly Miss Norma Ferrier-Watson, of a well-known Nadi family. • Three members of the Seventh day Adventist Church will leave Suva at the end of July for a six-week tour of Tahiti and other Society Islands, Rarotonga and the two Samoas for conferences with SDA congregations in those islands. The members of the touring party are Pastor R. R. Frame, secretary of

the SDA Church in Australia and the Pacific; Dr. S. Kotz, SDA medical secretary for the same area; and Pastor R. W. Taylor, president of the Central Pacific Union Mission in Suva. • Matron Lucy Hawkes, former matron of hospitals on Niue Island, Norfolk Island and Rarotonga, has retired as matron of a Bush Nursing Centre in McKinlay, Queensland, and has sailed for England. She will settle in Devon, “to grow flowers, and make unhurried excursions to see England quietly”. • Dr. Colin Jack-Hinton, a former district officer in the BSIP and now a research fellow in the Department of Pacific History at the Australian National University, Canberra, was due to leave Canberra for Portugal at the end of June to make a six month study of the Portuguese in South-East Asia in the 16th century.

NEW HEBRIDES WEDDING. Centre of a Happy group of well-wishers after their marriage in Santo on May 29 are Mr. Michael Giles, of BP's, Santo, and the former Miss Freda Jones, daughter of Islands identity Mr. Fred Jones, of Vanikoro.

Many guests flew from Noumea.

Pacific Commerce and Produce

pp. 130-132

Pacific Trade Competition "A Cause For Concern"

By a Staff Writer

Although the Pacific Islands are favourably disposed to wards trading with Australia, the large variety of products from other countries which are now entering the South Seas should be a cause of concern to Australian exporters, in the view of Mr.

A. P. Whitington, leader of the Sletholm trade mission.

SPEAKING in Sydney on the mission’s return in June, Mr.

Whitington said Australia faced strong competition particularly for textiles, certain food products, motor cars and car parts, and machine tools.

Among the competitors was Japan.

Because Japan was buying copra and timber from the Pacific Islands in in creasing quantities, which provided backloading for a regular shipping ser vice into the area, it could offer lower freight rates to Japanese exporters, Mr. Whitington said.

He said shipowners had contended that the lower shipping turn-around in most Australian ports combined with a lack of back-loading had forced up the freight rate for Australian ex porters. Several members of the trade mission intended to bring the problem of slow turn-around to the at

tention of their marketing and manu facturing organisations.

Mr. Whitington said mission mem bers had made initial sales to the value of at least £500,000 during the voyage and were confident continuing new business would follow. The mission had been well-received at every port, and members considered the pro motion had been well worthwhile and that it had achieved its objective.

Mr. Whitington said more than 60,000 people, a good proportion of them wholesalers, importers, retailers and merchants had visited the Sletholm in all ports and this was “remarkably good”.

Asked to report on the criticism filed by PlM’s Rabaul correspondent (see p. 29), Mr. Whitington said there was an element of truth in some of the criticism, but most of it was grossly exaggerated.

Dealing with criticism that organisers catered for sophisti markets, rather than the mas Pacific Islands’ population, Mr. 1 ington said he thought the tots come for the New Guinea native only about £lO a year.

About all the Australian prod manufacturer or exporter could si for that market were lap laps and skirts. It was no good caterinj a market which did not exist.

Dealing with the absences of lines, Mr. Whitington said man turers were invited to take part i mission, but a lot of them die accept, “I believe the reason for that that they would rather spend rr in other markets with gr e; potential”, Mr. Whitington said.

Mr. Whitington said many of who took part in the mission orders for thousands of pounds y of goods which had not been sc the Territory before.

In one case it was suggested t mission that a car displayed ii Sletholm could be seen in the R: showrooms. That was not correc the type of car in the ship hao been exported to New Guinea.

He agreed there were cases v merchants held off placing ordei the Sletholm arrived.

“The goodwill we have gaim the Territory will outweigh the bit of adverse criticism we have Mr. Whitington added.

i May Get Better

9 de Deal

I is expected to benefit from an Australian Government osal to give special import con- Dns to less-developed countries troducts of special export interest lem. is expected soon to in a waiver of the GATT pro ns which lay down that a try cannot give additional rences. r. W. B. Rogers, the Fiji Gov «nt representative in Australia, >een trying for some time to get Australian Government to do thing about tariffs to assist Fiji rters, who find themselves work under unfavourable preference on such items as timber and Icrafts.

4G Experiments

th Sugar Cane

PROGRAMME of field experi nents by Papua-New Guinea’s rtment of Agriculture to test •rospects for development of a industry in P-NG had begun, linister for Territories, Mr. C. E. ;s, said in June. . Barnes said that a recent study hown that the Markham Valley, Lae, and Brown River, near Port sby, might have potential for ■ecise knowledge about cane i and sugar content of cane in area selected for an industry 1 be needed before investment in dern sugar mill would be war 1. The test programme would a minimum of five years.” said establishment of a sugar ;ry based on home consumption be feasible in the 1970’5, rt possibilities were uncertain, m industry could be expanded oduce for export if prospects ed it. Many problems would to be resolved before an in r could be established.

iana Plan For

>k Islands

i Cook Islands will probably ndertake a three-year pro ne to boost banana growing, ling to Mr. Albert Henry, leader te Cook Islands Party and ble leader of the Islands’ future ament. er negotiations with Fruit Dis ars Ltd. in Wellington in May,

Mr. Henry said there was a guaran teed market for Cook Islands bananas in New Zealand but no fixed price had been agreed on.

The general manager of Fruit Dis tributors, Mr. C. R. Walker said that in the past his company had accepted all bananas available from Rarotonga but slight interest had been shown by the growers.

The landed cost of Cook Islands bananas at Auckland is 35/6 a case, and with freight, the actual cost is 54/- a case.

CSR Profit Down

£873,000 THE CSR Co. Ltd. profit of £6,522,861 for the year ended March 31, 1965, although £872,978 down on the record 1963-64 profit of £7,395,839, must be regarded as satisfactory.

Sugar prices have fallen away from the record levels of the previous financial year, and general business activity has been somewhat restrained.

The company’s diversification policy is now starting to pay off,

for without the income of the non sugar enterprises this year’s net profit would have been considerably lower.

The accounts are unsatisfactory in that, although they say that part of the profit was derived from quarry ing and ready mixed concrete, they do not show the contribution made by Ready Mixed Concrete, which is owned by CSR and Blue Metal In dustries.

Nor do they show how the profits from the building materials division or the chemicals division offset the lower sugar prices.

These may be matters which the chairman, Mr. J. W. Dunlop, will deal with in his annual address to shareholders on July 21.

The dividend for 1964-65 has been kept at 121 per cent., made up of an interim 5 per cent, and a final 71 per cent.

Big Moresby Building

—Without DJ's.

TENDERS are shortly to be called for construction of a 12-storey commercial building in Port Moresby to be completed by March, 1967. It will be the tallest building in P-NG, and estimated cost is about £500,000.

The building will be on a high point of land just below the House of Assembly and will be constructed by the Australia New Guinea Cor poration for leasing as commercial offices. Tenants will include TAA.

Some months ago the Australian chain of department stores, David Jones Ltd., was interested in taking ground-floor space in the building but negotiations apparently came to nothing.

David Jones has mail order busi ness with the Territory but has no store there.

Support For P-NG

Coffee Planters

NEW Guinea coffee planters wanted a level of duty which would continue to protect their grade coffee against the worst effects of a price fall, president of the Highlands Farmers and Settler’s Association, Mr. lan Downs, told a Tariff Board

inquiry in Sydney on June 10. inquiry is into the associa application for continued proto of New Guinea cotfee on the tralian market.

Mr. Downs said on today’s 1962 levels, growers needed 3/' lb GIF, or 3/6 per lb FOB, I was confirmed recently that prices were not available in tralia.

A large proportion of the tralian demand came from a number of large roasters, who not willing to pay more thai base price, Mr. Downs said.

On the evidence presented at two sessions in Sydney ai Goroka and Port Moresby, the seems unlikely to recommend change, unfavourable to P-N the present duty range. The pi I received strong support from tralian soluble coffee manufact

New Solomons Coi

Formed

Guadalcanal plains

has been incorporated in Ho BSIP, with a nominal capitr £750,000 and a proposed capital of £426,000. Shares are to make it easier for the chanjj to decimal currency.

Managing director is Mr. I Dalrymple-Hay, and the compu acquiring the following assets • by Mr. Dalrymple-Hay and Me Enterprises Ltd. The Hotel Met Mendana Self Service Store, HI Butchery, and an area of las Tetere. The company is aco other areas on the Guadalcanal for a cattle industry, soya bear and dry rice experiments. Thes will be extended.

BSIP Made The Feel Wanted

p. 130

Feel Wanted

From a Honiara Correspondent Businessmen aboard the “Sle holm” gave full marks f* co-operation to the Briti.

Solomons Government when U trade vessel visited Honiara.

The Government also d some worthwhile public relatio for itself by printing a 34-pa , prospectus containing a map the town, important phor numbers and addresses, a cot mercial directory, details import procedure, together wi a sample invoice. The prospect reminded the visitors that t BSIP was seeking new capl and that there were fine c portunities for new busim enterprises.

Chamber of Commerce pre dent J. Close described t “Sletholm” visit as a gn success.

First Retirement Fun

p. 132

BURNS PHILP STARTS

FOR NG WORKERS

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd. established a superannuation fund nominated permanent New Guin employees. It is one of the schemes of its kind in the Territo Native members pay in 5 per c of their wages to the fund, company supplements this £ for J Employees receive a lump sum reaching retiring age (men 55, woi 45), or their dependents receive money if they die before retirem The company has more than 5, New Guinean employees, indue those on plantations.

Produce Prices

p. 137

nless otherwise stated, quotations are ustralian currency. Aust. £ equals oximately 16/- Stg., NZ, or W. >a; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons PHC areas: 196 Pac. Frs.; $U52.25.)

COPRA

PUA-NEW GUINEA:—AII production elivered to Copra Marketing Board, ■oiled by six members, including three ;ers’ representatives; and the Board ts distribution and sales, and makes lents to the producers. Production mainly to (a) Unilever, in UK, (b) •alia for local consumption, (c) ling-mill in Rabaul, and (d) Japan ilus as available). Prices generally with ruling rate in Philippines, with iums for hot-air dried. *IG Board’s Tentative Purchase s for Copra delivered main ports are; Mr Dried, £7l/10/- per ton; FMS, -/- per ton; Smoke-Dried, £69/9/9 lon.

FI: —No Government control —pro- 's sell where they wish. Bulk of goes to crushing-mills in Suva. 21 prices were; HAD £F7B/5/-, F75/15/-.

JSTERN SAMOA;—Official Copra ! takes all production, sells same makes payments to producers. It mainly to Abels Ltd., NZ crushers, the open market. Local price re -7 was £56/12/6 Samoan, first grade.

NGA: Sales are under Government 01. Part of production goes to >e, under arrangement with Unilever oiled by Philippines prices, and part open market.

LOMON IS.: All production marketed gh official BSI Copra Board, at ; based on Philippines rate. Output to Unilever, UK; to Australian ers; and the balance on to the open it. These prices, fixed in March, remain stable for six months from date. Ist grade, £64/-/-; 2nd , £62/-/-; 3rd grade, £57/-/- per F.0.b., BSIP ports (Honiara, Yandina 3izo). jBERT AND ELLICE: —Production ;ted in Europe through official Copra 1. at prices based on Philippines less freight, etc. The Copra Board lises the price at: First Grade /2 per ton, Second Grade £2/2/1 hi.

V HEBRIDES: —Price on June 25 approximately £ASO/-/- (10,000 francs. French price on June 18 1,170 francs per metric ton, c.i.f., lilies. 5K IS.: —Copra goes to Abels, Ltd., ickland, who operate the only NZ crushing mill. Price paid is average n price for previous three months, landling charges. Prices for third ;r, July-Sept., 1965, are £NZBO/11/2 rade, £NZ79/6/2 standard grade— f.o.b., Rarotonga.

OTHER PRODUCE

?OA: —lslands prices are usually on the rates for Ghana cocoa.

July shipment is £Stg.94/-/- per :.i.f., Sydney.

LG.: Sydney buyers on June 25 Te l: Quote No. 1: In store, Rabaul, ; quality £B4-£94 per ton, ex- Sydney, according to quality; •£120; quote No. 2; Best quality, larf Syd., £llO-£l2O, in store, N.G. £Bl (for UK, continent and USA ents).

W. SAMOA:—Nominal prices quoted in Sydney, June 17, were; Grade 1, £Stg.l7o/-/-; grade 2, £ Stg.l3o/-/-, f.0.b., Apia.

COFFEE:—P.-N.G.: June 28, 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 June 28 as; Kenya AA £Stg.4l7, A £Stg.4o7, B £ Stg.4oo, C £ 5tg.395; Tanganyika AA £Stg.39s, A £Stg.3BB, B £Stg.373; Uganda Robusta (standard) f.a.q. £Stg.24o, cleaned and washed £ 5tg.245; Bukoba £ Stg.37o; Mataari £Stg.43o: Sannani £Stg.4lo.

PEANUTS.-P.-N.G.: Sydney agents reported June 25 —f.0.b., Lae; Kernels— white Spanish 1/7 lb.; Virginia bunch 1/9 lb.

RUBBER.—P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore rate, which on June 24 was: No. 1 RSS, Spot, 71*/2 Straits cents per lb (24.94 d Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS.—Victor Karp Tulk & Co., Sydney, reported June 28: White and yellow label processed, standard packs, 49/-, green label 48/-, c.i.f., Sydney, RICE (Aust.): (New prices being nego tiated in late June), current prices— P.-N.G.: Dry brown and dressed, 112 lb bags, £5B/10/- per ton, f.o.w. Vitamised and enriched white, 112 lb bags, £65/-/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 June 25 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 June 25 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. £B5-£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 June 25: No. 1: Ist grade only, £235 on wharf, Sydney. No. 2: £220 (best quality), on wharf, Sydney.

CROCODILE SKINS.—On June 25

Sydney buyers quoted for 12 in. and over, first grade quality as follows: P.-N.G.— 28/- per in., f.o.b. P-NG ports, small scale (salt water); large scale (fresh water) 16/- per in. 8.5.1. 28/- (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, June 24, Philippines, in bulk, $270 US (equal to £Stg.96/14/6) per long ton, c.i.f., UK/Nth. European ports. Malayan 1% c.i.f. UK/Nth. Euro pean ports, UQ. NEW YORK: June 24, Philippines, $235 US c.i.f., Pacific Coast ports. CEYLON: 1,315 Rupees per ton, f.o.b.

COCONUT OIL: LONDON, June 24,

Ceylon, 1% in bulk, £ Stg.ls3.

RUBBER; LONDON, June 25, July

shipment c.i.f. 21-3/16d Stg. lb; Spot 21-11/16d Stg. lb; September shipment 21-9/16d Stg. lb. (£1 Australian is equal to about 2.2 US Dollars or 10 Vz Rupees.)

The Stock Market

p. 137

Sydney Stock Exchange share price in dex for “Ordinaries” on June 25 was 301.99, on May 25, it was 320.76.

1 SYDNEY

1 May 25 June 25 Seller Seller Ball Plantations . . 5/6 5/3 Burns Phllp ... 74/6 73/3 Burns Phllp (SSi 48/- 48/- Carpenter, W. R. . . 25/1 23/- Choiseul Plntn. . 94/6 94/-

C.S.R. Co

62/9 61/- Dylup Plantations 7/- 6/9 Fiji Industries . . . 17/9 17/11 Hackshall’s ... 14/6 13/9 Kerema Rubber . . 3/3 3/_ Koitakl Rubber . . 14/- 10/9 Lolorua Rubber . . 5/9 5/9 Makurapau Plntn. . 5/3 4/- Maribol Rubber . . 4/9 4/1 Pacific Is. Timbers . 4/9 4/9 Palgrave 2/4 2/1 Plantation Holdings . 3/6 b3/4 Queensland Insurance 75/b74/- Rubberlands ... 3/3 b2/6 Sogerl Rubber . . 5/2 b4/9 Sthn. Pac. Insurance 23/6 23/6 Steamships Trading . 10/5 9/1 Watkins Consolidated 2/6 2/3

OIL AND MINING SHARES

Dec. 4.

May 25, June 25. 1958 1965 1965 Emperor . . b9/b4/7 b4/6 Loloma . . b30/- 817/3 sl9/- Bulolo G.D. b32/b84/s84/- N.G.G. Ltd. b2/3 b3/10 b3/9 Oil Search . b9/9 bl/n bl/ll«/ 2 Ent. of N.G. slid Bid s2d Pac. I. Mines — 83/3 b2/5 Papuan Apln. b4/6 b2/b2/- Placer Dev. b91/- ■221/bl95/-

Exchange Rates

p. 137

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW, ANZ BANK, BANK OF NZ and THE BANK OF BARODA LTD. Australia on Fiji, basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £Alll/2/6; Selling, £AII3. Fiji-London, basis £lOO London: B. £llO/15/-; S. £ll2. NZ-Ftjl basis £lOO NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.—Through BANK OF NZ. Aus tralia on Samoa, basis £lOO Samoa: T.

T. B. £AI23/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9. Samoa- London, basis £lOO London: B. £99/7/6; S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £lOO NZ.

B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Fiji basis £lOO Samoa: B. £111; S. £llO.

NORFOLK IS.—Commonwealth Bank quotes exchange rate Australia-Norfolk Island: 5/- per £AIOO.

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 £AIOO

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 June, 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). Paris-London Selling 13.720 francs to £Stg.

Information

pp. 139-142

Shipping and Airways Information

UPPING TIMETABLES

l sailings are approximate and may by as much as two weeks.

BRISBANE - SYDNEY -

WEST NG - INDONESIA

ie P.N. Djakarta Lloyd Shipping pany operates a monthly cargo service een Indonesia, West New Guinea and ralia. xt voyage; Antonio Regidor, dep. jane Aug. 6, Sydney Aug. 13, Mel ne Aug. 22, then West New Guinea Indonesian ports subject to induce tails from Mcllwraith McEacharn Union House, 247 George Street, ey (27-1481).

SYDNEY ■ FIJI

1 Rona (4,500 tons) leaves Sydney oximately every three weeks for Suva Lautoka with cargo and passengers.

Sydney sailings: July 16, Aug. 7 rox.). tails from Colonial Sugar Refining Co. 1-7 Bent St., Sydney (2.0515).

INEY - FIJI - TONGA - SAMOA ion Steam Ship Co. maintains ;hly cargo services from Melbourne Sydney (periodically from Adelaide) jautoka, Suva (including tranship s for Vavau and Niue), Apia and lalofa. xt Sydney sailing: Waiana, July 3. tails from Union Steam Ship Co. of Ltd., 247 George Street, Sydney •28); or other branches and agents.

SYDNEY - FIJI - VANCOUVER

ciflc Shipowners Ltd., of Suva, ally operate a passenger-cargo ser three times yearly with the Lakemba : the above route. xt sailing from Sydney: Late Aug. *ox.). tails from American Trading and fing Co. Pty., Ltd., 19 Bridge St., ey (8U4147).

SYDNEY - GEIC

lumbus Lines of New York, operate igular passenger-cargo service from ey to Tarawa, Gilbert and Ellice ds Colony. Next voyage from Syd- Cap Frio Aug. 6 (approx.), tails from American Trading & jing Co. Pty. Ltd., 19 Bridge Street, ey (27-4149).

SYDNEY - NEW CALEDONIA -

iW HEBRIDES - FR. POLYNESIA

ssenger-cargo vessels of Messageries times Line, from Marseilles, via 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: Caledonien: Taiohae July 13, Papeete July 15-19, Vila July 26-27, Noumea July 28-Aug. 1, Sydney Aug. 4.

Oceanien: Papeete Aug. 19-23, Vila Aug. 30-31, Noumea Sept. 1-5, Sydney Sept. 8.

Next outwards voyages, ex-Sydney: Tahitien; Dep. Sydney July 3, New Hebrides July 7-15, Noumea July 16, Papeete July 22-25, Taiohae July 28.

Caledonien: Dep. Sydney Aug. 7, New Hebrides Aug. 11-19, Noumea Aug. 20, Papeete Aug. 26-29.

Polynesie maintains monthly passenger sailings between Sydney, Noumea, Vila, Pt Sandwich (occasionally), and Santo.

Next Sydney sailings; July 16, Aug. 6.

Details from Messageries Marltimes, 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.

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.

Southern Cross: From Southampton (UK) via South Africa, at Sydney Oct. 14-16, Wellington Oct. 19-21, Auckland Oct. 23, Fiji Oct. 26. Papeete Oct. 30-31, thence via Panama to Southampton, arr.

Nov. 25.

Details from Shaw Savlll Line, 8a Castlereagh St., Sydney (28-1828).

SYDNEY - NZ - TAHITI -

PANAMA - USA

Holland-America 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 July 9. July 30 (approx.).

Details from F. H. Stephens Pty. Ltd.. 13-15 Bridge St., Sydney (27-8311).

SYDNEY - NORFOLK IS. - NEW

HEBRIDES - BSI - BOUGAINVILLE

MV Tulagl (passenger-cargo) leaves Sydney about every six weeks for Norfolk

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.

ORONSAY CANBERRA ARCADIA ORONSAY

SYDNEY depan Sept. 9 Oct. 25 Nov. 8 Jan. 8 AUCKLAND arr/dep Sept. 12 Oct. 28 Nov. 11 Jan. 11* SAVUSAVU arr/dep Sept. 15 SUVA arr/dep Sept. 16 Nov. 14 Jan. 15 PAGO PAGO arr/dep Sept. 17 Nov. 15 HONOLULU arr/dep Sept. 22-23 Nov. 4-5 Nov. 20 Jan. 20-21 VANCOUVER arr/dep Sept. 28 Nov. 9-10 Jan, 26 SAN FRANCISCO arr/dep Sept. 30-Oct. 1 Nov. 12-13 Nov. 25-26 Jan. 28-29 LOS ANGELES arrive Oct. 2 Nov. 14 Nov. 27 Jan. 30 • Oronsay calls at Lautoka on Jan. 14, 1966.

Details from P. and O.-Orient Lines of Aust. Pty., Ltd., 55 Hunter St., Sydney (2-0317 1

MONTEREY

MARIPOSA

. MONTEREY

MARIPOSA

SAN FRANCISCO

depart June 24 July 15 Aug. 8 Sept. 2

LOS ANGELES

arr/dep June 25 July 16 Aug. 9 Sept. 3

BORA BORA

arr/dep July 3 July 24 Aug. 17 Sept. 11

PAPEETE

arr/dep July 4-6 July 25- ■27 Aug. 18-20 Sept. 12-14

RAROTONGA

arr/dep July 7 July 28 Aug. 21 Sept. 15

AUCKLAND

arr/dep July 12-13 Aug. 2- 3 Aug. 26-27 Sept. 20-21

SYDNEY

arr/dep July 16-19 Aug. 6- 9 Aug. 30-Sept. 2 Sept. 24-27

NOUMEA

arr/dep July 22 Aug. 12 Sept. 5 Sept. 30

SUVA

arr/dep July 24 Aug. 14 Sept. 7 Oct. 2

NIUAFOOU

arr/dep July 25 Aug, 15 Sept. 8 Oct. 3

PAGO PAGO

arr/dep July 25 Aug. 15 Sept. 8 Oct. 3

HONOLULU

arr/dep July 30-31 Aug. 20- 21 Sept. 13-14 Oct. 8-9

SAN FRANCISCO

arrive Aug. 5 Aug. 26 Sept. 19 Oct. 14 Details from Matron Lines, 50 Young St..

Sydney. (BU 4272)

Is., Vila, Santo, Honiara and BSI pi Next Sydney sailings: July 10, Aug.: Details from Burns, Philp and Co. 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (B 0547).

SYDNEY - PAPUA - NEW GUII*

Burns Philp passenger/cargo vei make regular voyages to New Guinea pi Next vessels: Malekula sails from Sydney for I bane, Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Sora Teopasino, Numa Numa, Arigua, K Sydney. Next Sydney sailing: Aug. 1C Bulolo sails about every six we Sydney, Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Sami Lae, Madang, Rabaul, Samaral, Moresby, Brisbane, Sydney. Next Sy sailing: Aug. 17.

Montoro sails from Melbourne Sydney, Pt. Moresby, Samarai (a Rabaul, Kavieng, Wewak, Madang, Pt. Moresby, Sydney. Next Sy ! sailing: July 15 approx.).

Braeside sails about every six we Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Pt. Mon Samarai, Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Moresby, Sydney. Next Sydney saii Aug. 7.

Moresby sails from Sydney for Brlsb Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Lae, Mad Alexishafen, Wewak, Lombrum, Loren Kavieng, Rabaul, Brisbane, Syc Maiden voyage from Sydney: July 22 Details from Burns, Philp and Co. 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (B 0547).

Australia-West Pacific Line’s m vessel Tenos maintains a regular pas ger-cargo service between Australia New Guinea ports. Next voyage: Sydney July 6, Brisbane July 8-9, Moresby July 12-14, Lae July K Madang July 19-21, Rabaul July 22-2 Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Age 13 Bridge St., Sydney. (BU 6301).

Soochow and Shansi provide a reg fortnightly passenger-cargo service ; Sydney to Brisbane, Pt. More Samarai and Sydney, sailing from ney every second Monday.

Next Sydney sailings: Shansi Jul; Soochow July 19.

Details from New Guinea Australia (Swire and Yuill Pty., Ltd., agents!

Spring Street, Sydney (BU 47011.

Karlander New Guinea Line cargo sels leave Sydney at regular intei for New Guinea ports. Next vessels: Slitan: Dep. Sydney July 21, due: Moresby July 28, Lae Aug. 13, Bris) Aug. 24, Sydney Aug. 28.

Sletholm: Dep. Sydney Aug. 6, I bane Aug. 10, Pt. Moresby Aug. 15, Aug. 20, Madang Aug. 23, Wewak 25, Brisbane Sept. 6, Sydney Sept. 10 Details from Karlander NG Line H. Stephens Pty., Ltd., agents), 13 Bi Street, Sydney (BU8311).

Austasia Line’s passenger/cargo v Makati runs between Australian j (turn round at Melbourne) and Paj New Guinea.

Next voyage: From Melbourne, Sydney July 19, Brisbane July 22,, Moresby July 26, Rabaul July 30, Mai, Aug. 3, Lae Aug. 5.

Details from Blue Star Line (Aust.) Ltd., 32-34 Bridge St., Sydney (BU 12

SYDNEY - P-NG - FAR EAST

Austasia Line’s passenger/cargo v\ Malaysia runs between Australian j (turn round at Melbourne) and Sit pore, via Pt. Moresby.

Next voyage: Dep. Melbourne Sept.;

dney Oct. 4, Brisbane Oct. 8, Pt. wesby Oct. 13, thence to Singapore and Jaysian ports.

Details from Blue Star Line (Aust.) /. Ltd., 32-34 Bridge St., Sydney [J 1271).

Australia-West Pacific Line’s Motor sels maintain passenger-cargo services m Australia to Hong Kong and Islands •ts. )elos: From Hong Kong and Manila, ) Madang July 29-30, Lae July 31-Aug.

Rabaul Aug. 3-8, thence Brisbane, Iney, Adelaide and Melbourne, lilos; Prom Adelaide and Melbourne, >. Sydney July 23, due Brisbane July 27, Rabaul July 31-Aug. 2, Lae Aug. , Madang Aug. 6-8, thence Manila and ig Kong, returning Madang Sept. 8-9, i Sept. 10-12, Rabaul Sept. 13-14, nee Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and bourne. letails from Wilh. Wllhelmsen Agency, Bridge St., Sydney (BU 6301). hina Navigation Co. Ltd. cargo vessels tchang, Wenchow and Wanliu call ithly at Rabaul on their way north a Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to ig Kong. ext vessel: Nanchang, dep. Sydney r 6, Brisbane July 8-9, Rabaul July thence Manila. hina Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels ngsha and Taiyuan provide a monthly senger-cargo service calling at Pt. esby when northbound between Aus- La, Manila and Hong Kong. Next el: hangsha; Dep. Melbourne July 12, arr.

Moresby July 28, thence Manila and g Kong. etails from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., its, 8 Spring St., Sydney (BU 4701).

Bminion Navigation Co. Ltd. (UK) els maintain monthly passenger-cargo ices between Sydney and Japan (via ila, Hong Kong and Formosa), return Guam and Rabaul. sorge Anson: At Guam July 9-10, aul July 14-15, Sydney July 21-23, >ourne July 25-31, Sydney Aug. 2-4, bane Aug. 6-7, thence to Far East, rning to Guam Sept. 10-11, Rabaul . 15-16, Sydney Sept. 22. ancis Drake: Dep. Sydney July 7, aane July 9-10, thence Far East, due m Aug. 13-14, Rabaul Aug. 18-19, ley Aug. 25. (tails from H. C. Sleigh Ltd.. 115 : Street, Sydney. Tel. (2-0253).

SYDNEY - TAHITI - UK

iandris Line vessel Ellinis maintains gular passenger service from Sydney Papeete to Southampton, and return Papeete to Sydney, inis: Leaves Sydney Aug. 30, arr. ete Sept. 7 and Southampton Sept. tails from Chandris Line, 10 Martin s, Sydney. Tel. BL 4051.

OPE - TAHITI - NEW CALEDONIA

BSIP - PNG - WEST NG

regular passenger-cargo service the Continent and UK, via Panama, ihiti, New Caledonia, BSI, P-NG and NG is operated jointly by Neder- Line Royal Dutch Mail and Royal rdam Lloyd. •echt: From Continent and London, Papeete July 19, Noumea July 28, ira Aug. 3, Pt. Moresby Aug. 7, ul Aug. 10, Lae Aug. 12, Madang 13, Alexishafen Aug. 14, Wewak

PIM s shipping and airways timetables are correct to time of publication.

Aug. 15, Sukarnopura Aug. 16, thence Biak, Manokwari, Sorong.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 261 George St., Sydney (2-0573 1.

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: Vivarais Aug. 13 (Noumea Aug. 20); Vanoise Sept. 5 (Noumea Sept. 12).

Other MM vessels run between France and Sydney, via Panama Canal and Pacific ports.

Next vessel: Malais, due Papeete July 19, Noumea July 31, Sydney Aug. 10.

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.

Szechuen: From Japan and Hong Kong, due Suva/Lautoka July 8-13, Honiara July 17, returning to Japan July 30.

Sinkiang; From Japan and Hong Kong, due Suva/Lautoka Aug. 5-10, returning to Japan Aug. 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 24-25; Tjimanuk at Suva/Lautoka Aug. 15-16.

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.

Chengtu: From Japan and Hong Kong, due Rabaul July 12, Kavieng July 15, Madang July 17, Lae July 21, Samara!

July 27, Pt. Moresby Aug. 3, Vila Aug. 7, Noumea Aug. 11-20, thence to Japan, arr. Sept. 2.

Chekiang; From Japan and Hong Kong, due Wewak Aug. 14, Rabaul Aug. 17, Madang Aug. 21, Lae Aug. 25, Pt.

Moresby Sept. 6, Noumea Sept. 9-20, thence to Japan, arr. Oct. 1.

Details from China Navigation Co., Ltd. (Swire and Yuill Pty., Ltd., agents), 8 Spring St.. Sydney (BU4701).

JAPAN - SAMOA - TONGA - FIJI - N. CAL. - N. HEB. - BSI The Daiwa Navigation Co. Ltd. runs a regular passenger/cargo service from Japan to Pacific ports.

Current voyage: Tahiti Maru dep. Japan July 3, arr. Guam July 9, Santo July 18, Vila (opt.), Noumea (opt.), Suva July 25-26, Lautoka July 28-29, Pago Pago Aug. 1, Apia Aug. 2-3.

NEW ZEALAND - COOK IS.

NZGS Moana Roa (40 passengers) makes approximately monthly voyages from 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 vessel; Crusader, dep. NZ July 14, due Honolulu July 23, 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: July 20, Aug. 17.

Matua maintains a service from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, Apia, Suva, and return to Auckland.

Next Auckland sailings: July 6, Aug. 3.

Details from Union Steam Ship Co of NZ, Quay and Commerce Sts., Auck land. (Tel.: 49-430).

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: Ruahine, dep. Wellington July 31, due Papeete Aug. 5.

Next southbound voyage: Rangitoto from London, due Papeete Aug. 17.

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 26 (approx.).

Details from Burns Phllp 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 Apia, Suva and Lautoka, Bethell, Gwyn and Co., Ltd., act as Load ing Brokers in London.

UK-PANAMA-TAHITI-AUSTRALIA

Cogedar Line operates a passenger ser vice regularly from Southampton, via Panama and Papeete to Sydney. Next vessels; Flavia: Dep. Tilbury July 1, arr.

Papeete July 25-26, Sydney Aug. 6.

Aurelia: Dep. Tilbury Sept. 28, arr.

Papeete Oct. 22-23. Sydney Nov. 3.

• 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.

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: 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.

Crestbank: From Continent and London, due Pt. Moresby Aug. 24, Samarai Aug. 27, Lae Aug. 29, Madang Sept. 2, Wewak Sept. 6, Kavieng Sept. 8, Rabaul Sept. 9, Honiara Sept. 14.

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-Paclfic sailings: From Brisbane, Ventura July 27; Sonoma Aug. 24.

Details from Matson Lines, 50 Young St.. Sydney (BU 4272).

USA - TAHITI - AUSTRALIA

Farrell Lines passenger-cargo ships on US Atlantic Coast-Panama-Sydney service make periodical calls at Tahiti on south bound voyages. Next Papeete calls: Australian Galaxy Aug. 11; Australian Gulf Oct. 13.

Details from Wllh. Wilhelmsen Agency. 13 Bridge St.. Sydney (BU 6301).

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.

Thorsisle: Dep. San Francisco July 9, Los Angeles July 10-14, Papeete July 24-27, 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.

Thor I: San Francisco Aug. 13, Los Angeles Aug. 14-17, Papeete Aug. 27-29, Pago Pago Sept. 2-5, Apia Sept. 6-7, Suva Sept. 10-11, Lautoka Sept. 12-13, Noumea Sept. 15-17, Vila Sept. 18-19 (tentative), Santo Sept. 20-21 (tentative), Apia (open), Pago Pago Sept. 24-25, Los Angeles Oct. 8-10, San Francisco Oct. 11.

Details from General Steamship Cor poration Ltd., 1 Bush St., San Francisco, USA and Islands Agents.

• PlM's shipping and airways timetables are correct to time of publication.

Airways Timetables

pp. 142-148

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 July 2, 16, 30, Aug. 13, 27, 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. July 3, 17, 31, Aug. 14, 28, 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. (July 9, 23, Aug. 6, 20, 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. (July 5, 19, Aug. 2, 16, 30, 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, s Sat., Tues., Thurs. 1940.

Mon.: Dep. Sydney 1900 for Pago Ps (arr. 0255, dep. 0340), Honolulu z 0945, dep. 1145, Los Angeles (arr. 1!

Mon.).

SOUTHBOUND

Sun., Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Los Ang« 2145 for Honolulu, Nadi (arr. Oi Tues., Thurs., Sat., dep. 0615), £ Sydney (arr. Tues., Thurs., Sat. 082 Sat.: Dep. Los Angeles 2145 for Honoli Pago Pago (arr. 0510 Sun., dep. 05E and Sydney (arr. 0900 Mon.). (International Dateline crossed betwi Nadi-Honolulu, and Sydney-Pago Pago.

SYDNEY - FIJI - TAHITI - MEXII By Qantas Empire Airways with Boeing 707 V-Jets

NORTHBOUND

Thurs.; Dep. Sydney 2000, Nadi, arr. ] 0140, dep. 0225 for Papeete, arr. Tin 0835, dep. 2300 for Acapulco, arr. ] 1050, dep. 1150 for Mexico C arr. 1240 (to Nassau, Bermu London).

SOUTHBOUND

(From London, Bermuda, Nassau) Sat.: Dep. Mexico City 2145 for Acapu arr. 2235, dep. 2335 for Pape* arr. Sun. 0345, dep. 0445 for Nadi, i Mon. 0720, dep. 0805 for Sydney, i 1020.

SYDNEY - N. CALEDONIA - FIJI

TAHITI - USA

Wed.: Dep. Sydney 0940 for Noumea, i 1320, dep. 1420 for Nadi, arr. 1700, c 1745 for Papeete (cross Dateline) i Tues. 2350, dep. Fri. 0900 for Angeles, arr. 1950.

Sat.: Dep. Los Angeles 0100 for Pape arr. 0605, dep. Tues 0130 for K (cross Dateline) arr. Wed. 0410, c 0610 for Noumea, arr. 0705, dep. 0 for Sydney, arr. 1100.

Alt. Mon. (July 12, 26, Aug. 9, etc.): Dep. Sydney 1350 for Noun arr. 1730, dep. (weekly) 1930 for N arr. 2215, dep. Tues. 0130 for Papi (cross Dateline), arr. 0745 Mon.

Sat.: Dep. Papeete 1200 for Nadi (ci Dateline), arr. Sun. 1440, dep. 1 for Noumea, arr. 1635.

Alt. Sun. (July 11, 25, Aug. 8, etc.): Dep. Noumea 1800 for Sydi arr. 1955.

Note: Noumea’s international airpor at Tontouta, which is about 50 miles f: Noumea itself. The New Caledonian air Transpac provides a service between T touta and Noumea on Wednesdays to c nect with UTA’s service from Sydi There is also a bus service from airport.

AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAN

Because days and frequencies of tra Tasman services change at short not it is impossible to give reliable detae information on the services outlined low. Intending passengers are adw to check timetables with the airlines travel agents.

AUCKLAND - BRISBANE

QANTAS/AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. I Twice weekly, both ways.

AUCKLAND - MELBOURNE

ANTAS/AIR-NZ with Electra Mk, ll’s fhree times weekly, both ways.

CHRISTCHURCH - MELBOURNE

ANTAS/AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. ll’s rhree times weekly, both ways.

SYDNEY - AUCKLAND

ANTAS/AIR-NZ with Electra Mk, ll’s Jaily, both ways, with two services a f on most days.

BOAC, with Comet IV’s fwice weekly, both ways.

SYDNEY - CHRISTCHURCH

ANTAS/AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. ll’s and Boeing 707’s Four times weekly, both ways.

SYDNEY - WELLINGTON

ANTAS/AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. ll’s Jaily services both ways, with two vices a day three times a week.

WELLINGTON - BRISBANE

AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. II )ne service weekly, both ways.

WELLINGTON - MELBOURNE

AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. II fwice weekly, both ways.

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. (July 8, 22, Aug. 5, 19, 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. [Except July 14, 28, Aug. 11]: Dep. Sydney 0800, arr. NI 1445. Flight

extends NI-Auckland-NI. (See “Inter- Territory Services”).

Thurs., Sun. [Except July 14, 28, Aug. 11]: 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., Frl. 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., Frl., 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.

OLD. - 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, dep. 1850, arr. Brisbane 2230.

CAIRNS-PT. MORESBY-CAIRNS

NOTE: Services to P-NG operate via Townsville during runway extensions at Cairns.

Pri.: Dep. Cairns 1100, arr. Townsville 1155, dep. 1230, arr. Port Moresby 1520.

Pri.: Dep. Port Moresby 1600, arr. Towns ville 1850, dep. 1925, arr. Cairns 2015.

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 Pri.) 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. ll’s 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 091 dep. 1025, arr. Santo 1140.

Fri.: Dep. Santo 0700, arr. Vila 08! dep. 0845, arr. Noumea 1040.

NEW CALEDONIA • NZ

AIR-NZ with Comet 4 Jet Fri.: Dep. Noumea 1430 for Aucklai arr. 1815.

Fri.; Dep. Auckland 1100 for Noumea a 1300.

NEW CALEDONIA - WALLIS ISLAI

UTA, with DC4 Aircraft Monthly service (second Saturday) Sat. (July 10, Aug. 14): Dep. Noun 0800 for Wallis Is., arr. 1530.

Sun. (July 11, Aug. 15): Dep. Wallis 0700 for Noumea, arr. 1230.

NZ - FIJI - AM. SAMOA

AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. II Sun.: Dep. Auckland 2030, arr. Nadi 0C Mon. Dep. Nadi 0215, cross Into national Dateline, arr Pago Pago St 0550.

Sun.: Dep. Pago Pago 0655, cross Into national Dateline, arr. Nadi Mon. 08 Dep. Nadi 0925, arr. Auckland 1315

NORFOLK IS. - NEW ZEALAND

AIR-NZ by Qantas Skymaster (Chari Sat.: Dep. NI 1600, Auckland, arr. 19 Wed.; Dep. NI 1600, arr. Auckland 19 (Does not operate July 14, 28).

Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 1030. arr. NI 13 (Does not operate July 1, 15, 29).

Sun.: Dep. Auckland 1030, arr. NI 13

P-NG - SOLOMONS

TAA, with Fokker Prop-Jet and DC Alt. Mon.: Dep. Lae (DCS) 0600 Rabaul, Buka. Munda, Yandi: Honiara, arr. 1620 (July 12, 26, A 9. 23 etc.).

Alt. Wed.: Dep. Honiara (DCS) 0730 Yandina. Munda. Buka, Rabaul. L arr. 1545 (July 14, 28, Aug. 11, etc.).

Alt. Tues.: Dep. Lae (Fokker) 0900 Rabaul. Buka, Munda, Honiara, e 1635 (July 6, 20, Aug. 3, 17, 31, eto Alt. Wed.; Dep. Honiara (Fokker) 0645 Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, arr. i; (July 7, 21. Aug. 4, 18, etc.).

P-NG - WEST NG

TAA, with DCS Aircraft Alt. Tues. (July 6, 20, Aug. 3, 17, etc.): Dep. Lae 1000 for Madai Wewak, Sukarnapura, arr. 1350.

Alt. Wed. (July 7, 21, Aug. 4, 18, et» Dep. Sukarnapura 1005 for Wew Madang, Lae, arr. 1605.

Alt. Wed. (July 14, 28, Aug. 11, 25, et« Dep. Lae 0915, arr. Sukarnapura 12 Alt. Tues. (July 13, 27, Aug. 10, 24, et« Dep. Sukarnapura 0935, arr. Lae 12

BIAK (WEST NG)-LAE

Garuda Indonesian Airways (DCS) Alt. Tues. (July 13, 27, Aug. 10, etc.): Dep. Biak 1815, Sukarnapu arr. 0825. dep. 0925. arr. Lae 12 Alt. Wed. (July 14, 28, Aug. 11, etc.): Dep. Lae 0915, Sukarnapui arr. 1215, dep. 1300, arr. Biak 151

TAHITI - USA

UTA, with DCS Jet Aircraft Wed : Dep. Papeete 0900 for Los Ange;

arr. 1955. Dep. Los Angeles 0100 ' Thurs., arr. Papeete 0605. i.; Dep. Papeete 0900 for Los Angeles, arr. 1955. Dep. Los Angeles 0100 Sat., arr. Papeete 0605.

Pan American Airways, with Intercontinental Jet Clippers m. Dep. Los Angeles 0900, dep. Hono lulu 1300, arr. Papeete 1825. ies.: Dep. Papeete 0915, arr. Honolulu 1435 dep. 1600, arr. Los Angeles 2355. t.: Dep. San Francisco 2145, dep. Los Angeles 2359, arr. Papeete 0515 Sun. n. 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 moa—flight time: 45 minutes, p. Faleolo (W. Samoa): Sun. 0500, 0745, 1900, Tues. 1400, Thurs. 0600, Fri., Sat. 1530. p. 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 mds (Aitutaki and Rarotonga), urs.: Dep. Faleolo 0900, arr. Aitutaki 1500, dep. 1530, arr. Rarotonga 1635. .; Dep. Rarotonga 0800, arr. Aitutaki 0905, dep. 0940, arr. Faleolo 1410.

W. SAMOA - FIJI

Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with DCS d.: Dep. Faleolo 1000, arr. Nadi Thurs. 1330. ■irs.: Dep. Nadi 1430, arr. Faleolo Wed., 2010. ernational dateline crossed between Faleolo and Nadi.

W. SAMOA - TONGA

Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with DCS i.: Dep. Faleolo 1030, arr. Nukualofa next day 1345. ti.: Dep. Nukualofa 1445, arr. Faleolo Sun. 1800. srnational Dateline crossed between Faleolo and Nukualofa, letails from Polynesian Air-Centre, ich Rd., Apia, or any Polynesian ways agent.

INTERNAL SERVICES

FIJI

iji Airways with Herons, Drovers, and DC3s. a-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 1600, arr. Nadi 1645. Tues., Wed., Fri., Sun., lep. Suva 1730, arr. Nadi 1815, Phurs., Sat., dep. Suva 1830, arr.

Nadi 1915, i-Suva: Daily, dep. Nadi 0615, arr, 3uva 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. rhurs., Sat., dep. Nadi 1715, arr Suva 1800. a-Ura-Suva: Dep. Suva 0725, Wed., Sun., Ura, arr. Suva 0955. a-Labasa-Suva; Dep. Suva 1430, Wed., Phurs., Sat., Sun., for Labasa, arr.

Suva 1640. 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, Savu savu, 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

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 Aztec Noumea-Mare: Mon., Tues., Fri., dep.

Noumea 1430. 1430, 1430, resp., arr.

Mare 1510, 1515, 1515. Dep. Mare 1530, 1545, 1545, arr. Noumea 1610, 1630, 1630.

Noumea-Lifou; Tues., Wed., Fri., dep.

Noumea 0800, arr. Lifou 0845, dep.

0915, arr. Noumea 1000. Sat. dep.

Noumea 0815, arr. Lifou 0900, dep. 0930, arr. Noumea 1015.

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.

Noumea-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., Fri. dep. Noumea 0815, arr. Poindlmie 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 Airways, with Drovers

VILA-SOUTHERN ISLANDS

Mon.: Dep. Vila 0830, arr. Tanna 0945, dep. 1100, arr. Vila 1215.

Wed.; Dep. Vila 0830, Erromanga (optional), arr. Lenakel 1000, dep.

1030, Erromanga (subject to la arr. Vila 1200.

Pri.; Dep. Vila 0830, arr. Tanna C dep. 1530. arr. Vila 1645.

Alt. Pri. (July 2, 16, 30, Aug. 13, 27, ei Dep. Lenakel 1030, arr. Aneit 1105, dep. 1400, arr. Lenakel 1435 i Pri. (monthly): Dep. Lenakel 1030, Futuna 1115, dep. 1400, arr, Len 1445. (This flight depends on passei bookings).

VILA-NORTHERN ISLANDS

Tues.; Dep. Vila 0830, arr. Toi 0905, dep. 0930, arr. Santo 1040, 1230, arr. Tongoa 1340, dep. 1400, Vila 1430.

Wed.: Dep. Vila 1330, arr. Tongoa 3 dep. 1430, arr. Pentecost 1515, 1530, arr. Longana 1545, dep. I arr. Walaha 1630, dep. 1645, Santo 1705.

Thurs.: Dep. Santo 0830, arr. Wa 0850, dep. 0915, arr. Longana C dep. 1000, arr. Walaha 1015, 1045, arr. Santo 1105. Dep. S 1330, arr. Walaha 1350, 1415, arr. Longana 1430, dep. 1 arr. Pentecost 1520, dep. 1535, Tongoa 1615, dep. 1645, arr. 1705.

Sat.: Dep. Vila 0830, arr. Tongoa I dep. 1030, arr. Vila 1100. (Subjec load.) * Calls at Pentecost are optional, ]l call is made the stopover at Longan 20 minutes longer.

Details from New Hebrides Aim Vila.

PAPUA - NEW GUINEA

Operated by TAA LAE-RABAUL-LAE (Fokker Prop-J« Alt. Tues.; Dep. Lae 0900, Rabaul, 1055 (July 6, 20. Aug. 3, 17, 31, « Alt. Wed.: Dep. Rabaul 1010, Lae, 1200 (July 14, 28, Aug. 11, 25, «

PORT MORESBY-DARU (DCS)

Alt. Pri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0845 for I returning same day via Balimo, 1425 (July 9, 23, Aug. 6, 20, etc Thurs. (every 4th week, by Cat: July 15, Aug. 12, etc.): Dep.

Moresby 0800 for Daru, retui same day at 1420, direct arr. 163

PT. MORESBY-WEST PAPUA (Catai

Wed.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0800 for Ken Baimuru, Kikori, Baimuru (oh quest), Kerema, Pt. Moresby, 1525. Reservations beyond Ke: subject to administration recj ments.

Thurs. (every 4th week): Dep. Pt. Mo:i 0800 for Daru, Lake Murray, I arr. 1500 (July 1, 29, Aug, 26, e: Pri. (every 4th week): Dep. Daru for Pt. Moresby, arr. 1115 (July S Aug. 27, etc.).

PT. MORESBY-EAST PAPUA (Cats

Alt. Mon.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0800 Samarai, Esa-Ala, Samarai, Moresby, arr. 1630 (July 12, 26, 9, 23, etc,).

Fourth Mon.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 080 M Samarai, Deboyne, Samarai, Moresby arr. 1630 (July 19, Aug etc.).

Fourth Mon.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 080 K Samarai, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1630 5, Aug. 2, 30, etc.).

Wed.: Dep. Pt, Moresby 0800 for Guj Misima, arr. 1100, return via Guj arr. Pt. Moresby 1420.

LAE-MAD ANG-WEWAK-MANUS

KAVIENG-RABAUL SERVICE (DC

Mon., Pri.: Dep. Lae 0730 for Mas

Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, Rabaul, arr. 1605. a.; Dep. Rabaul 0730 for Kavieng, Manus, Wewak, arr. 1250. .: Dep. Lae 0900, for Madang, Wewak, arr. 1155. i., Tues., Thurs., Sat.: Dep. Wewak 3600 for Madang, Lae, arr. 0845. i.: Dep. Kavieng 0630 for Rabaul, arr. 5735. s.: Dep. Rabaul 1245 for Kavieng, arr. 1350.

CENTRAL HIGHLANDS (DCS)

i.: Dep. Madang for Baiyer R., Hagen, Banz, Minj, Goroka, Lae, arr. 1420.

I.: Dep. Madang 0800 for Wabag, Wapenamanda, Hagen, Banz, Minj, Soroka, Lae, arr. 1420. , Sun.: Dep. Madang 0655 for Goroka, le, arr. 0845. rs.: Dep. Lae 0900 for Goroka, Minj, Banz, Hagen, Baiyer R., Wapena nanda, Wabag, Madang, arr. 1510. : Dep. Mt. Hagen 0650 for Banz opt.), Lae, arr. 0820. 5.: Dep. Mt. Hagen for Goroka, Lae, irr. 0845. ,: Dep. Lae 0900 for Goroka, Minj, Janz, Mt. Hagen, arr. 1205.

MORESBY-POPONDETTA-LAE (DCS)

: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0730 for Kokoda opt.), Popondetta, Garaina, Lae, arr. 015. : Dep. Lae 1045 for Garaina, •opondetta, Kokoda (opt.), Port loresby, arr. 1330.

MORESBY-WAU-BULOLO-LAE (DCS)

rs., Sun.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 1045 for Vau, Bulolo, Lae, arr. 1320. rs., Sun.: Dep. Lae 0730 for Bulolo, (fau, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1000.

MADANG-GOROKA-LAE (DCS)

i.: Dep. Lae 0900 for Goroka, Minj, lanz, Hagen, Madang, arr. 1330. .: Dep. Madang 1010 for Hagen, Banz, linj, Goroka, Lae, arr. 1435.

Sun.: Dep. Madang 0645 for Goroka, iae, arr. 0845.

Dep. Lae 0940 for Goroka, Madang, rr. 1140.

MORESBY-GOROKA-MADANG (DCS)

, Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0800 Jr Goroka, Madang, arr. 1100.

Tues., Thurs.: Dep, Madang 0740 >r Goroka, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1030.

LAE-RABAUL-LAE (DCS)

Thurs., Sat., Sun.; Dep. Lae 0930, rr. Rabaul 1205.

Sun., Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Rabaul 300, arr. Lae 0835. s.: Dep. Lae 0900 for Finschhafen, ape Gloucester, Kandrian, Talasea, icquinot Bay, Rabaul, arr. 1520.

Dep. Rabaul 0900 for Jacquinot Bay, alasea, Kandrian, Cape Gloucester, Inschhafen, Lae, arr. 1520.

LAE-FINSCHHAFEN-LAE (DCS)

.: Dep. Lae 0700 for Finschhafen, ae, arr. 0830.

RABAUL-BUIN-RABAUL (DCS)

, Pri.: Dep. Rabaul 0800 for Buka. r akunai, Kieta, Buin, Kieta, Wakunal, uka, Rabaul, arr. 1540.

\BAUL-TALASEA-RABAUL (Piper)

: Dep. Rabaul 0800 for Hoskins, alasea, Hoskins. Rabaul, arr. 1130. rated by Ansett-MAL (with DCS’s) : Dep. Lae 0830 for Goroka, Madang, •r. 1015.

Dep. Lae 0915 for Wewak, arr. 1125.

Dep. Wewak 1330 for Vanimo, ewak, arr. 1630.

Dep. Lae 0920 for Rabaul, arr. 1200.

Dep. Goroka 0700 for Wau, Port oresby, Wau, Lae, Goroka, Mt. agen, Madang, arr. 1555.

Dep. Madang 0700 for Goroka, Lae, arr. 0845.

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, lallbu, Kagua, Mt.

Hagen, arr. 1345.

Wed.: Dep. Lae 0630 for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavleng, 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 Vanimo, Wewak, arr. 1230.

Dep. Rabaul 0700 for Kavleng, 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, Rabauli 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 Mendi, Kagua, Erave, lallbu, 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 Kavleng, Momote, Wewak, Madang, Goroka.

Lae, arr. 1640.

Operated by Papuan Airlines Pty. Ltd. (“Patalr’')

Mon.; Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 0730 for Popondetta, Kokoda, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1010.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 0800 for Rorona (opt.), Aroa (opt.), Kairuku (opt.), Bereina, Woitape, Tapinl, Bereina, Kairuku (opt.), Aroa (opt.), Rorona (opt.), Pt. Moresby, arr. 1130 (20 mins, later if call made at Rorona, Aroa, or Kairuku.) Dep. (Piaggio) 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 Dam, Balimo, Daru, 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

• PlM's shipping and airways timetal are correct to time of publication.

min. later if call made at Ror and Aroa).

Wed.: Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 0830 Kokoda, Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, 1110.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 0830 Tapini, Woitape, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1( Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1345 Rorona, A.roa, Kairuku, Pt. Morei arr. 1535.

Dep. (DC3 I Pt. Moresby 1430 Bereina, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1635.

Thurs. (Piaggio i: Dep. Pt. Moresby C for Woitape, Tapini, Pt. Moresby, 1030.

Dep. (Piaggioi Pt. Moresby 1345 Rorona (opt.i, Aroa (opt.), Kain Bereina, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1535 min. later if call made at Ror and Aroa).

Alt. Thurs. (July 1, 15, 29, Aug. 12, etc. I: Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby C for Popondetta, Wanigela, Vivig Losuia, Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, 1330. (June 10, 24, July 8, 22, et Dep. (DC3i Pt. Moresby 0700 Popondetta. Pt. Moresby, arr. 0900 Fri.; Dep. (DC3( Pt. Moresby 0730 Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, arr. 0930, Dep. (DC3 I Pt. Moresby 1030 Gurney, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1400.

Dep. (Piaggio I Pt. Moresby 1100 Cape Rodney, Paili, Pt. Moresby, 1310.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 0830 Tapini, Woitape, Pt. Moresby, arr. li Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1345 Rorona, Aroa, Kairuku, Pt. More arr. 1535.

Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 1430 Bereina, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1635.

Sat.: Dep. (DC3i Pt. Moresby 0730 Popondetta, Kokoda, Pt. Moresby, 1010.

Dep. 'Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 0830 Woitape, Tapini, Pt. Moresby, arr. 10

SOLOMON ISLANDS

Megapode Airways with a Dove

DHIO4 Mk. VI

Tues.: Dep. Honiara 0800 and 1600, Auki (Malaita) 0825 and 1625, Honiara 0900 and 1700.

Tues., (in Fokker week): Dep. Horn 0930, arr. Yandina (Russell Is.) 01 dep. Yandina 1015, arr. Honiara 1 Wed. (DCS week): Dep. Honiara 0! arr. Kira Kira 0905, dep. 1300, Honiara 1405.

Thurs. (Fokker week): Dep. Honiara 0 arr. Yandina 0955, dep. 1230, Honiara 1300.

Fri.: (in Fokker week): Dep. Horn 0800, arr. Munda (New Geon 0915, dep. Munda 0925, arr. Barak: (Vella Lavella) 0945, dep. Barak: 1000, arr. Munda 1020, dep. Mu 1030, arr. Honiara 1145.

Fri. (in DCS week): Dep. Honiara CL arr. Yandina 0825. dep. 0840, Munda 0925, dep. 0945, arr. Barak; 1015, dep. 1045, arr. Munda 1105, 1125, arr. Yandina 1210, dep. II arr. Honiara 1300. (Note: Fokker week and DC3 week r to TAA services from Papua- Guinea. See timetable under In Territory Services.) Details from Megapode Airways, P.O. 103, Honiara, BSIP.

Eaths Of Islands People

p. 149

Mr. Gerald Verner Maxwell d Fijian residents especially, will orry to hear that Mr. G. V. veil, one of Fiji’s early Stipendary istrates, died on June 4, in a ey hospital. He was within three s of his 88th birthday, raid Maxwell went to Fiji as a in 1899, became SM two later and filled various official . From 1912 to 1921 he was man of the Native Lands Com an and in two periods was a aer of the Legislative Council. 21 he was transferred to Kenya, ; he was appointed Chief Native nissioner. He retired from the lial Service in 1931 and was d a CMG in recognition of srvices. ■n at Brighton (England) in son of Sir William Maxwell, G, he was educated at Bedford mar School and Cambridge. In he married and had a family [> sons and two daughters, h sons entered the medical ision; the elder, Dr. R. W. D. ell, QBE., was well-known in and Samoan medical circles, etired as D/Director of Fiji al Services in 1956. Later he e senior MO of the NSW i Dept. The other son, Dr.

Maxwell, is a medical practi in Auckland, NZ, and also for some years in Fiji. One daughters is married to Judge an, of the NSW District Court, at one time was a Resident trate in Fiji, over 20 years now Gerald ell had lived the life of one from the turmoils of the ial Service on a property near Delltown (NSW) and to which 'e the name “Delana” (a hill). 59 his wife died and later he d again.—G.T.

Captain H. Gosling

tain Henry Gosling, one of the nown mariners in Fiji, died at vo * Taveuni, on June 15, aged tain Gosling settled in Fiji he tramp steamer Kilburn, in he was third officer, was ; d in the Yasawas in 1910. r his marriage to a Fiji girl d his father-in-law, Captain Williams, set up the stevedor m of Williams and Gosling, tain Gosling was torpedoed in jpship, off Cape Finisterre, in 1916. his seafaring career he was

pilot for many overseas ships in Fiji waters, and was also master of several inter-island ships.

One of his sons, Jack, is shipping manager of Burns Philp (SS) Co.

Ltd.

Apart from Jack he is survived by a son, Frank (Auckland), and three daughters, Millie (Mrs. L.

McGowan, Vatukoula), Viti (Mrs.

J. Bell, Palmerston North, NZ), and Tilly (Mrs. Oscar Bentley, Palmers ston North, NZ).

Mr. Barlay Sarju

Mr. Barlay Sarju, cook at Govern ment House, Suva, for 38 years, died in Suva in late May at the age of 94. Mr. Sarju arrived in Fiji from India many years ago under the indenture system. As cook, he ac companied Sir Harry Luke, then Governor of Fiji, on a tour of the Pacific in the early part of World War IT.

Sister Olivia Solei Junior Sister Olivia Solei, who did outstanding work with the Fiji Medical Department for 27 years, died in Suva on June 3, aged 48.

When the way was opened some years ago for Colony nurses to advance beyond the rank of staff nurse, she quickly won promotion.

Mr. J. Harris Mr. Joseph Harris, a Nauruan medical practitioner, collapsed and died of a heart attack on May 9 while watching frigate birds being caught at a frigate roost. He was 54.

Mr. Harris was a well-liked member of the large Harris clan on Nauru. He joined the Administra tion as a medical orderly in 1928, and in 1935 went to Suva to do a course in medicine at the Central Medical School. In 1938 he became the first Nauruan to graduate from this school. In his final year he won a gold medal in obstetrics.

When the Japanese occupied Nauru in World War 11, Mr. Harris, with several hundred other Nauruans, was deported to Truk in the Carolines, but he continued to serve his people as a medical practitioner.

Mr. Harris leaves a widow, three sons and a daughter.

Mr. H. L Downing The death occurred in Sydney on June 18 of Mr. Henry (Harry) Ludlow Downing, who served in the Australian Department of Territories

for 35 years. Nineteen years of this service were in New Guinea, the rest in Sydney.

Because of his long service and kindly nature. Mr. Downing was one of the best-known and best-loved men in his department. He was a friend, philosopher and purveyor of information to thousands.

After serving in France and Egypt in World War I, Mr. Downing went to New Guinea in 1920 as a camera man with an expedition led by an American millionaire-publisher, W.

D. Boyce. He returned in 1922 as a medical assistant with the Admini stration in New Britain.

In the next 19 years, he served in many areas as medical assistant, patrol officer, and registrar of births, deaths and marriages, etc.

In 1941, when he was Acting District Officer at Kieta, Bougain ville, he was ordered south for medical treatment, and was in hospital in Sydney when the Pacific War began.

He did not return to work in New Guinea, but his intimate knowledge of the Territory was of great value to the Allied military and naval authorities, and he helped the Terri stories Department handle the hundreds of people who had to be evacuated.

A daughter, Diana, survives him.

Mrs. Norrie Cahill Mrs. Norrie Cahill, who lived nearly all her life in Papua-New Guinea, died in ANGAU Memorial Hospital, Lae, on May 29, at the age of 54.

She had only recently retired from the Department of Public Health, after working for many years as a medical assistant.

She was taken to Port Moresby by her parents in 1911, when she was only a year old.

Mrs. Cahill learned her work as a medical assistant in the days when there were very few doctors in Papua-New Guinea. Medical Assis tants then did work they would not be allowed to do now.

For a number of years after the war Mrs. Cahill conducted the native outpatients section at the Lae Euro pean Hospital, and later worked in the outpatients branch of the new ANGAU Memorial Hospital.

Before transferring to Lae with her family she worked at Namanula Hospital, Rabaul.

Mrs. Cahill was the wife of now retired police officer, Mr. Dennis (“Dinny”) Cahill, of Lae. They had two children, Mr. Peter Cahill, now of Port Moresby, and Mrs.

Timothy McDonnell, of Brisbane.

Index to Advertisers

p. 151

l Industries . 15, 32, 42, 69, 93, 101 fia International . ..116 lew Zealand .. ..132 amated Dairies Ltd. .. 23 & Weatherly .. .. 42

•A.N.A 120

, Wm. Pty. Ltd. . 38, 39 Cotton Manufacturing 3l lian Dairy Produce d 84 i Slipway & Eng. Co. 98 A. Paints Pty. Ltd. .. 14 of N.Z 134 [ Gwyn & Co. Ltd. 140 : 112 r International Pty. ll5 n Bros. Pty. Ltd. .. 30 oldt & Co. Wm. .. 146 Solomons Trading Ltd 34 i & Co 25 .. 2, 25, 121, cov. iii I Pty, Ltd. 82 on Company Pty. Ltd. 32 ter, W. R., & Co. Ltd. 78, 148, cov. iv ed Advertisements .. 146 )nd Radio Co 90 x Shipping Co. . .. 139 66 Shipping Line .. .. 136 Theo. H 18 ie Liqueur Co. Ltd. 99 Electrical Co. Ltd. .. 50

Electro Motion (Export) Ltd. 127 Ferrier & Dickinson Pty.

Ltd 104 Fiat Ltd 3 Fiji Airways Ltd 118 Filmo Depot Ltd 32 Fisher & Co 60 Flick, W. A. & Co. Pty. Ltd. 34 Ford Motor Co 124 Frigate Rum 33 Gaston Johnston Corp. . .. 15 Gilbey, W. & A., Ltd. .. 6 Gillespie Bros. Pty. Ltd. .. 90 Gillespie, R., Pty. Ltd. .. 125 Glaxo Laboratories N.Z. Ltd. 61 Graham, Lance & Co 128 Grove, W. H. & Sons Ltd. 60 Handi-Works Co 147 Hardie, James, & Co. Pty.

Ltd 53 Hastings Deering Ltd 36 Hellaby, R. & W„ Ltd. .. 65 Holbrooks Pty. Ltd 35 Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd 95 Hutchinson, Robert Ltd. .. 130

1.C.1.A.N.Z. Ltd 102

Industrial Products .. .. 27 International Harvester Co 24 International Majora Paints Pty. Ltd 100 Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd 45 Kodak (A'asia.) Pty. Ltd. . 110 Kraft Foods Ltd. . . . 46, 94 Lysaght, John (Aust.) Ltd. . 40

Marrickville Holdings Ltd. 1, 129 Matthey, Garrett, Pty. Ltd. 128 Mendaco 66 Millers Ltd 49 Mono Pumps (Aust.) Pty.

Ltd 58 Morris Hedstrom Ltd 26 Moulded Products (A'asia.) Ltd 36 Murray Sons & Co. Ltd. .. 70 Mungo Scott Pty. Ltd. ..127 Nameplates & Signs (N.Z.

Ltd 42 Napier Bros. Ltd 44 Nederland Line & Royal Rotterdam Lloyd .. ..106 Nestle Co. (Aust.), The 17, 131 N.G. Aust. Line .. .. 74, 75 Nicholsons Pty. Ltd 142 Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. . . 28 Nixoderm 66 Nugget Pty. Ltd 66 N.Z. Forest Service .. 76 Oceanic Steamship Co. . .. 122 Ogden Industries Pty. Ltd. 41 Pacific Islands Society . 32 Pacific Islands Transport Line 143 Perma-Sharp Aust. Pty. Ltd. 80 Philips, N.V 33, 52 P & (>Orient Lines of Aust.

Pty. Ltd 117 Qantas 114 Qld. Insurance Co. Ltd. . . 69 Rewa Dteiry Co 144 Rothmans of Pall Mall (Aust.) Ltd 20 Sanitarium Health Food Co. 62

Sears, Robert & Co. Pty.

Ltd 4, 5 Shaw Savill & Albion Co.

Ltd 119 South Pacific Brewery .. 83 Spartan Paints Pty. Ltd. . . 22 Stapleton, J. T„ Pty. Ltd. . 115 Steamships Trading Co.

Ltd 73 Stebbins 144 Sthn. Pacific Ins. Co 42 Stewarts & Lloyds (Dist.) Pty. Ltd 25 Sullivan Ltd 68 Suttons Motors (Homebush) 114 Swoboda, E. R., Inc 93 T.A.A cov. ii Taubmans Industries Ltd. .. 108 Taikoo Dockyard 96 Tait, W. S. & Co. P/L .. 106 Tatham, S. E., & Co. P/L 47 Tooth & Co. Ltd 68 Toyota Motor Sales Co. Ltd. 19 Trans Pacific Marine Ltd. .. 91 Turners Supply Co. Ltd. . . 126 Union Steam Ship Co. of N.Z. Ltd 141 Van Camp Sea Foods Co. . 43 Van Gelder, Capt., & Co. 101 Valspar Supergloss Paints .. 51 Victa Mowers 103 Vi-Stim 48 Wanted to Buy 103 Walpamur Co. (NG) Ltd., The 86 Waters, Edwd. & Sons 48, 67 Westfield Freezing oC. Ltd. 64 Weymark Pty. Ltd 42 Wilhelmsen, W., Agency P/L 134 Withers, Capt 105 Yorkshire Insurance Co. Ltd. 48

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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.

EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTORSHIPS INCLUDE

• AKAI TAPERECORDERS

• DUNLOP PRODUCTS

• EPIGLASS PRODUCTS

• FERGUSON TRACTORS

• HELENA RUBENSTEIN

• HITACHI ELECTRONICS

• HOLDEN VEHICLES

• JOHNSON'S WAXES

• ROLEX WATCHES

• REVLON COSMETICS

• PENTAX CAMERAS

• SUNBEAM APPLIANCES

INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION REPRESENTATIVES for

QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS LTD. AIR NEW ZEALAND LTD.

UNION DE TRANSPORTS AERIENS ALITALIA PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

BURNS PHILP (NEW HEBRIDES) LTD.

AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLIES CO. LTD.

CORRIE & CO. LTD. • NARAIN FURNITURE CO. LTD.

SPECIALISED SERVICES

EXPERT ADVICE ON WORLD AND LOCAL TOURS

TRAVEL SHIPPING FORWARDING CUSTOMS

FORMALITIES INSURANCE.

REGISTERED OFFICE; SUVA, FIJI

Code Address: "BURNSOUTH"

NEW FEATURES FOR 1965

m 1 New Fiat features make the '65 Fiat 2300 the most exciting, the most wanted car - A fully sealed cooling system - Steering joints that never need any lubrication - A twin hydraulic servo-assisted brake system for the large positive, fadefree disc brakes - The six cylinder, 117 BMP engine gives top speeds in excess of 100 MPH - Heater / Demister with vents to rear seats - Reclining seats - Windscreen washers - Lights on all doors boot & bonnet. The Deluxe sedan and station wagon are the epitome of motoring elegance Special dust sealing!

FIAT IS A GOOD DEAL DIF-

FERENT!

DELUXE

with“Tropico’ equipment

Going to Europe or to Australia for holidays?

Write for details of our wonderful money-saving schemes, which enable you to tour Europe in the comfort of your own car:

FACTORY REPRESENTATIVE, 167 KENT ST.,

SYDNEY

SEAR

MODERN COPRA DRYER!

ARE SAFER... QUICKEI

... MORE PROFITABLI

3 MODELS WITH 6 SIZES IN EAC

TO SUIT ALL PLANTATION

¥ * For the first time; precision-built, completely reliable Hot-Air Units for the do-it-yourself planter building his own drying chamber or completely equipped dryers for the man who wants something better.

Eliminate fire hazards, slash drying time and

speed production!

A Sears dryer will produce premium hot-air dl quality copra in less than 20 hours with eco mical fuel consumption and small workfor Automatic control and safety equipment indryers. Years of experience make Sears Fired, Hot-Air Recirculating Dryers the nr efficient and safest in the world.

Oil-Fired, Hot-Air, Recirculating Unit (right); gives premium copra with i only 5 per cent moisture; hot air recirculated for greater economy, dries in ' 17 to 20 hours using only - 17 to 20 gallons of fuel per ton of dried copra; standard equipment in Series 1 and 2 and may be bought separate for planter's own drying chamber. . " r (circulating hot air is the modern way to dry pra; the most economical way, too, because: Dil-fired, hot-air dried copra has better colour,

srefore commands premium prices.

Drying periods not interrupted by weather, ying is continuous with a Sears dryer.

No fuel gathering, stacking and furnace feeding—automatic controls and safety devices on Sears dryers cut labour costs. . • Fire hazards vanish. Sears oil-fired dryers are safer, easier to handle than old-fashioned, solid fuel burning equipment.

Increase plantation profits with increased efficiency. Invest in a Sears copra dryer. There's one to suit your needs and your budget! m <3 > ' r 50 m ies 1 Dryer (left); direct oil-fired, hot-air dryer; ludes drying oven, heat raising equipment, circulating fan, trucks, rails, winch, safety lipment. Six standard sizes from one to six s dry weight output. ies 2 Dryer (above): does not include truck ts and rails; lower priced than Series 1; suit ntation with limited floor space.

ROBERT SEARS & CO

PTY. LIMITED

AGRICULTURAL CROP DRYING ENGINEERS

51 BARRY AVENUE, MORTDALE, AUSTRALIA

EX/RS/2FP/PIM

HAVE YOU

NOTICED

HOW MUCH

BETTER

GILBEY’S

GIN

IS!

So why mix with others?

GILBEY’S

GINA

mm/*

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Official Policies Make It Worse

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Can it last 5 years in the tropics ?

814137 HR 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 c easily. And any of the 50 beautif colours will look just great on yoi house—for five years. Or more. 1359E1

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Safe Mosquito Spray

Advertisement Wrinkles are really “river-beds” of dry cells caused by the plasma colloids (or water carriers of the skin) drying out through the passage of time and harsh weather. To bring life again to your skin and smooth any wrinkle dryness, ask your chemist for a little oil of Ulan and before you make-up smooth over the face, neck and hands. This will nourish the skin at depth and give it a new life and delightful dewy bloom. . . . Margaret Merril.

■ to*' 1 JKhiJan

SAfC-NMQO*

ails MOSQUiTOHS Non-Toxic Hadabug Hadabug kills mosquitoes, flies all insects, yet is safe to use around children, food, and pets. Pleasantly scented, it is perfect for the bedroom.

JOHNSTON’S HADABUG

BURNS PHIIP CO. ITD.

Madang, Pt. Moresby, San Francisco.

HastihcsdeerinG

LAE : PORT MORESBY

CATERPILLAR

REGD. TRADE MARK

SALES • PARTS • SERVICE

TRAXCAVATOR

Regd. Trade Mark Also available Caterpillar 933 & 977 Traxcavator

HASTINGS PEERING (NEW GUINEA) PTY. LTD.

NEW! NESTLES BABY FOODS

Baby’s favourite varieties of Fruits, Custards, Broths and Dinners! ■ '-V M as A m JSBmuuzm.

'HICK'

VEGETAB

*£?Ght 4 02.—PREP*

m pn

CHICKEN & CEREAL

DINNER

net o OZ.—PREPARED IN AUS^

cAf

ov s —Davies —g

Guam

NEW GUINEA

THEO. H.

HEADQUARTERS IN

THE PACIFIC FOR

Mariana Is.

Truk

HONOLULU,

HAWAII

Marshall Is. t Gilbert Is. n

SOLOMONS

Ellice Is.

Marquesas 1. Hotel & Restaurant Supplies Kitchen Equipment Janitorial Equipment Supplies Dining Room Equipment Air Conditioning 2. Wholesale Hardware Tools—Power 6c Hand Paint—lnterior & Exterior Complete Builder’s Supplies Housewares 3. Heavy Equipment Caterpillar John Deere Bucyrus-Erie Power Electric Sets Land Clearing Implements 4. Insurance—All Coverages Among others, Represents Lloyds of London 5. Interior Design and Furnishings for Hotels and Public Buildings 6. Drugs—Complete lines—New York prices Air Freight from Honolulu /. Davies Steam Ship Agency insures prompt service to all the South Pacific 8. Exclusive agents in the U.S. for the Kingdom of Tonga 9. Write for complete descriptive Catalogue of in stock supplies.

Dayi|s THEO. H. DAVIES & CO., LTD. \Eo^S / Honolulu, Hawaii Cable Address: “DRACO"

Offices In: New York, N.Y. • San Francisco, Calif. • Agana, Guam • Manila, Philippines

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Htiw|£J

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The car that has everything

We mean everything. And not at a price that will put you in the poorhouse, either.

What you notice first about the Crown Deluxe is that it has all those accessories you expect to find only in cars costing twice or three times as much.

Luxury items like deep-dish steering wheel, padded dash, power antenna, deep-pile carpets, electric clock, and radio with a rear seat tuning mechanism.

All at no extra cost!

Then there are the more subtle refinements.

Unitized body. Solid X-frame. And an engine that's so smooth and quiet you hardly know its thereuntil you want to get somewhere in a hurry.

Durability? More than you'll ever need, unless you’re the type who insists on keeping a car for a lifetime and hates periodic checkups.

Now isn't that just about everything? Why, the Crown Deluxe even handles like a dream—for the road-minded husband and the around town wife alike. See the Crown Deluxe at the Toyota dealer nearest you and see for yourself.

W CROWN

JAPAN’S LARGEST AUTO MAKER

TOYOTA MOTOR

DISTRIBUTORS NEW GUINEA & PAPUA; The Port Moresby Freezing Co., LTD. Mary St., Port Moresby, Papua/ SAMOA ISLAND; Burns Philp (South Sea) Co., Ltd. Pago Pago. American Samoa Apia, Western Samoa/ FIJI ISLAND; Automotive Supplies Co., Ltd. P.O, Box 143, Lautoka/ GUAM; Ricky’s Auto Co. P.O. Box 1458, Agana

THE GREATEST NAME

IN CIGARETTES

T C. it *** %

ROTHMANS KING SIZE

really satisfie

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Two Million People

SPARTAN SUPER PLASTIC

The Toughest, Longest Wearing,

Clear Plastic Coating

YOU CAN USE!

And The Proof!!

TWO MILLION PEOPLE

traversed this floor of New Guinea TAUN Timber at the Australian Pavilion of the recent Tokyo International Trade Fair 1965 and They Couldn't Wear It Off!!

As well as feet this tough product also resists heat, water and alcohol and cannot be excelled for wood floors, office furniture, panelling, etc.

Use the Best—Use Spartan!

Obtainable Spartan Distributors Everywhere Headquarters:

SPARTAN

PAINTS PTY. LTD.

(EXPORT DIVISION)

594 St. Kilda Road, Melbourne, 5.C.3, Victoria, Australia.

Cables: Sparlac, Melbourne. Australia Telephone: 510221

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\ Anchor /

See and Try Them for Yourself!

THE NEW, IMPROVED

\ MILK POWDERS /

.KO^ *» •NfAMT FOOD DULY WH« M»» C * UT mi i IH ir J U Sir.

HEW

OF NEW

NEW

OF These new Anchor milk powders in the attractive, NEW containers are now available. Try them and you will agree they are easier, quicker, better!

NEW ANCHOR FULL CREAM MILK POWDER

and NEW ANCHOR SKIM MILK POWDER

SOLE DISTRIBUTORS AMALGAMATED DAIRIES LTD., AUCKLAND, N.Z.

THE MOST ECONOMICAL CRAWLER IN ITS CLASS

* low initial cost

* low operating cost with big profits time and cost saved in easy transport

between jobs

maximum width (blade angled) only

11' 6 3 / 4 "

most efficient tractor for the logging

industry (135 h.p. Rolls-Royce diesel)

INTERNATIONAL BTD-20

Photos show BTD-20 operating under extreme conditions in the South Pacific area. 9 SSdy ■H m V i m * N ■ M -

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DISTRIBUTORS

NEW GUINEA: N.G.G. Trading Company, LAE.

Colyer Watson (New Guinea) Ltd

RABAUL.

New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., WAU.

PAPUA: Steamships Trading Company Ltd.,

PORT MORESBY and SAMARAI.

SOLOMON ISLANDS: Solomon Motors Ltd., HONIARA.

NEW CALEDONIA: Agence Automobile,

NOUMEA.

FIJI: Niramjan's Service Station, SUVA.

TAHITI: Hintze & Company, PAPEETE.

NEW HEBRIDES: Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd.,

SYDNEY.

INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF AUST. PTY. LTD., SOUTH MELBOURNE. WORKS: DANDENONG, GEELONG, PORT MELBOURNE

FFX 116/H 1024/FP/ PI M

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. OP SAN FRANCISCO INC.. 311 California St.

London Agents: BURNS, PHILP & CO. LTD., 35 Crutched Friars, E.C.3.

PLAIN AND

S€LP RAISING

FLOUR,

cUk fcb-i#/

ESTABLISHED 1868

Agents for Fiji, Tonga and Samoa: C. SULLIVAN (PACIFIC ISLANDS) LTD., Suva, Fiji

THE STEEL TUBE AGE

mm Steel tube ls f 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.

MORRIS

HEDSTROM

LIMITED

HEAD OFFICE; SUVA, FIJI

LONDON OFFICE

Morris Hedstrom Limited Barclay's Bank Buildings, 73 Cheapside,

LONDON, E.C.2.

AUSTRALIAN REPRESENTATIVE

W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd.

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 I Produce Buyers i 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 Gr Rubber Co.

Guinness Exports, Ltd.

Medley, Thomas Gr 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

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.

Good

Design

/ . ... b

irnfoetlij

for Ijoinob of Jidinotion

V, ‘

MATCHING TOILET SEATS

TOILET ROLL HOLDERS

SHOWER HEADS

a SAMI TA R Y WA R E Trade Enquiries to:—

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS (SALES) Pty. Ltd.

9 APPLEBEE ST., ST. PETERS, SYDNEY. N.S.W, Ce-38

Wliat’s All-new , Wider, Longer and Extr;

Powerful? the Datsun 1300, Pickup!

Roomy 3-seater cab Low corrugated steel platform Tough new 67 HP 'mm m Cargo-protecting suspension system Passenger-car styling Just look at some of the features. Spacious corrugated steel platform with drop-down tailgate, built low f easy load handling. Roomy cab with cushioned seat for three. Well-placec f instruments, and controls, also convenient parcel shelf. Sweeping line from grille to tailgate give it the smart passenger car look. Independent front suspension and doubleacting shock absorbers rear, protect cargoes. • Responsive power and economy from our new 67 HP 1300 cc engine.

DISTRIBUTORS; Territory of New Guinea; Rabaul Garage Ltd., P.O. Box 63. Rabaul. Fiji: Niran Auto Port Limited, P.O. Box 450, Suva. American Samoa; B.F. Kneubuhl, Pago Pago, Tutuila. Western San H. & J. Retzlaff, P.O. Box 195, Apia. New Zealand; Wilton Motor Body Co., Ltd., P.O. Box 1072, Auckli

[NISSAN

Japan’s Largest Exporter of Automobiles NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD./Tokyo, Japan

DATSUN PICKUP

1300

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Braybon - Power Plants

AVAILABLE WITH HEAVY DUTY DIESEL ENGINES OR LIGHT WEIGHT

PETROL ENGINES WRITE FOR QUOTATIONS

i 1,000 Watt 240 Volt Petrol Set. £ll5 (74 lbs.) m V 750 Watt 12 Volt 50 Amp 24 Volt 36 Amp Batt< Charging Set. (180 lbs.) £ll5 2,000 Watt 240 Volt Petrol Set. £175 (126 lbs.) 3,750 Watt 240 Volt Petrol Set. £235 (226 lbs.) m 1,650 Watt 240 Volt Diesel Set. 3 HP. Petter. £265 3 K.V.A. 240 Volt Diesel Set. 5 H.P. Lister. £395 Manufactured by: BRAYBON BROS. PTY. LTD. 27-33 Washington si., Sydney, phone no. 61-685 DISTRIBUTED BY: STEAMSHIPS TRADING COY. LTD.; COLYER WATSON (NG) LTD.; TUTT BRYANT (PACIFIC) LTD.

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No Order Too Bid

No matter how large the order no matter how small the detail ACM's sure-fire, reliable attention to all factors

ensures a correctly specified speedy delivery.

ACM have developed through their vast wealth of production knowledge, economical and first quality materials that will guarantee finer functional finish to your products and further, you'll find the quality of ACM Products is equally matched by their ability to always deliver orders on time.

Remember, when you think of cotton, think of ACM. • Cotton waste and cleaning • Plasto felt cloth • Nu felt • Stockingette • Fibre • Fibre Pads • All new materials • Products cut to your specifications • Border wadding • Insulating carpet and underfelt • Flock • Fioorflex (vinyl floor covering) Consult the leaders in the flel.d

AUSTRALIAN COTTON MANUFACTURING

CO. LTD.

90-92 O'Riordan Street, Alexandria, N.S.W.

Tel. 67 1301-2-3, 67 2505-6-7

—- Advertisement

New

Hair Beauty

\7'OUR hair takes on a moi A youthful, clearer, radial appearance, behaves beautiful] and responds to your every whii when shampooed with the model “Peek-In” Glow shampoo fc Delph.

m p E r«*6f HA** »E6>s fl»fo

Condensed

K L HP

T OtV

SWEE

NEW

CARNATION

PRODUCT!

Now you can enjoy Peacock Full Cream Sweetened Condensed Milk... a top quality condensed milk made by the producers of Carnation Evaporated Milk. It’s on sale at your local store at a value-for-money price.

The Pacific Islands Soci(

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

Phone: 59-1778.

A social and cultural centre for tl interested in the Pacific Islands.

Regular meetings and social gather! with lectures, are held at the Femi Club Rooms, 7th Floor, 77 King Sydney, on the last Thursday of month, at 8 p.m.

Prices are cheape

in Hong Kong

NEW!! BELL & HOWELL

"ELECTRIC EYE" Camcras available „ m.m. and 16 m.m. Cine AND Photo Mot BELL & HOWELL 8 mm , and , 4 r Silent and Sound Projectors and latest mo< Slide-projectors, etc.

GAMI 16 m.m. Subminiature Cameras.

RADIANT PROJECTION SCREENS

CASTLE— Home Movie Films.

Please write for catalogue and pru Sole Agents

FILMO DEPOT

313 Marina House, Hong Kong.

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'"'^frigate

©I®

far

Hum

at

its

best

'"'^frigate

it's blended Overproof, underproof, in quarts, pint; & 5 oz. flasks.

BLENDED AND BOTTLED BY JOHN WALKER AND SONS LTD

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 . *n« riT Island * mia inea Norfolk Island British Solomon Trad. Co. Ltd; Honiara, Gtzo J. 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, Bouhand Co,; Agana Marshall Ist, Imp. & Exp Co.; Majuro he British Phosphate Commissioners Etablmsements Sallande; Noumea B,N:G Trading Go, Ltd Sums Phlfp (New Guinea) Ltd.

Burns Phiip (New Hebrides) Ltd.: Vila and.Luganvilfe Comptoirs Frahoais des Nouvelles Hebrides; Vila and LuganviHe K. A. Prentice & Co.

Burns Phiip (South Sea) Co. Ltd, ' -.The British Phosphate Commissioners . Socibt£ Franco Oceanienne: Papeete ilfoert & Ellice Islands Colony Wholesale' Society Betio overnment Stores Department; Nuku Alofa .. , w ku Alofa, Haapai and Vavau

inports_Ltd.

PHILIPS FOR: LAMPS • RADIO • TELEVISION • RADIOGRAMS • RECORD PLAYERS • ELECTRONIC VALVES • MEASURING APPARATUS • ELECTRIC DRY SHAVERS • HOUSE- HOLD APPLIANCES • X-RAY APPARATUS • H.F. GENERATORS • WELDING MACHINES • FLUORESCENT LAMPS • AMPLIFIERS • CINEMA EQUIPMENT • TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT • AUTOMATIC AND LINE TELEPHONY INSTALLATIONS • TAPE RECORDERS See advertisement on page 52.

Wholesale and Retail Merchants, Shipowners, Airline,

Shipping, Customs and Insurance Agents. Importers and Exporters of all Island Commodities and Produce.

BRITISH SOLOMONS TRADING CO. LTD.

P.O. BOX 94, HONIARA

GIZO

AUKI.

GUADALCANAL.

WESTERN SOLOMONS

MALAITA.

CABLES: 'TRADE'

OVERSEAS AGENTS:

AUSTRALIA:

D. A. Gubbay Pty. Ltd., 149 Castlereagh Street,

SYDNEY.

JAPAN:

Mitsui & Co., P.O. Box 822,

TOKYO.

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:

Qantas

T.A.A.

Ansett-A.N.A.

Fiji Airways

U.T.A.

8.0.A.C.

Alitalia Lufthansa

AGENTS FOR THE FOLLOWING:

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.

Royal Interocean Lines Canon Cameras Johnson Outboard Motors 8.5.1. P. Copra Board China Navigation Co. Ltd.

Burns Philp & Co. Ltd.

Bank Line Ltd.

Australia West Pacific Line Time and Life International 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.

B.M.C. (Aust.) Noritake China Coseley Prefab. Buildings Alfred Grant (Real Estate) EMAIL Limited Longines Watches Fordson Tractors A.M.P. Society McCulloch Chain Saws Seiko Watches A.M.P. (Life Insurance) Yorkshire Insurance (Sub-Agents) Weston Electronics

First NON-IRRITANT Aerosol!

niitrax

Kills flies, mosquitoes, fleas, carpet beetles, silverfish, ants, etc., and resistant cockroaches.

INSECT

KILLER

(2) w uc hcsowto aa Flick Niitrax is a new, more effective insecticide with a fast fumigating vapour action. There’s more power in Niitrax because the vapour spreads throughout the room, even killing insects not exposed to the direct spray.

Flick Niitrax is non-irritating—it will not affect even the most sensitive nose or throat. Use it in the bedroom, nursery, living room, kitchen, etc., without fear of residues or irritating odours.

Inspections are free, treatments guaranteed. For your nearest RESIDENT Flick Man enouire through: NEW GUlNEA—Steamships Trading Co.; P. L. James & Co., Rabaul; A. Woodward, Wewak: New Guinea Co., Lae and Madang. FIJI—W. A. Flick & Co., Bank of N.S.W.

Building, Phone 3425. NEW CALEDONIA—Societe Havralse Caledonienne, Noumea. And BURNS PHILP BRANCHES everywhere.

NUVAN(R) —trade mark of CIBA Ltd., Basle. Switzerland.

"Remember —one Flick and they're gone!"

Contact Flick Pest Control for expert personal attention. m an

Holbrooks

OLIVES, ONIONS,

GHERKINS

HOLBROOKS

Stuffed Olives

5 fl 0/ 0 Holbrooks cocktail onions are grown in Holland, packed plump, pickled perfect. The olives, plain or stuffed with red pimento, are vacuum fresh, clean tasting. Holbrooks gherkins, the world’s finest, are crisp and flavoured with spices and herbs. Serve all three at parties and with salads.

For Trade Enquiries: Reckitt & Colman Pty. Limited, Wharf Road, West Ryde, N.S.W., Australia

A RECKITT & COLMAN PRODUCT

HP6B3

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Nylex Garden Hose and Polyethylene Water Pipe ?rl

gigs

Nylex Vinyl Print Curtaining Nylex Furnishing Fabric •"7 Nylex Floor Tiles j

W/ \i/’J/

Nylex P.V.C.

Coffee Covering Film

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

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hre® I*® 1 *®

V m rnott nice & C* Arnott’s NICE Biscuits Crisp and fine in texture, lightly sprinkled with sugar. o fit'* Arnott’s LEMON CRISP Biscuits A mixture of sweet and savoury a slightly dry biscuit with a tangy lemon cream.

Hit* Bi* c Arnott’s ORANGE SLICE Biscuits Orange cream between tasty vanilla biscuits.

Arnott’s SHREDDED WHEATMEAL Biscuits Wholesome crunchy goodness and the flavour of new wheat.

Arnott’s MILK ARROWROOT Biscuits All-day energy for children a favourite with all the family.

Arnott’s SAO Biscuits Ideal for snacks, suppers or between meals.

Arnott’s SCOTCH FINGER Biscuits Chunky and butter-rich, with the true shortbread flavour.

Arnott’s CHEESE JATZ Biscuits Crisp as could be with a fine cheese flavour perfect for entertaining.

There is no Substitute for Quality

Stormproof. Fireproof. This is the

ideal roof for Territory homes

; '■ stronger than When tropical storms follow scorching sunshine, only the strongest roofs can last. That is why Lysaght Red Orb is the logical choice for roofing in Papua and New Guinea. The world’s strongest roofing material, its extreme rigidity

makes it virtually shatterproof, fireproof and

stormproof. Durability under severe tropical conditions is ensured by the use of 1.75 ozs. of zinc coating per square foot.

Looks smart, too —particularly with the current “clean-cut” trend in domestic architecture.

ITSAGHT

RED ORB

CORRUGATED STEEL SHEET

Available ex stock from: burns philp (new guinea) ltd., Port Moresby, Rabaul, Samarai, Madang, Goroka, Wewak, Kavieng, Lae. new guinea go. ltd., Rabaul, Madang, Goroka, Mt. Hagen, Kavieng, Lae. colyer watson (new guinea) ltd., Rabaul, Madang, Goroka, Lae, Mount Hagen, steamships trading go. ltd., Port Moresby, Samarai. rabaul metal industries ltd., Rabaul. island products ltd.. Port Moresby.

R3ong

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Lock Up With

for top security..

Don’t take risks when your valuable and often irreplaceable possessions are at stake. Invest in a first class padlock—

a Lockwood —for “top security”.

Up to 78,000 different key combinations

ensures that only your key will open your padlock. The shackles are of casehardened steel or all brass, and are available in various lengths. Most

Lockwood pin-tumbler padlocks can be

“master-keyed”.

night latches.

Sturdy, reliable mechanism. Available with or without smb. Nos. IW 201 and 206 illustrated.

STREAM LATCHES.

Many popular No. 211 illustrated. No. 20U rostile” also available. ‘Nar-

CYLINDER MORTK

LOCKS.

decision. depcn

a bility, securit Moving parts sol brass Over 30 ai plications in Available ai master-key* system door roue latch. lust push door vVL ° peo -PuJlittoclos( Xx' Easy to install an features strong snit

NO’s 300. 300/101 LATCH

Sturdy. Attract- CH 1 v .® • Can be •nibbed from in- pn ro * ,de 300/101 LSM p as exterior fT W 'ever handles. W

PNEUMATIC CLOSER NO

401. For all doors up to 40 lbs. weight.

NO’s 403, 404 HYDRAULIC

CLOSERS.

For all doors. Bracket* and arms for every instaL_Jon.

OtfDEN INDUSTRIES PIT. LIMITED

Edward Street, Huntingdale, Victoria.

Largest manujacturers oj cylinder locks in the Southern Hemisphere.

Advertisement 1* To keep your elbows smooth and lovely use this simple pack to banish any redness and roughness. Combine a teaspoon each of white sugar, lemon Delph freshener and oil of Ulan and rub' the mixture well into the elbows; with circular movements until the: skin becomes pink and clean looking. Remove with warm water,, dry thoroughly and then smooth in a film of oil of Ulan to nourish the skin and promote a silkysmooth surface. . Margaret Merril.

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.

14-18 STEAMMILL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Make your name stick

No matter what you make, we can put your name on it. We make nameplates for everything, from heavy machinery to household appliances, in anodised aluminium, stainless steel, brass, copper or plastic, etched or printed. Our brightly coloured self-adhesive “Aligrip” aluminium foil nameplates identify hundreds of well known products in everyday use. “Aligrip” makes your name stick to any surface, permanently, economically.

You make

we'll name it!

(N.Z.) LIMITED

13 McKelvie Street, Auckland, New Zealand.

C.P.O. Box 5971. Telephone 16-573

& {N.s.

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,

SURVEYORS

ANGEL & WEATHERLEY

Registered and Authorised Surveyors

N.S.W., QLD., PACIFIC ISLANDS

Land, mining and engineering surveys Box 376, P. 0., 'Phones:

INVERELL, N.S.W. 786 and 1774.

Cables: ANGSURVEY. in srell, N.S.W

NEW GUINEA:

P.O. Box 93, Mt Hagen.

"A FAMILY IN FIJI"

A delightful description of life on a small, isolated coconut plantation on a beautiful island in the South Seas.

Price: 18/9, plus 1/3 posted (2/3 to foreign countries) or $2.50 U.S, (including postage).

Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd. 29 Alberta St. (G.P.0., Box 3408), Sydney, Australia.

„ ; >v .. H nr NV m

In the Pacific Islands

one tuna leads

all others in quality-

"an Camp’s

Production facilities in American Samoa and California U.S.A. van CampS Stock these other fine Van Camp products.

- - --- - 3i « - M

SU *BBI

■ m *V

NAPIER

GREATER YIELDS!

BETTER CROP QUALITY!

Many New Features Include:

• PLASTIC SEEDERS—to prevent corrosion, provide heat and abrasion resistance. • ACCURATE METERING DEVlCE—gives continuous and cycle free delivery at high and low rates. • SIMPLE, CONVENIENT CONTROLS—seed and fertilizer rates can be altered in seconds. • FAST DISASSEMBLY—speciaI cleaning shutter and 'V' bottom allows easy clean out. • SIMPLE DRIVES —you can fit standard mounts or design your own. « Sl i m ABOVE: Seed & Fertilizer Box Mounted on Napier Wheeled Offset Heavy Duty Discer.

TOP; Seed & Fertilizer Box Mounted on Napier One-Way Disc Plough.

DISTRIBUTORS IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS:

Mapi&v

MORRIS HEDSTROM LTD., SUVA

ISLANDS PRODUCTS LTD., PORT MORESBY

NEW GUINEA CO. LTD. ALL BRANCHES

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KINKELDER Spraying Equipment

Produced by Leading European Specialists in Plant Protection There is a model for

EVERY

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".

Appetising Cheese Grill

A quick, nourishing light meal—with the extra goodness of KRAFT* Cheddar Here’s the simple way to serve appetising, light meals or a nourishing breakfast, and know you're giving the family the goodness they need. Cheese Grills with KRAFT Cheddar are rich in proteins and vitamins. For each serving: Lightly butter a piece of toast.

Cover with slices of KRAFT Cheddar Cheese, and grill until melted. Top with grilled tomato and bacon.

KRAFTB for good food and good food ideas Trade Mark.

KRAFT

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 the familiar blue 8 oz. and 1 lb, cartons.

~m€j— —— it I H C f I*l4 S. E. Talham & Co. Pty. Ltd.

414 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

Cables: “SET” Telephone; 60-1125 Australian Buying & Shipping Agents for Gilbert €r Ellice Islands Colony Wholesale Society

Pacific Islands Agents

For many leading Australian Manufacturers of

• CONFECTIONERY • BISCUITS

• CANNED MEATS • FLOUR & RICE

• MILK PRODUCTS • SOAP PRODUCTS

etc., etc.

Resident Representatives in

PAPUA and NEW GUINEA

FIJI, TONGA and SAMOA

BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS

GILBERT & ELLICE ISLANDS

FRENCH TERRITORIES

Associate Company

S. E. TATHAM (Fiji) LTD.

Suva G.P.O. Box 671 Lautoka P.O. Box 366 Our watchword is SERVICE!

teIMUNO

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 vital organs, builds new, pure blood, and works so fast that you can see and feel new body power and vigour in 24 to 48 hours. Because of its natural action on glands and nerves, your power and memory often improve 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 you full of vim, vigour and energy, and feel 10 to 20 years younger, or money back.

Vi-Stim

To restore Vim and Vigour

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

I G

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. . . F. V. Lawson, Ltd.

Suva ... Williams & Gosling Ltd.

Noumea R, Laubreaux Norfolk Island . . . Martin's Agencies Apia E. A. Coxon & Co.

Acific Islands Monthly July. 1965

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R-E-L-A-X

in Big City Comfort

( Wherever you are in the )

IN INVITING FOAM-RUBBER UPHOLSTERED

LOUNGE CHAIRS FROM

MILLERS LIMITED

From their headquarters in Suva Millers are constantly shipping to islands in the Pacific, items of furniture ranging from expertly - sewn cushions to luxurious lounge suites. Convertible divans, cupboard units . . . whatever you require can be made to order by Millers" experienced craftsmen. And don't forget MILLERS stock a delightful range of Fijian raintree in tables, trays, bowls and novelties.

G.P.O. Box 296, Suva.

There is a specialised

atsmcraa

POWER PLANT

in a size to suit

EVERY REQUIREMENT

OVER 200 MODELS

FROM 1 to 50 KVA

AC & DC, SINGLE & 3-PHASE

42 KVA

No matter what you need, DUNLITE can supply a lighting/power plant to adequately power your home, workshop, coffee machinery and plantation equipment. The Dunlite plant—powered by world-famous Lister and Ruston diesel engines—offers an economical trouble-free power supply for all equipment, and is expertly designed, conservatively rated and robustly constructed for longer life and greater efficiency. Furthermore every Dunlite plant is safe in use because the compact, direct-coupled design eliminates troublesome and dangerous belts, couplings, exposed terminals and wires—and permits maintenance by unskilled labour. Every unit is also thoroughly load-tested and fully run-in before despatch, and is a complete tropic-proofed, ready-to-run packaged unit with no specie! installation requirements.

Available with manual start, press button, remote or automatic control.

Similar units are constantly supplied to the Administration of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

Write for a free copy of the brochure “10 ESSENTIALS” which shows step by step what features to look for in a power plant, the required size io operate your equipment and the application that is possible from each type of plant.

DUNLITE ELECTRICAL CO. PTY. LTD.

a. m

18 KVA

1.75 KVA

4 KVA

Distributed by-

-21-27 Frome Street, ADELAIDE, South Australia

Cables/telegrams: ~D UNUTECO, ,/ Adelaide.

RURAL SERVICES PTY. LTD., 65 Ipswich Road, Woolloongabba, Brisbane.

STEAMSHIPS TRADING COMPANY LTD., Lae.

N.G.G. TRADING COMPANY LTD., Lae.

NEW BRITAIN ELECTRICAL CO., Rabaul.

COLYER WATSON (N.G.) LTD., Goroka.

6 KVA

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New Valspar Super Gloss

I

HOUR

2 4 va ar i

SUPER

GLOSS

WHITE

USE U/C NO 32

NEW VALSPAR SUPER GLOSS

Gives you foster, easier painting-for a tougher, brighter finish How smart everything looks when you paint with Valspar Super Gloss!

And this famous paint not only goes on easier and stays brighter, but it protects your woodwork, walls, and metal pieces as well. Use Valspar Super Gloss around your home, your boat, everywhere. Try also: Valspar High Gloss Wood Stain, Valspar Clear Varnish, Valspar Yacht Varnish.

Pacific Agents: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Fiji—Tonga—West Samoa British Solomons Trading Co. Ltd., Solomon Islands Gilbert & Ellice Islands Colony Wholesale Society, Gilbert & Ellice Islands.

LIGHT

PORTABLE

POWERFUL

L4X26T

All transistor portable with four wave bands, including 3 short wave bands. 1.000 mW output!

Sockets for record-player and outdoor aerial.

L3X2ST

All transistor portable with one M.W. and two S.W. bands.

Sockets for earphone and outdoor aerial.

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.

AG 4000 4-speed Portable Record-Player, Runs on inexpensive batteries.

Superb reproduction of all records anywhere, any time.

Fully transistorized.

PHILIPS

PHILIPS

for complete home entertainment

For Philips' Agents/Distributors, see page 33.

take a new look at Tilux

THE SMART WAY TO PLAN LUXURY BATHROOMS AND KITCHENS AND SAVE! magine your new bathroom colour-styled in Twilight •r Bamboo Weave—two of the exciting and unusual ashion colours in the new Tilux “Weave patterns.

Tilux gives you more ... more style, more long-lasting beauty . . . much more value.

Jut don't stop there . . . imagine still further the anity table you’ve always wanted, the large mirrors /ith strip lighting; those extras that go to make your >athroom a dream of comfort and convenience, alamorous, satin-smooth Tilux is the modern styleetter for bathrooms that are real conversation pieces; he “just right” background in the modern big panel reatment for those luxury fittings.

For the kitchen, and the |aundry, too. Tilux has a new and exciting role. Tilux is best of all for walls and dIIU CAUUHS iv-riw* I iima w. matching bench tops. Put hot pots on it; cut up vegetables on it—you won’t mark, burn, stain or mar its extremely tough surface. jid Tilux saves you money . . . lets you include lany luxury accessories without going over the budget.

Best thing is to see the new Tilux range—two patterns, eight decorator colours (Bamboo Weave, Twilight Weave, Pearl Weave, Marbletone, Willow Green, Mist . L pi.. r»l. C n An conH inr fho Ti ll* Grey, Rose Pink, Sky Blue). So do send for the Tilu* nd Plan’ Book, free and post free.

Hardies

TILUX WALL RAN ELS

Territory Distributors

BURNS PHIIP (NEW GUINEA) LTD.

Please send, free and post free, "Tilux Glamour Book"

NAME: *

ADDRESS:

.. TS6T

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Mono

SIMPLE! SAFE! SILENT! FOOLPROOI

K m

AGENTS

WANTED!

i We are very pleased to invite enquiries from established houses for the representation of this popular and fast-selling range.

All enquiries will be received without commitment, and in confidence.

MONO

PUMPS & AUTOMATIC

WATER PRESSURE SYSTEMS

★ MONO the simplest and most efficient positive displacement pin your money can buy. GUARANTEED SELF-PRIMING, with positive a powerful suction lifts of up to 27 ft.!

Only one moving part: no valves or gears to cause stoppages or dela; Handles ail liquids, sludges, wastes and solids in suspension. No trod when sand, silt, light weed, etc., enters the line. Special types for edit fluids, syrups, pastes, etc. The range covers industrial, food processii agricultural, domestic, marine and mining applications. Details, prici

etc. free on application.

MONO “M” SERIES PUMP,

165 to 860 g.p.h.

RIGHT Mono “M*'

Series Pressure System. 150 to 300 g.p.h.; 30 p.s.i.

EXTREME RIGHT—Mono

“D” Series Pressure System. 450 to 3000 g.p.h.; 50 to 100 p.s.i.

Up to 8000 g.p.h. to special order.

MONO "D” SERIES PUMP, 100 to 8000 g.p.h.

MONO PUMPS (Australia) PTY. LTD.

HEAD OFFICE: Lower Dandenong Road, Mordialloc, Victoria. CABLES & TELEGRAMS: “Monoaust” Melbour Branches and Agencies throughout Australia, New Zealand, Papua and New Guinea.

MP6^sf

W. H. GROVE & SONS LTD

Established 1896

Islond Merchonts

16-18 FANSHAWE STREET, AUCKLAND

Telegraphic and Cable Address: “Grove”, Auckland. P.O. Box 490, Auckland, New Zealand Entrust your requirements to the firm with more than 60 years 1 practical experience in the Island trade.

REPRESENTING MANUFACTURERS

THROUGHOUT FIJI, SAMOA, TONGA, NEW HEBRIDES, NEW CALEDONIA SOLOMON ISLANDS, SOCIETY ISLANDS, COOK ISLANDS, NIUE, PAPUA,

NEW GUINEA, ETC.

SHIPPERS OF ALL CLASSES OF NEW ZEALAND MANUFACTURES AND PRODUCE SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR THE ISLAND TRADE WE HANDLE ALL KINDS OF ISLAND PRODUCE IN FIJI as: W. H. GROVE & SONS (FIJI) LIMITED

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.

r r • * V m A HEALTHY CHILD . . .

THANKS TO QLAXO BABY FOOB

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.

% m I ■ W' • •?? a i ■ ■ * ■ IS A m ■ m m

Men of ttomorrow need today

(that goes for all the family, too.) Nothing nourishes quite like Weet-Bix.

It’s made from Australia’s finest wheat.

Every golden flake is a whole wheat grain enriched with malt and toasted to a delightful crispness.

Every Weet-Bix biscuit is loaded with the sort of energy kids need.

Simply add cold milk in summer. Or hot milk in winter. For an extra treat, add fruit fresh, stewed or tinned.

Weet-Bix

MALTED WHOLE WHEAT BISCUITS

W 16.5

y gMW m Corned Beef Corned Mutton Meatreat Sheep and Lamb Tongues Braised Steak Pat Dripping Pat Lard Sandwich Pastes 6

THE CHOICE

OF THE ISLANDS

PALM

9 Lamb and Green Peas Steak and Kidney Pudding Kegged Meats Frozen Meats Smaligoods Bulk Dripping and Lard

AND

Salisbury

CANNED MEATS

SPECIALLY PACKED FOR THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

WESTFIELD FREEZING CO. LTD.

Postal Address : Private Bag, C.P.0., Auckland, N.Z. Cables "FILALORA", Auckland.

PRICE LISTS FORWARDED ON APPLICAtION

€ A r-/ . / *

Jm%vS73

HELLABY’S

CANNED MEATS

" CROWN ”

ff M

PACIFIC

*RO

ARROW

W th

HELUsJ

<?-• m mm

Rid Kidneys of

PteiAdds

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 3 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.

Shine your shoes

NUGGET

and give them a longer,

smarter life

REG

P

SJfO®

c ov- oL) I the toR eS ES

WITH

&RI LLI ANT

Nugget shoe polish water-repellent, covers scuff-marks, gives a bright, bright shine, It protects your shoes against wear and weather.

For Trade Enquiries: Reckitt & Colman Pty. Limited, Wharf Road, Ermington, N.S.W., Australia

A RECKITT & COLMAN PRODUCT

HP676

Miw

Mntu

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.

tony Eczema

OoicklyGurbed

Don't let ugly. dlsflgunn* Pimples, Eczema, Acne. Ringworm, Psoriasis, Blackheads et Itching, Cracking, Peeling. Burning SKln Troubles make life miserable and spoil your fun Don’t be embarrassed and feel Inferior because of a bad skin Now every chemist has a new American Hospital Discovery called Nixoderm that stops ths itch in 7 minutes, kills germs and fungus and in 24 hours begins to heal the skin clear, soft and smooth. No matter how long you have suffered or what you have tried, get Nixoderm from your chemist to-day under positive guarantee to return your money If not entirely satisfied

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Notification

est donnee par ces presentes 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 centre 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

Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, 30 Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

GLAZEBROOKS

TANOX

RUSTA-RESTA

\Gfx\

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.

fresh . ..

sparkling ...

cooling

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Specially brewed for tropical climates . . . never affected by even the hottest temperatures . . . refreshing . . . cooling . . . invigorating.

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TO keep your skin clear and fair you need the natural cleansing and bleaching tonic of lemons. Ask your chemist for a bottle of lemon Delph, the latest type skin freshener used by beautiful women throughout the world. Lemon Delph makes the complexion, neck and shoulders fair and lovely as it melts out plugged pores, closes them to a beautifully fine texture. Lemon Delph freshener is excellent for a quick cleanse or to quell a greasy nose. A little brushed on the hair after your shampoo will give it the glamour of sparkling diamonds.

This is a luxury skin freshener, cleanser and tonic.

QUEENSLAND

INSURANCE

CO. LTD.

(Incorporated 1886 in Australia)

Assets Exceed £20,000,000.

Head Office:

QUEENSLAND INSURANCE

BUILDING, 80-82 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.

Resident Officer at Lautoka: S. D. Sharma.

NOUMEA—W. Johnston.

VlLA—Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Limited.

SANTO —Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Limited.

PAPUA & NEW GUINEA

PORT MORESBY—D. J Granter,

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.

mm ■ S 4 >CVj !♦** **» 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

FLAKE AND MIXTURE IN VACUUM TINS

EF2

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Swant CadSutifJi

No other chocolate can possibly give you

THAT CREAMY, CREAMY

CADBURY TASTE!

\j Nothing else has got that Cadbury taste because there’s a glass and a half of pure, fresh, full-cream milk in every half-pound of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Chocolate. Another good reason for saying

Swant CadSutifJi

MDB/2FC/5

THE BIGGEST SELUNG BLOCK CHOCOLATE IN AUSTRALIA

STEAMSHIPS TRADING COMPANY LTD

General Merchants, Wholesalers and Retailers, Shipowners, Shipping, Customs, Insurance Agents, Stevedores, Sawmillers Shipwrights and Engineers, Aerated Water Manufacturers, Cold Stores, Rubber, Coconut and Cocoa Planters.

HEAD OFFICE: PORT MORESBY, PAPUA

BRANCHES IN:

MADANG POPONDETTA LAE RABAUL

SAMARAI GOROKA MOUNT HAGEN

COI.VER WATSON (NEW GITNEA) LIMITED

a uholly owned subsidiary

REPRESENTING:

SHIPPING:

The China Navigation Co.

The Karlander Line Ltd

AIRWAYS:

Ansett-A.N.A.

Trans-Australia Airlines Anse-tt-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. Ltd.

Peters-Arctic Sales Division

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 I.C.I. Plantation Requirements Julius Marlow Shoes James Buchanan's Whiskey John Lysaght (Aust.) Ltd.

Lightburn & Co. Ltd.

Mildura Wines Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing (Aust.) Ltc 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 & Co. Ltd.

SYDNEY BRISBANE LONDON

BUYING ENQUIRIES : Ne,son & Robertson Pty. ltd.. Nelson & Robertson Pty. ltd., Whiteaway, Bickley & Bell Ltd., 197 Clarence Street, Sydney. Stanley Street, South Brisbane. 4-7 Chiswell St., London, E.C.l.

THE

CHINA NAVIGATION

OFFERS CO., LTD*

THREE WAYS TO SEE THE EAST

m mm sits MM M Mint m & m.s. “CHANGSHA” and m.s. “TAIYUAN” 1. From Port Moresby —m.s. “Changsha” and “Taiyuan” call each month at Port Moresby on the way from East Australia (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane) to Manila and Hong Kong. Start your leave, or business trip to the East, with a relaxing sea voyage— returning to Australia by sea or air.

Accommodation to suit all tastes and pockets: • All single/double cabins, dining room and bar are air-conditioned. • Cabins with private bathrooms are available. • Relax in the Mandarin Bar. • Loaf in the swimming pool. 2. From Ports in Papua/New Guinea, Santo, Vila and Noumea —From approximately August/September China Navigation will replace two of their “C” class vessels on their monthly South Pacific Service to the Territories by the recently acquired “Yochow” and “Yunnan." These cargo liners carry 11 passengers in superbly appointed staterooms (7 singles, 2 doubles) and will offer Territorians a unique way of visiting Japan (approximately 14 days/7 ports) and Hong Kong (4 days). WATCH FOR FURTHER

ANNOUNCEMENTS.

3. From Fiji and Honiara. The new monthly service from Fiji to Japan and Hong Kong via Honiara with m.s. “Sinkiang” and “Szechuen” is yet another opportunity for relaxed travel to the East. Both ships carry 12 Ist class passengers.

FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR BOOKINGS CONTACT YOUR TRAVEL AGENT OR LOCAL C.N. Co. AGENT (see next page)

PIM.I .65C

THE

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY LED.

iwf/.

\il l i

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 from 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 “Yochow”, “Yunnan” 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’, j NEW GUINEA: Colyer Watson (N.G.) Ltd.. Lae, Madang and Rabaul. Cables: ‘Colyeram’.

NEW CALEDONIA: Etablissements Ballande, Rue I 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., I 9 Connaught Road Central. Hong Kong. Cables: ' ‘Swire’.

General Agents in Australia

SWIRE & YUILL PTY. LTD.

8 Spring Street, Sydney. 27-4701. Cables: ‘Swireship’

P1M.2.658

VA 6 VP' O' a O' $\ 6 ►° \VA -st rA«t \W >H^ fc\ 6 1^ nN & ★ Length sorted bundles save tallying costs ★ Monthly deliveries dw l '3®

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Electrolux

Choose your

size from

the

Electrolux

new economy line

\ 0 Full range of mode Low priced Economical to run Luxuriously equippc Efficient Renowned for relit bility

NEW COMPRESSOR REFRIGERATORS

For homes with electricity. These elegant models are fitted with extremely economical cooling units which compress electricity costs to the minimum.

KEROSENE REFRIGERATORS

For perfect cooling in non-electrified areas. Electr lux kerosene refrigerators are completely silent ai have no moving parts to wear out.

O The new Electrolux economy line offers you a full range of refrigerators which caters for everybody—with both compressor mod that really economise on electricity and kerosene models.

There's a wide range of sizes, all beautifully equipped, with plenty of space for food and large bottles. You'll find exactly w' you need —in the size that you want —in the Electrolux new economy line.

Distributed by:

W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD

and their agents, NEW GUINEA CO. LTD. ISLAND PRODUCTS LTD.

RABAUL, MADANG, LAE, KAVIENG, KOKOPO. PORT MORESBY.

BURNS PHILP (N.H.) LTD., Vila, Santo E. V. LAWSON, Honiara

Perma-Sharp

stainless steel shaving is here!

m

Perma Sii

TRIPIE-LIF

arp

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 1 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 comfortablel”

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!

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South

The new look for on old friend

MORESBY

PAPUA

EXPORT SPECIAL

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GAIN GOOD HEALTH

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WITH AUSTRALIAN

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The Finest Dairy Foods Have This Symbol Or the Word "Australia" on the Label From Australia’s lush pastures, ample rairJall 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.

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Gloss

WWWJWWM'W

S

Mgju DiESSIID

VVAir AIVIIIK

and a

ss

GLOSS

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 Coloramic Satin Enamel Walpamur Latex Flat Wall Finish Guick-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.G.) LTD.

LA WES ROAD, KONEDOBU, PORT MORESBY Phone 4420. P.O. Box 106, Port Moresby

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cJdiie

WITH ROB WALSH

CH/MBU

% 'I suppose this means Territory Airlines can't land!

POSTAGE STAMPS

OF AUSTRALIA

Australia at the moment has 75 philatelic societies and more than 100,000 active stamp collectors, according to Mr. P.

Collas, Assistant Controller of Stamps and Philately with the Australian Post Office.

For Australiana collectors among this big group Mr. Collas has written “Australian Postage Stamps”, which gives a welldetailed yet not burdensome history of Australian stamps since the first non-adhesive letter sheets were introduced in NSW in 1838.

There are more than 500 stamp reproductions of a high standard — and the number of territories reproductions are especially generous, particularly those on New Guinea.

Jacaranda Press, Brisbane. 37/6).

(AUSTRALIAN POSTAGE STAMPS.

You can Depend on CRAMMOND

CTR

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

GILLESPIES

Gillespie’s Anchor Flonr 1 milled from selected hlgl quality Australian wheats an is entoleted for purity. It consistent high quality ha made it the best-known, mos asked-for brand of flour li the Islands. (Entoletion is a specla purifying process which re duces the risk of inseo infection.)

NCHOR

FLOUR

GILLESPIE BROS. PTY. LTD., ANCHOR FLOUR MILLS, SYDNEY. Cable Address: Gillespie, Sydn« GILLESPIE BROS. (Q'LD.) PTY. LTD., Albion, Brisbane.

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Trans Pacific Marine Ltd.

(INCORP. CAPTAIN G. W. DUNSFORD LTD.)

• SALVAGE CONTRACTORS

• SHIP AND CARGO SURVEYORS

• NAUTICAL ADVISORS, COMPASS ADJUSTERS

• ADMIRALTY CHART AGENTS

• SHIP,, LAUNCH AND YACHT BROKERS

• NAVIGATION TUITION!

We Arrange Delivery of Vessels and Sell NAUTICAL BOOKS,

SEXTANTS, COMPASSES, and LIFESAVING EQUIPMENT.

“Anything to do with Ships and Shipping” navigation. Quick, accurate and simple methods, an interesting course beautifully bound and complete with chart instruments, etc. Special Australian Supplement on local coastal navigation.

TRANS PACIFIC MARINE LTD.

P.O. Box 3269, Auckland, C.l. N.Z.

Cables: "PACMARINE" Auckland.

This correspondence course by Captain G. W. Dunsford, AA.I.N. (Master Mariner —Square Rigged) has been completely revised. It teaches Ocean and Coastal

NAVIGATION FOR YACHTSMEN

For further particulars, write:

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Handbook

Advertisement KEEP your chinline firm and young by using vitalizing cream every night. Cream the chinline generously and then, with the backs of your fingers, slap all around the chinline back and forth, letting the movement come entirely from your wrists.

Then, with the fingertips, smooth the Ulan vitalizing night cream from the cleft in the chin along the jawline to the ears. This tissue toning and nourishment will ensure a firm, youthful chinline and a skin of milky beauty.

COMPLETELY

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AND ENLARGED

FIJI

HANDBOOK

The second edition of the Handbook of Fiji is now available Its 272 pages contain up-to-date information about the Crown Colony of Fiji, its people, its history, major political changes and structure of administration, geography, finance and taxation, communications and social services.

TOURIST SECTION

There is an enlarged section for tourists with lists of all hotels, guest houses, rental cottages and flats, etc., with their latest tariffs. There is also information on places of interest, tours, local cruises, duty freeshopping and entry requirements.

MAPS

Its 14 maps have been brought up to date; and a large folding map of the whole Group has been completely re-drawn.

It has an attractive cover in full colour, featuring two pretty representatives of the two main racial groups in Fiji.

PRICE: 15/-, plus 1/6 postage, packing, etc., in the British Commonwealth (2/3 foreign), or $2 U.S. posted.

Available from the Publishers:

Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd.

TECHNIPRESS HOUSE, 29 ALBERTA STREET (G.P.O. BOX 3408),

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.

Or from Islands Stores and Booksellers. i Pagife 'PuhtifiJitums'

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SPECIMEN MINERALS Natural formations with minimum damage or breakage and preferably in the matrix rock.

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Airmail postage plus sample value promptly returned. Sender, please place name and return address on package.

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HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK

COMPANY LIMITED

Cable Address: Kowloondocks, Hong Kong.

(Founded 1863 )

KOWLOON DOCKS, HONG KONG

SHIPBUILDERS

SHIP REPAIRERS

FIVE BUILDING

BERTHS

FOUR DRY DOCKS

fc’ mm&Mm i iH "Esso Tsuen Wan" Twin Screw Harbour Oil Tanker for Hong Kong ie Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Company has built and delivered Esso Standard Oil (Hong Kong) Ltd. a harbour oil tanker hich will commence employment at once in her local service. ie vessel was constructed to the Builder's design, to Owners lecification, and to the requirements of Lloyd's Register of Shipping ass + 100 A.l. The following are the main particulars;— Length Overall 170 feet 3 ins.

Breadth Moulded 36 feet 0 ins.

Depth Moulded 12 feet 0 ins.

Draught 9 feet 9 ins.

Deadweight 890 tons he hull is of all welded construction. The hull is shotblasted nd painted and the internals of the cargo tanks are shotblasted nd treated with epoxy resin paints. Mounted on deck are five ,000 gallon tanks for the carriage of special fuels or oil. The iterior of these tanks being treated in the same manner as ie cargo tanks. lain propelling machinery comprises two Cummins LTR-6-M Marine lil Engines, each 325 B.H.P. ® 900 r.p.m. coupled to 3.04:1 eduction gearboxes to give a propeller speed of 300 r.p.m. i trial speed of 9} knots was obtained in the fully loaded ondition.

Two identical marine auxiliary sets are installed, each comprising a Gardner 6LX marine oil engine directly coupled to a : 35 K.W 100 volts D.C. Generator, arranged for operation as single units only.

Cargo Pumps comprise two horizontal Hamworthy pumps, each 150 T.P.H. at 80 p.s.i. when operating a cargo of Bunker L oil at’ 90 deg. Fahr. Pumps are driven by the mam engines.

In addition two centrifugal electric driven Lee Howl Cargo Pumps, each having a capacity of 200 A.G P.M. against a head of 80 feet, and suitable for "Low Flash Point oil fuel and gasoline cargo, are fitted.

Other machinery and fittings include Emergency Lighting equipment, fresh and sanitary water pumping set, CO 2 system to protect the machinery space and cargo oil tanks, fire and ballast pumps, compressed air system, and the usual navigational and deck fittings.

The electrical installation and wiring is specially constructed to suit a tanker carrying low flash point cargo.

Steering is by an electric-hydraulic steering gear manufactured by Frydenbo, Bergen, capable of operating twin rudders from hard over to hard over in 30 seconds. It includes automatic and immediate change over arrangement at helm for emergency transfer to hand hyydraulic operation.

Representatives in

AUSTRALIA: GOLLIN & CO., LTD., 40-50 Clarence NEW ZEALAND: PLUNKET & FALCONER LTD., 64 Fori

Street, Sydney, N.S.W. Street, Auckland, C.l.

ENQUIRIES WELCOME —either direct or through our Representatives.

TAIKOO DOCKYARD

HONG KONG

SHIP AND ENGINE BUILDERS AND REPAIRERS

m i ■ mm m I m m I m B I m ■ : Ml I m * m m m I Hi H9I H

AUSTRALIA:

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"Swire House", 8 Spring St.,

SYDNEY

General Representatives:

NEW ZEALAND:

C. W. F. HAMILTON & CO. LTD.

Lunns Road, Middleton,

CHRISTCHURCH

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

ON THE PACIFIC

Handbook of

Papua-New Guinea

the 4th edition of the “Handbook of Papua and New Guinea”, now available, is completely revised and contains many new features not Included in the 1961 edition.

PRICE: 18/6 Aust., plus 1/9 pottage in tha British Com* monwealth (3/* foreign), or $2.50 U.S. posted.

Handbook of Fiji

The 2nd edition, Just published, covers the Crown Colony of Fiji in detail, particularly business and professional directories and the tourist industry.

Price: 15/- Aust., plus 1/3 postage, etc., within British Commonwealth (2/3 foreign), or $2.00 U.S. posted.

;iFIC ISLANDS

ITEAR BOOK

(see overleaf)

ORDER FORM

ment attached for eopie* of "Pacific ands Year Book".

PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD.,

(29 Alberta Street, Sydney.) Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.

PACIFIC ISLANDS

YEAR BOOK

and WHO'S WHO

YOU NEED THIS STANDARD REFEREN

BOOK TO THE ISLANDS OF THE PACIF The "Pacific Islands Year Book and Who's Who" is world's standard reference book on the Islands of Pacific. The 9th edition, published at the end of 19 contains 650 pages of information on commerce, tour and the political structures of all Island groups in South Pacific.

The Who's Who section, published for the first til contains 1,500 biographies of important people in Pacific. In addition, there are 80 sectional maps, five detailed fold-out maps.

PRICE: 50/- par copy, plus 2/9 postage, packing, etc., in the British Commonwealth (5/- to foreign countries), or $7.00 U.S. (including postage).

PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD.,

(Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W., Australia)

29 Alberta Street, Sydney.

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S. G. White Pty. Limited

3 n H ■ - ■ ■ * « - Ballina, Richmond River, N.S.W.

WOOD AND STEEL SHIP BUILDING

SHIP REPAIRS

AND ALL FORMS OF MARINE

AND GENERAL ENGINEERING

Cargo Copra, island vessels, fishing boats and yachts, cargo

winches and windlasses, etc.

QUOTATIONS INVITED

Ships slipped up to 300 tons

Owned by:

S. G. WHITE PTY. LIMITED

WORKS:

10 Lookes Ave., Balmain, N.S.W.

Phones: WB 2170, WB 2171, W 82119.

Diesel and General Engineers

SYDNEY

CITY OFFICE:

30 Grosvenor St., Sydney Phone: BU 5062

mm

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 I Drambuie

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. . A ing? International have thi —one is just right for your boat. Want a highly protective decorative finish that lasts for yea International have it in a large range of contemporary colours.

International have paints for every marine purpose. Quality paints that last years longer and prot( more effectively than others. “Tropex,” for example. It’s a special anti-fouling for craft confined heavy fouling waters.

“Tropex,” the world’s strongest, longest-lasting anti-fouling, doubles the til between slipping and saves you real money. And “international Yacht Racin anti-foulmg in black, green, red and grey, the choice of yachting enthusia; throughout the world for its maximum protection with minimum drag.

For both inside and outside your boat, “Interlux Marine Gloss,” a sparklir durable gloss that keeps its lustre for years.

If you own a boat, any boat, you need International Marine Paints. Look for th( at any Marine Stockist. zM

INTERNATIONAL MAJORA PAINTS PTY. LIMITE

PHILLIP STREET, CONCORD, N.S.W.

AUSTRALIAN UNIT OF INTERNATIONAL PAINTS. THE WORLD’S LARGEST SUPPLIER OF MARINE PAINTS. 1 £ © & U $

Advertisement FOMES can best be kept L cockroach-free by dusting possible hide-outs with Peau Cockroach Powder. Because the warmth, cockroaches her in radio and T.V. cabinets i the areas surrounding reaerator motors. Sprinkle the vices with odourless, ininite-killing action Pea-Beu wder, which is harmless to nans and pets.

CAPTAIN VAN GELDER & CO.

Ship Brokers • Marine Charters Neutral Bay Yacht Basin, Neutral Bay, Sydney.

PHONE: 92-4387

75 ft. WORKBOAT, sound condition, built 1945, in survey. £8,500. 72 ft. H.D.M.L., in excellent condition. £14,000. 66 ft. converted ammunition LIGHTER, carrying capacity 80 tons, twin diesels. £B,OOO. 48 ft. CHARTER VESSEL, twin diesel, in survey £13,500. 42 ft. TRAWLER diesel, raised deck, £3,100.

■1 You can rely on ICI Sporting Cartridges

ICI

Shotgun cartridges for dense even patterns and economy.

ICI

Centrefire cartridges for heavier game re-loading components too.

ICI

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Shotgun, Rimfire, Centrefire, even slugs and pellets, there’s an ICI cartridge for every shooter.

SPORTING

CARTRIDGES

CARGO SHIP

WANTED TO PURCHASE

To carry upwards of 800 tons of cargo.

Ambitious Australian with sea-going experience and sound knowledge in documentation, ship’s paper and cargo work, etc., requires vessel for trade. No capital at all. Payment would have to be arranged on no deposit and instalments by arrangement. For this consideration selling price of vessel could be increased.

Genuine, enthusiastic, ambitious request, after preliminary investigation of prospects.

Kindly reply: Box 314, Post Office, Broadway, N.S.W., Australia.

Turn grass into lawn easier with a ’65 Obtainable from: SUVA MOTORS LTD., Suva, Lautoka.

ISLANDS PRODUCTS LTD., Port Moresby.

NEW GUINEA CO. LTD., Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavieng, Kokopo.

G\% ■r

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port • • Economy, reliability and exclusive power-to-weight, power-tospace design of Gardner Marine Diesel Engines puts them in the forefront in ports throughout the world. * u 'A

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The Gardner 6LX Marine Propulsion Diesel Engine. 110 B.H.P. at 1,300 R.P.M., 485 Ib/ft. torque at 1,100 R.P.M. Fuel consumption .324 pints per 8.H.P./HR.

MARINE PROPULSION

MARINE AUXILIARY

DIESEL

For Immediate Delivery A wide range of engines for marine application; Ratings from 28 to 230 B.H.P.

Choose from: FIVE LW SERIES Engines TWO L3B Series Engines The 6LX Series Engine Gardner offers a range of engines virtually custom built for every type of craft —new or old. Full specifications are available from: Sole Agents for N.S.W., Papua, New Guinea and South West Pacific Islands

FIRMER & DICKINSON

Telegrams: "FERREOUS", Sydney

SALES SERVICE SPARE PARTS:

Herbert Street, Artarmon, N.S.W., Australia.

Telephone: 43-1215

PTY. LTD.

POSTAL ADDRESS;

P.O, Box 21, Artarmon, N.S.W., Australia.

NOW FOR SALE

The well-known Cruising Motor-Yacht

"BLUE LAGOON"

With the operation of a substantially larger vessel upon tourist cruises to Fiji's Yasawa Group, the motor-yacht "Blue Lagoon" is now for sale. This 56-foot Halvorsen-built craft, formerly the "Governor's Yacht", has just (May, 1965) passed a full survey of hull and engines by the Fiji Marine Board, and is authorised to carry up to 20 passengers on inter-insular voyages, and up to 40 on short-coasting and harbour and river trips in addition to Master and crew. (The vessel normally carried 10 passengers upon four-day cruises through the Yasawa Group).

Powered by twin electric starting full diesel Gardner engines (with all controls centralised at main wheel), the yacht is equipped with an additional wheel on bridge-deck, twin rudders, two Tod fibreglass tenders with Seagull outboard, a fishing-chair, A.W.A, Teleradio, anchors and chains, an auxilliary battery-charger, a gas-stove, two freshwater showers, three Simpson & Lawrence lavatories, two large Electrolux refrigerators, and is sheathed to above water-line. Inventory will include all furnishings, linen, cutlery and crockery normally used in the operation of "Blue Lagoon" Cruises.

An excellent seaboat (having sailed from Sydney to Fiji), the "Blue Lagoon" would be an ideal vessel for operation upon any one of several still undeveloped tourist cruises in Fiji waters —including a one-day cruise from the vicinity of Korolevu to the beautiful island of Vatulele.

Further details, photographs and a copy of a May, 1965, valuation by Suva's leading boat-builders, Messrs. Charles Whippy & Co., are available upon application to— CAPTAIN T. S. WITHERS, P.O. Box 5, Lautoka, Fiji

NEDLLOYD LINES

Managers; ROYAL ROTTERDAM LLOYD—Rotterdam. 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

other Ports called at subject to sufficient inducement.

Vessels are equipped with refrigerated and (deep) freezing cargo space Also equipped with facilities for self-loading and discharge of heavy cargo of up to 240 tons.

Most vessels ore equipped with comfortable, air-conditioned, passenger accommodation.

For further particulars apply to Agents — ETS. DONALD TAHITI, AGENCE MARITIME PENTECOST, BURNS PHILP (NEW GUINEA) LTD., Papeo,e - Noumea. Port Moresby and Lae.

WM. BRECKWOLDT & CO., NEW GUINEA COMPANY LTD., Honiara. Rabaul and Madang.

w

l/Ve have been providing efficient:

WE specialise in the requirements of the Pacific Islands.

The experience of 70 years blended with the vigour of youth offers YOU a world-wide buying and selling network which cannot be excelled.

riNG

SELLING

SERVICE

W. S. TAIT & CC

PTY. LTD.

22 Jamison Street Sydney Cables: 'SUCCESS

Since 1890

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because Gaydec resists fungus

V taubmans >

OUO-PLASTIC

GAYDEC

PI

Taubmans

Gaydec is at home in the tropics

because Gaydec resists fungus

Taubmans remembered the tropics when they and brushes wash clean in water. In just a few made Gaydec. The result? A flat inside or out- hours your home will have a fresh, new look— side housepaint to effectively resist fungus. protected by Gaydec for many years.

Because Gaydec is plastic, all painting is See the exciting range of Gaydec colours a quick and easy; Gaydec dries in just twenty your local paint store. Gaydec is the idea minutes without paint odour; and your hands 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.

KODAK

INSTAMAHC CAMERAS

easy to load, easy to use

(you can’t make a mistake!)

m & The Kodak Instamatic 50 Camera is the easy way to start photography. Just drop in the Kodapak Film Cartridge, flick the rapid-wind lever and it’s ready to take crisp sparkling pictures. It takes colour or black-and-white snapshots and colour slides, too.

The perfect gift is the Kodak Instamatic 100 Camera Outfit. Drop in the Kodapak Film Cartridge, close the camera and you’re ready to shoot! There’s even a pop-up flash for taking indoor shots. The outfit contains camera, film, flashbulbs and batteries.

The Kodak Instamatic 300 Camera makes phototaking easier for you.

Has a built-in electric eye that sets the f/8 lens automatically you get the best shot.

All you do is aim and shoot for a perfect picture every time you press the button. Supplied complete with always-ready case.

The secret of success for ail the famous Kodak Instamatic Cameras is the Kodapak Film Cartridge. There’s no fumbling, no threading of film the Kodapak Film Cartridge just drops in the camera. It takes all the worry out of film loading!

Films available in Kodapak Cartridges include Verichrome Pan (for black and white prints) Kodachrome-X (for colour slides) Kodacolor-X (for colour prints) Ektachrome-X (for colour slides) Inspect Kodak Instamatic Cameras at your nearest Kodak dealer.

From Kodak Dealers throughout the Islands.

KM9528 PV|n| KODAK (Australasia) PTY. LTD. 379-381 George Street, Sydney.

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Your Way

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BY BOAC ROLLS-ROYCE JETS

Stop off along the way . . . BOAC makes it so easy. And only BOAC gives you the supreme comfort of the world’s most advanced airliner, the Rolls-Royce VC 10, now in regular service between Singapore and London (and transatlantic, too). Join BOAC at Auckland, Sydney or Darwin. Flight details from any Travel Agent or TAA (BOAC’S General Sales Agents in Papua/New Guinea).

ALL OVER THE WORLD BOAC TAKES GOOD CARE OF British Overseas Airways Corporation with Air India, Qantas and Air New Zealand ——— 1 ™'

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Holidays in Sydney?

Great Scot!

Only Qantas offers four jet routes around the world . . . there’s the Singapore-Bangkok way . . . and the Honolulu-U.S.A. way . . . the Hong Kong-Orient way . . . and the Tahiti-Mexico way. And wherever in the five continents you fly with Qantas you’ll feel at home with Qantas’ unique Australian blend of friendliness and efficiency.

Start talking it over today with your Qantas Travel Agent or Qantas, Australia's Round-World Airline

QANTAS

Holidays in Sydney?

Before you visit Sydney contact us about buying a near-new Holden. We’ll have the Holden you want ready when you arrive. When you leave we’ll BUY BACK AT

A PR E-ARRANGED

PRICE. Why not write us now and get full details. You’ll find it’s cheaper than hiring a car. * rr rb

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SUTTONS MOTORS HOMEBUS

112 PARRAMATTA ROAD, HOMEBUSH, N.S.W. Phone: 76-0

YOUR NEXT

LEAVE

Modern up to the minute homes between Dee Why and Palm Beach available to Island Residents for Holidays. Write for information to:—

J. T. STAPLETON

PTY. LTD.

ESTATE AGENTS,

133 PITT STREET, SYDNEY.

BE 5305, BL 1737

or any of the Branch Offices located at Dee Why, Narrabeen, Mona Vale, Avalon or Palm Beach.

ENGLAND - U.S.A. - EUROPE

CANADA - SOUTH AMERICA -

SOUTH AFRICA - JAPAN

Bramair will arrange steamer and air reservations on all principal services for travel anywhere.

BOOK NOW FOR 1965 AND 1966.

No service fees charged.

STEAMER AIR RAIL

GREYHOUND RESERVATIONS

COMPLETED.

Individual itineraries—a specialtyprepared FREE.

Tour Planning, Maps and Brochures Supplied.

Book Now With

BRAMAIR INTERNATIONAL

PTY. LTD.

Incorporating James Burness (Travel) Pty. Ltd. 188 Goulburn Street, Sydney, N.S.W.

Phone; 26-1601.

OFFICIAL PASSENGER BOOKING AGENTS

Les girls!

>22' Historically, the one in the centre might not have the stature of the others, but we’ve put her amongst these illustrious ladies because she, too, symbolizes something. A not inconsiderable something.

What our sari-clad hostesses signify is Air- India’s preoccupation with two essentials: unfailing efficiency and gentle attentiveness. We try to be long on both. Many of our passengers take the trouble to tell us we have succeeded.

Come fly for yourself to London, New York, Rome, Tokyo, or any of the great international cross roads on our magic carpet network. Ask your helpful Travel Agent for advice on how to include our world famous Maharajah service on your next itinerary.

A/R/ND/A

$r A % •-sC The airline that treats you like a Maharaja* In association with BOAC and Qantai Suva Office: Victoria Parade, Suva (Tel. 2 5561). Nadi Office: Terminal Building, Nadi Airport (Tel. 4344).

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Travel in Big Ship Comfort

In the big stabilized and fully air-conditioned P & O - Orient liners— the largest and fastest ships operating from Australia to Europe via Suez and to the Far East and North America—there’s every facility to have a good time. To bask quietly and comfortably under the priceless therapy of sea air and sunshine. Good food, splendid service—and bright company whenever you feel like it. Experienced travellers know the advantage of P & O - ORIENT liners in size, space, speed, service and safety—and the many extras available free of charge in these palatial ships.

P&O - ORIENT LINES

Consult any Authorized Travel Agent CVORLD-WIDE SERVICES VIA SUEZ - VIA THE PACIFIC AND THE FAR EAST

SPCB

introduce to their services a

DOUGLAS DCS AIRCRAFT

GREATER CAPACITY

MORE SEATS AVAILABLE

ON ALL SERVICES

Suva - Nadi - Suva Fiji - Tonga - Fiji * Fiji - Western Samoa - Fiji * Suva - Nadi - Vila - Santo - Honiara & return * Suva - Funafuti - Tarawa & return Inquire about further particulars and bookings at your Travel Agents or giving increased services from Suva to * Matei - Savusavu - Labasa (* Heron Aircraft)

AIRWAYS LIMITED

Victoria Parade, Suva Phone: 5661. P.O. Box 112, Suva.

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Linking the

M w .S s s

PACIFIC

ISLANDS

with

EUROPE, WEST INDIES,

NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA and STH. AFRICA

One Class liners, Southern Gross (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 selection of the following ports: Fiji, Rarotonga, Tahiti, Acapulco, Balboa, Curacao, Trinidad, Barbados, Miami (Pt. Everglades), Bermuda, Lisbon, Southampton, Las Palmas, Cape Town, Durban, Fremantle, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington, Auckland.

For full particulars apply: — Fiji—Any branch or agency of Burns Philp (South Sea Co. Ltd.) Cable Address: Burphil Tahiti Messageries Maritimes Papeete.

Cable Address; Messagerie Papeete.

SHAW SAVILL LINE

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k W mm HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW SMOOTH OUR NEW 727 FAN JETS FLY? 2122 Once upon a time, vibration was a major cause of travel fatigue. Not anymore.

Ansett-ANA 727 Fan Jets are vibration-free.

You feel no sensation of flying whatsoever, even cruising at well over 600 mph.

You arrive wonderfully fresh and relaxed, ready to enjoy yourself, Nice thought to remember next time you fly anywhere, isn’t it?

ANSETT-ANA—A MEMBER COMPANY OF

ANSETT TRANSPORT INDUSTRIES LTD.

ANSETT-ANA 727

FAN^mJETS

SYSTEM OF THE GOLDEN JETS

the Complete Fan Jet / Prop Jet Service

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Burns Philp Trust

.<=> 4 R 7-HE It’s up to you to make a Will; no one can compel you to make this invaluable contribution to your family’s security. Once you decide to act, however, you have every assistance. Acting on your instructions, your Solicitor draws up this vital document. When you appoint Burns Philp Trust as Executor, you make sure that your beneficiaries will be protected at all times.

Apart from reviewing the terms of your Will at regular intervals, you are freed from further responsibility.

Every future problem including probate, taxation, management and finance—will be handled by professional Trust Officers. Full details of Burns Philp Trust obligations and services are given in a 20-page brochure. Ask for your complimentary copy at any B.P. Branch.

Trust Officers at Head Office accept full responsibility for the affairs of Islands clients. A senior Trust Officer visits Papua-New Guinea at regular intervals. Write for free advice on your problem; there’s no obligation when you consult B.P. 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).

Canberra Agent: BURNS PHILP TRUSTEE COMPANY (CANBERRA) LIMITED Suite 11, Landtrust Building, East Row, CANBERRA CITY, A.C.T.

What makes Matson the

First Choice of Discriminating

Travellers to

answer: No other ships are exclusively First Class. It is reflected in our personalized services. T anticipation of your every wish is a precept and our staff is trained to think in terms of your individi tastes. atson’s elegance has a special. American quality. The S.S. MARIPOSA and MONTER accommodate just enough guests to favour easy companionship, yet retain space for privacy. Shipboa appointments are unobtrusively luxurious. Public rooms embody the artistry of prominent designers. T aura of South Seas openness is especially appealing. These liners completely air-conditioned and gyi stabilized are especially designed for this tropic route. each with its private bathroom i unusually spacious. Tastefully furnished and decorated, they provide charming, gracious living. Cuisine lavish, epicurean. Meals are interspersed with snacks and buffets. Room service is available at any ho The liners’ wine cellars are tended as carefully as any on shore. fLs unique as Matson’s ships are enchanting ports of call: Noumea, Suva, Niuafo’ou (Tin Can Island). Pago Pago, Honolulu (almost two davs here: a paradise for fun-lover, sight-seer or ardent shopper) and San Francisco. Return departure be made from either San Francisco or Los Angeles, then via Bora Bora, Tahiti and Rarotonga to Auckla and Sydney. j\. Matson voyage, featuring American service, cuisine and exquisite comforts, is designed priced to please demanding travellers accustomed to the finest. Isn’t it time for you to enjoy t incomparable experience? Be sure to book early. See your travel agent soon, or phone us. 50 \ou Street, Sydney, Phone 27 4272; 454 Collins Street, Melbourne, Phone 67 7237.

In Australia Matson serves as general passenger agent for three major American steamship lines: Moore-McCormack, American Exportisbrandtsen and United States Lines.

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New-Size Tractors From Ford .

mm D D □

AM New from the ground up! Before you buy a tractor called “new,” be sure it’s rea new under the sheet metal.

With New-Size Ford tractors you’ll find . . .

AM-new 3 and 4 cyMnder diesel engines, huskier, more powerful 46, 55 and 65 horsepower*. in four sizes 2 New transmission choices . . . Rugged 6-speed, all-new dual range 8-speed or Fore revolutionary shift-on-the-go 10-speed. • Ample built-in weight and strength convert engine power into greater pulling pow to operate bigger equipment, work faster, reduce crop costs. • You’ll find all-new styling too, crisp, functional, good-looking . . . without sacrifici convenience of operation or maintenance. • Choose from four New-Size Ford tractors. See your nearest Ford Tractor-Equipme 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 mmm m. i 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.

'7 .. i m :■ * M an uf actu rer’s S.A.E. rating.

TRACTORS

EQUIPMENT

7 : iif— i f^ : :

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CclcjfHUH "Snowlite" Coolers

KEEP FOOD and DRINKS COLD and FRESH WITH A . .

Coleman's range of plastic-lined coolers are now available through Robert Gillespie's. Solid Therma Lock styrene insulation all round keeps food colder . . . longer. The exclusive "Royalite" plastic-base covering prevents rust, scuffing, leaks or stain . . . adds strength and resists dents. Wipes clean instantly. The plastic "Royalite" interior is strong and smooth and has no joins. All coolers are constructed from heavy gauge steel, welded and riveted for extra strength and longlife. Deep tray for dry food storage. Choose from three attractive baked enamel colours: green, patio pink, or aqua. Coolers are available with the Mag- Lock latch or Bail handle. The Mag-Lock latch is a magnetic device which is popular on many modern refrigerators. The Bail handle locks upright in an easy-to-carry position.

Representatives for the Pacific Islands: Robert Gillespie Pty. Ltd. Robert Gillespie Pty. Ltd. 22 Young St., Sydney Rabaul, Port Moresby, 334 Queen St., Brisbane Lae, Madang Cable: "Robergiil". ' 9

Pearce & Co., Ltd

Suva

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Turners Supply Company Limited

TURNERS & GROWERS LTD.

AUCTIONEERS FRUIT & PRODUCE MERCHANTS

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

WE SPECIALISE IN THE EXPORT TO THE TROPICS

OF NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE, POTATOES, ONIONS,

APPLES AND FRUITS IN SEASON

All Inquiries to our Export Organisation:

Turners Supply Company Limited

Box, 1370 Cables Auckland, N.Z. “Tusco”, Auckland

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Mungo Scott Pty. Ltd.

ELECTRO MOTION (Export) LIMITED

Suppliers of New and Reconditioned Power Plants at a Fraction of Original Cost offer: 2.5 KW Lister start-o-matic diesel sets, 230/1/50 AC. Complete. Immaculate.

Price £l7O each. 5/6 HP Lister diesel engines, type CS, 650 rpm, tank cooled, hand start. Price £7O each.

The prices quoted include packing, insurance and delivery to your nearest port.

Write for photographs and stock lists of our diesel alternating sets, horizontal diesel engines, machine tools, compressors, pumps, electric motors, etc., to: —

ELECTRO MOTION (EXPORT) LIMITED

BARKBY ROAD, LEICESTER, ENGLAND

Cables: "EtMOTION", Leicester, England. {m

MUNGO SCOTT PTY. LTD.

Established 1894

AUSTRALIAN

cc uj

BOMa

SYDNEY

AUSTRALIA

FLOUR MILLERS

SUMMER HILL, NEW SOUTH WALES

Cables & Telegraphic Address: SUPERB, Sydney

ASSAYERS & PURCHASERS

OF

COLD, SILVER

and PLATINUM

In Bullion, Scrap, Mining By-Products, and Trade Residues.

MANUFACTURERS of

Precious metals in all forms for industry, research, dentist, jeweller.

SILVER BRAZING ALLOYS AND

SOLDER

ELECTRICAL CONTACTS AND

BIMETAL

SILVER NITRATE AND CYANIDE

GOLD SILVER RHODIUM PLATING

SALTS AND SOLUTIONS

MATTHEY GARRETT PTY. LTD.

824 George Street, Sydney.

Works: Kogarah, N.S.W.

Assayers to the Bank of N.S.W. and the Reserve Bank of Australia.

LANCE GRAHAM & CO.

SIXTH FLOOR, 56 HUNTER ST., SYDNEY.

LANCE GRAHAM Telegrams and Cables: Member of The Sydney Telephone; BW 5721 Stock Exchange “LAGRAM,” Sydney.

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Tea Time

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FLOUR

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Mother’s Choice Plain Flour ... vitamin enriched, and entoleted for purity. Makes smoother, creamier sauces, batters and gravies. Mother’s Choice Plain Flour is marvellous for pancakes, too! In 2 lb. & 4 lb. packs.

Mother’s Choice Pure Semolina Suji... best for making Halua!

Available in 2 lb. packs and 7 lb. plastic bags. ‘‘Ur Hr W '°Un a Me

mmmm

TEA TIME

Enjoy the fresher, livelier flavour!

There’s nothing so refreshing as a cup of Kinkara Tea! Kinkara has a fresher livelier flavour ... and you can enjoy it often because Kinkara gives you more cups to the pound. Kinkara has been preferred in Australia for over 60 years... try it and you’ll see why so many families "start the day well with Kinkara’ fi Look for the delicious tea time recipes on every pack.

There are 80 in a 11... so start your recipe collection

the fresher

livelier tea

* 5v 'A ll

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 fours 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 306-7261 Telegraph fpsiemj&it tumte ut tytousi MdleM

FOR STRENGTH AND ENERGY

It’s marvellous what a difference Milo makes!

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up down

south

Lazy, lazy you. Another mountain to be climbed, another fish to be caught, another show to be seen and you just sitting there! Savouring the cool, green comfort of a shady oak the year-round spring-fresh crispness of New Zealand air.

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 I 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.

ANZbSU

AIR NEW lEAIANO

Previously named TEAL.

In association with QANTAS and B O A C

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Everybody likes banking with the

u "Saturdav morning at Suva Branch'

BANK

BNZI

BANK of NEW ZEALAND

People in Fiji like the frieudl informal atmosphere of this Ne Zealand bank and know that t BNZ is operated in their interest An excellent, full banking servi« for savings and cheque accoun with comprehensive facilities ft business and private finance backed by a thorough knowled| of local conditions.

Full Branches at: Suva, Lautok Labasa, Nadi.

Agencies in Fiji at: Marks Stre (Suva), Nausori, Nadi Airport ar Ba.

Represented at Apia (Bank Western Samoa).

Established in the Pacific since 1

New Zealand’s Largest Bank pi

Linking

PACIFIC ISLANDS

with the FAR EAST and AUSTRALIA

Further particulars may be obtained from: MANAGING AGENTS IN AUSTRALIA: WILH. WILHELMSEN AGENCY PTY. LTD., 13-15 Bridge St., Sydney. Phone: 27-6301 Branch Office at Melbourne: 51 William St. Phone: 61-3031.

AUSTRALIAN AGENTS: Brisbane & Adelaide —Gibbs, Bright & Co.

ISLAND AGENTS: Madang (New Guinea)—B. J. &J. R. Back. Lae (New Guinea)—A. H. Bunting. Rabaul (New Britain)— Transport Limited. Port Moresby (Papua)—lsland Products Ltd. Wewak (New Guinea) —J. A. Corrigan Wewak (1963) Pty. .

FAR EASTERN AGENTS: Japan and Hong Kong—Dodwell & Co. Ltd. Manila —Everett Steamships Corporation.

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Daiwa Line

DIRECT SERVICE

JAPAN SOUTH PACIFIC

M.V. "TAHITI MARU" V. 4

(D/W 7,474 Tons) Dep. JAPAN July 2.

GUAM July 9. *SANTO July 18. *VILA July 20.

July 22.

SUVA July 25-26.

LAUTOKA July 28-29.

PAGO PAGO August 1.

APIA August 2.

* SUBJECT TO CARGO INDUCEMENT.

Heavy lift, reefer space and passenger accommodation available.

SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE.

Next sailing—M.V. (, Fiji Mam” V-5.

The Daiwa Navigation Co. Ltd.

OSAKA: "DAILINE" TOKYO: "FUNEDAILINE"

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.

Dific Islands Monthly July, 1965

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The 'Pacific's Most Modern Cargo F/eet..,

Consign refrigerated and general cargo by Crusader, for fast, efficient delivery to leading Pacific Ports.

Regular services connect

NEW ZEALAND, PACIFIC ISLANDS. NEW GUINEA.

JAPAN. SINGAPORE, MALAYA. INDONESIA.

HONG KONG, MANILA.

Apply to Crusader Shipping Co. Ltd.

Branches and Agents throughout the Pacific. £ i *

SHIPPING CO. LTD.

si W « ■ % * t? m m i

FIJI DIRECT SERVICE

VIA PANAMA

Regular Sailings every four weeks

London to Suva & Lautoka

Through Bills of Lading to LABASA - LEV U KA - APIA - PA GO PAGO

NUKUALOFA • VAVAU - NIUE

For further particulars apply to BETHELL, GWYN & CO. LTD. BURNS PHELP Beaufort House, Gravel Lane, (SOUTH SEA) CO. LTD.

London, E.l. Suva

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

Music opens the door to a richer, more rewarding life, it builds character, responsibility and leadership in the individual as in the community m Wodd-famous brass instruments by MERIT AS are now available separately or as complete sets at special export prices send for full details without delay! prx 1.114

416 GEORGE STREET. SYDNEY. PHONE 25-1641

YOU GET THE BEST AT MCHOLSON’S

PACIFIC ISLANDS TRANSPORT LINE

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 4, California, U.S.A.

APlA—Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd.

PAPEETE Agence Maritime nationale Tahiti.

PAGO PAGO—G. H. C. Reid & Co.

NOUMEA—Etablissements Ballande.

Inter- SYDNEY—Birt & Co. (Pty.) Ltd.

SUVA—Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd.

LAE/RABAUL —Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

PORT VILA--Comptoirs Francais des Nouvelles Hebrides.

For your health's sake drink

R£WA dairy milk Jr

REWA

STERILISED

HOMOGENISED

MILK

STERILISED to retain that farmfreshness months after it’s bottled . . . keeps indefinitely (unopened) without refrigeration, because it’s germ-free.

HOMOGENISED for the same constant purity, quality and flavour from first drop to last!

Export Inquiries to P.O. Box 237, Suva, Fiji

"BERING" SUPER HOODED

FLAME MACHINE

Fully Guaranteed

12 Months y

MAKES WEEDING EASY!

Produces 2,000 deg. F. flame 30 in. long Easy to use, it not only destroys weeds and their seeds, but sterilises soil of insects, disease spores, etc. Uses 1 gallon of lighting Kero, per hour. Hood confines flame to operate between rows of vegetables, berries, etc. Invaluable to grazier, nurseryman, poultry and pig farmer, etc. Ideal for clearing headlands, fire breaks, irrigation ditches, paths, close to fences.

Weighs only 25 lb. Write for Free Illustrated Booklet. the gun to reach ward places. even whilst alight, |ust from pull self ing clips. £25-10-0 For Complete Unit Flame Gun only £lB.

Add 30/- for complete unit or 20/- for Flame Gun only, for postage, to Pacific Islands. 15-31 Racecourse Rd., North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Exporters

Classified Advertisements

Per line, 5/-; Minimum rate, 4 lines.

FOR SALE

FLEETS. 16 ft. sailing skiff, fully rigged, Dacron sails, £l5O. 30 ft. diesel workboat, in survey, radio, sounder, £1,600. 45 ft. diesel workboat, in survey, radio, sounder, £5,000. 350 ton cargo ship, in survey, good lifting gear, electric winches, some freezer space, £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.

COMPLETE. Diesel Electric Sets for sale.

Excellent condition. Ruston 25 K.V.A., £450. MacLaren Brush 69 K.V.A., £950.

Full details write: Box 124, Leichhardt, P. 0., N.S.W., or ring 73-4919 (Sydney) all hours.

LAND-ROVER SPARE PARTS. Suit all

models ’4B-’65. New, used, reconditioned spares. Example, new front propeller shafts complete, made in England £2O (Aust.) ea., freight paid anywhere in Pacific. When ordering please state year.

Write or cable for free illustrated parts catalogue. Four Wheel Drives, Robert St., Sassafras, Victoria, Australia.

DAY-OLD DUCKLINGS, by air to Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, New Hebrides, Gilbert & Ellice Islands and the Solomons. Prompt service with superior ducklings from Australia’s leading hatchery. Enquiries to Fiji Meats Ltd., Lautoka, Fiji Islands.

Cables; Fiji Meats, Lautoka.

DIESEL PASSENGER LAUNCH. Length

31 ft. 6 in.; beam 10 ft. 6 in.; draught 3 ft. 6 in. Vessel all completely new hull. Survey Report and photo available on application. Carl Atkinson, Marine Centre, Box 246, P. 0., Darwin, N.T.

WELL-KNOWN GUEST HOUSE, at

Matautu Point, Apia, Western Samoa.

Facing waterfront, almost opposite new breakwater and dock (now under construction), 2-storey building, stands in its own grounds. 13 bed-rooms—B on first floor —and modern amenities. Owner retiring—purchaser can get possession from January. 1966. Further details by writing to: Mrs. Annie Jones, c/- Royal Commonwealth Society, Northumberland Avenue, London, UK.

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.

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.

STAMPS dr COINS

TOP PRICES PAID FOR ISLAND

STAMPS. Current issues, old accumulations (used or unused), covers, collections.

Seven Seas Stamps Pty. Ltd., Sterling Street. Dubbo, N.S.W., 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 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

MAIL ORDER. Whatever you migh from Hong Kong (Photographic am Equipment, Transistor Radios, Hou Appliances, Chinese Brocades, Flowers, Cultured Pearls, etc.) w supply you. Right prices and p« care assured. Please write u, quotations. Filmo Depot Ltd., 313 I House, Hong Kong. Established in Kong since 1936.

POSITION WANTED

I am Prepared to Undertaki Valuation of Plantations

A. RICHARDS

Kokopo . . . New Guinea Over 40 Years’ Experience in New • as Plantation Inspector, Claims Ac Custodian of Expro. Properties, PI

EXPORTERS

to the Pacific Islands

BRECKWOLDT & CO. PTY. LIE

EXPORTERS GENERAL MERCHANTS

324 Pitt St., Sydney, N.S.W.

Box 5027, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W.

Cable Address: Brewo.

Telephone; 61-71

WM. BRECKWOLDT & CO.

x* i •4

Pacific-Islands Branches:

M.HVJiT

P.O. Box 222, RABAUL/New Guinea

P.O. Box 409, PORT MORESBY/T.P.N.G

P.O. Box 185, MADANG/T.N.G.

P.O. Box 136, HONIARA/8.5.1.P.

P.O. Box 47, APIA/Western Samoa P.O. Box 369, SUVA/Fiji Islands P.O. Box 352, NOUMEA/New Caledo

Mr. H. M. S. Wn

Head Office:

BRECKWOLDT & CO., HAMBURG/GERMANY.

Offices at: London, Antwerp, Milan, Koala Lumpur, Bangkok, Hong Kon« Taipei/Taiwan.

Enquiries invited from Australian Manufacturers.

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Landi Works V+Y.Lid.

alia'i best selling non-electric Iron! For reliability, ease of eJ s c ellcnee of quality at a low price, you can't beat .Jr s ,.^l icity itself t 0 operate—NO PUMPING IS IIRFt) |T$ IMPOSSIBLE TO OVERFILL THE FUEL TANK and rilling does approximately 2 hours effortless ironing. Attractively led in nickel plate. Spare parts always available. • The PORTABLE OUTDOORS COOKER at a sensible price!

Twin independent burners for fast cooking. Twin tanks for double • capacity. Steel case, when opened, acts as triple-wind shield. Rustproof. Noisy or silent burners as required. Small or large porcelain • m. a * r V!L oV , ens also ava >lable separately. HANOl—the lowest priced • QUALITY Twin Burner Portable!

Better buy HAND!! Available at leading stores or direct from manufacturers:—

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Compo Road, Rocklea,\ r ho „, 47 2121

BRISBANE QUEENSLAND \AUSTRALIA

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.

Anywhere

in the

Tropics . . . ( i it A Vi I IP

NEW GUINEA CO. LTD. ISLAND PRODUCTS

Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavieng, Kokopo.

BURNS PHILP (N.H.) LTD.,

Vila, Santo Port Moresby

E. V. LAWSON LIT

Honiara

D »

(new GUINEA

D "V c.:

GENERAL MERCHANTS, J

\SHIPPING & CUSTOMS J

AGENTS ✓

A* JP N (A; ru

ead Office: Port Moresby, Papua

Cable Address: BURPHIL

AGENTS FOR

Burns Philp Trust Co. Ltd.

Queensland Insurance Co. Ltd.

Lloyds of London Stewarts & Lloyds Distributors Ply. Ltd.

Shell Company (Pacific Islands) Ltd.

OVERSEAS AGENTS

Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., all Australian States Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., London Burns Philp & Co. ltd. of San Francisco

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:

Ansett-A.N.A.

Trans-Australia Airlines Qantas Empire Airways International Air Transport Representatives

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 and SHOPPING

CENTRES

PAPUA: Port Moresby, Boroko, Samarai, Popondetta and Daru.

TRAVEL DEPARTMENT

Consult our experienced personnel for planning world wide travel.

NEW GUINEA: Rabaul, Kokopo, Kavieng, Lae, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Wau, Bulolo, Kainantu and Mt. Hagen.

ASSOCIATED

COMPANIES:

Q \lA\ / ifat-A ) m CM m

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.

GENERAL MERCHANT

W. R Established 1914 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 Austral European and Ameri Manufacturers indue Electrolux, Chrysler, F McCallum's Whisky, V Mowers, Enfield Engine

BUYING ENQUIRIES

LONDON: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., 73 Cheapside, London, E.C.2.

SYDNEY: W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd., 27 O'Connell St., Sydney.

CARPENTER & CO. LIE

27 O'Connell St., Sydney, Australio Cable Address;

"CAMOHE"

Telephone; BL 5421 Postal Addres G.P.O. Box 168, Si

Published by PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD.. 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (Telephone; 61-9197). Wholly set up ;

nrintAri in Australia hv the Rvdnev and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney.

Ific Islands Monthly— July, 1965