Pacific Islands Monthly - 1 September 1954

Lae Drome Closed Temporarily To Skymasters

rHE airport at Lae, NG, was closed to Skymasters until f further notice on September 2 lecause prolonged rain had made f slippery for heavy aircraft.

The airport will probably be closed ntil the end of the “wet” season t Lae—sometime in October.

Skymasters from Sydney will jmporarily turn around at Port [oresby and DC3’s will be used to ;rry passengers between Lae and [oresby to make the connection.

The Skymasters will now leave [oresby to return to Sydney at 8.30 m. (instead of about 1 p.m.), arriv ig Sydney about 7.30 p.m.

Lae has been receiving torrential tins in recent weeks, while over on ew Britain they have had 4 onths’ drought.

Rabaul Suffers Unpleasant

Conditions

Rabaul, Sept. 2.

Conditions in Rabaul are ex edingly unpleasant. There has been ) rain for 4 months. Tanks are apty, gardens are dying, There is ick dust everywhere, and lorries

now are carting water from Admin istration wells near Toboi and from the wells at the coconut-crushing mill. Fortunately, this water seems good and in abundant supply. There have been deluges of rain lately at Lae, and over the Trobriands- Samarai area, but there is not here one sign yet that the clouds are

drifting this way.—

R.W.R.

Cheaper Saigon Rice

“Prohibited” in P-NG

THE first post-war shipment of Saigon rice to New Guinea was, in early September, being held in Rabaul as a “prohibited import.”

Sydney shippers had been advised to ship no more until further notice.

This first shipment of Saigon rice was £3 per ton cheaper than Aus tralian rice; it was expected that subsequent shipments would be from £5 to £8 per ton cheaper.

Since the beginning of the Pacific war, all rice supplied to Papua and New Guinea has been Australian rice. Before the war, it all came from Indo-China and other parts of the East, and was about one eighth the price it is to-day.

The Department of Territories in Sydney does not know why Saigon

£*.9® should have become a pro

hibited import; they said that they

tTcanbe^ 6 - ‘° refer the matter

The following official statement

was received from Moresby on Sen tember 14: Present policy Territory rice require ments provided only from Australia but matter currently under consideration.

Australian rice is brown, of specified nutritional value whereas we understand Saigon rise is white, which would require the issue of additional supplementary foods to meet nutritional standard of native rations. See Gazette No. 14 of 1952.

Staff Of Pim

AS a result of a re-arrangement of “Pacific Islands Monthly” staff, Mr. J. P. Shortall, who has been our representative in Auck land and Polynesia for the past couple of years, will join the head office staff in Sydney in September.

Mr. Shortall, however, will pay fairly frequent visits to Auckland and the Central Pacific. Mr. J D.

Whitcombe, of 7 Philomel Crescent, Bayswater, Auckland (or care of PO Box 5179, Wellesley Street Post Office, Auckland) will act in future as Auckland representative of the PIM. He has been, in recent years, a regular contributor to the mag azine.

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ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1954

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Foreign Labour Not

Wanted In N. Cal.

Noumea, Aug. 12.

AT a general meeting of the com mercial employees’ union in Noumea in August, it was de cided to protest against the intro duction of foreign labour.

The resolution followed an an nouncement that an officer of the French Army in Saigon would visit the Colony with the object of plac ing Indo-Chinese now fleeing the Vietnim.

There are already 5,000 potential trouble-makers in New Caledonia — the Indo-Chinese indentured labour that was freed. Introduction of any more would swamp the Europeans. (Editorial Note: Only last year a plan was proposed whereby Fijian- Indians would go to work in New Caledonia. Various officials from Fiji investigated the scheme but nothing came of it. Since then there has been a slump in the Cale donian nickel and chrome market).

New Simpson Book in October

October

OFF again to the New Guinea Highlands in late August was Colin Simpson, not to look over the ground for another book but this time to make a survey for a prospec tive documentary film in colour. He expects to be in New Guinea about a month.

Mr. Simpson’s third Adam —this time Adam In Plumes —will be pub lished in October, and promises to be as interesting a production as its predecessors. It will have about a dozen illustrations in full colour, most of them featuring the New Guinea Highlanders about whom the book is written.

The Drover, partly submerged on the reef; engineers and a salvage team are working on the plane which was brought to land on a barge.—Fiji Public Relations Office Photo.

Fiji Air ways Drover on Ree[?]

A Fiji Airways Drover aircraft, flying between Savusavu and Nausori, on August 28, made a forced landing on a coral reef about four miles off Bau, on S-E Viti LeVu. Neither the pilot nor the seven passengers were injured.

FEW details of the accident have been officially released. Captain Fred Ladd made a remarkable landing, and after moving along the reef for a short distance, the wheels of the plane appeared to encounter a bump or a hole in the coral. The result was a damaged propeller.

Works Department equipment was sent from Suva early the next day, and the Drover was brought ashore after being partly submerged by the sea on the reef. It was im mediately removed to Nausori Air port.

A formal inquiry will be held.

Pending findings, all that can be done is to comment on the pilot’s skill in getting the Drover down in what, to the uninitiated, seems to be an impossible landing-place.

On April 26, Captain Ladd was pilot of a Fiji Airways de Havilland Rapide which crashed and was burned when making a forced landing at Labasa. Everybody aboard escaped without serious injury, largely due to the swift action of Captain Ladd in getting the passengers out be fore the fire took charge.

The findings of the inquiry into the April crash have not yet been made public. Many local residents maintain that Fiji Airways is forced to do too much with the planes and equipment available. The Drover involved in the reef-landing is one of two second-hand planes bought after the loss of a Rapide at Labasa.

With the damage to the Drover it seems unlikely that Fiji Airways will be able to maintain indefinitely a Nadi Airport-Suva shuttle service

that will eliminate the angry com plaints of overseas travellers who un wittingly get caught and ex pensively delayed at the Nadi bottleneck on their way to Suva. (When TEAL changed over from Solent flying-boats to DC 6 land planes, all passeng ers between Suva and New Zealand had to go through Nadi, which is about 150 miles by road from the capital).

It will be surpris ing if there is not r e i n f o rcement of the local demand fo r an up-to-date bus service to cope with air passengers,

mails and freight between the ii ternational airport and Suva. . There is no night flying on Fi internal air services, and hold-ui are inevitable, at times. When, ; sometimes happens, there is i accommodation available at Na the alternatives for Suva-bound b nighted travellers is either a tr to Lautoka or a £lO taxi journey Suva. And that, as many people ha 1 pointed out, eliminates the saving ( tourist-class travel from New Zei land or Australia to Fiji — F\ Correspondent.

Beavers to Replace

Drovers in P-N

QANTAS announced in Ne Guinea, on August 18, that expected to take delivery four Beaver aircraft by the end ( the year.

They will replace the Drovei which were found unsuitable f( light aircraft work in the Territo] after modifications had been ma( to them. There is only one Drovi there now.

The Beaver has a cruising spec of 135 mph and a ceiling of 19,0( feet. It can be fitted with skis < floats.

Although single-engined, it has high margin of safety. Enginee: will be given special maintenam training for these planes.

Drover aircraft, which were mam factured in Australia, are an al metal, three-engined plane. I originally supplied in NG, they we] fast, with a high rate of climb. Tv serious accidents occurred in tl Territory in the early part of the service there—one plane plunge into the sea off Lae and was neve recovered. The pilot and his hall dozen passengers were killed.

The propeller came off anothe Drover between Wewak and Mam and the three men on board wei rescued —one of them badly injure —after an uncomfortable time in rubber raft. All Drovers—those i Australia as well as those in PNG were grounded for some time afte the latter accident, and modifies tions were made to the propellers.

We understand that De Havilan has now ceased manufacturin Drovers.

Mr. R. W. Robson, editor an publisher of the “Pacific Islanc Monthly,” visited Papua and H Guinea in Aug.-Sept. He will leav Sydney again, for New Caledoni and Fiji, in mid-October.

Australian Tariff Board To

Relief for Rubber Producers?

Meet In Moresby

Members of the Australian Tariff Board will visit Port Moresby in November to conduct part of its forthcoming inquiry on the need, or otherwise, for assistance to the Papuan rubber industry.

rE inquiry will open in Mel bourne on September 27; in Sydney on October 18, and in Brisbane on November 9.

In making the announcement that part of the inquiry would be conducted “on the spot” in Moresby, the Minister for Territories said that hearing would be merely sup plementary of the Board’s hearings in Australia and it was desirable therefore, that planters should pre sent their main initial evidence in Melbourne on September 27.

The Board will inquire into: Whether, having regard to the Com monwealth’s responsibility for the develop ment of its Territories, the production of crude rubber and rubber latex in the Territory of Papua-New Guinea and the importation of those products of the Territory into the Commonwealth of Aus tralia, should be accorded assistance and if so found, the extent of such assistance. (Referred under Section 15 of the Tariff Board Act, 1921-1953).

This is the first time that the Board has met outside Australia.

Members will remain a week in the Territory and will visit plantations to gain first-hand knowledge of the Papuan industry. They will also visit Wau and Bulolo in connection with a recent Tariff Inquiry on P-NG timbers and plywood.

The Tariff Board inquiry is the culmination of about two years’ work by the Papuan Planters’ Assn., and comes at the end of frustrating delay and red-tape entanglements.

One of the preliminary difficulties was to get GATT (the international instrumentality which controls trade and tariffs and to which Aus tralia is a party) to agree to waiving the 2d per pound duty now paid on Papuan rubber entering Australia.

This permission was granted at the end of last year. It has taken another year for the matter to come before the Australian authori ties. It is likely to be another six months before the planters benefit from any remission of duty—should the Board find that way. Mean time, many planters are receiving less than cost of production for their rubber. (See report of Planters’

Assn, elsewhere this issue).

The Department of Territories is supporting the planters’ claim. It is understood that opposition to any remission of duty will come from Australian rubber manufacturers who would like to see remission of

all duty on rubber whatever its source.

Rubber is one of the few P-NG products which are subject to ex port tax at source and to import duty on reaching Australia. (P-NG Export Duty begins when the value of rubber is over 2/6 per pound; duty is then payable at the rate of Id. per lb. for every 6d. per pound rise in the price. Present price about 2/-).

In Australian Eyes

This is what some Australian newspapers said about the inquiry and the reasons for it: A Tariff Board inquiry which may in volve the whole tax system of Papua and New Guinea will open in Melbourne on September 27 . . . The rubber planters, who are free from income tax, have sought exemption from the Id a lb export doty.

Export duty is one of the few sources of revenue for the Administration.

Its removal would force a modified form of income tax.

Australian newspapers have a genius for getting the cart before the horse in all P-NG affairs.

[?]'Th Pac. Commission

Meets In Oct.

Sir Brian Freeston About to Retire

pHE South Pacific Commission [ will commence its 1954 Session i at headquarters in Anse Vata, bumea, on or about October 11, id the sittings probably will con nue for two weeks.

The Commissioners now meet ily about once a year—most of the ommission’s practical work is done f the Research Council, through le Secretary-General as the co •dinating authority. The Com issioners are primarily concerned ith finance, and the implementa on of those of the Research Coun l’s recommendations which they ave approved.

Probably, the Commission will msider preliminary arrangements ir the Third South Pacific Con irence. The Conference is held rery three years—and the first was i Fiji and the second in Noumea, here is a feeling in some quarters lat the third should be held in ew Guinea.

At the first Conference in Suva, i 1950, Mr. Colin Simpson made plea that a Conference should be eld in the Highlands of New uinea. The idea then was not iriously regarded; but now, as a ‘suit of the remarkably rapid rowth of Eastern Highlands, and I amenities at Goroka, the plan lay be worth serious consideration.

The Commission, at this Session, iust also deal with the important latter of filling the post of ecre t a r y-General. Sir Brian reeston, KCMG, former Governor I Fiji, who took over in Noumea fter the departure of Mr. W. D. brsyth, is due for retirement this ear, and probably will depart for hgland in November. All countries nd interests agree that Sir Brian nd Lady Freeston have done a re larkably good job in Noumea, and heir places will be hard to fill.

New Governor for Fr

Fr. Oceania

Governor petitbon of French Oceania has been appointed Governor of Dhibouti.

The news came as a surprise in Tahiti. The Governor has only re cently returned from vacation in France to what most people thought would be a full, second term of two years.

Governor Petitbon has been the most popular governor of French Oceania for many years and his departure will be regretted.

He will be succeeded by M. Niger Toby, about whom no details are available.

The Barnes Case

A Correction

THE Sydney office of the Messageries Maritimes Shipping Company informs us that there was an inaccuracy in our issues of June, July and August in regard to the action by their company in Papeete, Tahiti, against Captain Barnes following his incorrect re port about the SS Tahitien.

We stated that the damage claimed by the Company from Barnes was 1,000,000 francs, and that this had been reduced to one franc by the Court.

MM’s Sydney office states that 1,000,000 francs was never claimed; and that the amount, right from the beginning was only one franc— as a symbolic indemnity for the Company. At the present rate of exchange, one franc is worth about Ud. in Australian currency.

The Editors’ Mailbag

pp. 20-139

Here's How!

This came in an envelope with a New Hebrides postmark—no other clue to the writer’s identity: “Customs searchers in Sydney have been finding startling quant ities of American cigarettes on ships in the harbour and even the Malaita hasn’t escaped. Would you like to know how they got onto the Malaita?

“They arrive via Tahiti. The Chinese in Tahiti are able to get very large quantities of cigarettes from USA. When the Messageries Maritimes and other ships come along, bound westwards, they send the cigarettes to Vila and Santo, in the New Hebrides. There they are smuggled aboard any vessel bound for the profitable black market in Sydney—maritime workers in both

New Hebrides and Australian ports are deep in the racket.” <*!£>£ v v i AiOta from New York a heartv “Alofa” ramp trv tbic office in June from Mrs Mary Croudace ’ of Western Samoa, and Mlss Jess Aland - of the staff of the UNO Secretary-General—both war time friends of the PIM. They met on An zac Day in New York, at an Anzac ceremony atop the RCA Building in Fifth Avenue. They adjourned afterwards to a fraternity club in West 56th St., where they found some attractive murals de picting Fiji scenes. During the war this was the Fiji Club, where Mr’

James A. Farrell used to entertain Australian and New Zealand airmen on leave from Canada. Mr Farrell now a New York attorney, was there’’

and, per medium of the ladies ar the PIM, sends hearty greetings old friends “down under.”

Whence Came the Lily?

“I read in the March PIM yoi references to the life of Mr. Marl ham, of BSI,” writes Captain Ca Haug, of Darmstadt, German “Mrs. Fehr, widow of my old frier Fehr, of Iwi Plantation, Bougaii ville, knew Markham, in the o days. I think some of your data a: wrong. You say that Markha: bought the Lily from Jack Londo: If Markham did not go to Ongtor Java until 1912 he could not ha) met Jack London, because Jack wj m Sydney in 1907, and his yacl then was the Snark, not the Lil Where did Markham get the Lily\

His Schmidts Were Mixed

“When writing to you recently, referred to ‘Karkar’ Schmidt, of Ne Guinea,” says Captain C. Haug, j another note from Germany. “Thi was a mistake. I was referring 1 Schmidt Burgk, another old-time who was with me in New Guinea i 1908 or 1909. I mixed the name because I had been readir Rittlinger’s book, Southsea, in whic he refers to ‘Karkar.’ Rittlinger wf a guest on ‘Karkar’ Schmidt plantation, Palmalmal, which m old friend Max Richter original started for the New Guinea Coir pany.

“I always was interested i ‘Karkar,’ as I was one of the fin to try and recruit labour on the Island, and Lesson Island, in 1907-; The natives gave us a bad recep tion, and we had to run for th boats, while the second mate and covered the retreat. I did not war to use guns, because I had promise Governor Hahl not to use fire-arm except in case of necessity, and did not want to spoil future recruit ing chances. I got some boys fror Lesson, but never one from Karkai “Rittlinger says that ‘Karka: Schmidt used to go about with hi Winchester always in readiness; bu ! later on, the natives became quit peaceful.”

Louis Becke's Books

A European correspondent ex presses lively interest in the book of Louis Becke, Australian authoi who died in Sydney about l&L; Most of Becke’s books dealt witl Pacific Islands subjects and, at on time, they were very popular. Oui correspondent would like to obtaii a complete set of Louis Becke’ bpoks; and, if anyone has a set b dispose of, please write to th editor of this journal.

That Plimsol Mark

The suggestion in a recent PIM article that some ships running it the Gilbert and Ellice Islands arc

(Continued on Page 137)

\ sufficiently provided with life nng equipment, has brought this nment from Commune Bonum; Some years ago I took a new vernment ship to the Gilberts, ring my stay (a few months) I s astounded to notice other Gov iment ships coming into or leav ; port carrying passengers well excess of their boat accommoda ti. These vessels were not com nded by British foreign-going sters, who, if such circumstances i attended by loss of life, can be de criminally liable, lowever, I got used to being sur ged and thought no more of the tter, until I found that I, too, 5 expected to do the same. My iwer was “No”. . . i few weeks later, the ship was t to Suva, well ahead of her e for refit; and, on arrival, the yernment very, very regretfully pensed with my services—no sons were given for so doing, am not hurt or annoyed over matter; but I am still amusedly prised that those things can con le so many years after the death Samuel Plimsol.

ien Walter Carpenter

is Young

7e liked this letter, in which iran merchant Walter Maidment Daru, Western Papua, tells of ) he first met the late Sir Walter penter, the South Pacific’s wrest financier: was a young commercial /eller (in leather) when, one ning, Arthur Carpenter knocked our door, and asked for me. alter would like you to go up to irsday Island and join him in shelling business,” said he. \nd where on God’s green earth fhursday Island?” said I. \way up north, off Cape York,”

I he. scratched my head, for a lute, and then had a look at an s. “Well, Arthur, you know how se getting around in boats,” said ‘l’ll take it on.”

Some up to-night and see the sr,” said he. rhe pater” was one of the finest i I ever met—old Captain John ton Carpenter, father of Walter the Carpenter tribe. He ex ned to me the conditions up and TI; and after I had had a : at the Duke and Duchess of it (I think), then visiting Aus ia, I sailed in the Yawatta m, with Captain Carpenter to me off. oon I was in charge of a crew British New Guinea men puans you call them now) and king for Walter Carpenter ng “Chips” we called him then, did not then think so much of financial ability. He would call

me mtc, h is office and put up what I thought was some crazy propositl( ? n - , T “Look, Chips,” I would say, “don’t jeopardise what you now own. You know how you have worked for what you have—don’t gamble with IVt nf°fhp nffirp 6 ’ and 1 would get out of the office.

I was closely associated with him, for years. I built all his dinghies for him, and his diving boots; I did his auctioneering I even carried young “Ranji” around Thursday Island. I lived with Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter, and I thoroughly enjoyed those years with them. Well, he climbed high—and

now he has passed on—l was deeply shocked when I heard the news. Australia has lost a man whom it will be hard to replace

The Answer

What is this Wnrin seeking in New Guinea anyhow? (asked the PIM a few months ago). it was thought that the claim was aimed at the Morobe goldfield— but that does not seem to be the case what do these American-German- Swedish interests hope to get’

An answer came back in ari en velope posted in Rabaul, containing a sheet of paper, blank except for one word, “Uranium!”

Fostering Fiji-New Zealand Trade

p. 20

Top: Members of the NZ Trade Dele gation which visited Fiji and Tonga in late July were enter tained at a buffet dinner given by the Suva Indian Chamber of Commerce. Seen in the picture above are Mr. T. G.

Thompkins, the leader (in white); Dr. N. V. Rajkumar (Indian Commis sioner), Mr. Shankar Pratap (right); Mr.

K. B. Singh and Hon. Ratu E. Cako bau (near window). ( —Photo by Liberty Studios.)

Lower photo shows, from left to right: Mr. W. G. Johnson, managing director of W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji), Ltd., agents for the NZ Government in Fiji; Mr. T. G. Thompkins, president of the

NZ Manufacturers’ Federation and leader of the Delegation to Fiji; Ratanji Narsey, president of the Suva Indian Chamber of Commerce.— Photo, Fiji Public Relations.

1,000 feet.

Oil Search in N. Caledonia

A“ USTRALIAN drillers are search ing for oil 'at Gouraro, not far from Bourail, the second largest jbwn on New Caledonia, and now the largest agricultural centre in the colony. |The drilling site, chosen near the sea, provides good indications of the iresence of oil. Four wells will be junk, each to a depth of nearly

r The technician in charge, M. ’omeyrol, has stated that if oil was lot found by drilling, geophysicists rould be engaged to make investiga tions.

Fijians’ Mascot

Young: Lionel Baker, 21 months, had a iroud moment when he was carried onto he football-field by giant Apakuki [?] uitavua, captain of the Fijian Rugby earn which played in Australia this rlnter. The incident took place at Tam mrth. NSW. Young Lionel lives at nverell—he is the son of Len Baker, tnd grandson of F. S. Baker, late of the Fiji Prisons Department.

Is This the End of Kenaf?

Official Attitude to P-NG Experiment

After a fanfare of publicity regarding the intention of the Australian Government to encourage the development of the Kenaf industry in Papua (as a protection for the Australian users of cornsacks and woolpacks against the rapacities of the jute monopolists) there has been a complete silence.

PRIVATE enterprise in Papua proved that the production of Kenaf fibre was practicable— and then waited to see what pro tection was to be given.

Finally, the editor of the PIM wrote and asked the Minister for Territories whether there was to be protection. The Minister replied that the people concerned had never asked for protection; and, if they wanted it, “there was a well-defined procedure involved.” The Minister’s letter continues.

"The Government has given consider able encouragement to the establishment of the kenaf industry in Papua and New Guinea, including— (a) investigations into kenaf developments overseas by three different Administra tion officers; (b) the provision to the private interests concerned, of seed and use of agri cultural machinery; (c) assistance in obtaining lower shipping freight rates on kenaf fibre; (d) exemption from import duty on equip ment and materials brought into the Territory for the purpose of producing kenaf; (e) special recruitment of agricultural staff for allocation to kenaf experi ntental work and provision of facilities for them; (f) extensive planting of kenaf for experi ments, trials and seed production and the bringing out of an American fibre expert on two occasions for advice; (g) the making available of land in the Oro Bay-Dobodura area and provision of road, bridge and wharf facilities for agricultural development generally in the area.

“Assistance of this nature will continue to be given as the need arises.”

Therefore, it may be taken as probable that that is the end of the Kenaf experiment in Papua. It was commenced under official en couragement; carried on in the be lief that if it was practicable, Aus tralia would protect it —how other wise could it survive against the product of India, where labour is so cheap, and production overwhelm ing!

It would be interesting to know how much Australian money the woolly-thinking Czars of Canberra wasted on this experiment—woolly thinking, because they seem to be constitutionally incapable of logical thinking. How did they imagine Kenaf production could be estab lished without marketing assistance, once it was shown that production was practicable?

Huge Flying-Boats

May Be Used On Pacific Routes

IN spite of recent events in Pacific aviation, it is possible that that region has not seen the last of flying-boats.

It is believed that BOAC is con sidering a new trans-Pacific service with giant turbo-jet Princess class flying-boats, capable of carrying 2GO and with a range of 5,000 miles.

The route that BOAC has in mind would be from the UK across the Atlantic to Bermuda, then to Mexico, Central Pacific islands to Auckland and Sydney. The Pacific part of the route would be much the same as that surveyed by Captain P. G.

Taylor (now Sir Gordon Taylor) for the RAF during the war. It is understood that Papeete would be a port of call. i

Disagreement Over Nadi's

3rd Runway

IT is believed that there is a high level dispute between Australia on the one hand, and Britain and New Zealand on the other, on the question of a third run-way for Nadi, Fiji’s international air-port.

The third run-way at Nadi has occupied the minds of British Com monwealth air experts for several years. The only public announce ment that was made after the July meeting of the South Pacific Air Transport Council in Melbourne m July was that “no finality had been reached.” .

It is believed that Australia wants to build the third run-way, at a cost of £A500,000; but that NZ and the UK claim that 2,000 ft hills 10 miles from the airport would make the approach to it dangerous. .

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Errata

Pare «1. this issue—The cultivable UJ* in the Cook Group amounts to . W acres, of which 5.576 acres were idle *n March, 1953. The figures given on this page refer only to Altutaki.

Page 114—The photograph shown Is of Mandalay, now in Samoan waters.

Dutch-Indonesia

p. 22

Union Ended S-E Asia Position Becomes More Dangerous

ALTHOUGH popular news

papers have been headlin

ing “End of Dutch-Indonesian

Union’, there was nothing new in this for PIM readers. At

frequent intervals, over several

years, we have pointed out that the so-called Union was a Union in name only. It never func

tioned.

It was agreed to in 1949, as part of an attempt by the Dutch to save something from the wreck of their East Indies Empire, brought about when the Anglo-American Planners, and UNO, abandoned the Dutch after World War 11.

Under UNO pressure, the Dutch agreed to the constitution of an in dependent Indonesia. It was to be a Federation based on the republi can form of government: and the Federation was to be linked to the Dutch Crown in this Union.

But the Indonesians never played ball. The gang of semi-literate political adventurers which seized power in Java after the war. and called themselves a “republican government,” gradually extended their hold over the whole _of the Indies: and there never has been anything resembling a general elec tion. The Indonesia*! “govern ment’s” main concern has been to hold onto power and, whenever pub lic discontent became active, to cause a distraction by shrieking to the world that it was .determined at all costs to take Western New Guinea from the Netherlands. In donesia’s move to end the “Union” had the same purpose.

All this has been going on for years. Year by year, Indonesia has deteriorated, politically, econom ically and socially. The so-called Government has lost the support of both Moslem parties and now is ,kept in power by the Communists, who have grown steadily in strength over the past five years, and appar ently are in close contact with the growing Communist power in Southeast Asia.

Again and again, we have pointed out that this Red penetration is of .vital concern to Australia and all countries in the South Pacific, be cause Indonesia presents Southeast Asia with a readymade bridge to the South Pacific. Indonesia, at any time, will collapse and fall under the power of the Communists— probably when Red China’s armies enter Malaya.

AGAINST this background, it is easy for any intelligent per . son to assess for himself the significance of these very recent events: France herself embarrassed greatly by Red influence within her government—has abandoned to the Reds the northern half of Vietnam, the most important area in Indo china.

To stop further advances by the Chinese Reds, America has been trying to promote a South East Asia Defence Pact. Britain. Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Siam, Philip pines and France have joined or stand in support; but India and Burma have not; and India and Indonesia are now trying to set up an Asian-African Pact to defy the Western Powers, and to induce American-dominated Philippines to join it.

Australia at last has stated, in forthright fashion, that it does not approve of Indonesia’s demands for West New Guinea; that it will resist Indonesia’s effort to bring the matter before the UNO Assembly m September; and that it is work ing amicably with the Dutch in the

rapid development of Dutch N< Guinea.

The Dutch now are construct! a chain of airstrips along the nort west and northern coasts of Wt New Guinea, right up to Holland and close to the Australian N< Guinea border. These are close linked with air aid sea defen plans.

It is clear from several ever that Nehru, Prime Minister India, is increasingly hostile to t Western Powers who are trying protect their interests in ai around Southeast Asia and that i more and more, is looking towar Africa, where there are big settl ments of Jndians.

Unesco Fellowship Award

pp. 22-23

Mr. P. Henderson, The Co(

Islands Officer for Furth Education, has been awarded Unesco Fellowship in Fundament Education. This will consist of a intensive 9 months’ course in Mysor India, expected to commence September of this year. On tl completion of the course, M Henderson will return to Rarotong

Sir Hugh Ragg, of Suva, Fiji, has tflinquished two positions he has leld since the end of the war — hose of Chairman of the Fiji Re labilitation Board and Chairman of he Committee of Management of he Fiji Servicemen’s After-Care fund Mr. A. H. Marlow will re dace Sir Hugh as chairman of the tehabilitation Board and Mr. A. D. jeys is to be chairma-n of the ifter-Care Fund Committee.

Do You Remember ?

p. 22

From PIM of 20 Years ago.

MOST of our news 20 years ago seemed to be about New Guinea, Papua and Western Samoa— with Fiji trailing the field. Per haps this was because Fiji was sup posed to have fewer problems than the other Groups. Most of the news concerning Fiji said that that Colony was “fortunate” or “prosper ous.”

The following are extracts from our issue of September, 1934: We reported that: "A mysterious disease called, variously, ‘Chinese tick', ‘bush tick’ and ‘Japanese River Fever’ has appeared in the Morobe goldfields area of New Guinea and is causing alarm.

The symptoms of the disease are like those of typhoid and the disease itself is almost invariably fatal.” (The same disease Scrub typhus caused much trouble among Allied troops in P-NG during the early days of the Pacific war, but little is heard of it to-day. It is caused by a minute tick). * * * The finances of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea, to June 30, 1934, showed a surplus of £26,000. In 1934 that was news. * * .

The BP steamer “Montoro”. which in August had appeared to be hopelessly wrecked near Finschhafen in New Guinea, was in dock in Sydney undergoing repairs. * * * Over 270 Chinese coolies had arrived in Western Samoa from Hongkong for plantation work. They were to be paid the rate of 1/9 per day. The ship on

which they had come repatriated 4( time-expired labourers. ♦ ♦ * We reported that “Gundoa” a 25-toi yacht, had reached Suva from Sydnc after a very rough voyage via Norfol Is. On board were Mrs. G. Vine, ownei Captain L, Kingdon. described as wel known in the Islands; Mr. C. Belfrag a London journalist; and an enginee Mr. Belfrage subsequently wrote a boo based on his experiences (“Away from All”) in which he did not mince word about either Mrs. Vine or the Captain. * * * Philippines copra was so cheap ii Europe, English crushers could pay th 10 per cent, tax imposed on it and stii find it good value compared with copr from other sources.

Normally, the whole 300,000 tons c annual production in the Philippines wa taken by the US, but a new processim tax in the States (to protect domesti producers of vegetable oils) had dlverte: tens of thousands of tons of it to th European market—to the dismay of Pacifli Islands planters. * * * General Ramsay McNicol took over dut: as Administrator of the Mandated Terr® tory of New Guinea on September 12 He succeeded Brigadier - General Ti Griffiths. * * * The Norddeutscher Lloyd Co., of Bremen announced that, for the first time since World War I, it would engage in t passenger and freight service betweet Sydney and Hongkong via New Guine; ports. The company had purchased two 7,000-tons ships, “Merkur” and “Neptun” for the service.

More Power for Apia

p. 23

Western Samoa’s new hydro-electric nation which will generate 1,000 kilowatts [?] meet Apia’s increasing requirements, is [?]earing completion and should be in full peration by the end of this year.

Two dams which will harness the main and western branches of the upper [?]aisigano River are nearly completed, [?]nd the pipeline to the powerhouse at [?]laoa has already been laid. Anchored [?] the cliff-face by huge concrete blocks, [?]is pipeline will plunge water 280 feet [?] the powerhouse, gathering sufficient [?]omentum to spin the turbines. Water will [?]e stored in ponds 465 feet above the

powerhouse, giving the water added momentum.

The project is in the hands of the Public Works Department and the complete hydro-electric station will cost approximately £NZ250,000.

Photos show, top: The powerhouse (left) and staff accommodation at Alaoa, with the pipeline anchored to the cliff face rising sheer behind the building.

Lower, the auxiliary dam which will harness the western branch of the Vaisigano River at Avele, photographed when nearing completion in July. —Photos by Jack Thornton.

Private Enterprise Asked To

p. 23

BSIP Government Withdraws and-

Try Its Luck

The great Ilu farm experiment in BSlP—which was said to have influenced the choice of Honiara, rather than Old Tulagi, as capital —is over. Ilu is to be sold.

FU farm is about 17 miles out of Honiara. It was developed during the war by the Ameri cans who used it as a vegetable farm. After the war it was acquired by the Government, which, fired with the thought of turning the reluctant Guadalcanal natives into farmers, decided that Hu was the place where they would be shown how.

It is doubtful if one native has be come a peasant farmer as a result of the existence of Hu; the farm has, on the other hand, been a considerable embarrassment to the Government. Initially rice was tried out there but for various reasons was unsuccessful; at an other time it was to supply Honiara with vegetables: latterly it has been a livestock station.

Lack of money, lack of staff and inability to coax practical men there from Australia and New Zea land have contributed most to the failure of Hu. Yet the country has every appearance of fertility—it is not unlike the country on the dry zone of Fiji and probably would be admirable for sugar-cane, amongst other things. As PIM has pointed out before, it is a thousand pities that Piji-Indians are not permitted to lease areas of this country.

The ominous thought is that Guadalcanal would probably sup port a million or so Japs or Chinese, and at present it produces nothing but a little copra and timber.

Tenders for Hu will close with the Chief Secretary, Western Pacific High Commission at Honiara on October 31, 1954.

The property consists of various farm buildings, including European quarters, labour lines, stockyards, tractors, farm equipment, and tools, pigs, horses and 134 head of cattle, (two pure-bred Hereford Bulls and 2 pure-bred Zebu bulls are im ported), as well as 1,000 acres of flat alluvial-plain Crown land of which 200 acres are improved. It is roaded, fenced, drained and watered and would be available on a 99-years lease.

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p. 25

New Stage in Huge Claim Over NG Goldfields

FHE announcement in August

* that the Waria Syndicate (a

jrc-1914 German concern which

lad received certain mining con

jessions in New Guinea, and

vhich now is appealing to the

Guinea Administration and hreatening a further appeal to

he United Nations) had “got the

irst leg in” has puzzled most

>eople interested in New Guinea

[lining.

: They do not know what it means, t was understood that all German ssets in New Guinea were liquidated 0 years ago through the Expropria lon Board, and no one has ex ilained how or why the Waria lyndicate escaped.

The Waria Syndicate was the reation of Heinrich Rudolph Wahlen, a well-known German lerchant and planter, prominent in rerman New Guinea until 1914. he Syndicate was given mining oncessions over a large area of the Few Guinea mainland, apparently icluding the Morobe Goldfield, dis overed and developed after World Var I.

In some way, the interests of the yndicate became divided between rerman, Swedish and American in vests; and it would appear that ; was the Swedish and American iterests which lodged some sort of claim —apparently involving title nd compensation—in 1953. The laims were lodged by three people amed Warberg, and one named peigleberg—all Americans. Their laim represented 10 per cent, of le original concession; and another erson named Erf ass, a Swede, )dged a similar claim, in respect E 75 per cent, of the original con sssion.

The Registrar of Titles in Port loresby (Mr, R. P. McCubbery) de- Ided in 1953 that the Warbergs nd Speigleberg were members of le partnership of M. M. Warberg : Co., whose interests were ex ropriated; and, in regard to the Irfass claim (which Erf ass said he ot by transfer from Wahlen), he aled that under the provisions of le German Civil Code it was im ossible for Wahlen to have sold is interest in the way that Erf ass laimed. The net result was that e decided that the claimants could ave no share in any mining in jrests in the Morobe goldfield.

After that, both sets of interests lade formal objection to the ruling iven by the Registrar of Titles. A laim now has been lodged directly n behalf of the Waria Syndicate ;self, through Mr. Wahlen (now 75

years old, and a resident of Ham burg) . This is now before the Re gistrar.

The latter heard the application early in August, and has adjourned the hearing to enable the Syndicate to submit evidence about the prig inal composition of the Syndicate and also the changes that occurred in the Syndicate. The Registrar expressed the following opinions; The evidence at this stage dis closed that some sort of right was created by the agreement between Dr. Solf (on behalf of the Imperial German Government) and Mr.

Wahlen (on behalf of the Syndicate) in July, 1914 (just before the out break of World War I).

The right so created was in existence in January 10, 1920, and it appears that it was still in existence when the first New Guinea Mining Ordinance came into force in 1922.

The matter was adjourned in definitely, pending the submission of evidence regarding the history and position of the Syndicate.

In a letter to the editor of the PIM, Mr. Wahlen says that the Syndicate is seeking compensation for the gold taken out of the area of its concessions, and recognition of what it claims is its existing rights over the area. He says also that if its claims are not by the Australian authority in New Guinea, it will carry them to UNO.

He has made some interesting com ments on the history of the Waria Syndicate, but they are now suo judice.

Football in Western Samoa

p. 25

Western Samoa’s winning senior football team for the 1954 season which ended recently: Captain of Ulalie team receives the cup from the High Commissioner, Mr. G. R. Powles. —Photo by Edwards Studios.

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p. 25

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There is a section devoted to the Statistics of the combined Territory. There arc particulars of commerce and industry, and of the Missions. This is a Handbook which any person dealing in any way with Papua and New Guinea must have on his desk.

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Territories Talk-Talk

pp. 26-30

By Tolala

The Difficulties

of Voters Franchise in p-ng appears to be fraught with difficulties— according to a report in the South Pacific Post. An error is re ported in an electoral poster dis played in Rabaul, concerning the closing date for enrolment; other reports complained of delay in the arrival of electoral papers due to bad flying weather.

So altogether there is a some what unhappy feeling about the whole thing. If the franchise is to work out satisfactorily, Bureaucracy must take a realistic view of the situatiqn and use initiative—if that is possible. Distances, flying weather conditions and such must be allowed for. . . . Or does it really matter?

Premature Talk Over

Native Hangings

There has been more than a little talk over petitioning the Powers

That Be against the hanging of the Telefomin natives concerned in the massacre there last year.

The parents of the murdered officials, missions’ representatives and many others have all had much to say in the Australian Press and to me this all appears to be a bit premature, for the death sentences have not yet been confirmed and, from past experience, I should be very surprised if they are not com muted.

Justice in NG has always been tempered with mercy, where native murderers of Europeans have been concerned (some people have thought too much so) and statistics from the Supreme Court of the Territory show that a great majority of death sentences have been commuted to varying terms of imprisonment.

Surely the time for the hue and cry for commutation of the sent ences is after confirmation.

The ° ne outstanding example of pue death sentence being carried out in the face of political and a section of public opinion, was that passed

on the one and only European e executed in TNG, about 1935. was found guilty on three or f< counts of the wilful murder primitive natives in the Sepik a whilst recruiting. The execut took place in Rabaul and the le nervous member of that dawn pa near the prison compound appea to be the principal actor in grim tragedy. He seemed mi calmer than I felt, anyway.

When native executions did ti place in TNG they were usue carried out in the area where 1 crime was committed.

The Waria Syndicate

and Reparations

The hearing in Moresby of 1 German-American-Swedish Syn cate’s claim for mining rights 5,000 square miles of Morobe count opened on August 16 before 1 Lands Titles Commissioner. Accoi ing to a report in the South Pac\ Post, “A Government who lost war was responsible for reparatic . . . . individuals of that Gover ment who owned property in ( propriated lands were entitled keep that property. German i dividuals were allowed to rets their property despite the fact tt their Government had lost the w

K . The Government who won the par could sell land owned by people >n the losing side. . . frhis is the first time I have heard Germans in NG, after War I, and tollowing the Versailles Peace Creaty, having been allowed to “re am their property.” All ex-enemy lationals were “prescribed” and heir property expropriated and

igreements terminated.

[, An appeals board was set up and t number of appeals upheld, one eason being that the one-time per fectly good German citizens had be «me, as a result of the changed wst-war map of Europe, citizens of >oland, Czechoslovakia and so on. )ne case, which I remember, was hat of a one-time high government ifilcial being allowed to retain his (roperty, as his birth-place was in he new Poland.

It was really a sorry business in aany instances to deprive these doneer settlers of their hard-won ssets in that far-flung German olony, and the Territory lost a lot f experienced planters as a re ult. But that was not the worst f it: Each ex-enemy national re eived a receipt for the assets aken over by the Australian Gov rnment to be presented to the Ger lan Government from whom they rould receive payment.

Germany was credited in the Rep rations Fund, through the Inter ational Bank, on a gold basis, but tie German Government paid out ) its own nationals, on the receipts resented, in the existing inflated terman currency. I heard of many ases where the German owners of aluable plantations had received rom their own Government com ensation which enabled them only ) have “a really good dinner” or uy themselves a suit and a pair C shoes!.

Little wonder there were harsh jelings amongst old German NG lanters. Most of them, I think, re used that their own Government as to blame.

But with regard to the Syndicate’s [aim; I remember hearing of a lipment of mining machinery con [gned to the Waria Syndicate (or ime such name) being sunk or aptured at the outbreak of War I imewhere around Africa.

And now ? Well, it’s up to the ;gal eagles to prove or disprove [ties, agreements or what have you i a country which has been badly :arred, so far as titles are con erned, in two world wars.

Jative Secondary

chool Education The Moresby District Advisory louncil appears somewhat appre ensive concerning the housing of .ative students in Australia in lostels “where there was little super ision and they were left open to be influence of characters who ould do them a lot of harm.” . . . ►urely it was self-evident that such

doubtful liberties would be accorded native students when it was de cided to send them to Australia and that, I take it, was one of the main reasons for opposing such a step by persons who fully realised the un pleasant possibilities attendant on the return of these students.

Officialdom must take a realistic view of the situation if it desires to obviate future social complica tions.

Secondary schooling for natives should be given in the Territory and nowhere else. If, as reported by the Minister for the Navy in the House of Representatives, the Aus tralian Government can spend £15,400 for an officers’ mess building on Manus, £13,000 for the o/c’s re sidence, £3,000 for a swimming pool and a £239,000 building programme for cottages, surely finance could be found for the establishment of a secondary school in the Territory.

The Low Islands Mention of the Mortlock (not Mortlake) and Tasman Islands (Aug.

PIM, p. 130) conjures up nostalgic memories of those two typical tropical examples of Atoll Groups.

Both are the answer to the prayer of anyone desiring South Sea isola tion, and both were originally owned by Queen Emma, who transferred one of them—the Mortlocks—to one

of her staff—an Englishman named Highley, who died there.

His widow married again and as Mrs. Calder opened up Toboroi plant ation near Kieta, on Bougainville.

She met a tragic death in the Mort locks—result of a dynamite accident.

Little wonder these islands are

hard to find. As well as being low-lying, Mortlocks’ position the charts 20 years ago was ab ten miles out. In the old Gern days the Sumatra called at th islands every three months and fore War 11, WRC vessels kepi somewhat similar schedule.

I population figures must be on the increase if the figure of 437 is lorrect for the two groups. In 1939 the Mortlocks had only 166 heads to be counted and Tasman 101.

Visiting Yip’s

i Some people are looking for the reason of the recent visits to P-NG of top-line diplomats from Aus tralia. Indian, USA and German ambassadors have all been up hav ing a look-see. Apparently after first-hand information of a land which is well in the lime-light now and may be more so later on.

The Important

Month of September

" The month of September has been a historic month for New Britain.

In 1914 the AN & MEF landed at Kabakaul and the engagement on the Bitapaka Road (not far from the present war memorial) toot place with the German defenders, which was Australia’s first blooding in War I. On September 12 the famous proclamation was read in Rabaul and translated into Pidgm- English (I think it was by that old sea-dog Capt. Strasburg) and ended with “No more um Kaiser. God save um King!”

On September 13, 1945, the Aussies came again and took over from the Japs.

Raluanas and

Village Councils

A report from Rabaul states that there was some argument at the July meeting of the local TAG when Mr. Don Barrett, MLC, moved that unwilling Tolai natives should be forced into the village council set up.

The motion was defeated.

Administration Offi c i a 1 J. J- Murphy said the “people referred to” had a “perfect right to exercise their rights under constitutional law in opposing going into a council if they so wish.” And presumably, that is the official attitude in the matter.

No names of villages were men tioned but without very much trouble one could assume the de bate referred to the Raluana “in cident,” which was to have been determined when the Administrator returned from leave last April.

There has been a grim silence for some time on this subject, which might indicate officialdom is trying to forget the whole thing. Time will prove whether such tactics are wise.

Tension has always been high be tween Popis and Talatalas (RC’s and Methodists to the uninitiated) in the Tolai country ever since I can remember —more’s the pity.

There was an outburst of sectarian ism recently when a native truck driver crashed into some decorated arches at Vunadadir, erected for the celebrations of the Feast of the Assumption. RC Mission natives

who are alleged to have said that it was a Methodist “plot,” attacked the driver, as well as the local priest who went to his assistance. The donnybrook was broken up by Rabaul Medical Officer, Dr. Saave, who said that the Father tak ing most of the punishment.”

Fortunately, injuries were slight, but it’s a sad state of affairs when

religious fervour runs so high. Ai way, the driver claimed later tt he, too, was a Roman Catholic. * * * Bits and Pieces: Tariff Board quiry into exemption of import di for P-NG rubber producers op< m Melbourne on September Here s wishing them luck. . . Pass away in Sydney on August 8, E. (Nip) Burke, popular pre-v identity in Rabaul. He was a hap bloke. . . Ben Costello, son the late Ben of Gire Gire, 1 the news recently when he eras landed his plane in NSW and and his companions escaped inji and the plane was undamaged.

Passed to his rest in Melbourne August 30 Bishop Gerard Veste OBE, who for sixteen years u Vicar Apostolic at Vunapope a retired in 1937. He will always remembered for the good organis tion he carried out during the 19 eruption at Rabaul. A very fi gentleman.

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At Church of England, Rabaul, on August 21, Miss Pamela Martin was married to Mr. Schukking. Shown, left to right, Mr. F. Mollinger, Miss Lois Gibson, groom and bride and Mr. Jack Esson.

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"IjHJIAN oil,” the oil that is spec JT ally prepared to rub into tl skin after bathing (and whi< so , I ?? e P e °Pte maintain is essential Fijian well-being as a protects against chills caused by wet clot! ing, etc.), is being sent to Fiji* servicemen fighting in Malaya.

The oil is being sent by tl Servicemens’ gift fund, organised 1 Lady Garvey, wife of the Govemc and is being packed in sealed ar labelled tins by the CSR company The fund is also providing yaqor (kava), sports equipment, magj zines and newspapers, and cak All work is voluntary and there ai no overhead r Nearly £5,300 has so far bee raised by the fund. More is ey pected as a result of the Suva Quee Competition. The leading cor testant, Meresiana Liwalala (Polic and Prisons Department Queen), hs raised nearly £BOO. The other finalis. are Miss Satawati Singh (India Chamber of Commerce), Adi Tere vini (Fiji Rugby Union), Mis Jennifer Goodsir (Defence Club and Miss Fanny Seeto (Chines Community), representing the Com merce, Sports, Social and Art sections respectively.

Since April, 1953, over £2,500 ha been spent by the fund on parcel sent to Malaya by plane. But wit; the end of the Hastings airlift be tween Singapore and Nadi, all gif parcels will now probably have t be consigned by ship via Australia adding to the cost of delivery.

It is estimated that the fund’ expenditure works out at under £ per annum for each man on actiw service.

Inquiry Demanded By

pp. 31-37

Telefomin Murders

Parents

jTVN their arrival in Port

Moresby in August, Mr.

and Mrs. E. H. Harris, parents

of Patrol-Officer Geoffrey Harris,

who was murdered near Tele

fomin. New Guinea, last Novem

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into the events leading up to the

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Mr. and Mrs. Harris were on their way to visit their son’s grave it Wewak.

Mrs. Harris said that she would ‘never forgive” the Administration for what they did to her son; nor should she forgive the Minister and those Territory officials who had said that the murders of Harris and Patrol-Officer Gerald Szarka (who was killed at the same time) were partly their own fault because they had split up, instead of patrol ling together.

She said that her son had been left in the bush for 10 hours to Dleed to death.

Mr. Harris said that the parents )f Szarka were equally bitter about lis death. Mr. Szarka had told him ;hat he had letters from his son in which he had said that “patrol nen” who had been in the area Defore had interfered with native women, and that Mr. Szarka, Snr., Delieved that this was the cause of ;he murders.

In an interview with a Sydney lewspaper in August, Mrs. Szarka, ;he mother of Gerald Szarka, said ;hat her son had “lived and died i saint” and that the murders would lot have happened if it had not Deen for faulty administration. She ;aid she had letters from her son n which he had said that many latives in the area were without f ood and had been kept in prison ;oo long so that they could not grow ;rops for their families. (See comment on page 35 this ssue ),

Equipment for

servicing flying boats is now be ing provided in Lae, NG. A slip way is being con structed at the sea end of the Lae air-strip; and when the flying boats are thus re moved from the water, facilities are available by which they can be pulled into the workshops ad joining the air strip.

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The bride was Miss Yvette Reid, eldest daughter of Mr. E- Reid. Mr. Colardeau recently returned from France to join his family in the Hebrides where they have planting interests. —Photo by Fung Kuei.

Comment: THE article follows the usual Party political line—which if repeated c loud enough and often enough will not want for believers.

I To our knowledge, none of the projects introduced by the Labour Government went “by the board for purely political reasons, any how. Some of the violent socialistic ideas introduced by Minister Eddie Ward in 1945-46 were well-watered down or abandoned as impractical bv the end of his feign in 1949. In the closing years of the Edwardian era, as everyone knows, Ward was so busy presenting himself before Royal Commissions, etc., that he had little time to devote to the personal supervision of his Depart ment or his policy.

The Menzies Governnient has carried on the policy as it found it in 1949—more is the pity. It would have been better all round for the Territory if it had made the changes it was believed it would make —or Labour unions in Australia appar ently think it has made. We would like from Mr. Schmella a list of the projects he believes have been abandoned by the present Govern ment. And the “enormous timber tracts, mineral deposits and possible oilfields” were all well taken care or before the Chifley Government was voted out of office.

The hysteria behind the Telefomin Affair seems to stem from a belief that the natives committed the dual murders in revenge for ill-treat ment at the hands of Administra tion officers who were in the area before Harris and Szarka got there. (See article elsewhere this issue).

We do not know which officials were in Telefomin before Harris and Szarka, or on what the belief is based—although there are indica tions that it is founded on letters

to the patrol-officers’ parents.

These hints have gone so far and have been repeated so often now, that the sensible thing would be to hold a public inquiry; it is unlikely that the NG Administration would lose anything by it, whereas they have already lost something at the hands of public mischief-makers.

All the hints and semi-accusa tions that have seen the light of print in Australia are based on the premise that the “simple, prim itive natives” could not possibly have murdered anyone unless some European had provoked them.

As everyone who has ever lived in the outports in P-NG knows, this is far from correct. It is true that some Europeans have been murdered by natives because of the conduct of others of their kind; but these cases have been far out numbered by those where natives have killed for no reason that holds good in our own society. Primitive natives are frequently unpredict able, and men who know P-NG never forget that fact and govern their acts and conduct accordingly.

It could be that Harris and Szarka were insufficiently trained

for the job that was required of them —in which event the Depart ment of District Services must take some blame for their deaths. But it could be equally true that they were simply unfortunate in meet ing one of the hazards that Dis trict Services men must expect to meet in carrying out their duty.

Like a lone voice crying in the wilderness has been one letter to an Australian newspaper. Signed “Patrol Officer,” the letter says that evidence showed that the murders had been deliberately planned for five years and therefore could not be dismissed as the sudden whim of frightened natives; that a life for a life was the rule in this prim itive community, and that the people concerned would expect this penalty

to be exacted. The murderers should be hanged, he said—otherwise all of the Telefomin people would simply believe that the Adminis tration was composed of a set of weaklings.

Although we do not necessarily agree with him in all respects, there is a great deal of realism and sense in his remarks.

Weights and measures in Fiji are likely to be a little less casual in future if the advice of a Technical Officer of the Weights and Measures Office in New Zealand is imple mented. Mr. H, Schofield, OBE, DFC, FIM, visited Suva in July at the invitation of the Fiji Govern met to advise on laws governing weights and measures in the Colony.

Tongan Hostel in Auckland

p. 31

PRINCE Tungi, Premier of Tonga, and Mr. Havea Tui’haateiho, deputy-Premier and Minister of Works, visited Auckland in August ;o discuss the building of a student’s lostel on Queen Salote’s Auckland property, “Atalanga.” The hostel will accommodate 24 boys and 24 ;irls of senior secondary-school age. [t will be largely financed by a Dequest made last year by the late Jules Joseph Verhaege, former long time resident of Tonga, who died in Auckland.

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No Fijians Placed

p. 32

At Empire Games

FIJIAN athletes at the Empire games in Vancouver spent most of their time trying to get warm.

They did not win any events but were one of the most popular teams at the games.

Seventeen-year-old Sainiana Soro wale, the first Fijian woman athlete to compete outside Fiji, was monopolised by Press photographers and the whole team appeared on Television shows.

In a “warm-up” throw, discus thrower Mesulame Rakuro recorded f 148 ft, but ultimately finished eighth in a field of 14. Both javelin throwers beat the record set at the 1950 games held in Auckland, but failed to reach the final six at Vancouver.

Fiji’s scratch team in the 4 by 110 relay (Rakuro, Elo, Sadulu and Eustace) was beaten in its heat by Canada, Nigeria and Australia, who also took the first three places in the final.

A picture theatre which was estab lished at Rotuma some time ago by Mr. F. A. Garrett, formerly on the staff of Morris Hedstrom and Co. in Suva, was completely de stroyed by fire in July. The pro jection equipment and seats were saved.

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H Commander J. A. Evans, m£ ager of the Commonwealth Sh ping Board’s Rabaul office, who 1 been winding up the Board’s affa there, leaves for England on 1c leave this month. He expects return early in 1955, and proba will nil the position of Harboi master in one of the Territor ports.

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Interesting Survey by Experienced Commissioner

IN more than one editorial note, we have suggested that the countries which provide the money for the South Pacific Com mission, and the Islands countries for which it is maintained, are not getting full value because there is something lacking in the machinery by which accepted Commission re commendations are given effect to * on the legislative level, by the six member Governments Australia, France, New Zealand, United King dom, United States, Netherlands.

Following is a letter written to the Editor by Mr. C. G. R. McKay, who is a New Zealand member of the Commission, and who probably is New Zealand's wisest and most experienced Islands administrator.

We agree entirely with Mr. McKay s summary, but we still should like to know what actually has been done by the Governments of the six nations, directly and officially, to Implement the recommendations of the Commission AN editorial note in your July issue asks “The SPC: What Really is being Accomplished ? —as indeed it should. As an old Islands resident myself, a search for practical results has been my main preoccupation since I was appointed a member of the Com mission. , A booklet of 20 pages was pub lished recently, entitled; The South Pacific Commission —What it has done.” It was widely distributed.

In an endeavour to find what more the Commission can do, I re peatedly ask for criticisms from those it serves —i.e., people and authorities of the Pacific Islands.

The following, from the New Zea land administered islands, are a fair average of their comments: “Most helpful” . . .‘‘Western Samoa benefits from the many other more general Commission projects" ... “Impressed by the calibre of the Commission's staff”

“The experts engaged must be good enough” ... “The Litera ture Bureau is a valuable service” ... “Publicity side is poor” ...

“Good value for the expenditure on the Commission” . . . . “Satis fying that the Commission is con fining its attention to the more urgent problems” ... “Spirit of endeavour apparent at its head quarter s” . . . . “Mountains of paper” ... “The activities of the Commission appear to us to be very satisfactory.”

Many Islands residents know of the assistance given by Pieris on copra; Urquhart on cocoa; of the joint full-scale attack being made on the rhinoceros beetle; of advice given on Co-operatives to 16 of the 18 Pacific administrations: of re search into filariasis, malaria, diet

and nutrition: of specialist visits arranged to advise on leprosy and eye diseases; of assistance to com munity development undertakings in several groups; of- the Literature Bureau in Sydney equipped to fill the vast and dangerous vacuum of good reading material; of the steady outflow of technical advice in printed papers. One of them makes constructive suggestions to remedy the unbalance of costly social services without corresponding economic development; another be gins, “Malaria is a thoroughly pre ventable disease.”

They may know that the Com mission, of its own initiative, has re duced its meetings in order to spend less time on discussion and provide more for output.

The 40-odd delegates who met in Noumea last year, representing not officialdom but Islands people, ex amined the work of the Commission and commended both its results and the sincerity of the Governments who established it.

All this costs money; but the cost is very small compared with what each of the Governments spends on its Territories in other ways. In no country does the annual cost reach threepence per head, and most of the Territories pay nothing.

The key answer to your question ing, and mine, is that the constitu

tion of the Commission makes advisory. Within this realistic lirr ation there is a qualified staff woi mg devotedly and producing ■ best technical advice that can found. None of it lies hidden Government files; it is all publish and widely distributed.

Here is a recent judgment fr< : responsible Islands author!

There is no doubt but that 1 Commission is carrying out work great value to the Pacific, the cn limiting factor being the varic communities’ ability to digest a apply their findings and advice / I am, etc.,

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Meanwhile, Hotel Papua us< Hotel Moresby as an “overflow’ and travellers who think they hai reserved in the “Top Hotel,” an find themselves placed in tt “Lower Hotel”, express frequent dij content. Two in a room, or shak€ downs, or “sorry—booked right oul is now part of daily routine i Moresby’s hotel business as in Am tralia; but travellers who once kne' the comforts and pleasures of well organised travel do not take kind! to it.

By contrast, I have had exceller hotel accommodation in Lae (Mr; Flo Stewart) and Goroka (Mr; Ellen Pitt) —two hotels run b women of pre-war experience, wh really do strive to meet the need of the ever-increasing travellers.—F On September 14, Qantas Empir Airways will introduce a new a first-class service across the Pacifli to be known as the “Connoisseur.

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SEPTEMBER, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLU

of Labour in P-NG (Says Labour)

pp. 35-36

How Cock-eyed Can You Get?

Liberals Have Undone Good Work of Labour in P-NG (Says Labour)

The article that follows was published in the Brisbane “Courier Mail” in late August. It is written by Jack Schmella, State secretary of the Australian Labour Party. The article follows the hysteria that has gripped certain sections of the Australian public since two patrol officers were murdered at Telefomin, NG. in November.

THE Labor Party is concerned about New Guinea, and fears that this most important terri tory is not receiving the expert ad ministrative attention and legis lative consideration it deserves. • During the Chifley Government’s lerm, Labour took enterprising and positive action designed to further the development of New Guinea.

Following that Government’s de feat, many of Labour’s projects and proposals went by the board.

This happened although they were considered by world leaders as be ing most humanitarian and pro gressive in outlook.

Under the Chifley Government’s direction there was a marked im provement.

The Administrator of Papua and New Guinea, Colonel J. K. Murray, a man of high academic and tech nical qualifications, built up a re markable record of achievement which attracted admiration and at tention throughout the world.

But he was replaced by the Menzies-Fadden Government by an Administrator whose chief claim to fame was apparently the fact that he had been a political organiser for the Liberal Party.

It should never be forgotten that

the responsibilities of governing the Territories of Papua and New Guinea are of our own choosing, and therefore we must always accept the responsibility which we have taken upon ourselves.

New Guinea is a vast, practically undeveloped island right at our front door and from the very im portant defence aspect, if from no other, it is essential that the Gov ernment should give New Guinea the attention it deserves.

THE fact that we have not fulfilled our obligations is shown by circumstances surrounding the sentencing to death of 34 natives for the murder of two Australian patrol officers in New Guinea.

These 34 natives, mentally back in the Stone Age, were sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Gore fol lowing the Telefomin trouble.

No one can in any way condone attacks on officers of the law in New Guinea but the plain fact is that these primitive natives, perhaps, would not have the slightest idea as to what their trial would be all about.

The Labour Party is opposed to capital punishment at all times. In no case is it more opposed than in circumstances such as those men tioned. (Over)

granted that the Common wealth Government has to enforce a proper respect for our laws, and ,^ e . ason ,able citizen must agree with this wholeheartedly.

But it is the Government’s re sponsibility also to ensure that the primitive men of Telefomin did not decide to kill Government officers because of any actions of Govern ment servants, because of adminis trative failure by its Ministers, or because of bias in its policies.

New Guinea committee of the Australian Labour Party has carefully considered all aspects of these tragedies, and has affirmed its belief that the causes of the tiagedies can be found in the prior history of the area. . . (It would like to know) whether certain actions or lack of appropriate action, on the part of the officers re sponsible for the area, contributed to the anger of the natives, who know so little of white men and their ways, and who have been in contact with whites for onlv a few years at most. . . J The opinion is reiterated that only by an open public inquiry will the facts of this matter be established.

The committee believes that the only way the Federal Executive Council can be properly ad vised of all the circumstances is bV holding such a public inquiry and it is not considered that reports of departmental officers will provide the complete picture.

Surely the Government, if it

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The Governor of Eastern Samoa, Mr. Richard B. Lowe (in centre holding cigar), ad the High Commissioner of Western Samoa, Mr. G. R. Powles, with Judge Morrow right, front row), after the traditional Kava ceremony of welcome when Mr. Powles [?]sited Pago Pago in August as guest of the Governor. Also in the picture are amoan officials and members of the Governor's staff. A taupo—one of the village [?]ergins who play a picturesque part in the Samoan Kava ceremony—stands between their Excellencies. —Photo by Jack Thornton.

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p. 39

Anti-TB Campaign

Letter to the Editor CRITICS of the state of affairs in U Fiji’s War Memorial ten-year campaign against tuberculosis ,re not all impressed by the bland ontention of a correspondent (July *IM), that all is well.

The correspondent, apparently ware of only one side in the con roversy, presumably missed the >oint that when the last official tatement —which he quotes—was »üblished in the local press, the jovernment statement issued in Lpril, 1949, on which the whole war tiemorial appeal was based, was re >rinted beside it.

It might be pointed out to the ipologist who wrote to the PIM, hat not one of the main points of iriticism of the campaign in terms )f the original statement has yet )een satisfactorily answered.

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Suva, Fiji, August 11, 1954.

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The Island Territories Depart ments annual report for the year ended March 31, 1954, shows that ,J i Lfj? mare ’ s run t 0 the Cooks lost £40,965 as compared with £41,256 the previous year. Noting that with a ship of this age the annual survey and overhaul costs tend to increase year by year”—the vessel is in her 28th year of service—the report says that, while it does not pay to uplift less than 1,000 cases of fruit at an outer island, from a humane point of view it must be remembered that every case of fruit exported means about £1 in circula tion in that island.

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Fiji’s Manganese Boom

p. 41

Emperor & Loloma Interest

MANGANESE mining, in the

f l immediate post-war years egarded as a poor man’s game, hows every sign of becoming a

rig industry in Fiji.

; Until the last couple of years the ndustry was carried on mostly by hdians, who worked the deposits in he simplest fashion and shipped he crude ore overseas in drums.

Larger-sc ale operations with bull lozers and other earth-moving quipment has now commenced.

Associated Mining Companies, iperators of the big Emperor and ,oloma gold mines on Viti Levu, are aking an interest in manganese, ,nd will soon investigate open-cut irospects on the north-west side of he island.

This was announced by Mr. N. lilsen, chief general manager, who isited the area in August. He aid that if prospects were suf- Iciently promising, the manganese [eld would be developed extensively, nth new roads and possibly a new tort accessible to the field.

Mr. Nilsen has also advised his lirectors to embark on a big de elopment plan at the gold mines, larticularly deep underground work. ?he decision is the result of ex laustive explorations. The work will ake some time and require con iderable funds and labour (of which here is a present shortage).

Last year Fiji exported manganese vorth £33,000 and gold worth 993,000.

Output of gold by the Emperor >old Mining Co. Ltd. increased to 0,507 fine ounces in the year to

June 30, compared with 57,221 fine ounces in the previous year. Ore treated was 159,572 long tons com pared with 156,982 long tons. Lower grade ore accounted for a sharp drop in production by Loloma (Fiji) Gold Mines, N.L., in the same period.

Fine gold produced was 11,462 ounces from 22,592 long tons of ore, compared with 19,097 ounces from 19,413 long tons in the previous year. fl Sister Avis Martin, of the LMS, arrived in Samarai, Papua, in late July, on her way to Fyfe Bay to relieve Sister Clatworthy, who is going on leave. Sister Martin re cently returned from England and until her posting to Fyfe Bay had been stationed at the Mission’s Hospital at Kapuna, Port Rommily.

Scouting’s Top Award

p. 41

At the opening of the new Rover Den, [?]t Boroka, Port Moresby, on August 18, Brig. Cleland pinned the Medal of Merit [?]n Mr. Des Large, now Assistant Com [?]nissioner for Scouts in the Territory. The Medal of Merit is scouting’s highest award. —Photo by Papuan Prints.

Early Missionary

pp. 41-43

Remembered

DR. W. E. Sangster, noted Eng lish Methodist minister, visit ing Fiji, in July, consecrated the foundations of a new John Hunt Memorial Chapel, which is being erected on Viwa Island.

John Hunt died at Viwa in 1848, at the age of 36, following ten years of mission work in the Colony. He composed much of the Methodist Church hymn music sung in Fiji churches to-day, and was responsible for translations of parts of the New Testament into the Fijian language.

French Oceania exported 17,200 metric tons of copra during 1953,

Mr. Krishna Poonan, F. Com. A.

Ing.), FLSA (Eng.), of the Fiji iblic Works Department, has ,ssed the finals of his professional

Secretaryship Examination in Eng land, and has been elected an Asso ciate of the incorporated body of Secretaries and Executives.

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Above: Mrs. Lucy Brodie, well-known resident of New Guinea, who has had[?] long holiday—partly a working holiday in the UK. This photograph was taken she was leaving to attend a Buckingh[?] Palace Garden party a few weeks as

Below: Miss Jeannette Cressw[?] daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Cressw[?] well-known residents of New Brita[?] Miss Cresswell is photographed in t[?] Hartnell gown in which she was present to the Queen at Buckingham Palace July.

Resident Commissioner’s Resting Place

p. 43

The grave of Mr. C. W. Larsen (left foreground) looks out over the sea from [?]fi Village, administrative headquarters of Niue Island. Mr. Larsen was murdered August, 1953, by three of the Islanders who are at present serving life sentences. he headstone on the grave was erected by his colleagues on Niue. Mr. Larsen’s grave next to that of the Chief of Patuiki (seen right), one of the last of the Niuean [?]ramount chiefs who died in 1887. —Photo by Jack Thornton.

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p. 44

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FIGURES just released show that £133,411 was added to the Fund in the year ending June 30, 1954. Only £19,639 was withdrawn in the period. There were, in addition to the compulsory “cess”, about £725 in what are called “vol untary contributions.”

The fund at June 30, was £383,444 —about £120,000 more than at the corresponding period last year.

Largest contribution in the year just ended was from Cakaudrove Province, with £46,000; Lau was second with £35,000.

The fund is designed to provide permanent improvements for the Fijian community—village water supplies, health and education ser vices, etc. It was felt that if all the money that Fijians are getting

for their copra were left in their hands, much of it would be frittered away on non-essentials.

U There is much regret expressed throughout the New Guinea High lands at the decision of Mr. Ray Harris to “fold up” his TAL (Terri tories Airlines Ltd) and accept the important post of Chief Examiner

of Airmen in the Department Civil Aviation in P-NG. Mr. Han a very competent pilot, has operat four Dragons in and around t Highlands for some time, and 1 given magnificent—as well as wi ing and cheerful—service to t various isolated communities. It understood that TAL aircraft a equipment will be sold.

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Ronaldson-Tippett Petrol and Diesel Engines, and Lighting Plants.

Sleepmakers Ltd., Mattresses and Bedding.

Stenor Industries Pty. Ltd., Garage Equipment.

N. E. Edmonds, "S”-Rotor Ventilators.

Cleveland Engineering and Welding Co. Ltd., Tubular Steel Tank Stands and High Fly Holsts.

Anders and Co., Barford “Atom” Garden Tractor and Tillage Equipment.

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If Quality of Mercy Must Be Strained:

The prerogative of mercy in the case of a criminal convicted !by the Papua and New Guinea Court, will in future be exercised !by the Governor-General of Australia.

PREVIOUSLY the power of mercy has rested in the hands of the Administrator of the Territory. : This and several other minor Amendments to the Papua and New 3uinea Act were introduced in the Australian Parliament in August.

In introducing the amendment joncerning mercy (“a pardon, free ,r conditional, or a remission or jommutation of sentence. ”) the Minister for Territories, Mr. Paul lasluck, said that it “was quite m ippropriate for an official to be re mired to exercise such powers in -egard to a sentence of death. Only it the highest level should such mthority be exercised.”

Mr. Hasluck made haste to assure he House that the introduction of his amendment, at this time, had 10 relation to recent events —and hat the present Bill had been in Iraft form for many months.

The “recent events” to which the Minister refers are, of course, the incalled-for clamor in Australia hat the Telefomin murderers, entenced to death recently m Vewak by Mr. Justice Gore, should lot hang.

If what the Minister says is cor ect, then the timing of the Bill is infortunate as it merely raises in he minds of sensation-hungry Aus ralians the idea of last-minute egislation to save 30-odd natives rom this “official” who it is in erred, could rush off and hang hem out of hand.

Australians, by and large, know lothing of native psychology or how Jritish justice is taken to them, and he whole Telefomin affair, as we iave pointed out previously, is one hat could safely have been left in he hands of experienced Adminis ration officials.

It has been claimed on numerous (ccasions that it is unfitting that he man at the head of an import mt Territory like PNG—the man dr. Hasluck refers to as “an official -should be called an Administrator, men the men at the head of much ess important neighbouring tern ories are “Governors” or “High Commissioners,” entitled to be iddressed as “His Excellency” and aking precedence over Adminis rators.

As amendments to the P-NG Act rere on the agenda, attention to this tbsurd situation would have been in »rder. fWTHER amendments to the Act L/ proposed by Mr. Hasluck in August were;

• The title of Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of the Territory to be changed to Chief Justice, and accompanied by a provision to appoint the present Chief Judge, Mr. Justice Phillips, as Chief Justice with continuity of office.

* All references to Native Village Councils in the principal Act to be replaced by the words “Native Local Government Councils,” because, in practice, the majority of Councils established have not been set up in relation to individual villages but have been formed to represent several groups of villages. • An official member of the Legis lative Council to be enabled to re sign his seat—there previously has been no provision for this. • The Governor-General to be able to withhold assent from any part of an ordinance—instead, as at pre sent, being able to give or withhold assent from any ordinance only in its entirety.

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Fish Stories . . .

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Attorney-General William Hedman re ntes the popular belief that only the

Japanese are catching fish in Eastern Samoan waters as he stands beside his 200 lb black Marlin. Although no giant among marlins, it was landed in half an hour on a very light line.

It could test the strength of any man —but, says Mr. Tom Harris, of Santo, New Hebrides, this large Groper, centre, was caught by a Miss Sophie Tung on a single halyard. Given weight, 869 lbs.

The giant murene eel (right), supported for the photograph by a still doubtful native, for years terrorised would-be trochus fishermen on the barrier reef off La Foa, New Caledonia. Two Lifou

(Loyalty Islands) men recently appeared, however, and, disregarding local tales of the eel’s viciousness, went after it.

Well over six feet in length, the murene died hard; two heavy harpoons in the head enabled the natives to pull the creature from its hole, but an axe was needed to kill it.

With the menace removed, both natives proceeded to collect their reward —nearly 15 bags of trochus shell.

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Rhino Eradication

p. 48

Toads Will Handicap Rhino Eradication

T HE giant toad, introduced to

Fiji to clean up pests in the

cane fields, is unpopular now

because it will not eat Rhinceros beetle grubs—and does eat some of the other predators which will.

The toad, says an August release from the Fiji Department of Agri culture, is likely to prove a severe handicap to the introduction of many useful predators largely be cause they feed on ground beetles of the carabid family. Toads them selves are not interested in either adult rhinoceros beetles or grubs.

All of which goes to show that if you upset the balance of nature by the introduction to a country of any new form of life you will almost certainly, in the long run, get some very unexpected results.

Giant toads were introduced to some of the New Guinea islands just before the war, and now, par ticularly in New Britain, exist in un told thousands.

In Fiji, as one generation suc ceeded another, the toads got smaller until these days they are just about

normal toad size. In the New Guinea islands they are still giant —many of them about the size of yc)ung pups. Apart from being hideous, their corpses strew the roads and the smell of toad toast ing in the next day’s sun is one of the lingering memories of New Britain.

But what is more to the point, they seem to have made no im pression on the pests of local coco nuts and cocoa.

I The Assistant Colonial Secretar (Administration) of Fiji, Mr. J. V Sykes, has been transferred t Cyprus as Deputy Colonial Secre tary. Mr. Sykes began his Colonu Service career in 1938, when he wer to Fiji as a Cadet. He held seven positions in the Secretariat froi 1944 till early 1953, when he ws appointed Assistant Colonial Secre tary. For his work in arrangin the recent Royal visit to Fiji he wa made a Commander of the Rovj Victorian Order.

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Returning Home from NZ

p. 49

These travellers returned to Samoa from New Zealand recently (left to right): Miss Aniva Johnston homeward bound after 16 months in New Zealand; Rev. Father Nikolao Tupesina, SM, after 18 months as a parish priest in New Zealand, returning to duties in Samoa; Mr. F. Taumoepeau, Tongan Medical Practitioner, returned to work after holidaying in Sydney; Mr. R. H. Jessup, after six years in a Government department at Hamilton, NZ, returned to Apia as manager for a new branch of the Suva firm, Corrie & Co. He was formerly an employee of W. Samoa Government.

Sailing North

p. 49

Heading north for the Islands from Auckland, NZ, recently, were: Mrs. P.

Brahne, with Audrey and Linda, returning to Apia, where Mr. Brahne is accountant for Burns Philp.

Mr. E. W. Turner, a director of Turners & Growers, Ltd., Auckland, who paid a routine business visit to Fiji in August, accompanied by Mrs. Turner.

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These figures were released in the “port of the Island Territories De artment tabled in the House of Representatives in Wellington in .ugust.

The majority are Samoans —Samoa aving the highest population of [Z’s island territories. Most are oung people, although many imilies have also settled.

Official reasons for the migration re social problems in their home lands (such as population pressure nd land shortage) and the greater pportunities for educational and xmomic advancement in New Zea md.

Noting the accommodation diffi ilties experienced by Islanders in ew Zealand, the report states that lere is “a steady though not vocal •sistance” to accepting them into le better homes and boarding ouses.

Though the report does not say ), it is felt in New Zealand by lose who know the Islanders, that lis is due to excessive publicity

given to every case of crime amongst Islanders in the country. A sur vey would probably show that the percentage of crime amongst them is actually no greater, or even less, than the percentage of crime amongst the remainder of the popu lation. Thus, to maintain a good name, Islanders are called on to maintain more than just average good behaviour. Almost all Islander crime is associated with liquor.

One other reason why Islanders are not welcome in boarding houses and blocks of flats is because of their custom of having frequent noisy parties. The strum of the Island guitar and the sound of voices sing ing, might be welcome enough on one night per week, but never on six or seven. Thus, even the most tender-hearted landlady shies at the sight of a guitar in the luggage of a respectable looking young Islander —and the seeker for accom modation departs wrongly imagin ing that it was prejudice which closed the door.

Mr. J. H. Luxford, Mayor or Auck land, and a former chief judge in Western Samoa for six years, at a public function in August appealed for a more friendly and understand ing attitude on the part of the Euro pean population. It was natural that they should look towards New Zealand as a land of opportunity, he said, and it was a mistake to imagine that Islanders were natural farmers. They were not. In the old days, agricultural work was per

formed by slaves. The people were naturally adapted to the arts and crafts. Given a chance, they cbula play an equal part with the Eqro pean in all walks of life in New Zealand.

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the District.

At present, under construction by trained native carpenters under European supervision, are three new bridges over branches of the Mur mass river. They will be 200 ft, 55 ft, and 50 ft, respectively. When these are completed it will be pos sible to travel by car from Madang right up to Serang, and thence to the Idium river.

On August 18, Mr. Ellis drove his International utility from the Mur mass river—near Mr. John Cox’s camp at Modu—to the Idium river, which is 61 miles from Madang.

This was the first time the journey had been made by a conventional vehicle. He crossed the Murmass and Sumerang rivers by bamboo raft but found bridges over the other

seven. They included one Bailey bridge, three of reinforced concrete and steel, and three built of Kwila bearers with airstrip matting for decking, and concrete abutments.

The journey took approximately one day, with stops to hold “Court” at various native villages en route.

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The first section of the road fro; the Murmass onwards past Mr, To Huxley’s station at Bagildek, is < rather loose earth and gritty forms tion. But from the Dell river or wards the road has been built I local natives and is in good cond tion.

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The Rev. A. Lowden has resigned rom the Yarraville Presbyterian Dhurch, Melbourne, to become a nissionary in the New Hebrides.

Recent arrivals in Auckland, NZ, from he Cook Is. included (top to bottom): Mrs. L. Raynes, with Moeroa and Fgatupuna, who will attend school at Luckland.

Miss N. Ruta and Miss T. Matthew [?]ho will work in New Zealand.

Mr. Roy Lidgard, of a well-known [?]uckland boat-building firm, returned [?]rom surveying the Union Co. lighters.

Vith him is little Vaine Atini and Miss Ktimi Tiria.

Miss Emily Hoff who was met on her arrival at Auckland by Mrs. John and Mrs. Henry (right).

Hooligans In Suva

p. 53

“Snooker Gang"

prtVE Fijians charged on four JL 1 counts of assault appeared m the Suva Court mid-July. They were Taito Roba (sentenced to 15 months’ gaol), Manasa Nau 1 u (fined £5) Isimeli Nadiri (two years’ gaol) and Sovita Turaga and Yabaki Vola who were acquitted because of insufficient identification.

The police prosecutor said there were undoubtedly others involved in the crimes in question, but it was difficult to identify all who were involved.

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Assaults such as this have been put down to the activities of the “Snooker Gang,” although it was not disclosed that the offenders in Court were members of it. The gang consists of a group of Fijian hool£ gans who operate from an up-town kava saloon and they have made Suva residents cautious about walk ing along quiet or poorly lit streets.

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Londucted By Ex Zk-1-Ac/Vr-2-Ak.

(Address notes to P.O. Box 5179, Auckland, N.Z.) □'ROM Canton Island conies news that there are currently four active tations—Kß6AO, 6AQ, 6AY, and 6 BA. [owever Fred, 6AY, is reported leaving lie Island soon, for Honolulu again.

Biggest news from the sand spit is that liese stations—and other American Island tations —now have permission to work 9-metres, this apparently coming into »rce late July last, since when 6AY and BA have been heard on that band. These iro are active all bands, CW and phone, he other two stations are on 14 mc/s hone. The removal of the American 80letre ban should considerably boost ctivities on this band in the Islands.

To add to the Pitcairn confusion we ow have word from SMBBJO, a Swedish tobile. that he was assured, during a scent commercial contact with the land that no Hams are active from VR6 nd none have been active in recent lonths. VR6AY is still hoping, however, > come on some day when repaired ear is available.

Some ZL phone stations were heard ‘marking in mid-August that a ZM7 had een heard. We have no confirmation but ssume that ZM6AS may have made a okelau excursion. He has been heard nder the home call 3.5/7/14 mc/s bands. (LATER. A last minute message from tan-VR2AS, sheds some light on the ugust Tokelau activities. It seems that arry-VR2BZ and Ron-ZM6AR were both i action. As crew members of a routine NZAF Sunderland flight from Apia Barry >ok along a ZC-1 and worked about 25 ontacts on both 40/20 metres, including ix happy ZL’s between August 15 and 18. he rig would not tune up on phone, all was apparently ZM7B—as Stan gives on’s as ZM7A. No details of Ron’s con icts. Stan says Barry will repeat the erformance on next flight, normally in bout November. He will then use 20/40/80 hone and CW and will look mainly for L/YK contacts.) Roland out on Rapa keeps the FOBAD ill-sign in evidence. He will be sadly lissed if he returns to Papeete at the nd of the year, as was forecast.

We hear that there are at present at jast six Hams in RNZN vessels or shore

stations, any of whom are likely to be heard from time to time during Island cruises. Petty Officer M. J. Haggo, ZL-l-AIT, was very active during the recent cruise of “Black Prince” to Fiji, Tonga and the Cooks. Others are Petty Officer Fraser of “Hawea”, Chief Radio Electrician Mulgrew of “Black Prince”, Leading Telegraphist P. Smith of “Tui”, and Chief Electrician P. Mulgren of “Black Prince”. At HMNZS “Irirangi, naval shore radio station at Waiouru in the centre of the North Island there is Petty Officer Telegraphist G. Luscombe.

All of these men are liable to be trans ferred from vessel to vessel.

July QST carries an interesting story on the Clipperton Island Ham expedition of April this year, during which 1108 contacts were made with overseas Hams during the less than 3 days stay on the Island.

The expedition, which was financed by the Hallicrafters Company and donations from Hams, met with an inordinate amount of ill luck and excitement. It

was the brain-child of Robert Denniston, W-O-NWX, and permission to visit the island was obtained from the Tahiti and Paris authorities through the good offices of FDA A.

A twin-diesel motor yacht named “Sea Rider” was chartered as the first vehicle of transport, XE-l-H assisting in obtain ing permission from the Mexican authorities for the expedition to kick off from Acapulco after bringing their equip ment by land from the States. Even so, a lot of Customs difficulties occurred.

“Sea Rider” finally got away but when still a long way from Clipperton, the navigator tripped over some gear on deck while taking a sight and smashed his sextant, so it was decided to turn back.

The 85-foot schooner-yacht “Barca de

The heart of communications in Rarotonga. The receiver building and operat ing rooms are at centre. White arrow on right marks the QTH of Doug, ZK-1-AB. a much heard CW call.

Oro II” was then chartered. This was possibly the same yach't as cruised through the Pacific about 194“, visiting Papeete, Suva and other places.

Off again, the yacht was in sight of Clipperton when the engine broke down— the sails, which were in very sick con dition, had earlier been blown out.

Overnight the yacht drifted out of sight of the island again, in a strong set.

Then the Mexican Navy was called to assist, and they sent three patrol craft, one of which, promptly locating the yacht, towed her up to Clipperton. A landing was made and the Ham team of several operators got busy.

Meanwhile engine spares were brought from Mexico by another of the naval craft.

Repairs were effected and all ended happily, though overseas Hams would undoubtedly have liked a few more weeks of activity on the part of FOSAJ.

What seems to be required by the DX men is a permanent mobile yacht-station which can be engaged full-time in setting up shop briefly at the rare locations.

Bob Roberts, G2RO, a Colonial Adviser of Broadcasting, seems to have been appearing on the air in various Colonies in recent months under local call-signs.

He was scheduled to appear from VR2.

Crystal frequencies are given as 7030/14060 kc/s as primaries and “008/14016 as secondaries.

The call-block KG6RA-RZ is reserved for Ham stations on Iwo Jima, Kapin gamarangi, Rota and Guam, according to a recent announcement.

Though unreported locally, CE-O-AC on Easter Island, seems to have come to life.

July QST shows him active on 14 mc/s

*“ “ 7 Chas - Freeman ’ ex VR2CD/ZL4FH/- ZL3AL/ZL-1-81, who is now VE7ASL, was - commence a mobile tour of the States ,n Augrust ’ to ,ast for ab <>ut three months, after wbich he wiU take off for Hawaii Island ports.

The following New Guinea alterations

are notified: VK9AB postal address P.( Box 38, Port Moresby; VK9GB has shifte from Rabaul to Lae, still c/o OTC; VK9K has shifted from Port Moresby to c/ The Residency, Rabaul. R. C. Fawke formerly VK9FK, is now VKSFK, and es VK9GM is now VK2JM.

Remember those photos from a quarters. We’ll be glad to use them.

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These people were recently in New ealand from Polynesia: (Top to Bottom) Mr. Magauli, Mr. F. [?]aimalo and Miss L. Fagaloa from W. [?]amoa; Mrs. Tela, Mrs. Ete, Mr. Tapu, [?]r. Lusi, and Mr. L. Jessop from W. amoa; Mr. and Mrs. Garth Hocking, [?]eturning from visiting relations of Mrs. [?]ocking in Fiji, were met by Mr. P. [?]aybin at Auckland; The Williams family [?]nd (right) Miss Holland, all from W. amoa.

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on August 1. Papua defeated New Guinea 34-18.

The lower photograph shows the New Guinea Seconds who defeated their opposite Papuan numbers on the same day in Rabaul by 25 to nil. —Photos by C. H. Meen.

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AFTER four years in the BSIP, the men of the Second Aus tralian Bomb Disposal Unit will soon leave for Australia.

Since April, the Unit has been operating in the Western Solomons and has disposed of more than 2,600 bombs, 590 shells, 670 mortar bombs, and 40 grenades and flares. Most of these were dumped, and included fifty 2,000 lb HE bombs, one 1,000 lb HE bomb, 177 81mm, 25 lb. mortar bombs, and five 100 lb in cendiaries.

During the last 12 months approximately 1,000 tons of ordn ance have been blown, dumped or rendered safe. Most of it had de teriorated after ten years in dumps and was often extremely dangerous to handle.

A survey of ordnance on Choiseul, the Shortland Islands and the Treasury Islands was undertaken during June and July. By the end of July, and with the aid of two surf-boats hired from the Trade Scheme at Gizo, all the ordnance collected at Munda was dumped.

Bombs In Rabaul

NATIVES in Rabaul who have been banging bottles on the nose of a live 15 lb mortar bomb possibly owe their lives to an Aus tralian Bomb Disposals Unit operat ing in the area.

The unit found the bomb, with its nose sticking out of the ground, near Rabaul basketball field.

Broken bottles were strewn around it.

Sergeant Harry Krohn, a dis posals expert, said that another direct hit on the nose would have exploded' the bomb, “blowing them all to glory.” The safety cap in the

bomb was hanging only by a rus thread.

The unit detonated more than 1 bombs in the Rabaul area duri] August, many of them near t] large Vunapope Catholic Missioi if Mrs. A. M. Stoneham, of Cain Qld., had a short holiday with h son John and his wife at Samar

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Minister Webb, the last of the NZ official excursionists to visit the Cook Islands, has returned to the Dominion saying that his visit (it lasted about a week) was an “outstanding success”; two Auckland newspapers have devoted 40 feet of space to the Group since May; and many New Zealanders have discovered the Cooks for the first time.

[T was a group of Rarotonga Island Councillors who started the ball rolling in mid-May when their letters to New Zealand newspapers about taxation made headlines. But t seems that the great official “look see” is just about over, and that the newspapers and the people will, mce more, forget about their Islands territory.

No official statement on the find ngs of the Minister of Island Terri tories and his investigating team lad been released up to late August, )ut the two Auckland papers, in a series of frequently conflicting ,rticles, barely mentioned what must >e the two most important pro )lems: —land ownership and its ‘fleets on the development of the slands; and emigration by the pick >f the young people.

Remarkable, and surely unjust, vas the sharp criticism of the per nanent European population—the mly people currently paying their ;axes—said to have been referred to >y the Resident Commissioner col ectively as “the beach Europeans,” luring the August meeting of the legislative Council.

The Minister seems to have made limself clear to these same beach Europeans, in what has been de cribed as a stormy one-hour meet ng with the Rarotonga Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Webb would not liscuss water supplies, roads, ship >ing or income tax, and members, liter the meeting, reported that hey had been treated as “nothing >ut a group of malcontents.”

Here are the comments of some nembers after this meeting: A: “The meeting was a waste of Lme. We are no further ahead than >efore.”

B: “The Minister did not want o hear about the water situation md has no interest in the Cook slands.”

C: “The Commission Jiad all the mswers worked out before they got lere and are out to whitewash the Administration.”

D: “The Minister was quite cor ect in dismissing subjects that vere up for discussion by Leg Co. le did show marked interest in i banana-replanting suggestion.”

E: “The Minister is an astute nan who has a valuable adviser in dr. Jack Wright, who is familiar vith local conditions. He was quite ight in refusing to discuss matters ilready on remit for Leg Co.”

UNFORTUNATELY, the Admin istration has been insulated for so long from any outside criticism, that local critics have come to be viewed with extreme dis favour, however fair and reason able their criticism may be. Now,

the Minister’s visit has no other effect it probably will have succeeded widening the gap between beach Europeans” and Administra tion.

NZ correspondents who travelled with the Commission, were asked to handle their stories “in a certain way. ttS 11 ? least ref used to do , wl ? J a t the “ wa y” was, or whether it had any effect on their writings, is not known, but it could have influenced one paper’s report on the citrus industry.

The . correspondent found that this had the whole-hearted co-opera tion of the Maori population it has—so long as the Department of Agriculture does the work and ad vances the capital. But to suggest that the citrus industry would sur vive without the constant super vision of the Department is very

:ar from the truth, as everyone in Ihe islands knows.

I How different the fruit industry in he Cooks would be if the unthmk ible happened—that is, land titles tfere freed so that a few European >lanters could lease land and de relop citrus plantations on the same inancial terms as are offered to the Maoris. Over-night, hundreds of icres of idle land would be brought nto cultivation, and hundreds of ocal people would, very happily, find hemselves in receipt of a regular >ay-cheque as employees of the

Curopean orchardists.

But that, of course, is exploita ion, however financially well-off it night make the local people. That ippears to be the attitude to-day werywhere in the Pacific, from New Juinea to Tahiti: If the local people lo not want to develop their land hen certainly no one else is going o be permitted to do so.

This view seems to be reaching ts ultimate absurdity in the sug :estion from the Cooks that the slands are already over-populated, hough great areas of rich land are vergrown with weeds. The cultiv ble land there is 3,946 acres, and he population 2,500.

No one would suggest that the tandard of living in Rarotonga /as lower 100 years ago than it is o-day—yet the population then was ery much higher as the remains f old villages in the, mountains learly indicate.

ON his return. Mr. Webb said that the Cooks’ financial dependence on New Zealand could not be regarded as a liability but as part of the responsibilities of the “haves” to the “have nots.” He said the mission was “an outstanding suc cess.” He was sure it would enhance mutual confidence.

Consideration would be given, he said, to appointing a member of Parliament to look after Cook Islands affairs in New Zealand and to attend annual meetings of the Legislative Council. This appoint ment would not affect in any way the workings of the existing system of local government. He admitted that there was probably a weakness in the existing public relations in the group. Measures would be taken to improve this situation and make the people more aware of the aims of the Government and the admin istration, to avoid misunderstand ings.

Nothing would be done to hurry the transition from the old to new ways of life. If the people wished to retain the Ariki system much the same could be done as was be ing done in Western Samoa.

The Government was not wedded to the New Zealand system of taxation for the group. If the Legis lative Council could put forward some other system more suited to local requirements, it would be acceptable. The people had said that they were ready and willing

to contribute towards their own sup port. He had warned the Legis- ; lative Council of the dangers of* pressing for too much political in^ dependence before achieving a greater measure of economic in dependence. He was satisfied that the people would probably never desire complete self-government. of W the Rarotonga lll heat 0 1 6 Harotonga heat in regard

to taxation—on the part of a small but influential Maori minority—had dwindled. There was even said to be some shame over the spirited cor respondence between these people and the Government.

IF the 40 feet of interesting and sometimes provocative news clip pings reach the Cooks they should produce at least 40 pounds weight of letters to the respective editors from angry “beach Europeans” and an over-sensitive Administration.

But unless the letters are pub lished, news from the Cooks for the next decade will revert to the

rare three lines on a tidal wavi visiting yacht, or hurricane, and th New Zealand taxpayer, forgettin all about the Group, will pay ut whatever the cost.

H Mr. E. M. Derrick, Scout Com missioner for training in Victors has gone to Fiji to help in train ing native Scout leaders.

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Conducted by Raimanu SEAGULLS and Terns: Your “Tropicalities” item of March last, “Hard Living,” moves me to say a few words about the sea birds seen in the Pacific, seagulls and terns.

The visitor to your Auckland office had the good story about the sea gulls which were flying on one wing around the Japanese fishing boats off Samoa, because they were carry ing their lunch under the other one!

It won’t hurt a good story if I men tion that there are no seagulls in Samoa, only terns.

For that matter, there are only terns in most parts of the South Pacific. The Australian silver gull reaches New Caledonia and the Lovalty Islands. Australians travel ling to Fiji on the Qantas flying boats used to get their last glimpse of these birds when they came down at Noumea. In Fiji and groups to the east you won’t find any gulls, but you will find plenty of terns.

Whai’s the difference, anyhow, the ordinary man will ask?

There is the difference in build which you will notice if you take a good look at them. The gull is characteristically more dumpy, with short neck, robust body, short tail and fairly heavy bill. The terns, generally speaking, are more slender and graceful. Their wings are usually long and tapering, and their tails longer than those of the gulls, in some cases very long, and usually more or less forked.

Then watch them in flight. You will not see terns soaring, but you will see the gulls, though they do it at a greater height than the petrels and shearwaters, which usually skim the surface of the ocean. The characteristic flight of the terns is rather jerky.

Which of the terns might be seen iround the Japanese fishing boats in Samoan waters? It is risky for me to answer, because I haven’t been to Samoa, and those who have writ ten about the islands are not agreed. I feel certain that along the reefs and near the shores there would be numbers of crested terns.

These birds do not flock, as a rule, but may be seen in ones and twos, or small groups, when fish are plentiful in reef waters.

They swoop from no great height and make a small splash as they take the fish from the surface. Be cause of their colour—white, grey and black —they are most likely to be mistaken for seagulls.

Away from settlement you might come across the Black-Naped Tern, a beautiful bird almost pure white, but with a narrow black line across the nape. Samoa has representatives, too, I believe, of the White Tern, which is all white except for its feet, bill and eyes, which are black.

Other terns not likely to be taken

for seagulls because of their gener ally darker colouring, but those seen around Samoa may be the Sooty Tern and the White-Capped Noddy.

Then there is the Common Noddy, which I mention separately because it nests in large colonies, building either on the ground or in bushes or low trees. Records of such colonies are wanted, if any reader cares to send them in. Both noddies are alike in general appear ance, that is, with a dark body, brown or grey, depending on the light in which you see it, and a white crown. They fly low over the water and are likely to be found in side reef waters and over the open sea.

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SEPTEMBER. 1954 FACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

of Islands

pp. 67-73

Gilberts Revisited:

Changes in the Pattern of Islands

The author, Dr. D. W. Hoodless, b rmerlu principal of Suva Medical School,'and now living in retirement n Fiji, spent some months last year m relieving duty in the Gilbert Mands.

Sir Arthur Grimble’S Re

h cently published book, Pattern of Islands gives a delightful iicture of the glamour and romance f the Gilbert Islands as they existed ome thirty years ago, but the [econd World War and the Native Jo-operative Trade Scheme have aused a complete change.

For two:whole years, during 1942-3, apanese naval and military forces ccupied the Gilbert Islands with heir main units on Tarawa and hitaritari, while their planes and iestroyers paid frequent visits to he other fourteen islands in order 5 take as prisoners the European oast-watchers, and to ensure that he natives or missionaries wefe not i radio contact with the outside.

On Betio, the most westerly of the [lets of Tarawa, there still remain ae long lines of rusty wrecked

American landing craft and motor vehicles as sole material evidence of the Japanese invasion, but the effects of the war on the natives themselves have been far-reach ing.

The system of forced labour and rigid discipline of the Japanese forces during 1942-3, was suc ceeded during 1944-5 by the free and easy manner and ready money of the American Marines and soldiers. The Jap an es e destroyed

The huge meeting house (or maneaba) on one of the islets of Tarawa.

much European property, and ruth lessly cut down groves of coconut palms to make air-strips, or used the coconut tree trunks as gun em placements. The Americans, re gardless of cost, carefully chartered each of the principal lagoons, put down many pilotage beacons, and improved existing roads, and paid all labourers with good USA dollars.

With the return to peaceful con ditions and British Administration early in 1946, the Gilbertese might have found themselves hopelessly befogged and puzzled, but fortun ately the high price of copra has helped to offset the complications caused by the war, and outwardly the islanders appear now to have returned to their former easy life, although they are perhaps a little less courteous even to one another.

A three months’ voyage among the Gilbert Islands during April- May-June of 1953 allowed visits to many islands—in fact Beru was visited five times, Abaiang four times and each of the other islands at least twice. Long conversations \i T ith eight of the native medical practitioners and an equal number of the native hospital dressers Showed that the health of the natives and the sanitation of the tillages were being carefully con trolled again. ’ The Gilbertese are small, dark skinned and robust. They are ex

pert in their outrigger canoes and fishing expeditions. As children, they seem to spend half their life in the sea, and the sloping sandv beaches are their playgrounds for there are no village greens.

The surrounding seas abound i marine life of all description, whales, schools of porpoises, shark huge sting-rays, turtles, tuna, eb are frequently seen while sailii between the islands—and inside tl

[lagoon myriads of shoals of tiny :fish form scintillating pictures in the shallow waters at the anchor ages.

I Mosquitoes and flies are the chief bests on shore, but the natives do not seem to find them very irk some. The absence of pure fresh water in unlimited quantity, and the scarcity of any kind of fresh [green vegetables make the duties of a European housewife difficult.

Well-water is hard and brackish, but the natives seem to be able to use it freely and to thrive on their apparently limited diet, i Normally their teeth are excel lent. and although they often appear to be rough and unwashed, their general standard of health is high.

AS they lie between 3°N and 3°S, the Gilbert Islands are not visited by hurricanes, and the climate, although hot is not un healthy. Occasionally fairly strong easterly winds will blow for several days on end, and during the wet season, westerly winds are a danger to shipping for nearly all the normal anchorages are unsafe in a “west erly”.

The flimsily-built houses and the huge high-pitched roofed meeting houses are clear evidence that winds of hurricane strength are unknown.

In the Gilberts the words “winter” and “summer” have no meaning for June 21 is the first day of summer on Aranuka, just north of the equator and the same day is the first day of “winter” on Nonouti only forty miles away but south of the equator. It is therefore more reasonable to divide the year into the dry and wet seasons, but even these names are misleading for it may rain every day for a week or two in the so-called dry season, and vice-versa.

During long periods of drought in the central Gilberts, the coconuts become shrivelled and the output of copra is greatly diminished.

The specialised form of native co operative trade store in the Gilberts which has developed during the last two decades has ousted all European trade stores. There were not many of these European storekeepers but they were picturesque and then stores were the centre of daily gossip and entertainment, and the present native trade store makes a poor substitute.

The principal hardship in these islands is the lack of transport and communications. Now the island copra -shed often remains full to the roof with extra copra piled up out side it, waiting week after week for transport to Tarawa for shipment by one of the Bank steamers to England. Formerly a Burns Philp steamer or a Carpenter steamer paid regular and frequent visits to many of the island anchorages, and free trade was the order of the day.

At present the Gilbertese native copra growers receive less than half the price paid for copra in Fiji or

Samoa. The balance of the price paid by the UK Ministry of Food is credited to the Gilbert and Ellice Government and utilised in several extremely complicated processes for social and administrative services.

In Fiji, Samoa and Tonga the communal system among the natives has been highly developed and rank according to family descent is im portant. Chiefly rank in accordance with native tradition often takes precedence over any special rank due to Government appointment in the Civil Service, and on ceremonial occasions, e.g., wedding feasts, chiefly rank is rigidly observed.

By contrast, in the Gilberts there is straight-out democracy and all are of equal rank, with the excep tion of the very few remaining members of the families of the

former high chiefs in Butaritari and Abemama. Here in these atoll islets there is an ancient and efficient form of self-government under which the ordinary affairs of island are conducted by their Own native officials with little or no help from the occasional visit of a Euro pean Administrative or Medical Officer.

Nowadays the native magistrate, chief headman (kowbure), medical practitioner, postmaster, and native scribe give a full measure of self government in secular affairs, and alongside of these officials there are the native pastors and teachers appointed by one of the Missions.

Each village has a maneaba or meeting-house, a huge native build ing with a very high roof and open sides, used for council meetings,

gland dances and various kinds of atherings or festivities. Each family ias its own portion of the floor as preserved seat” in the maneaba, nit when European visitors are pre ent these ancient rights are readily uspended.

A casual observer would say that he usual dietary is extremely re tricted and consists of nothing but Ish. coconuts and “babai” —the Btter being a giant form of taro.

In addition, imported foodstuffs flour, biscuits, tinned meats, etc.) re available at the trade stores, and ewpaw, pandanus and bread-fruit rees grow everywhere. On most slands, bananas can be grown with ome success, so that if a Gilbertese lousewife goes to a little trouble, he can prepare a well-balanced iet for herself and family.

Perhaps the chief difficulty is in afant feeding, but this has been irgely overcome by the training of lative nurses by both Government nd the Missions, so that mothers an receive advice.

There are no cows or goats in he Gilberts but good supplies of inned milk in powder form have een made available for free distri ution if necessary.

Although the native house is cool nd breezy to live in it has two main rawbacks —it lacks privacy and it i useless for fresh water catchment, .ack of privacy is a personal matter nd if necessary can be overcome y partitions and screens, but lack

of ra i n-w at e r tanks is a great hardship, and the only means oi obtaining supplies

using Ve

ta n kj3 adjoining churches or the very few buildmgs with iron roofs, The Gilbert and Ellice Colony has three ports of entry: Tarawa in the Gilberts, Funafuti in the Ellice Group, and Ocean Island with its phosphate dig gings. nnbpaval The upheaval b y the

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War MS o nee more brought into

A typical road, bordered by breadfruit trees, on Little Makln.

prominence the vexed question °t the selection of one or other island as the capital of the colony, and after seven years of indecision it has been finally agreed that the capital shall be again on Tarawa. On June 2, 1953, the new King George V school was officially opened on one of the southern islets of Tarawa; and it is officially stated that the new hospital build ings in ferro-concrete will be erected during 1953-4 close to the new school.

This has been received with deep satisfaction by the natives and Europeans alike, for it cannot be denied that there has been undue delay in re-organising both the medical and education departments of the Colony since the war.

The Gilbert and Ellice Colony, under the control of the Resident Commissioner assisted by European and Gilbertese officers, is without any executive council, legislative or even an advisory council, and the residents (native or European) are therefore without the usual means of ventilating hardship or grievanc e—whether real or imaginary.

Colonial Office regulations, if too ngidly applied, can cause absurd results—e.g., a native medical prac titioner who had received no salary for three months owing to lack of communications from Tarawa, and who was without any relations on that particular island, was compelled

to spend most of the day in his fishing canoe out in the lagoon in order to provide the necessary food for himself and family. The appointment of some form of ad visory council to assist the Resident Commissioner is long overdue.

These curious islands contain so much and yet they lack so much.

They are extremely interesting i yet having seen one you have s all. Returning to Fiji with its gL our hills, valleys and rivers and communications and contacts v the outside world, there are perh three things that stand out in memories of the Gilbert Islands magnificent sunset seen at Tara

the fleet of canoes catching flying- Bsh at sundown off the reef at Pamana, and a wonderful solo dance [>y a girl on Little Makin Island.

The sunset at Tarawa was a wonderful mosaic of gold and purple; >ne of those sunsets that can never je forgotten. The fleet of canoes it Tamana was truly picturesque— leavy storm clouds overhead and a slowly-fading sunset formed a (ombre background for a fleet of iwenty canoes each containing one >r two natives with huge palm-leaf ;orches emitting showers of sparks t nd masses of smoke. With a sudden novement the scoop net would flash md in a single sweep of the arm i flying-fish was transferred from he sea to the canoe.

Up and down along the six-mile oast the canoes were Sailing, keep ng quite close to the ocean side if the reef and this would continue is long as their palm-leaf flares asted. What a glorious way to get resh fish for to-morrow morning’s ireakfast!

My third cameo of native life in he Gilberts was the solo “dance” n Little Makin.

It was at an evening concert and here had already been a number f vigorous but noisy group dances, he maneaba was packed to capacity rhen there came a sudden lull, and veryone became quiet. A young roman in native dress stepped for ward and then stool still as a statue rith outstretched arms. Quietly be drumming started, and we were patching the famous bird dance.

With quick but only slight move lents of the head and wrists we aw an imitation of a sea-bird atiently standing in shallow water -and searching the water ahead.

Iveryone—native and European like —was spell-bound for there r as not a sound except the mon tonous low beating of the drum rhile that girl remained almost im lobile, with staring eyes fixed, as ; were, on some distant point of le horizon.

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7UVE American and two Canadian . lay workers arrived at Lae, New Guinea, on July 6, to help tie Lutheran Mission’s building rogramme.

They will help build the new, 500ed TB hospital at Finschhafen rhich will be financed by the Ad linistration and staffed, under entative arrangements, by the Mission.

They will also help in the erection >f a modern theological seminary at Vasutieng, near Dregerhafen, and a iris' school at Finschhafen. They dll remain for two years, working inder the supervision of Mr. )ouglas Kohn, of Sydney.

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THE March issue of Oceania (just recently received) will be the last published by the Australian National Research Council which has brought this quarterly out since 1930.

In future it will be published by the University of Sydney through its Department of Anthropology.

Professor A. P. Elkin will continue as editor.

The current number has its usual quota of interesting scientific papers—including a long article on Fiji-Indian kin groups, by Adrian C. Mayer.

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in the Cooks

By James P.

Shortall

Here —from the outside looking in—are a few practical sug gestions as to how the Cook Islanders can improve their lot and beat what they imagine are the “wicked traders”: —

r HAVE been told that the Cook I Islanders are sadly lacking in r Maori leadership; and that raders in the outer islands are pay ng only £32 per ton for copra, Ithough the MOF price in Auck and is over £7O and getting it there ertainly costs less than £2O per ton.

The statements are correct—but it 5 also correct to say that nothing whatever is standing in the way f the people forming co-operatives, nd shipping their copra directly to Luckland whenever direct - ship aent space is available in the Maui *omare; or to operate their own titer-island shipping if they feel hat they would benefit.

If there were dependable men at he helm who could be trusted, the eople must benefit by such co peratives, although their history in he past has not been impressive.

Recently the Administration ad ertised for co-operative officers in nother attempt to help the people o help themselves —and see that he local leaders of such movements

do not help themselves to the profits.

Apart from copra, there are two other items that could be profitably handled by co-operatives: One is the Mangaian coffee for which the traders there are currently offering only 1/- to 2/- per pound, shelled but not hulled. Sent to New Zea land by parcel post that would be worth at least 5/- per pound. But no one has the gumption to send it.

Then, at Aitutaki, the mango trees are loaded with fruit in season.

Mango chutney sells in New Zea land at fantastic prices and is even imported from England. What is to stop such chutney, made under proper supervision, being manufac tured with the simplest of equip ment and shipped in large con tainers, for repacking in Auckland?

When an outsider comes along with an idea like that, the local price operators bump up the price of raw materials and the new enterprise is quickly killed —but the people could exploit these and other things

themselves with very little capital outlay.

There is every reason to believe that a profitable sun-d ri e d or smoked fish industry could be de veloped by the Aitutaki or Palmers ton people, for export to other islands, especially to Rarotonga, where there is a keen demand and an acute shortage of fish.

But at the moment no one cares.

Leadership in this direction is totally lacking.

Ra Shows How

It Is Done

RESIDENT Agent Thorby, out on Atiu Island, is demonstrating just what these islands are capable of producing. To step ashore at Atiu is to step into a new world of hope and enthusiasm and this must have its good effect in the long run. (Photos pages 91 and 93).

There, every kind of tropical pro duce is being given a trial on an

experimental farm which is a credit to the RA and his very small staff of Maoris who have been infected with some of Thorby’s own en thusiasm.

Not all the crops have an export value. Some, like the various varieties of yams, are intended to determine the best types or to de monstrate to the people that, at little effort, many alternative food stuffs could be developed for local use. But some, like ginger, coffee and peanuts, all of which are thriv ing, may have a considerable ex

port or inter-island trade vali Thorby has also introduced pedigi ducks, fowls and turkeys and suppling settings of eggs at co: price to people throughout t Group whom he knows will use the m improving the local poult strains.

Bee-keeping is being develop! with introduced bees kept in prop hives. A nice little export trade Rarotonga has also been esta lished in axe handles, which, unc Thorby’s supervision, the local be can turn out profitably at 7/- (cor

The Ngatangiia Community Centre, Rarotonga, where an effort is being made to preserve the best of the old Maori culture and to educate to-day’s Cook Islanders to fit themselves into the world of to-day.

L r ed with the imported handle. )hich lasts no longer and costs any hing up to 18/6). is one of the four Fruit Icheme islands and, at present, has 68 1-acre, 45-tree orange plots at arious stages of development, the ranges being, as on all Scheme lots, the two standard varieties — ate Valencia and Rarotonga Seed

-Sss.

But the main interest to the out ide world is the now rapidly de el opi n g case-wood plantations, hich are ultimately to provide inber for fruit cases.

At present these, imported in shocks”, cost 6/8 each for the 11ushel orange case, and 5/- for the ■bushel lemon, mandarin or tang fine case, landed in Rarotonga, and re thus a major factor in the fruit jonomics—as well as taking up aluable shipping space in vessels ound from New Zealand to the ooks.

The upper slopes of Atiu and [auke are bare, fern-covered, in- Dspitable, with sour soils which will ot readily support citrus planta ons. But it has been found that Ibizza Falcata and Albizza Leb >k, two, fast-growing softwood •ees, will thrive on this land. The ETorestation scheme began in 1951 id up to May of this year some \ 000 trees had been planted—at rst 6 feet apart, but in the light of cperience gradually increased in ,ter plantings to 10 feet.

Following tests with Cedrola dorata, it is probable that this fast rower will also be established, ome trees are already 25 feet high, onsiderable work is involved m ansferring each seedling from the arsery seed-bed to an individual >conut shell, in which it is eventu ly planted out, bursting the shell ; it grows. . .

Every encouragement is being ven to individual land owners to ant these trees. Father Floribert id 14 Catholic school boys have .anted 3,800 trees on mission land, id the Government school has also me much planting. With freedom om forest fires, and blights, a iriving industry appears to be as ired within a few years.

And Of Perpetual

Fews Blackout

T is doubtful whether any South Pacific community is as badly informed on local events as the 3ople of the Cook Islands.

This lack of correct information id consequent spate of mis-infor lation and conjecture, though :ten a lot of fun, is undoubtedly le cause of a great deal of dis mtent amongst the people.

No statements are issued coyer ig the proceedings of the various jlands’ Council meetings, or even a proceedings of the annual Legis itive Council meetings in Raro )nga —except perhaps a half-dozen

(Continued on Page 91)

lines in the inadequate daily press

[sheet.

r There is no newspaper in the Group but at last some broadcast ing tests are taking place. Initially they are in the form of ordinary educational broadcasts but, later, talks of general public interest will also be broadcast. An Information Officer —possibly the officer in charge of Further Education (or Adult Education) —is to be appointed, in line with the practice in some other South Pacific areas.

The Further Education Depart ment, already very active in pro moting interest in local historical and world affairs and in re-estab lishing a sadly-lacking community spirit, would seem to be the obvious instrument for the job, especially

™der head, Mr.

Nothing would more stimulate local interest than actual broad casts of Island Council and especi

gly Council meetings

weSero Samol

Western Samoa. a t? v

Bult Vjpnjuaky

Industry

A FTER a period of slump, Messrs, Watson and Scott’s Rarotonga clothing factory came to life again in May and was fully staffed and very busily engaged in turning out a big order of clothing for a New Zealand firm. Several dozen girls and women are employed, Upstairs, the shoe factory, with a staff of only half-a-dozen at present, is manufacturing women’s shoes for the Apia market.

Island's

Biggest

Industry

THERE is evid ence that in toxicating liquor was con sumed in the Cook Islands prior to the arrival of Europeans. Any way, they have been in training for a long time and the bush-beer school is now a part (a very big part) of Cook Islands life. Un

doubtedly it is also the cause of a good deal of crime.

Last year consumption of legal liquor purchased through the Treasury on a permit system, totalled 1 gallon per head of popula tion. But most of that 16,000 gallons was drunk by the 300-odd Europeans and a few of the higher-salaried Maoris. The “man in the bush” brewed his own.

A Customs officer estimated that the illegal liquor probably ran to 4 or 5 gallons per head of total popu altion—say, 70,000 gallons. Some consider this a considerable under estimation.

One cause of this high consump tion, as recently pointed out in Court by Judge Kay, is the LMS Church ban on all forms of Sunday recrea tion —the ban extending even to Europeans as far as public sport is concerned.

Judge Kay said that it is a great pity that these people are not doing something better, on Saturdays and Sundays than drinking liquor. As a result most criminal offences were occurring on those days.

The matter was hotly debated at an Island Council meeting in Raro tonga but the majority of Coun cillors flatly rejected any easing of the Sunday ban on sports. Sunday is bush-beer day. (In the period April-June this year there were 149 convictions for offences connected with liquor.

Thirteen were committed on Satur days, 61 on week-days, and 75 on Sundays).

And Death Is So

Permanent!

THOUGH Rarotonga has over eleven motor vehicles per mile of 21-mile encircling coastal road, the people appear to be un aware of road rules. Cyclists, especially, use either side of the road at will. Cars pass them left or right—the drivers hoping that

Left: Resident Agent Ron Thorby of Atiu.

Above: Part of his meticu lously tended experimental farm.

Below: Part of the exten sive citrus and case-wood nurseries.

Below:

Rarotonga’s small shoe factory which currently employs about eight men.

These men were working on a con tract for a Western Samoa retailer.

hey will hold that side until passed, load education in the schools seems p be nil. iOne of the sights of Rarotonga is he extraordinary method of double- Bnking on bicycles—the passenger akes his or her place squarely on he handle-bars, facing, and com jetely blocking the view of the

pilot, who pushes ahead quite un perturbed. Occasionally there is an additional passenger on the rear.

All Modern

Conveniences

“ A MODERN telephone system jCTL giving continuous service operates in Rarotonga,” says

the 1953 Annual Report. Who ever wrote that had never seen or used the hand-cranked old blunderbusses that form the system.

I rang Mr. J. D. Campbell from Avarua one day and his voice, weak and wavering as though it had travelled ten thousand instead of ten miles, broke through the sound

From wasteland to thriving forest: Young Albizzia trees growing on the sour, [?]id fernlands of Atiu Island’s upper slopes.

barrier of wet tree-limbs and dry joints after some delay.

He was obviously very excited.

“Great Heavens, you’ve got through!”

I could just hear him shouting.

There was a note of keen urgency in his voice. This was the first time it had been done in four days. I caught on, and talked fast. A con nection with Titikaveka was clearly a major event.

We barely made it, before the great silence again closed down — and continued the conversation over a cup of tea at his home later in the day.

One of the old-timers of Raro tonga and one of the few remaining European plantation owners. “J.D.”, as everyone calls him, in addition to being intensely interested in world affairs, is also a keen contributor to various scientific journals. He is an enthusiastic student of nature, plants, birds and fish coming within his special orbit.

Naturally, there’s never a dull moment in his retirement. Following his war service with the RNZAF, he was in charge of NZNAC affairs in the Cooks until that airline withdrew 18 months ago. He is one of the keenest critics of Administration— or NZ Government—policy in the Group to-day.

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NOT generally realised, even by Cook Islanders, is the fact that the attractive but now idle

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:Oconut Currency

CURIOSITIES of the Cook Islands j are the huge stone mound s' shaped ovens, many of them ng-since abandoned and crumbling » pieces, that may be seen round nv village. And one of the curios les of the bakery business on itutaki is the huge mound of dry jconuts that lie beside each oven lat is still in operation—about ;ven on that island.

These coconut piles are the subject I a great deal if ill-will —for, with nt doubt, many of the coconuts ave been stolen. It is impossible for mdholders to adequately police leir land at night, and the stealing said to be on an extensive scale.

A nut is valued at 3d. in local irrency, and two buy a loaf of read. On most islands coconuts re banned as a medium of trade, Lit for some reason not on itutaki.

Ost Of Drinking

/Ater

Ji ALT is generally a popular sub rJL ject in these islands, but not so the Malt Report.

Back in 1948, 1,800 persons on arotonga signed a petition de landing an adequate supply of ean fresh water for all villages, i December, 1941, Mr. L. C. Malt, senior engineer of the New Zea nd Ministry of Works, was sent to •epare a plan—which was received i the Administration the follow r ig September. Estimated cost of le plan was a mere £76,000 and the .stallation was to take place in ages over a period of six years, be plan involved a 4-inch water ain right round the 21-mile lastal road, with three main hi kes feeding into 6-inch pipes from ountain streams, and three other ibsidiary intakes from other reams. Filtration and chlorination ants were to be installed at the ain intakes, and there were to be ',OOO-gallon reservoirs at two >ints.

Then someone found that the an made no provision whatever r the residents along the old road at parallels the coast road a mile so inland. Many citrus plots are cated there.

The present water system has en condemned frequently by the edical authorities. Stock are mdering and feeding above the ain intakes, and whenever a eshet occurs in the mountain reams the water comes out of the ps like soup—even with leaves and getation in it. But in spite of the edical Dept, warning, no major

epidemics have yet been traced to this water.

Most residents of Rarotonga are convinced that a clean and adequate water supply could be provided at very much less than £76,000. Meanwhile the soup still flows from the taps (where there are taps) and the Malt Plan appears to have been given the green light in Wellington.

The first stage £13,000 worth ?s to be implemented this financial year oV n in^thlv a fni«}iir| 1 ?f<ln eC * P en( * m S yet anothei investigation. r"» . -pi /mi *

Far From Flome

W°T many people know that there Id is a Port Moresby in the Cook Islands.

Port Moresby is a man—an aged

missionary now living on AitutakL His history is interesting. He was born at Port Moresby, Papua the son of an LMS pastor, who had been sent there from the Cooks. Port Moresby of Aitutaki now heads a. sect which broke away from the LMS, and has its own church at Aitutaki.

Also on Aitutaki is Mr T?mip jamiesoS of Suva-an Article of flotsam, so to speak, from the wreck of the Alexander which has sat on the edge of the reef these past several years. Mr. Jamieson joined her in Fiji on her ill-fated voyage. 7 mamtamfn g a iff John Harrington’s launches and road. vehicles, and gives promise of be coming a permanent resident.

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Tlnited Nations in

frlusic-Making

SPANISH guitars are being manu factured by an Australian firm from German materials, and are for sale to New Guinea natives.

A south Brisbane firm, Dandy Drum Co., has already sent 100 guitars to Rabaul and has orders for another 100. To give the in struments a better tone, spruce, im ported from Germany, is being used in the fronts or “bellies.”

Profitable? On a comparative basis perhaps not. But it is certainly en terprising.

The two Cliftons NEWSMEN arriving back in New Zealand after accompanying a Parliamentary ccunmission of inquiry to the Cooks in August, re ported an unfortunate coincidence.

The mission, headed by Territories Minister Clifton Webb, was in vestigating complaints regarding taxation, amongst other things.

At Rarotonga, the main township was plastered with posters; “It’s that man again! Clifton Webb in— " For Heaven’s Sake!’” Then there was a follow-up line explaining that the big film was about a “fallen angel who’d refused to pay his in come tax!” They’re still wondering whether it was just a coincidence.

Palms Don’t Make

This Island

WHEN a Qantas aircraft touched down at Canton Island before dawn one morning in early August, a passenger hurried off into the surrounding darkness—a man with a mission.

He was R. H. Allen, of Auckland, son of the late Captain E. F. Allen, who in pre-war days had shipping and plantation interests in that area. R.H. was looking for a par ticular coconut palm, about the only one on Canton—if it still survives.

Early in 1914, Mr. Allen and his father planted 460 palms on Can ton. Five years later they returned to find only two survivors. We have a photo taken in 1938 showing at least those two —so Mr. Allen may have been lucky, though he had in formation that one was cut down during the recent war.

Geographical Shift for

Tonga

TONGANS crowded into Nukualofa on August 18, to see the 900 tourists from the Orient liner Orion, which spent the day there.

But Australian newspapers de scribed Nukualofa as “the centre in the Fiji Group!”

If He Wants it He Can Have it REVELI, a 24-year-old Solomon Islands native seaman, working on BP’s Muliama, received a spate of Australian newspaper publicity a month or so ago when he won £6,000 in the NSW State lottery. (It was stated that at the current BSI bride-price, this was sufficient to buy 150 wives).

The newspapers reported Reveli as returning home promptly to look-over the most beautiful girls (if any) on his island. Then the BSIP Government stepped in and put £5,000 of his money in trust until his seaman’s contract expires in 12 months’ time.

Frustrated, but still grinning, Reveli returned to Sydney with a bankbook worth £l,OOO and went on a big buying spree. He was last seen spending £25 a day on dresses, hats, beads, compacts, etc.

His stroke of luck will make Reveli one of the most eligible bachelors in the Solomon Islands.

American Who Believes

in Pidgin

FOLLOWING is some background on Dr. Robert Hall, the Ameri can linguist from Cornell Uni versity, who has intrigued New Guinea residents by championing much-discussed (and much-abused) Pidgin, and had written a book about it before he had ever seen a Pidgin speaking native.

The information herewith was published in the quarterly bulletin of the Anthropological Society of Hawaii: Dr. Robert Hall stopped briefly la Honolulu in February, accompanied by his family. Hall is author of "Leay« Your Language Alone”, one of the few

popular works on modern linguistic theory and techniques.

His study of Melanesian Pidgin is well known. He has also written on Haitian and other creole languages, and has made a study of Takitaki, a language of South America. In addition he is a specialist in Romance languages.

Dr. Hali is working under the arrange ments of a Guggenheim Foundation award which will enable him to continue his study of Melanesian Pidgin. He plans to go to New Guinea, New Britain, the Solomons, and perhaps to New Caledonia and the interior of Australia. On the way back to Cornell, the Halls hope to spend some time in Honolulu, where the doctor will turn his linguistic ear to Hawaii’s Pidgin.

Mrs. Hali, a graduate in social work, has been made a visiting professor on the faculty of the University of Adelaide in South Australia. The Halls will, there fore, call Adelaide their headquarters, and the three children will enrol in school there for the term of their father’s field work.

The Heart of the

Matter

THERE was a recent reference in PIM to that alleged kingly dish of the Pacific, millionaire’s salad, made from the heart of the coconut tree.

I had heard of this item in civil isation, years prior to settling in Polynesia, and looked forward keenly to the time when I might sample it. In the Cl, palms are not fre quently cut down, unless a hut is being built, and timber required for the upper frame (doconut-wood rots

if damp).

But at last, the opportunity came; there was the recumbent nu, and my boys extracted the cylindrical lumb of ambrosia with somewhat bored expressions, and it was sliced and plated for me.

What did it taste like? Nothing Polynesian, believe me! It reminded me of a forbidden (and not at all Roman-orgy) eatable of my in fancy. My mother had an old fashioned English prejudice against the “chewy” butts of our home grown garden lettuces, which she imagined to contain laudanum— well, her mother had said they did.

I, in contradiction of this peril, loved the butts and ate every one I could get hold of.

Memory went back 20 years when I tasted the alleged Millionaire’s Salad of Polynesia. Again I was masticating forbidden lettuce-butts!

It’s time someone told the truth about the item, and here it is. Now let the “Blue Lagoon” school of Hollywood thought turn and rend

Me!—Edwin Gold.

Who Grew the Guavas?

A READER of the Australian Post is still wondering how a plantation of guavas came to be near Aitape, northern NG, where he served during the war.

Diggers who were in that region will remember that until they

reached Aitape, fresh fruit had been very scarce—nothing but paw-paws, green coconuts and a peculiar aciduous fruit they knew as five fingers.

Not so at Aitape, however. For there right next to the camp, was a well laid-out, although overgrown orchard of laden red and yellow guava trees.

Troops consumed the fruit with delight when they were first sighted but they soon began to pall.

What puzzled the troops then was the identity of the person or persons who planted the orchard in such a remote place. Natives showed no enthusiasm for the fruit and the nearest market could onlv have been Australia.

Perhaps some resident of the Aitape district knows the answer— although the fact that they were there probably proves only that someone liked guava-jelly. They grow like weeds in the tropics, and in Fiji are regarded as a pest.

Fresh Flowers for

R.L.S.

IT is time someone sang the praises of Sieni. . . . Here goes: She is a pretty, sweet-natured part-Samoan girl, aged seven; and she lives in the village across the road from Vailima, the reconstructed home of Robert Louis Stevenson, now the residence of the New Zea land High Commissioner in Apia, Western Samoa. It is a long, steep climb from the village to the great writer’s tomb on Mount Vaea, and the journey to the top and back again takes about two hours—even for a sprite like Sieni—and it is usually hot going. But this little girl has taken it upon herself to keep fresh flowers on RLS’s tomb, so—often with her five-years-old brother, Tolai, but sometimes alone —she makes the ascent twice weekly, with blazing red bunches of hibiscus in her hand. (PIM pub lished a photo of Sieni some months ago).

When I first met her on the track I thought that one of the half-caste guides, who have a habit of pester ing visitors, might have sent Sieni on her journey.

But I was wrong. She has been looking after RLS’s resting-place for more than a year, and it is entirely a voluntary chore, under taken because she feels that the grave is a bit lonely, and she has heard that the writer loved her people.

My own reaction when I first arrived at the tomb, lathered in sweat, was the thought: “Well, it was okay for him to want to be buried under a wide and starry sky, but I wish he had thought of a place a bit more convenient than this. And then I felt ashamed, for Sieni arrived with a new bunch of flowers for the memory of a man whose language she may never be able to appreciate.—JACK THORN

Ton.

Faga Tavisi Solipo Is A

Samoan teacher of the Methodist Mission who has just returned to his native land after 5 years of very fine work in Eastern Papua.

He was born in the village of Faga togo, in Pago Bay, Eastern Samoa, m 1902. He was nearing middle-age before he decided to train as a Mission teacher, and he is now feel ing the weight of his years for the type of work he has been doing in Papua.

He was accompanied by his second wife, Aitofi, of Western Samoa, and three of his daughters, Talosia, Roberta and Meriko. Solipo represents the solid type of native teacher who has been of great as sistance in opening up the mission fields of Melanesia since the earliest days, for it was in 1839 that the first Samoan teachers were landed in the New Hebrides, very soon after the conversion of the Samoans themselves. The work of those early teachers on Tanna, Aneityum, Futuna and Erromanga, involving discomfort, disease and sometimes death, has been overshadowed by the more publicised work of the European missionaries there.—

Brett Hilder.

Tongan Children Dress Up for School Parade

p. 79

Some of the children who attended the Wesleyan Church Primary School’s Fancy Dress Parade at Nukualofa, Tonga, on July 23. From left to right they are

(1) the little girl who won the com petition. Her costume, including umbrella and shoes, was made entirely of coloured pandanus fibre; (2) two boys with

costumes mad. entirely of coconut fibre with coconut decorations; (3) Maoris; (4) Bibical costumes depicting Esau and Jacob; (5) Red Indians.—Photos by Hettig.

One Minute Quiz

pp. 80-88

1. In spite of new drugs, there are still millions of malaria sufferers in the world —a few of them in the South West Pacific area. From what was the name derived? 2. The first wonder drug , as far as malaria was concerned, was quinine, an alkaloid derived from the hark of the cinchona tree. How did the drug and the tree get their names?

(Answers on Page 86)

1. Although the real cause of mal a r i a—mosquitoes was dis covered in very recent years, man has been plagued by the disease since the first bog started to ferment. The disease was always associated with bogs and swamps and their vapours. Hence “mal! aria” —bad air. 2. What we now know as the; cinchona tree is a native of Peru.

It is not certain whether the pro perties, of the bark of this tree were known before the arrival in Peru of the Spaniards, but soon after it was found that infusions from the bark were effective in the treatment of malaria. Wife of an early Gov ernor of Peru, the Countess of Cin chona, was cured of the fever by a tincture made from the bark— hence the name given the tree. The local Indian name for the tree is Kina, from which was derived Quina. —then quinine.

Two Ships

pp. 81-92

A Tale Of

By Jeanne Booth Johnson

Salvaging war-junk from the islands, reefs and seas of the South Pacific has meant adventure and profit to a number of

people.

A group of Americans have been working on the wreck of the President Taylor, and doing it in some comfort, although this ship went up on Canton Island, one of the most isolated in the Pacific.

THIS is the tale of two ships, the Motor Yacht Caronia, and the SS President Taylor. For the /vno it ic tup bpo-innine 1 of a new fife for the othllTS the end Firstly, Caronia, a 296-tons steel imii hipspl vacht which was built

originally as&Ta £ Ross

Judson at a cost of $750,000. She was later sold to Mr. George Machris, of Los Angeles, California, and renamed Caronia. During the second World War the United States Navy took over and made her a weather station in the North Atlantic. After the war she was in pretty bad shape, her walnut lounge cut up into individual compartments; her teak coated in heavy grey; half her boat deck gone; but still showing the unmistakable lines of John H. Wells design Following the war, William G.

Cooney, of Oregon, dreamed of making Caronia once more a thing of beauty—and a practical ship, too.

North Coast Corporation was organised and purchased Caronia. Four years were then spent putting her back in top yachting condition. Her interior and exterior were carefully restored. She was completely overhauled and refitted to provide a comfortable home for NORCO’s

officers, their wives and children, and to serve as operational head quarters lor the Late in 1052, Cooney, executive Vice-President of North Coast Cor poration, visited Canton Island and studied, the stranded hulk of the President Taylor to determine salvage possibilities. The ship was later acquired from the United States Maritime Administration and arrangements were made for the trip to Canton Island, Caronia has ample space for both passengers, crew and cargo She is 140 ft 7 in. in length overall, with a beam of 23 ft 7 in., depth 12 it and a 10 ft draft. A twin screw vessel, powered by two 6-cylinder, 4-cycle Cooper-Bessemer diesels, she has a normal cruising speed of 12 knots.

The interior design is both luxuri ous and practical. There is a master stateroom the full width of the ship, below, midships, with tiled bathroom. Immediately aft oi this are three smaller staterooms with tiled bathrooms for The stern of the ship has a double state room, also with bath, Forward of the cargo compart ment are the crew’s quarters with accommodation for eight, together

with complete bathroom facilities.

On the main deck there is a large lounge, a library complete with piano, spacious galley with built-in breakfast-dining room. Forward of the galley is another large double stateroom of knotty pine interior, also with its own bathroom. There is a laundry below, equipped with washing machine and dryer, with additional crew’s quarters for three just off the laundry.

On the boat deck the pilot house is equipped with gyro-compass, direc tion finder, radio-telephone, mag netic compass and engine-room tele phone as well as telegraph. What was formerly the captain’s quarters on the boat deck have been con verted into a combination state room and ship’s office, with bath room. Prior to departing from Portland, the ship carried a Seabee Amphibian plane on her boat deck.

Due to the necessity of occupying this space with skiffs, jeeps and other cargo, the plane was disposed of. However, in addition to the skiffs and life raft, Caronia carries a 24-ft power launch.

From Portland we carried over 50 tons of equipment, machinery and supplies. Included were two welders, an air compressor, diving gear, pumps, hoists, marine engines, complete rigging and other equip ment for handling dismantled parts of the Taylor. There were canned goods, a complete machine shop, and 75,000 carbon electrodes. Below the cargo compartment, the full walk in deep freeze carried large supplies of beef, bacon, hams, etc., and the reefer, too, was amply stocked.

(Continued on Page 87)

Motor Yacht Caronia.

The wreck of the “President Taylor” as it was in 1952 before salvage commenced.

A fire of unknown origin had occurred in the wreck some time earlier. There is sun much oil floating in the holds. —Photo by J. B. Johnson.

The “President Taylor’’ with super structure stripped, as she appeared in June, 1954. —Photo by J. B. Johnson.

THERE are two organisations en gaged in the salvage of the Pre sident Taylor, North Coast Cor poration, which own the Taylor and Caronia, and Taylor Salvors, organ ised to perform the actual labour under subcontract to North Coast Corporation. Officers of North Coast Corporation are also members of Taylor Salvors. Originally, there were 13 members of Taylor Salvors, Including three directors of Norco.

Recently five members of the group bought out the others, and at pre sent the work is being carried on with the use of Gilbertese labour under the direction of the Group.

On board Caronia are William G. Cooney, Maurice L. Coulter, Herman C. Jacobson —officers of Norco, and members of Taylor Salvors —t oget h e r with Frank Rusinas and Jeanne Booth Johnson, partners with the North Coast Group in Taylor Salvors. Also on board, and representing a very im portant part of the ship’s comple ment, are Mrs. Cooney and the three small Cooney girls, Lee, Kay and Carol; and Mrs. Jacobson with her two boys, Keith and Ronnie.

With them came the family French poodle, Cozette, and I brought my 13-year-old black cocker spaniel, Stormy.

ACCOUNTS vary widely as to the exact cause of the grounding of the SS President Taylor. How ever, the most reliable version, as supplied by American President Lines, former owners, is that on Feb ruary 3, 1942, the Taylor sailed for Canton Island with a task force of approximately 1,200 men, arriving on February 13.

Due to heavy ground swells the troops were unable to disembark that day. The following day, the

destroyer escorting the Taylor re ported submarines in the immediate vicinity and instructed the vessel to stand closer into the shore. While manoeuvring for position, the vessel touched bottom and was forced further ashore by the heavy swell.

The destroyer, which was the only other vessel there, could not offer assistance as it was trying to raise the submarine with depth-charges.

The troops disembarked on Feb ruary 15 and jettisoning operations

were started immediately to lighten the ship. However, they were in sufficient to refloat her. During the following three months, the US Navy made two unsuccessful at tempts to float the Taylor; the vessel was abandoned.

F The Taylor was built by New York Shipbuilding Co., launched in June, 1921, christened the Granite State, and was placed in Trans-Atlantic Service. She was purchased by the Dollar SS Co., renamed the SS Pre sident Polk and placed in the Round the World service in 1923, along with six other vessels of the same class. Subsequently, she was rebuilt by Newport News Shipbuild ing Corporation, in 1929, increasing her passenger-carrying capacity.

She was renamed President Taylor when a new and larger President Polk was acquired by her owners.

The SS Granite State-President Folk-President Taylor, a passenger/ freighter, had a gross tonnage of 10,495. She is of heavy steel con struction throughout, and although the majority of her woodwork was burned by a fire of unknown origin i few years ago, the steel was prac tically undamaged. The Taylor lies )n the leeward side of Canton [sland, and has remained intact luring the long years subsequent to ier grounding.

Originally, North Coast planned » remove her entire upperworks to he main deck, make all the holds watertight, and attempt to refloat he ship, towing her to market for

the purpose of scrapping by buyers.

The upperworks were removed, and the various holds made intact. As a result of a recent Marine Survey, it has been confirmed that the ship can now be refloated at any time. However, she would have to be towed on her tanktops, and in her present position surveyors can not determine the condition of a certain portion of the hull which is grounded midships. In this par ticular section there exists a trans verse crack, and some buckling of the plates.

In view of the additional cost in volved in proceeding with refloat ing operations and resurvey, with out ultimate guarantee of insurance coverage for the tow to market, it has now been decided to completely dismantle the ship here at Canton Island. Cutting operations have commenced on a full-scale basis.

At the end of July, 1954, the Taylor silhouette was rapidly dimin ishing.

There remains no upperworks, although her massive anchor winch is preserved intact on thp for the purpose of assisting in towing the vessel closer inshore after she had been cut to the waterline, so that underwater portions may also be salvaged. This anchor winch, originally powered by steam, has been reconditioned, and powered by a gasoline engine, and is in excel lent working condition.

After cutting the vessel almost to the waterline, it is planned to make

use of the work which was spent in readying the hull for refloating, by actually floating the remaining part of the ship and moving her as far inshore as possible to enable the salvage of the entire ship, par ticularly the massive cast iron machinery in her boiler rooms and engine-room, together with the valuable non-ferrous components thereof. (Over)

During the course of operations several shipments of non-ferrous metals have already been made to the Mainland, and her two huge three-bladed propellers have been removed for shipment and sale in August. Each of these propellers is composed of manganese-bronze, with each blade weighing 4,840 lbs.

One spare blade, found in a cargo hold, has already been shipped and sold.

The huge scrap-pile on the dock is growing daily, with the heavy steel being cut to specification for heavy melting purposes, and reroll ing. Over half of the plate is suit able for rerolling, consequently commanding a premium price.

LIFE at Canton Island has be come somewhat routine for

Caronia and her occupants, an the island itself has offered in teresting diversion for what ther is of spare time.

Fishing and swimming ar popular; so also coral hunting an diving. The children and dogs hav adapted themselves quite well t island life. There is no time for any one to become bored.

Charley Goes Home

pp. 82-83

CHARLEY, I was informed, no longer camped at the local: hadn’t been seen there for over a / ortni ght. Someone suggested that he was infesting one of the cabins near the beach. Anyhow, he’d be fishing at this hour.

Sure enough, I found him dangling a rod over the jetty, with a bunch of other enthusiasts, mostly kids.

“Hi-ya, Charley!” I said.

Just then his rod arched sharply, and his line went screaming off the reel.

“Quick!” he hissed. “The net—l’m onto a nigger.” He indicated the landing-net with a sidewise jerk of his head.

But before I could reach the net one of the onlookers grabbed it and, flopping down “in the prone posi tion,” reached over and made a wild swipe at the madly circling blackfish—knocking it off the hook, of course.

“There!” yelled the wielder of the net (a woman, I noticed with some surprise). “How often must I tell you to hold your rod up? How can you expect me to net a fish if you’ll persist . . . .?” and on she rattled, pouring abuse and critic ism on poor old Charley as she got on her feet again.

I eyed off this lady with no little curiosity. She had a shrill voice, a fifty-inch bust and a dewlap like a pelican. She wore her sparse sandy hair in a horse’s tail.

As she scolded him, Charley slowly reeled in his line without a word; but a red tide surged up his neck and suffused his face, so that I ex pected, at any moment, to see him i:urn and wring her scrawny neck, as if she were a quail.

But nothing like that happened!

Deliberately, Charley fixed a shred of green-weed bait on his hook and waited in silence for her tirade to subside. Then, “How’s the time?” he asked, addressing me in a strangled voice.

“Four thirty,” I answered, glanc ing at my wrist.

At that, the women transferred her attention to me, turning her head as a bird does, so that her baleful glare appraised me over her shoulder blades. A single glance seemed to satisfy her as to my innocuousness. With a curl of her lip she returned to Charley.

“Talking about watches,” she said, “when do I get that watch you pro mised me?”

“Nobody mentioned watches,” pro tested Charley mildly. “But you’ll get one, never fear, one of these days.”

“One of these days;” she hooted.

“That’s no good to me! We’re go ing to the flicks to-night and I want to wear the watch you promised me, so you’d better make it snappy.

We’re having tea early, so be home in half-an-hour. I’ll go get it ready now.”

There was menace in her glance as she turned to go.

You didn’t introduce me to the lady,” I said, after a while.

“Did you want me to?” asked Charley. “No. no,” I said, hastily. “Only I thought you’d let me know if you got married.”

“I’m not married,” said Charley, sharply. Then relapsed into brood ing silence.

By Bill Gill

“Let’s have a drink,” I sug gested, fed up with the gloom.

“I’ve given the grog away,”

Charley replied. Then, in answer to my incredulous start: “It gives you ulcers, fallen arches, blood pressure, spots before the eyes and a dozen other diseases which I’ve forgotten.

Elspeth caught me just in time.

After half a century of imbibing I was ripe for all these complaints, and more, only for her convincing me of the evils of alcohol.”

He paused to let this sink in, then continued, somewhat irrelevantly.

“I was moored once, during the war, at a wharf in Milne Bay.

There was a mob of Yanks camped along the shore. One stinking hot Sunday the troops were having a snore-off and the camp appeared to be deserted. Suddenly, a top ser geant appeared, stalking along the rows of silent tents. ‘Ten dollars for a pint of blood/ he yelled. ‘Roll up for the easiest ten bucks you’ve ever made/ He walked all around the camp bawling his head off, but not a move! He might have been addressing a necropolis for all the response he got, and when he left the silence was heavier than ever.

“Suddenly he reappeared. ‘Ten, bucks and a slug of Scotch for a pint of blood/ he shouted. Before you could say ‘knife’ he was over whelmed with volunteers. The somnolent tents suddenly boiled, erupted troops by the hundred, patriots all, breaking their necks to donate their life blood in a noble cause. Some of them doubled up, and one passionate pilgrim tried to donate three pints.”

He gazed sombrely across the dark ening waters, reflecting on the obscure moral of his yarn. Then “ Maybe one snort wouldn’t hurt after all,” he resumed. “Only she's

“. . . slowly reeled in his line.”

got a nose on her like a spaniel dog.”

F “But haven’t you heard of these chlorophyll pills?” I asked. “They’ll •destroy the smell of grog like magic.

You can buy them anywhere.”

F “Then what are we waiting for?” he asked, with animation. “Let’s go.-

AN hour or so later he seemed more like his old self. We had bought a bottle of green tablets, ind he did explain how Espeth had net him one morning when he was suffering from a particularly savage hangover and, with P.ancushinents and fair words” had induced him to abandon the pub for a cabin next to hers. He discovered that ;heir cabins had a hallway in jommon, and soon they were shar ng meals, he supplying the tucker md she doing the cooking.

Gradually her dominance over lim increased and, eventually, she veaned him completely from the jooze.

“She even got me into Sam Langfords,” he said, with a re sentful flush on his battle-scarred )ld dial; and he hitched up his Dants to display his long under vear.

In the course of his narrative, Slspeth had undergone a strange netemorphosis. Starting off as a ‘lady” she became a “lass,” then i “woman,” and finally a “virago.”

We were brought back to earth )y a seedy-looking individual who shoved a mysterious parcel under Charley’s nose.

“Here’s that lady’s watch,” he vhispered hoarsely. “Only sixteen iuid. You’d pay twenty for it in he shops.”

“I’ve changed my mind,” said Charley, his courage restored, and mce more captain of his soul. “Let’s see something cheaper, much heaper—about ten bob, in fact.”

A lot of acrimonious haggling msued, but Charley emerged with ill the honours and a “gold” watch vhich cost seventeen and six. True, t wasn’t much of a watch to look it: the thumbscrew, when you vound it, made a row like a boiler naker’s ratchet, whilst the so-called ‘tick” could be heard above the lubbub of the bar-room.

“This’ll make her happy,” de clared Charley, optimistically, as, arm-in-arm, we meandered towards his cabin. “ ’Twas a gold watch she wanted, and that’s what she’ll get.”

However, his courage appeared to falter as I assisted him up the steps.

“You’ve got those pills all right?” he whispered anxiously.

“Yes, yes,” I reassured him. “A whole bottle —you’ll be jake.”

But, tip-toeing across the verandah, he veered of his course, and ran foul of a chair, which over turned with a resounding crash.

What followed occupied less time than it takes to describe.

A door flew open and Elspeth sprang forth like an assassin. Her mouth fell open, outraged at the sight which met her gaze.

“The pills! ” hissed Charley, urgently, and they were in his hands even as he spoke.

Swiftly, he leaned over and jammed the pills, bottle and all, between her gaping jaws. Then, tossing the watch onto a table, he spun around, scurried down the steps and along the street towards the taxi rank, me after him

lickety-split.

♦ * * SOME four hours later, as our taxi entered the outer suburbs of Sydney, I remarked: “Those pills, by the way, were for you to eat, not her.”

“Well, what d’you know!” said Charley, “I never thought of that.”

Then he added, after reflection: “Ah, well, maybe she didn’t swallow them after all, more’s the pity!

There would be poetic justice in her being sick from the bottle for a change.”

Charley’s luck held. Next day, he managed to secure a berth on an Islands-bound steamer.

As he struggled into his bunk he urged me to go north with him: “If ever that Elspeth catches up with you,” he warned, “your life won’t be worth a moment’s purchase.

You’ll be safe in the Islands but nowhere else.”

Then, in a final burst of eloquence, “Why, dammit,” he cried, “she might even cure you of the drink habit.”

Marooned by Request

pp. 83-84

Request

By W. H. Percival

IN the early Pacific war years the late Robert Dean Frisbie spent some months on lonely Suwarrow atoll with his brood of youngsters. While they were there, the whole area was battered by a tremendous hurricane.

Out of their adventures came an other Frisbie book, which the author planned to call “Marooned By Request” but which his pub lishers, in their wisdom, called “Island Of Desire.”

Much more recently, another ad venturer was marooned by request on Suwarrow. This is his story: MR. TOM NEALE arrived back at Rarotonga aboard the Rannah in early July after a stay of 21 months on lonely Suwarrow atoll. He had fulfilled a boyhood ambition —one held by thousands of city folk—to “get away from it all” and live in peace on a lonely desert island.

He lived alone with his three cats, except for the brief visit of a party of shell divers, and the in frequent appearance of visiting yachts. Supplies of flour, rice, bully beef, tea and tobacco were obtained when the Mahurangi put in, and he had gone well equipped with poultry so that it was not necessary to live on seabirds’ eggs.

Fish and crayfish were abundant and were caught easily with rod and line, handline or spear. The small reef sharks were not difficult to scare away. Most of the palms on Anchorage island were planted after the 1942 hurricane and it was possible to reach the nuts with a long stick.

Soon after his arrival, Tom started work on a garden, making use of soil taken there by previous settlers. Pigs were running wild over the island and it was neces sary to erect a fence around the plot.

The pigs had destroyed the banana plants and paw paw trees that had previously been grown there, and from his former experi ences of pigs in Tahiti, Tom knew his garden would not be safe, even fenced, until he had killed on the pigs. He made a spear by fitting a French bush knife of good steel into a shaft, then he studied their move ments and laid in wait for them m the lower branches of trees.

He used cut coconuts as bait and at night laid our dried palm fronds to serve as warning of their

approach. . .

The porkers were too cunning to be caught by such an booby trap, for one night he saw them approach, sniff about suspici ously, then carefully step around the “kikau.” Shortly before he left.

there was only one pig left and its fate was not known. The garden flourished and produced kumera, paw-paws, bananas, shallots, to matoes, rock and water melons.

At the time of Tom’s arrival there were a large number of small native rats on anchorage island, but his cats went to work with enthusiasm and when he left no more rats were visible. There was no time to get bored on Suwarrow with the bush to be cleared, the buildings repaired, and the small flat-bottomed dinghy to be kept in good order. The hut had two rooms, four home-made easy chairs and two slat-type beds. Rainwater was caught from the roof in three tanks that held a total of more than a thousand gallons, but in spite of that, there was a drought period when the shell divers were there, and the depth of the tank water dropped to two inches. It became necessary to bathe in the lagoon and rinse down with the minimum amount of fresh water afterwards.

During this time several rain squalls blotted out Motu Tou, an islet six miles away, and Turtle island only three miles away—but no rain fell on Anchorage.

In December, 1952, only a few months after his arrival, Tom ex perienced winds of almost hurricane force. The barometer fell to 29.70, but the roof of the hut was securely held by double wires which passed over it and were secured to three anchors buried in the ground. The palm fronds were being bent double

and snapped off by the force of the wind. As it was dangerous to re main outside, Tom nailed down the shutters and stayed indoors, listen ing to the wind which made “the devil of a noise” through the trees.

On a dinghy trip to Turtle Island it was found that termites had done great damage to the trees. Palms approaching the bearing stage had rotted and fallen over and very few of the others bore nuts. Throughout his stay on Suwarrow, Tom Neale enjoyed good health except for occasional bouts of filarial fever to which he is subject, and on his re turn to Rarotonga he looked fit and well.

Miss Janice Jackson, 21, of Syd ney, left for Honiara in mid-August to work with the Secretariat of the British Solomon Islands Protec torate. She was chosen from among 60 applicants. When she was 17 she went to Tasmania and two years later sailed for England, where she knew nobody; she landed with only £l7. She returned home in December, 1953, but the travel urge made her apply for the job on Guadalcanal. (Note: Things must have changed in perennially short staffed BSIP when any job merits 60 applicants).

Soup? Maybe, Someday!

p. 84

Soup in the making—but don’t bother waiting for it, as turtles grow at the Tate of about eight inches a year. And the matchbox beside it indicates the size of this six-weeks-old baby, caught at Makogai, Fiji, recently. —Photo by Jack Thornton.

Sojourn In Samoa[?]

p. 84

We come but for a little wh amongst you To learn your brown-skinn charm, your devious ways.

We go and, going, leave no trs behind us, And yet we will remember all c days.

The hills like pansies in the scar sunrise, The sweep and crash of break( on the reef; The still lagoon, cliffed in by at ramparts, With coral, carved in beau underneath; The spears of sunlight stabbi emerald waters, And soaring palms, ebon a; silver-fret.

When we must go, we take yo beauty with us.

We shall remember. How can 1 forget!

Betty Maitlan

ff Messrs. L. F. Nix, G. F. Grege son, A. E. Prince and B. W. Graha have been appointed directors Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum C Ltd.

Pim Crossquiz No. 55

pp. 84-92

Solution on Page 90

Across

I. For what invention is Alfred Nobel famous? s.—Who was England’s Prime Minister during the French Revolution? 9. Of what South American Republic is Montevido the capital? 10. What was the title borne by the ancient rulers and priests of Peru? 11. —Who is Emperor of Abyssinia? 12.—Who wrote “Lorna Doone”? 15. —English comedian, Fields? 16. What is the name for animals that chew the cud?

19.—What is the name for a water bottle used on a table? 21. —What is an alloy of iron and carbon? 22. —Who is known as “the father of modern chemistry”?

Down

1-—What is the name of the fanatical sect in Canada who burn their own houses, then, disrobe and pray? 2. —What British measure Is equivalent to 6,080 feet? 3. —On what animal did Walt Disney model his first cartoon character? 4. —What river does the Tay Bridge span? 6. —What are the sharp edged cutting teeth at the front of the mammalian jaws called? 7. —What is the name for the tiny nodules on the tongue which enable us to perceive the flavour of things? „

B.—ln what capacity did William Ki( become notorious? 13. Who wrote “September in Au tralia”? 14. —Of what department of Normam is Alencon the capital? 17. —What is the name given to French Algerian cavalryman? 18. —What is the feminine form “rajah”? 20.—According to the well-known sayin what part of the body is found in wall?

Advertisements & other items, p. 84 (1 item)

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SEPTEMBER, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Goroka is Growing Up

p. 85

SOROKA—New Guinea’s newest JT town, there was nothing there a few years ago—is expanding id growing in great leaps. These tiotographs show some of the hiding that has been done, most : it in the last year.

In the last 12 months, Mrs. Ellen itt has added to her hotel (it now as a licence). Originally the house lown in the centre was the entire itablishment; now two other wings, mnected by covered-ways, have

been added. It can accommodate 20 guests and Mrs. Pitt plans to build a new lounge adjacent to the pre sent dining room, The swimming pool and paddling pool have been completed and a hedge has been encouraged to grow around it to keep off some of the breezes that blow down from the higher peaks.

In mid-June, the Department of Works officially handed over the hangar (shown herewith) to the De-

partment of Civil Aviation, it is said to have cost about £30,000 as it is a pre-fabricated affair, imported from the UK and flown in to Goroka.

During June, the Bunting in terests of Samarai and Lae pur chased from Mr. Jim Leahy two trade stores, one of which, of modern design, will be opened as Goroka’s first large European store, with a freezer.

The European school has been functioning for about two years and in the capable charge of Miss Roach! caters for grades 1 to 5. There are 21 pupils enrolled.

Almost every type of farming and stock-raising is undertaken in the district—but coffee is king. Every one, native or European, is in terested in this crop which is looked upon as the greatest factor in the future well-being of the district.

The Administration is helping the natives to get into the coffee busi ness. You can buy native-grown coffee in Goroka for 4/- per pound —less than half the price you pay

for it in Australian shops.-

Joan

Carter.

Top, the fresh-water swimming pool with paddling pool beside it. Lower, Mrs. it s hotel. —Photos by Papuan Prints.

Top left, the new primary school; right, Buntings new store; and below, the impressive new hangar which is said to have cost £30,000. —Photos by Papuan Prints.

The Lagoon Blues

p. 85

as heard by

“That Passing Mosquito”

Like thunder, dawn, across the bay; Like lightning comes the glow of day; Like shafts of hope, the poets tell — We’ve seen it and it is like—well!

Like fairy flutes, the song of birds; Like long forgotten magic words; Like notes upon a silver bell; Like raucous shrieks from out of — well!

Like spells, the Islands’ magic charm, Will banish all disease and harm.

The. common cold has heard its knell, Ah-tish-oo! Oh please go to —well!

Like dragons at their fearsome play.

Destruction tears its frightful way.

The skies above hurl rain pell-mell.

But more than that, it pours like— well!

Like shutters drawn, the light of day, Is crashed upon its sudden way.

Like curtains drawn the darkness fell.

We brightly say, “Like (censored) well!”

This fairy tale of modern times, We’ll gladly leave for cooler climes.

But our life there’s an empty shell — Our hearts are in this Tropic—well! ft Mr. J. E. Windrum, British Agent and Consul in Tonga since 1949, left Nukualofa on retirement on August 10. His successor, Mr. C. R. H.

Nott, arrived in Nukualofa on the same day, to commence duties.

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ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1954

This Month ’s New Reading

pp. 86-88

(Conducted by the Assistant Editor)

They Come Now

In Pairs

WHEN you read two books within the month, one a first novel by a young American women about the passion of some middle-aged American females for a beautiful young man; and the other, a first novel by a young Britisher about the passion of “an ageing woman” (of thirty-eight!) for another beautiful young man, it probably proves only that life is the same on either side of the Atlantic.

The action of both novels takes place in that stratum of society where people have too little to do and too much money to do it with.

On the other hand, both young men In the stories come from the under privileged masses. Both stories are concerned in part with the antics of what in blunt Colonial circles are still referred to as Pansies, which is as polite an expression as any.

This yearning of women for men young enough to be their sons is not unusual —or so I am told. It is supposed to be a mother-complex.

Could be. But if these novels are a fair description of comtemporary life in the Alleghanies or London it could mean also that Western Civilisation is all our Russian friends ever said it was—commencing with •decadent.

First, The Love Eaters, by Mary Lee Settle: Centre stage, a crippled professional director of a group of amateur play-actors. Then enters the beautiful young man, Selby Dodd, long-lost son, by a former marriage, of coal baron Jim Dodd.

All the ladies of the Dodd circle, in cluding Dodd Snr.’s second wife, Marty, immediately begin to breathe heavily through their nostrils, paw the earth and manoeuvre Selby into corners and situations. Selby takes refuge in the society (we might even say arms) of the crippled drama ■director.

This far, clear enough; but beyond this, most of the book is a vague patchwork, more often than not seen through the hankerings of a middle-aged woman. The family doctor believes it nothing more than that she has reached that un fortunate period of female middle years when women are apt to hanker and haver. It could be that, although most of the other char acters are as witless.

Not that they are badly drawn so much as being an unsympathetic, unlovable lot —who leave a sour taste in the mouth.

The whole story hangs on so small a thread, and the characters have such small reason for cluttering up any book, you can wonder how it came to be written, and leave it at that. Or you can spare a moment wondering if this is a fair sample

of American life, and if so, shed a tear for the greatest champion of Western Democracy. Possibly it was on this last point that it found a publisher.

T .he Other Side of the Square (by Neil Macmillan) is a drawing-room drama of post-war London. One might have supposed, of course, that the Second World War would have ended that section of society which is devoted entirely to scandal and the dilettante. But evidently not.

They are no more attractive than their Yankee cousins in Miss Settle’s Alleghanies.

It is 38-years-old Veronica who falls in love with the gardener’s 20years-old son, Laurence. But un like Marty, who just sweated it out, Veronica gets her man and there are many passages of passion in the flat over the garage where Laurence lives.

The story might have been given some piquancy by the fact that her husband, Charles, unknown to the lovers, aided and abetted their affair (apparently on the grounds that young Laurence could supply what he could not and thereby keep his wife happy). Might have been, but is not: Macmillan is no Guy de Maupassant.

Veronica (who believes that she loves her husband as well as young Laurence) and Charles are well satisfied with the triangular arrange ment, but Laurence, as might be ex pected of a gardener’s son, is not. He feels obliged to confess to the hus band and then to bash the ageing Charles over the skull with a poker.

The troubles of these three are not lessened by the fourth character, the feline Geoffrey, who has a gift for meddling and for good-looking young manservants.

The final episode in the drama is about as ridiculous as Mr.

Macmillan can make it; but although, at times, the writing is technically crude, and the theme even more so, nonetheless the book is readable. One of these days, when the writer gets over the idea that an abnormal sex-life is life, we might even get something good from him. (The Love Eaters, published by Heine mann, Australian price, 13/3; The Other Side of the Square, published by Seeker and Warburg, Australian price, 15/6.)

Love Me, Love My

Jap Bride

THE old Maestro again—this time writing about Japan with pos sibly the best story he has done since Tales of the South Pacific.

You may not admire the theme, but James A. Michener is at his best writing about fighting men, and his characters (pruned of their

American ballyhoo, of course) ha the necessary relation to human t ings to make his stories good ente tainment value.

Sayonara will probably infuris some people, so put it aside if y cannot go quietly along wi Michener and see Japan through 1: eyes—a land of subtle beauty a] charm. Forget the horror poste of the war years (Remember the o called, “He’s Coming South”?) ai think of the Japanese as kind, ci tured and gentle folk.

This is a love story—of Gl’s f Japanese girls and the obstacl thrown in their path by an u: sympathetic military authority; pi justification of the Gl’s attituc For (according to Michener), t] Japanese girls have something th American girls have not. As one the characters in the book put i “Men with wives back in the Stat talk about the braces on Junioi teeth and what kind of car their wi bought. But men with Japane wives tell you one thing only—wh wonderful wives they have. They’ in love. It’s that simple.”

And so the stage is set for tl love of a US air ace for a beautif J apanese actress—and, brushii away the obstacles put in his pat by his father (a four-star general by the father of his girl-frier Eileen (a lesser general), Eileen he self and Eileen’s battle-axe mothe he dives in head first, to an affa that gives him more soul-soothir satisfaction than he has ever ha and which irons out the crinkL in his inhibitions.

What precisely is the charm of t!

Japanese girls is never specifical explained and one is left with t! inescapable conclusion that it cor sists mainly in boosting the ma ego—even so far as removing h shoes at the door and scrubbing h back in the bath.

But apart from the love passag« there are various excursions into Jaf anese life and customs which are c considerable interest. Unfortunate! one strikes a snag here, for in tk past James A. has carried out s much fact-and-fiction blending th£ one is now apt to take everythin he dishes up with a good sprinkle c salt. You remember, perhaps, th story he told in an article on Aug tralia in the US publication Holiday Australians, he said, mostly all hal false teeth. In the summer surfin season at Bondi they parked theg in long rows, with a beach-inspectc to stand guard over them. As th surfers returned there was usuallj some confusion as they tried th various dentures for size.

Apart from the obvious draw> backs and if read entirely for enter tainment, turning a cynical am blind eye to the past, you get valui for your money in Sayonara. (Published by Seeker and Warburg Australian price, 13/3.)

(Continued on Page 86)

A Bishop Speaks

Bishop fulton sheen has be come a world-wide figure. Ii America, his TV session, Life I Worth Living, has a viewing audi ence of millions. He has preache< in England; and, currently in Aus tralia, his talks are being broadcas regularly.

His oratorial powers are consider able, he has a simple philosophy ex pressed in everyday language whicl appeals to the people, and he tackle all contemporary problems, big an< small. He is one of the key mei of the Catholic Church’s campaigi against the evils of Communism.

Recently 26 of his talks have beer combined in a volume called—afte: his TV session —Life Is Worth Living More than a quarter million of tin American edition were sold befon publication.

Included in this selection is th( Bishop’s most famous talk—“Deatl of Stalin”—which was telecast nim days before the death was an nounced from Moscow on March 5 1953. This forecasts in uncanny de tail many of the events that hav( subsequently taken place.

The Bishop has a superb radic personality and as he is a person able man, is a valuable addition tc TV. Like most radio scripts, which prepared to be carried by the voice are reduced to the cold printed word, they lose something of their value; but this can be the onlj criticism, and the present volumt of selected talks will be none the less popular with Bishop Sheen fans who will want to have something of his work in permanent form; and with others who, because of location, are unable to hear a man who is recognised as an orator and as a leader of Western Democracy. (Published by Peter Davies, Ltd. Aus tralian price, 15/6.)

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SEPTEMBER, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Tale of Two Ships

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1954

Tale of Two Ships (Continued from Page 79)

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Here and There in the Cooks (Continued from Page 75)

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ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1954

News of the Small-Ships

pp. 99-113

100

101

102

It Happened In This Month:

1-The 230-ton Danish brig Saint *homas was wrecked under un gual circumstances in Fiji on Sep ember 1, 1869. With Captain Thag ard in command, the vessel war nder charter to Wolf den & Co. of lydney and was fully laden with otton, cotton seed, and coconut oil. rhen she cleared Levuka on a fine lear afternoon. In the light south asterly breeze she took a first “leg” cross towards Wakaya, then came bout and ran back towards Ovalau.

Phen approaching the Ovalau coast le wind fell away light, the Saint 'homas failing to come about, and Bfore anything could be done she as on the reef opposite Naslnu — ided by a strong set.

With all sail still set, she soon eeled over, but boats were lowered nd all hands and the passengers, Dt away. Mails, luggage, and most f the cargo were saved, but the essel was rotten and soon broke p. What remained of her, includ ig spars, rigging, ground tackle, ;c„ was sold some time later on le reef for £142/10/ —the cargo ringing £124. She was formerly a anish warship.

New Lighthouse:—Work Is

roceeding at Niau atoll in the uamotu on the foundations of a ?hthouse which the Public Works

Department of French Oceania is building there. It is expected that the light will be in operation by the end of the year.

Savoie Disposes:—Hard On

the news of the loss of Jacques del Mar on Lord Howe Island recently, comes news that Captain Emile Savoie has sold Colorado del Mar (ex Hokitika) to Etablissements Ballande at Santo. Captain Savoie purchased this vessel in Auckland last January at the same time as he purchased the Jacques del Mar in Wellington. Only the Maria del Mar (ex Margaret-W) of the vessels mentioned last month, remains under Savoie ownership.

Albert Bonneaud In

TROUBLE;—The attractive 240-ton inter-island trader Albert Bonneaud, owned by Comptoirs Francaise des Nouvelles Hebrides, came to grief early July when a heavy blow swept the New Hebrides and caused the vessel to drag onto the beach at Malequla, damaging her rudder but apparently not causing any serious hull damage. She was able to get off and in mid-August was still undergoing rudder repairs at Santo.

TINA II: —Some time ago we in correctly stated that Captain Beim, of Santo, had purchased the Fair

mile C-Gull. Actually, it was Tina 11, which was lost on Dentre casteau Reef, Banks Group, in a February blow, almost immediately after her arrival from Australia.

The Noumea Fairmile Philante II has since taken a salvage party to the scene and everything of value was successfully recovered, the hull only being a total loss.

Attached For Debts:—The

well-known French Oceania inter island vessel Florence Robinson, of 95 tons gross, was attached for debt in Papeete on July 30 and was to be auctioned with all equipment on

September 3. The vessel was owned by Messrs John and Sam Mervin .and the claimant, for the 1,595,262

francs owing, was Madame Helene Chapman.

Radio Pandemonium-

People associated with Smallships’ radio facilities in the Pacific fondly hoped, prior to the Atlantic City in ternational radio conference of 1947 that decisions w<puld be made there to end the existing pandemonium.

In actual fact, the situation fr a Smallships’ safety point of v to-day is even worse as the decisi then made are gradually put i operation. The frequency of 2 kc/s is nominally a world-w distress channel for voice-equip] vessels, but not a single Island co station is maintaining a continu watch on that frequency—or,

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at matter, on any other stand dised frequency on which a small lip could raise assistance in an aergency.

The frequency of 6280 kc/s, ough not constantly guarded, was itil recently used by shipping in number of Island groups, includ g New Guinea and also on the istralian coast. The 2182 kc/s fre iency, while satisfactory for short nge working, is too low a frequ ,cy for the long-distance working lied for in the Islands at day ne, so was not acceptable to all [ministrations.

Now we find that an even greater riety of frequencies is being ought into use. Suva is about to andon 6280 in favour of some new jquencies. Noumea has just shifted yet other frequencies. French seania uses others again. A vessel ramping” in the South Pacific to ,y would have to carry half a zen transmitter crystals and have jransmitter capable of a frequency nge of from 2182 kc/s (Cook ands and Tonga) to around 8300 /s or higher.

Technical difficulties are involved, t, much worse, the safety factor ,s been substantially reduced. It

is difficult indeed to see why two frequencies—2lB2 kc/s and one in the 6-8 mc/s region—could not he agreed upon by all Island adminis trations, with other optional alternative working frequencies it desired, and at least a continuous speaker watch maintained on the two agreed frequencies by a few 24hour stations like Port Moresby, Noumea, Suva, Rarotonga and Papeete,

New Fairmile Models:—We

have received a copy of a new and glossy catalogue from the Fairmile Construction Company of Cobham, UK. These designers and builders of small-ships are as well known in the Pacific as they are nearer home, The prospective purchaser of any thing from a tug to a pleasure launch will find the catalogue which is illustrated with photos of the craft available—of interest. The company will also have vessels speci ally designed and built, if required— or modifications made to the models illustrated. KELAUA SOLD:—The Kelaua, one of the last two ships owned by the Commonwealth Government in

"Tovata ”, ex ‘‘Purple Sea”, ex SC 671—Fiji inter-island trader, as she is to day. This is the vessel in which Ronald Johnson drifted from Hawaii to near Fiji some years ago. Now owned by W. B.

Carpenter & Co.

e\v Guinea, has been sold to the fcred Heart Mission (New Britain) roperty Trust, Vunapope. She will place the under-powered Waimana frying heavy timber to Rabaul id diesel oil from Lae to run the [ission’s workshop and saw-mill g machinery.

Future plans for the Waimana e unknown. Originally a square zged three-masted sailing ship ,lthough when used by the RAAF iring the war, schooner rigged), ’aimana is auxiliary powered by jo Grey Marine engines and no nger uses sails. It is well known tat an American film company,

Twentieth Century Fox, recently offered to buy the ship at a very handsome figure for the sole purpose of sailing and wrecking her, but at that time she was still on active duty. Residents of the Territory are now wondering whether they will «e e r-bowed Waimana .once at of nseudo Wood Hollvwood Dirates ’ bl d ' thirsty, Hollywood pirates.

RIRA ENDS LIFE:—The oncefamous topsail schooner, Rira, which chased Count Felix von Luckner round the Pacific in 1917, broke its moorings during a recent storm and

piled up on Westmere Reef Auck land Harbour. For the last few years Rira has been just a hulk rotting in the harbour, In November 1916 von Turkov broke the ßritish blockade Atlantic with his 1 600-ton chnner Readier W (Sea Eagle) ° and SSS havoc amon S Allie d shipping.

In 1917, he entered the Pacific

Left: The new slipway being built in Rabaul Harbour by J. L. Chipper & Co. [?]en complete it will take ships of up to 300 tons. Right: the “KelauA” and the [?]aimana” at the smallships wharf, Rabaul.

and in August that year Seeadler was wrecked on a coral reef in the Society Islands; von Luckner set out in a lifeboat to find another vessel. They were captured and the Count, with one of his officers, was interned on Motuihi Island, Auck land. Escaping in the camp com mandant’s motor boat after start ing a fire in the camp, they soon captured the schooner Moa.

Rira, equipped with rifles and grenades set off in pursuit and eventually recaptured the elusive German. He was handed over to the authorities on the NZ ship Iris.

Coral Star Sinks:—G. V.

Miller & Co.’s converted LTC Coral Star turned over and sank in more than 1,000 fathoms of water approxi mately 35 miles south of Nouna Island (near Manus, NG) on the night of July 19. Although a heavy swell was running, the weather was fine.

Coral Star has a European captain and engineer and a native crew. It appears that when S-E of Manus Island, at 11 p.m., she developed a slight list to port. The list rapidly increased to 30 degrees, causing the 100 tons of cargo, including mobile equipment, bulldozers and workshop machinery, to break free and rush to the port side, opening up the whole length of deck. Twenty minutes after the list was first noticed, the vessel turned over and sank immediately.

Crew and passengers, including two Europeans, manned the boats and sailed, under make-shift sail,

the 65 miles to Adriel Is. They arrived there on Wednesday, July 21 A preliminary enquiry has been held at Rabaul. t RO S ALI E\ Societe des Hes Loyaute s Rosalie cleared Auckland on return to Noumea August 11, after an extensive refit which in cluded replacement of a large num ber of bottom planks and the greater part of the totara wooden sheathing on the starboard side of

the hull as well as elsewh Rosalie, one of the standard a posite American designed 11 powered lighters built in Auckl during World War 11, had accommodation considerably proved by the addition of a s deck house at Noumea after she purchased by her present own The bridge is on top of this ad deck house which accommodates master.

[Rosalie returned almost empty, Ithough a good deal could have Ben picked up in Auckland. iSTITCH IN TlME:—Arriving in uva from Apia in July, the master f Tasman Steamships’ Vasu re arted that the vessel’s rudder ppeared to be jamming in a sea ay. Investigations were taken in and by Millers Ltd.’s boatyard and i was found that the heavy wooden lock was seriously sprung and it as fortunate that the rudder had ot been lost, as would probably ave happened in heavy weather.

The rudder, as originally supplied > the Italian-built 300-tonner, as a piece of timber 12 h inches

lick. It was decided to replace it ith a fabricated steel rudder, the ib being smartly completed and asu sailing August 1 for Tarawa, .bout the only small vessel at pre *nt “tramping” in the South 'acific, Vasu is expected to sail for tie New Hebrides on her return to uva.

HIGH AND DRY;—Californian . Libby, arriving back in a village n the eastern frontier of Turkey ate July after climbing part way p Mt. Ararat, claimed that he has ound the remains of the original sland trader —Noah’s Ark. Bad leather forced him to descend but te planned to make another at empt to reach the top of the aountain which the Bible seems to dace as the stranding-point of the irk following the Flood. Allied air nen during the war reported sight ng “something” that could be the irk’s remains.

Second Thought: —U Nit Ed

states Government has now decided o pay $BOO,OOO compensation to the Japanese fishermen injured by 'adio-active ash from the March itomic tests at Bikini. This is con

siderably higher than the sum first offered.

But Too Much Paint.—Joe

Kurusiga, foundation member of one of Fiji’s now thriving Credit Unions, at Kalokolevu, has, with funds so raised, been able to purchase his own fishing punt—instead of paying hire on one. The new punt has been named Kalokolevu Credit Union!

French Oceania Radio

SCHEDS:—Latest news available in regard to R/T facilities in French Oceania, other than at Papeete, is as follows: Taiohae, Marquesas, FJC maintains watch on 2620 kc/s, replying on the same frequency or

alternatively on 2845 or 1755 kc/s from 0400-0530 and 1630-1800 GMT daily except Sunday (GMT).

LINE ISLANDS:—Communica tions in the Fanning-Washington- Christmas-Palmyra area are carried on, inter-island, on 3500 kc/s, voice and morse. Vessels equipped with that frequency may make contact initially by calling and listening be tween 1800-1900 GMT or at 0200 GMT. Alternatively, as Fanning is on the telegraph-cable route, a schedule may be arranged before departure from last port, when bound for the Line Islands,

Old-Timer Reports: Mr.

J. L. Russell, of Gladstone, Queens

Upper, “Rosalie” returned to her birth [?]ace for refit, including extensive re [?]anking of bottom; and lower, Fiji [?]edical Department’s busy “Vuniwai”.

nd, renewing his sub., mentions tat he served years ago in the On [long & Co. barquentine Alexa. He ilieved she was destroyed by fire \ the Gilberts about 1930, and inhered whether the company is ill in existence.

Bv chance, when his letter arrived, e New Zealand Government vessel aui Pomare was in port at Auck nd. and her master, Captain mlton, who served as Second Seer in Alexa for about 2h years, nfirms that she was destroyed by ■e, through spontaneous com istion, while she was loading copra Butaritari, around 1930. She was lilt in Holland, was 285-tons steel ssel, with a very poor reputation to speed. Best passage, he be >ves, was 150 days from Sydney to itaritari. Another time, with Mr.

C. Macdonald (who died in Auck nd at the beginning of August) mate, and Captain Boulton as cond mate, she made a 71-day issage from ’Frisco to Auckland.

On Chong, a Hongkong firm with i important office in Sydney, first med the steamer Brunner and the rque Loongana —the latter eventu ly breaking her back when beached Butaritari. Then came the Alexa, e steamer St. George and the acquarie.

The company was bought out ound 1937 by R. W. Carpenter & of Sydney, the John Bolton, a lall wooden motor vessel, then Lite new, being taken over in the lal.

TOVATA: —W. R. Carpenter & Co.’s Tovata, better remembered as the famous sub-chaser SC-671 in which Ronald Johnson drifted from Hawaii to Fiji, was in trouble in July. Negotiating the narrow Vatoa passage, the 112-tonner punched a hole in her planking in the way of the engine room when she bounced on a coral head. Slipped in Suva, the planking around the pro peller shafts was also found to be badly wormed. Repairs were put in hand and the vessel was expected to resume normal operations early August.

Expensive Snooze:—When He

fell asleep at the wheel on July 24, off Dawadawa, Milne Bay, Mr.

Lancelot Wilkinson, of Bubuletta, woke to find his 36-foot diesel launch Guguhini in the surf and on a sand bank. Before anything could be done, big seas from the fresh south-easter had swamped the craft and hurled the owner and his nine Papuan crewmen over board. Two of the crew were drowned in trying to get ashore and Mr.

Wilkinson, in August, was in the Samarai hospital with broken ribs and lacerations.

RECORD DRIFT;—What appears to be an all-time record drift by a bottle—if no hoax was involved — was reported from Auckland in July. There Mr. Percy Myall re ceived back a portion of a cigarette packet on which he had scrawled his name and address and tossed

overboard in a lemonade bottle from the Monowai two days out of Auckland, bound Sydney in Oc tober, 1936.

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waids south west Africa thence

north-west until picked up by the V2P Stream, and so across the Atlantic again to England. The s°.ttle may, of course, have been drifting about the English coast for years before it was actually picked up by school-master St, Pierre, who sent the card to his brother in Auckland for personal delivery.

Weather In French:—A Re

cent Notice to Mariners reports that

Sector broadcasting station on

3355/6035 kc/s now gives the forecast for that area in 0115 GMT, re peated at 0200 GMT—in the French language.

WARNING:— Another Notice is of interest to small-ships’ masters who have been wise enough to equip their vessels with one of the surplus Gibson Girl automatic-dis tress hand-cranked emergency transmitters and other similar automatic distress transmitters.

These should never be tested at tached to an aerial—or even with the aerial wire left very close to the set, as there have recently been cases where false distress signals were sent which caused consider able concern and bother.

Should one of these accidently be wound while attached to an aerial, steps should immediately be taken to inform the nearest coast station of the accidental trans mission before the Search and Rescue Organisation goes into action.

The local radio inspector will always test these sets for masters upon re quest.

Chore Completed:—The Sur

vey vessel HMNZS Lachlan, Com mander G. S. Ritchie, RN, con tinuing her survey of Samoan coastal waters, this year sounded

the main shipping track from 1 100-fathom line northward sei miles to Apolima Strait. Last y< she surveyed from the Strait Apia Passage.

In shore work was also can out with sounding launch betwt Malua light and Fasitoouta. aerial survey of the area, also un<

t y, would aid in the final work of sparing new charts. Due for a uor refit next winter, Lachlan iy not return until the follow t year. The practice has been do survey work in Fiji-Samoa ,ters for short periods during the dter while weather prevents work the big New Zealand coastal rvey job.

SUVA PORT:—It is expected that ; recent heavy congestion of •go on the Suva waterfront will relieved by the new receiving jds which came into use in July, though the port area is to be [fted entirely within a year or 0 (at considerable cost), these ;ds, erected to the rear of the sting sheds, have been built as interim measure.

NEAR MISS:—In a book just Wished, The Moon Puzzle, N. O. rgquist, of Copenhagen, con des that the moon was formed m a piece of the earth gouged t of what is now the Pacific ean by a passing planet. The ;ory, which seems to have some entitle support, is that the planet uck somewhere close to what is w Tonga, in a glancing blow to rds the south-east past what is sv Cape Horn. The result was a al wave which literally washed ay continents and gave the •th its present axial tilt which es us our seasons. Till then the jgraphical and magnetic poles ncided. The crash caused an im diate and permanent separation those poles. rhe pieces of earth which was nged off from Tonga to Cape rn was hurled into space to be ne nicely balanced between the ivitational pulls of the surround ; celestial bodies. So the Tongans iy, after all, be related to the ,n in the moon—or something.

DAY OUT:—The French patrol Dp Tiare, Commandant Servent in nmand, in Suva for drydocking July, took a party of school lldren round the coast, under otage of Captain Harness, Suva rbour master-pilot, to attend an rersary celebrations at Queen itoria School, Matavatucou. There mmandant Servent was received :h traditional Fijian ceremonial, 1 school boys were ferried out to ik over Tiare, and a good time s had by all.

Tiare departed Suva July 24 to itinue her usual winter cruise to illis and Futuna, Tahiti, and Dbably other non-French groups her run back to Noumea. She t a petty officer in hospital re peating from a serious operation.

F’ROG SURVEY:—Because the d was unavailable for examination the bottom of Adi Keva, follow l her recent stranding, and be ase the men required to carry b the survey are members of the va spear-fishermen’s club, no

time was lost in carrying out a frog-man survey using aqua-lungs.

This was the first occasion that this type of equipment had ever been used commercially in Suva.

The frog-men were Assistant Mechanical Engineer Corbett of the PWD ship-yard, and Mr. Colin White, of Miller’s Boatyard. The survey showed that no damage had been done in the stranding.

Cws Reshuffle: —Coi O N Y

Wholesale Society of Tarawa re cently had a reshuffle of skippers in its smallships fleet. Captain Stan Brown, lately of Maureen, resigned in Suva in July on arrival there with that vessel for survey. He is reported to be interested in the new Fiji Navy unit. Captain Vic Ward

has transferred from Tuvalu to Tungaru. Captain Gerry Douglas now commands Tuvalu. Captain Hay, well known in Suva, was ex pected to take command of Maureen on completion of refit. That vessel has not been slipped for two years and her hull is reported to be in bad shape with much copper miss ing. Of double-skinned construc tion, it is anticipated that replace ™ent of planks will be a protracted Job-

Unwanted Lct;—Vacuum

Oil Company has been unable to sell its Suva-based LCT VO-1, idle since the opening of the Vacuum oil terminal near Nadi put her out of business as a transporter of drummed oil from Suva to Lautoka

adi. The price asked was earlier ported to be very reasonable, but f considerable amount of work ould have been required on the issel to comply with surveys due. acuum are reported now to be ripping the LOT of useful equip ent. Like other LCT’s, she is iwered with three 225 hp GM otors.

Caron Ia Calling:— If You’Ve

ten hearing an attractive Ameri ,n voice calling KQM in Honolulu id signing WE-9951, that’s Mrs. lanne Booth Johnson, radio orator, secretary, shareholder and xector of the Portland salvage ganisation based aboard the big 6-ton motor yacht Caronia, cur ntly at Canton Island. Equipped Lth a 100-watt radio telephone, rect telephone calls can be made om Canton to Honolulu and rough there to the States by ironia. For ship-to-ship working rs. Johnson uses 2638 kc/s.

NOT BlTlNG:—Captain “Dusty” iller, of Joyita, recently trans rred his fishing locale from Can n to the more profitable American imoa area. Joyita is probably the ily wandering free-lance fishing ssel operating south of the Line, tart from Japanese-owned craft.

Noumea Addition—Maid Of

nto, British-built wooden trawler, lich arrived in Noumea early June r Agence Reuter, has been re imed Lorraine. She is reported, twever, to have experienced seri

ous engine trouble en route from Malta and may have to be re engined before going into com mission in the New Caledonia coastal trade. Lorraine is at present powered with a Crossley diesel. She is a vessel of 203 gross tons, 186 tons below decks, 110 nett, and measures 91.4 ft x 22 ft x 7.8 ft.

Lloyds give previous owners as Med iterranean Shipbreaking and Sal vage Co Ltd>> 0 f Malta. She will replace Reuter’s Jeanne d’Arc, lost b stranding last year,

Not Discouraged:—Mr. Lew

Graham, back in Auckland after the loss of Nukalau in the Tasman Sea, indicated in August that he is de finitely still in the shipping busi ness. He was then investigating the 563 GT Swedish-built vessel Falken (ex Lillemor, ex Brevik ) for sale at Stockholm. A steel vessel (“no more wooden ships, thanks!”) Falken was built in 1946 at Moss, Norway. She measures 150 ft x 30.7 ft x 10.6 ft with a nett tonnage of 334 and is Powered with an Atlas diesel, Mr. Cecil Harrison, other active partner with Mr. Graham in Pacific shipping ventures, was in Syndey in August standing by a HDML launch which was to be de livered to a Lord Howe buyer for fishing charters as soon as fitting out was completed there.

Lehi Continues, Crewless:

—Though De Vere Frank Baker, Mormon elder, of Petaluma, Cal., and his crew, had quit the raft Lehi

on the high seas a few days after setting out on an attempt to drift provisionless from San Francisco to Hawaii early July, the raft itself appeared to be continuing the voyage.

On August 6, just a month after she was towed out of the Golden Gate, a fishing vessel reported pass ing Lehi, still very much afloat, 250

miles south of Los Angeles and about 450 miles from her starting point. Owner Baker was reported trying to raise the funds to have the $17,000 raft (which contains radio gear, cameras, and other equipment left in the rush to abandon ship) towed home. He says he is deter mined to make the drift, if necessary by building another raft.

Lehi, named after a Jewish priest mentioned in the Book of Nephi in the Book of Mormon, was financed by Dr. Arthur Fearon, professor of philpsophy at San Francisco Uni versity. The voyage has a religious significance too involved to discuss Jiere.

LST’S FOR SALE:—The Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, London, was advertising a couple of well-known LST’s in mid- August. One was HMAS Lae, LST No. 3035, built in 1945, by Denny, of Dumbarton, engined with Rankin & Blackmore motors; and the other was HMAS Labuan, LST No. 3501, built and engined by Canadian Vickers in 1945. Both are well known in the New Guinea area.

They have a gross registered ton nage of 4,157, nett 2,430, and a ser vice speed of 13 knots. At that speed they burn 8,000 lbs of fuel oil per hour. These Mk.3-type LST’s are currently lying in Syd ney Harbour.

FIJI NAVAL BASE:—Work is in progress at the Bay of Islands, in Suva Harbour, on the erection of

headquarters for the new Fiji Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.

The Fiji Military Forces con struction unit is at present erecting a drill hall 101 ft x 61 ft, with a two-storied lecture wing where rat ings will sling their hammocks at week-end training periods.

When completed, another two storied block will be built to house

office, storerooms, workshops accommodation for petty-ofl instructors and a permanent t crew.

A third building, the ward ro will then be erected, with officers’ cabins on the top floor, jetty will be built and a 72-ft tv diesel-powered SDML acquired New Zealand.

rhis launch will be given the same ime as the new shore station —not t decided. Some whalers and nghies will complete the fleet.

Rising from an opening strength 10 officers and 100 men, it is Mined eventually to have 30 leers and 300 men within a few ars. A limited training programme to commence immediately, on a rritorial basis, with night and sek-end training only.

Lieut. S. Brown, recently master Gilberts CWS vessels, has been pointed executive officer under ►mmander G. R. Woods, VRD, 10 will command the Reserve.

Slipways Building In P-Ng:

A photograph on page 101 shows e site of the new slipway in ibaul which will be built by T. L. upper & Co. [n Moresby, Andrews & Roberts, at-builders and shipwrights, will □rtly commence building a slip ,y of small boats on the reclaimed •eshore at Konedobu. They plan 10 to bring from Australia about dozen small, powered craft which

they will hire out for pleasure pur poses.

[?]one-hander Jean Gau’s “Atom” and, [?]ow, George Karl and Jim Robinson’s [?]ariner” recently mentioned.

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THROUGHOUT FIJI, SAMOA, TONGA, NEW HEBRIDES, NEW CALEDONIA SOLOMON ISLANDS, SOCIETY ISLANDS, COOK ISLANDS, NIUE, ETC. ' SHIPPERS OF ALL CLASSES OF NEW ZEALAND MANUFACTURES AND PRODUCTS SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR THE ISLAND TRADE WE HANDLE ALL KINDS OF ISLAND PRODUCE.

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News of Cruising Yachts

pp. 113-116

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• TAHEA, a 28-foot ketch, sailed from West Covina, near Los Angeles, May 24, on commencement of a circumnavigation.

The yacht Is manned by lone-hander Rolph Thorvaldson, ex-US Navy quarter master, aged 30. The 210 feet of canvas is backed by a 14 hp auxiliary for emergencies.

LATER: The ketch TAHEA, 83-days non-stop out of Los Angeles, arrived at Papeete August 14. A 3-months’ stop-over is planned in French Oceania waters be fore heading home again via Hawaii. • Paul Blackford, writing from Aitntaki in July reported that he and his two mates would be heading KONA for

Palmerston Island early August, thence- Pago Pago, Apia. Wallis, Suva, before turning south to arrive at Auckland probably about November. No firm plans beyond that. The 40 ft x 14 ft x 6.5 ft Block Islander is staysail-schooner rigged and also has a 37 ho 2-cylinder Kermath diesel. • LADY STIRLING, Auckland motor sailer, which arrived at Suva some time ago and has since done some inter-island sailing, was reported for sale there in August. Principal owner of the vessel, which is a comfortable ocean cruiser, is Mrs.

Manning, mother of the young skipper.

With them aboard are Mr. and Mrs.

Block, Danish immigrants to New Zealand and a Dutch woman, Mrs. van der Lipp.

Two Block children are also aboard. The party was reported seeking an island oa which to settle.

laid to be strict teetotalers, the party ised some amusement on the water nt when 18 bottles of spirits and six en of beer were noted going aboard nediately prior to departure from Suva Kadavu. ome hull repairs to copper sheathing ■e carried out there by local shipyard, i. FLAMINGO of Auckland, three days of Cairns, arrived at Samarai July 30, arting again August 3 for Rabaul, imons, thence homeward by summer, iring Auckland late last year, this hi was last reported in Sydney and ‘sale. With owner Warren McCarthy i his wife is Robert Morton, f Latest to leave Europe for the th Seas, destination New Zealand or tralia, is 21-year-old Wolfgang Kraker I Schwarzenfeld who recently left many in a home built twin-hulled,

al. two-masted, ketch-rigged craft.

hulls are joined by a light slatted form. Navigator von Schwarzenfeld lin one hull and carries his stores the other. The hulls appear to be k about 20-feet long. The name of the tis not yet known. She was in New »n, England in August, from whence course lay via France, Spain, and ;ugal to the Canaries, across the ntic and through Panama.

KERERU, little Auckland 22 ft 6 in.

Ift 6 in. yacht, has been sold to Warcel Jacquier, of Malo Island, New rides, and will be used by the family communication with Santo. This was rted by owner Ray Williamson and panions Norman Ziska and Jim Id when they arrived back in Auck

land August IS after a notable 2,500mile voyage in so small a yacht. KERERU left Auckland last summer, calling at Norfolk, He de Pines, Noumea, Mare, Aneityum, Tanna, Erromango, Pentecost, and finally Santo where an offer for the yacht was accepted. Much bad weather was experienced in the New Hebrides.

The crew appreciated the kindness shown to them all along the route.

They will sail again immediately they can locate another suitable yacht of about 30 ft, this time for Fiji. • BOUNTY, of Auckland, last reported from Suva about a year ago, called at Aneityum where the crew were employed for a time by a timber-milling company.

From there they continued to Noumea, arriving there late May. The crew were there employed as paid hands aboard the Fairmile PHILANTE 11, on which Ray Williamson, of KERERU, was employed as skipper for a time. BOUNTY was pre paring to clear Noumea again in mid- August for Brisbane where an attempt will be made to sell her. • LES 4 VENTS with lone-hander Marcel Bardiaux of France, arrived at Noumea early August after a narrow escape from loss on He Fa reef in the approaches to that port. Bardiaux, exhausted, went to sleep at the tiller and found himself on the reef, but luckily got off again. It was during the night.

Bardiaux was given an enthusiastic reception and was engaged on a series of lectures on his cruise late in August. • JAY, 35-ft Australian yacht cruising the New Hebrides, has been sold at Santo.

• CAPRICE, the yacht which held the Sydney-Noumea sailing record, is now pulled up at Noumea and may not sail again. Her owner died some time ago and it is understood that the yacht is unlikely to be sold, for sentimental reasons. • MANDALAY, American East Coast yacht, was understood to be in Apia in mid-August. No word had been re ceived of this yacht since she cleared Papeete in March. • MARINER, in mid-August was pre paring to clear Papeete direct for Apia. • HO HO 11, lying at Auckland’s viaduct wharf and for sale, lost her bow sprit when a mid-August storm caused damage to a number of local small-craft.

Owner Birger Bryhn and his wife, now

employed ashore, hope to make Auckland their home if the sturdy Colin Archer ketch can be sold. Meanwhile they live aboard. • VIKING, in which Steve and Brita Holmdahl cruised through the Islands last year, was reported back home at Sweden in July—first Swedish yacht, they believe, to complete a circumnavigation. • The well-known Australian brothers, Frank and John Livingstone, have bought

Sir Claude Plowman’s MORNA. As part of the purchase price they “traded-in” their old yacht KURREWA 111. Terms of the recent sale were not disclosed. The Livingstone brothers intend renaming the

Morna, Kurrewa Iv.

• A French couple plan to travel an estimated 15,000 miles from France to Sydney in an aluminium sail boat 11 feet long.

J. De Grange and Miss Marie Frederique recently displayed their boat on the river Seine. It is said to be unsinkable because of a series of watertight compartments.

Weighing only 99 lb empty, it is designed to float even if submerged by waves.

An outrigger is attached to the hull giving the tiny craft stability, and an auxiliary motor is available for use in calm weather.

The couple will limit each stag their voyage to less than 300 miles, plan to sail to Italy, Greece, Turke' cross Syria by rail to Allepo. and sail down the Euphrates River, will cross India by river and com the voyage along the coasts of Bu Sumatra. Java, Bali. Celebes, Molu New Guinea, and then turn south Sydney.

Advertisements & other items, pp. 113-116 (4 items)

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[?]hat J. K. McCarthy

p. 117

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Did in 1942

IfRIEND of Mr. J. K. McCarthy, , who recently was transferred ■■ from the position of District inmissioner in New Britain, to idquarters in Port Moresby, has Itten to ask if we can provide »opy of articles which appeared the Pacific Islands Monthly in wary and February, 1947, and ich describe how J. K. McCarthy ed about 240 men from the Jap jse—and almost certain death— January and February, 1942. us reminded, we have read those ides, which have been buried I forgotten in our files, fc is fitting that people in New inea and in Australia should be linded of this really magnificent lievement by J. K. McCarthy. arly 1942 was a time of incredible fusion and tragic suffering. The \e Japanese invasion fleet had le crashing in on top of Rabaul; ompletely smashed the puny de ce organisation that Australia [ established there; and it cap jd some hundreds of soldiers and lians (practically all of whom e afterwards killed) and drove idreds more away into the in pitable mountains and jungles STew Britain. Many of these were awards captured and brutally ited by the Japs—Australia never forget the Tol massacre—and ties escaped by small boats ight in close to the South st. ut the really big achievement that which was planned and icted by District Officer J. K.

Earthy. He worked along the th coast of New Britain, pene ed to within a few miles of the anese forces in the Bainings i and, by superhuman effort, (assisted by some fine old New nea hands like Rod Marsland, Mason, Frank Conroy, Captain •el, Ken Douglas, Lincoln Bell, •y Swanson, Frank Holland, Blue ris, A. P. H. Freund, and many =rs) succeeded in moving out. stages, parties totalling 240 men, it of them starving and broken ited. Gradually, he got them £ along the coast towards Tala where eventually they were :ed up by the Laurabada and an Die party from the Lutheran iion at Finschhaven. i the splendid record of how old New Guinea hands faced up he invasion, and fastened their h in the flanks of the brutal anese, and hung on until the erican and Australian forces ved to give the invaders every ig they deserved, there is no finer pter than that which describes K. McCarthy’s achievement in

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High Costs on Manus Is.

THE new residence on Manus Island for the naval officer in charge, North-East Australian Area, was built by the Common wealth Government at a cost of £13,380.

This was stated recently by the Minister for the Navy, Mr. J.

Francis. An officers’ mess building had cost £15,400 and a swimming pool £3,000. The Government had also authorised £239,000 for the erection of 36 cottages. Six of these have already been built.

* n an effort to find the cause of the rapidly decreasing numbers o t M uruts, an aboriginal British North Bornpo trihP nr Tnhn r t ill

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Su a S v S0 y s l lal f^ nt^ropolog^ JY 111 spe 2. d s i x months living with them. Dr. Landgraf believes the trouble is partly due to inter marriage with the Dusans, a re lated group more adapted to Euro pean civilisation. As disease may also be partly responsible, he will work with Dr. Ivan Polunin, of the University of Malaya, who is con ducting a medical study of the tribe

Advertisements & other items, pp. 117-118 (3 items)

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Hiss Denise Bartley, daughter of Mr. arles (Kalolo) Bartiey of Apia, Western moa, married Mr. Hartley Valentine at i Sacred Heart Cathedral, Suva, on ne 24. The bridegroom is a member of ! well-known Valentine family of Fiji, e bride was given away by Mr. Bartley’s isin, Mr. Robert Narruhn, of Suva, and ! reception was held at the home of s. Angela Ludolph Mr. Narruhn’s ighter. [■he wedding group includes, left to ht, standing: Mr. D. Davenport (best n), Mr. R. Narruhn. Mrs. Bartley other of the bride), bridegroom and de, Mr. and Mrs. Valentine (parents the bridegroom), Mr. P. Slatter oomsman), and seated are the brides ids, Misses Wailupe and Arita Bartley.

Civil Service Assn, in BSIP

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r I 'HE newly formed BSIP Civil Service Association held its first meeting in Honiara, in August. The draft constitu tion and rules were adopted, and the following office-bearers were elected: President, Mr. P. M. Smith; hon. sec., Mr. G. F. C. Dennis; hon. treasurer, Mr.

P. B. Flynn; council members: Mr. G. A.

Skipper, Mr. T. H. Manning, Mr. G.

Oakes, Mr. F. Macindoe, Mr. J. Tamana, Mr. Guso Piko, Mr. B. Gina, and Mr. J.

Angisiringi.

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The job is being carried out by Messrs. T. J. Watkins Ltd., of Cairns, who, for this purpose, have formed and registered T. J.

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S. A. Watkins, the man who will direct operations, has been in Lae making preliminary arrangements.

Accommodation already has been provided for a large staff of Euro pean and native workmen.

An inquiry into the death of Lord Michael Fitzroy, son of the Duke of Grafton, in the Russel Islands, on July 15, 1954, has been held in the BSIP. Finding of the Court was that the deceased met his death by misadventure, through causes un known.

H Sister Mary Davidson, of the Methodist Memorial Hospital, Ade laide, will leave Australia for New Guinea in about two months time to serve in an out-station clinic.

Her work will be mainly medical, but she will do some evangelical work. Her sister, who is married to a missionery, is also serving in New Guinea.

tl Mr. J. C. Parkinson, who has b appointed Assistant Conservatoi Forests, is expected to arrive in m September. Mr. Parkinson co] from South Africa, where he worked for the Forestry Departm for the past three years. Aged he is at present engaged in silviculture section of the Piei maritzburg Research Institute.

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[?]urrent News Items From Our Correspondents

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In Papua-New Guinea

Ps Wants Shorter Week,

More Pay

The first round in an arbitration ar in the Territory finished at the id of August when the Adminis ation lodged formal objection to ie Public Service Association’s iplication for a 5-days’ week.

The objection meant that the dis ite will now go before a Public jrvice Arbitrator who will be ipointed shortly by the Governor eneral.

The dispute will be the first heard r a Public Setvice Arbitrator in ipua-New Guinea and it follows ngthy efforts by the Public Ser ce Association to have the 5-day >ek granted by other processes.

Objection to the application aimed that the application took i cognisance of the requirements the community as a whole and )uld, if granted, have an adverse feet on the social and economic ivelopment of the Territory, im ising unreasonable burdens on the st of the community. It would ipose an added burden on the lances of the Territory, which was >t warranted.

The Administration’s formal tjection noted that it was not sat -sed that the majority of Public srvice members supported the As ciation’s claim and also said that ie claim was wrong in law, in at the arbitrator had no power amend the regulation as asked.

While the details of the Admin- Lration’s objection to the 5-days’ 3ek were being announced the übl i c Service Association, on agust 30, was making a second iplication to the court for an in ease of one-third in both the basic ige and cost-of-living allowance lid to Territory Public Servants.

The basic wage in the Territory a product of the mean basic wage lyable in all the Australian states, ir Public Servants a cost of liv g allowance of £l9B is added, plus opical allowance.

No separate basic wage has ever sen fixed for the Territory and the ssociation claims that an increase one-third to the present one, as ell as an increase in the cost of ring, would be more in keeping Lth the high costs in the Terri ry.

Museum Expedition In

Highlands

An expedition from the Aus alian Museum, Sydney, completed s work in the Highlands at the be nning of September.

During two months the expedi on collected about 800 specimens, id visited 5 main areas of the ighlands.

Some of the specimens will be returned to the Territory as part of the Territory Museum, when it finally gets started, and the Museum specimens will go towards giving Sydney Museum a chance to put on a display in some way equal to exhibits at overseas museums, which have for many /( years supplied Aus tralia with their own specimens.

Rabaul—On The Water Cart

After several months of dry weather, dusty old Rabaul was having its usual water troubles in August.

Vehicles of all types, equipped to carry water to dry domestic tanks daily lined up at the main water tank. On occasions they were ten deep.

The arrival of five big ships in the harbour during one week-end in August, when the dry spell was

at its peak, didn’t help matters, as it added to the drain on the water supply.

In Steps Of Champion And

Karius

A District Services patrol in Sep tember will go into the Upper Fly

ver and Star Mountains area, in astern Papua. It will be led by 3 ADO at Daru, Mr. J. W. Kent, will be away about 2 months.

Some of this area, which is rugged and difficult, was traversed by Champion and Karius in the late 20’s, and there have been few

patrols since. A party from the Sepik district of NG escaped through the area from the Japanese in 1942.

Interest In Wau

In addition to the American and German ambassadors, Wau visitors have recently included Professor M Titlev, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, who has been working at the Australian National University, Canberra. He was accompanied by his wife and son.

Mr. F. H. Reckliff, Department of Civil Aviation photographer, also visited Wau for several days for the purpose of taking films and photo graphs to make up a picture-story for Life Magazine and also the De partment’s records.

While in this district, Mr. Reckliff

[?] Auust 18 the Administrator of [?]pua and New Guinea, Brig. Cleland, [?]ned the new Rover Den at Boroka, a [?]urb of Port Moresby. Cost of the fine, [?]dern building was £1,100, the work [?]ng done by the Rover Crew themselves, [?]en from left to right in the photo are

Mr. Des Large, Brig. Cleland, Mrs. Cleland. the German Ambassador to Australia, tralia, Dr. Hess, who was visiting the Territory, and Scout Commissioner Groves. —Photo by Papuan Prints.

was able to photograph airlifts of vegetables and timber, and was im pressed with the special 6,000 lb lift of vegetables which is trans ported by DC3 to Manus Naval Base every fortnight from Wau. He also visited and made photographs of various farms and coffee plantations, as well as different aspects of the gold mining industry.

Mal Plane Crash

A Dragon aircraft owned by Man dated Airlines crashed and burnt out at Heyfield airstrip in the Sepik district on August 9. The aircraft was carrying a number of native passengers, and was piloted by Cap tain J. L. Davis; all escaped injury.

Increased Oil Co. Activity

The Australasian Petroleum Com pany is increasing its activities in its search for oil in Papua, and plans to extend its drilling areas.

APC will charter a Beaver air craft next year, equipped with floats, and will use it for operations along the Western rivers where the Cata lina cannot go. Qantas will own the aircraft.

APC intends also to take up the option on the Hanne Sven, the 900ton all-steel vessel which it has been operating under charter for some months. It will engage an Aus tralian crew and use it for trans porting materials to the Gulf dis trict.

New Bank Premises For

Moresby

After about 18 months, the Bank of NSW’s new building in Port Moresby is nearing completion.

The new bank premises contain modern staff quarters on the second floor, and the bank foyer includes

a travel section. The building needed badly to replace the tin si which has existed as combined ba chamber and staff quarters si the war.

The Commonwealth Bank is a progressing well on its new bui ing opposite. The ANZ in P

iresby has a modern new build f which was opened at the end last year.

Us Survey Of Nb

rhe first American vessel to take rt in the proposed survey of the w Guinea islands, arrived at haul on August 9 and left again start its work a few days later.

Die American vessel, of about l-tons, carried 24 US Army per mel and a crew of 37 Filipinos d is under the command of Cap n E. Harris.

Host of the men have had ex :ience in Japan. fhe vessel will be working in New itain waters for several months, er being joined by three other isels. party of two Australian officers 1 13 men from various Australian my commands are joining the vey. (The decision to employ the ipinos followed howls of rage in stralia when the Americans pro ;ed to use Japanese).

Wharf Wanted

rhe chaotic conditions in Rabaul rbour were emphasised one week i in the middle of August when 5 large vessels were in the har ir at the same time. ?hey were the Mangola, Citos, mbank, Taiwan and Soochow. ne were unloaded with the help lighters in mid-stream but when i Taiwan wished to come along e for water there was a general he as the ships were re-shuffled, labaul needs that new wharf.

Visiting Vlp’S

’robably the greatest impression :en back to Australia by the terican Ambassador—Mr. A. J. islee —after a short tour of lua-New Guinea in August was t the stone-age had given away the air-age. le thought this was especially so the Highlands, where he did a of travelling. )n the occasions he travelled in American Navy DC3 which

brought him to New Guinea, he was not accompanied by his wife, who had to travel by private aircraft.

This procedure created interest in the Territory, for it was the result of American Navy regulations which forbid American civilians travelling in service aircraft.

It did not apply to Australian civilians apparently, for one senior DCA official travelled with Mr.

Peaslee in the service aircraft.

The American Ambassador was welcomed everywhere in the Terri tory, where he took a genuine in terest in what was going on.

Shortly after the American Am bassador concluded his tour, the German Ambassador, Dr. Walter Hess, arrived to begin his.

The PIR formed a guard-of honour at Jackson’s airport.

Dr. Hess said he was interested in seeing everything in his 17 days’ visit, and the itinerary was designed to show him just that.

Dr. Walter Hess said at the end of his 2-weeks’ tour on September 3, that he had been interested to find there was still an appreciation of work done by Germans in the Trust Territory. There seemed to be a special appreciation of coconut plantations started by German planters.

Dr. Hess said his tour had given him a general idea of the problems affecting the economic development of the Territory, and two of them

Mrs. A. J. Peaslee, wife of the United [?]tes Ambassador, with Judge Bignold the Hockey Ball held in the PNGVR [?] on August 13. —Photo by Papuan Prints.

appeared to be labour and la There was a shortage of both some areas; however, they w matters, he said, which needed p found study before any adequ comment could be made, especis by anyone making only a fortnigl visit.

Jap Urge To Visit Rabau

For the second time in a f weeks, a Japanese fishing vessel j in at Rabaul in August. On 1 first occasion, the Japanese co: plained of damage to the hull a asked for repairs, and incidenta sailed away with a few hundi pounds worth of stores, which ma Rabaul people can be forgiven ; assuming were all they came for the first place.

The trouble with the hull v that it was a pretty old hull, a not in very good condition for sa ing anywhere.

The second vessel, the Ken Maru, put in because it had a si crew member, who was later operat on for appendicitis. The Jap ves; left him there, to call back about 10 days.

Match—Fire—3 Months

A Rigo native named Obem was sentenced to 3 months’ gaol the Port Moresby Court of Nati Matters on August 17 for havi carelessly started a grass fire wi a discarded match.

The native admitted throwing t match in the grass in the Pc Moresby area after he had used to light his cigarette.

Unfortunately for him, the f was seen by the District Magistra Mr. Sansom, who questioned hin The Administration has be worried about the incidence of gra fires in the Territory, especially the Port Moresby area, and t courts have been handing c sentences of one month to offende

Meat

Thousands of cases of a braj of meat loaf were tied up in t Territory in August after the Heal Department had made a stateme saying that two batches were H lieved contaminated.

The Department asked stores a. others not to use the tinned me loaf. An executive of the firm co; cerned flew to NG. On August the Health Dept, declared one batj (marked “Ex 205, brand G 4”) Tom Piper corned meat loaf un for human consumption.

Speed

The Territory increased its spe limits on motor traffic on August The limit for cars was raised fro 25 mph to 30 mph in the town ares and for trucks from 15 mph to mph.

The speed limit for motor cs in the Territory has been 25 mi since the war.

However, as one citizen has k marked, the new speed limits me; that “those who have been drivti normally at 35 mph will now dri at 40.’’

Sw Premises For Scouts

■he Administrator, Brigadier D.

Cleland, who is president of the f Scouts’ Association, officially ned a new Rover Den at Boroko Port Moresby on August 21. he Rovers built it themselves r 12 months at a cost of £l,lOO, ot of the credit going to the istant District Commissioner of Scouting movement, Mr. Des re. who is a contractor. :el nut leads to brawl n argument over the price of 1 nut started a brawl among ves in Port Moresby on Sunday, ust 22. Forty police eventually ;e it up, several hours later, after ad involved about 200 natives, iveral police were injured itly and a number of natives sted and charged, le original trouble was over the ; of betel nut being sold at a ; at Koki, but this was only an ise, and old differences flared iter in the week, an Education artment spokesman over the ve People’s Session of 9PA took natives to task for their be our, saying there had been re -5 that the fight would continue following week-end. He advised i to forget it, or else. . .

Sunderstanding About

Elections

cording to some members of ;ral District Advisory Council, meeting held in Port Moresby ugust, the lack of publicity for Territory elections resulted in eat number of people not en ig as electors by the time the closed. le council passed a resolution ;ing the matter to the notice le Government Secretary. •. E. A. James said he realised Administration was not respon for making citizens understand law, but he considered more s could have been devoted to ipaper advertising.

Police Commissioner

Returns

e PNG Police Commissioner, tael J. S. Grimshaw, returned to in Port Moresby on August 25, about 9 months’ leave in Aus a. During his absence Super ident Normoyle acted as Police missioner.

Jld Like To Encourage

Tourists

its August meeting, the Port ;sby Town Advisory Council ved a report which included re nendations for publicising PNG neral, and Port Moresby in par ar. e report was presented by a al tourist committee set up to ; recommendations on the visit le tourist vessel Orion in Sep er, and kindred subjects of [city. The report suggested that

a Chamber of Commerce should be started in Port Moresby and that the chamber should have a tourist section which could explore ways of attracting tourists to the Terri tory.

The committee suggested that tourist bureaus should be set up in Australia, an information bureau could be established on the Port Moresby wharf and arrangements made with tourist agencies for more visits, by ships and aircraft.

The first annual PNGVR Ball, held in the Memorial Hall, Samarai, Papua, on July 21, was enjoyed by a large attendance of local residents.

Guests of Honour were the Dis trict Commissioner and Mrs. M. J.

Healv and although tbp Commanding Officer Lt.-Col T W Young, was unable to attend he was represented by Captain Lofts others in the official party were Lt. F. G. Hoeter, OC PI, Lt Graham and the president of the RSL, Mr. R. J. Paul.

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TIME was when the offer of a permanent position in New Guinea was regarded as the next best thing to winning a lottery.

Thousands of applications used to be received for cadet patrol-officer vacancies.

Things are different now—and the Administration is prepared to pay good money to train the kind of youngster it wants.

Applications have just closed for 67 cadetships—c over i n g District Services, education, agriculture, forestry and medicine. Applicants must be between 18 and 24, British citizens and have passed the matriculation standard examination —with the exception of medical cadetship where the applicants must have completed the 3rd year of a medical course (the upper age limit does not apply here;.

While they are training at Uni versities, Teachers’ Training Col leges, or the School of Pacific Ad ministration in Sydney, cadets are paid from £444 to £920 per annum, according to age.

Truly, as the Yanks say, youth never got it so easy!

Exhibits for a future Papua and New Guinea museum will be col lected from Government depart ment and residents, states the Pacific Science Association in its June information bulletin. A special committee has been appointed by the Administration to investigate

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long those sailing on the Bulolo for J from Sydney, on August 3, were the tving (left to right): . D. Standen, who was returning the Department of Works, Port sby, after leave; his father (right) relied him. . and Mrs. R. T. Favilla, of Adelaide.

who are visiting their daughter, Mrs. D.

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Father Hugh Andrew and Miss Helen Roberts farewelled by friends—they are

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e Dutch destroyer Piet Hein ihe Helder naval base recently New Guinea, to strengthen erlands naval forces there. She pected at Borong, Western New ea, on September 30 and will 18 months.

geant Luke Sailada (above), who [?]ly received an immediate award of Military Medal for gallantry under is serving with “A” Company, 1st [?]ion, Fiji Infantry Regiment, now [?]g Communist terrorists in the [?]g Layang District of Johore, Malaya, citation accompanying his award that Sergeant Sailada was leading [?]atoon back to base after a five days’ patrol when they were fired upon [?]ur heavily armed terrorists. Quickly [?]ing sections to both flanks, the [?]nt, at the head of his few remain [?]en, charged the enemy. Under and accurate rifle fire he closed the terrorists, who were all killed.

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Peterson-Yandall Wedding

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On July 8, 1954, Stephen Anthony Peterson, son of the late Mr. C. J. Peterson, -known in Samoa, Fiji and Futuna, married Miss Helen Yandall in the Cathedral [?]he Immaculate Conception, Apia, Samoa. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and B. F. Yandall, of Samoa and Lautoka. The ceremony was performed by Father [?]on and about 600 people later gathered to wish the couple happiness.

Seen in the photo from left to right, standing, are bridesmaids, Elaine Coffin, [?]ine Rasmussen, Barbara Williams; the bride and groom; groomsmen John Pereira [?] man), Immy Ah Mu and Michael Stowers. Seated with flower girls, Mara slake and Phoebe Curry, is the bride’s father, Mr. B. F. Yandall.

[?]rist Bureau—But Different

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le Rev. Norman Cocks, secre for Australia of the London denary Society, arrived in larai, Papua, by Sandringham i Australia late in July. He was by the Rev. Mr. Perry, of es College.

A MrH * A Ra Sg> of Ba ’ has been appointed a member of the Fiji Broadcasting Commission in place of Mr. M. G. Knapman, who has left the Colony for New Zealand.

[?]en World Travel Headquarters, of [?]ey, recently opened a branch in [?]ete, Tahiti, in the former American [?]ulate building, some 1 local heat was rated by the sign-board which ared over the entrance which read

Iti Visitor’S Bureau (Writing

[?]ot be seen in photograph). The sign the subject of a protest by the dent of the local Syndicat d'Initiative [?]ahiti, and, pending settlement, was [?] down, under protest by the owners. [?] an official order was given that [?]sign could be re-erected—though now [?]rotest of the official Tourist an.

To Show Natives How

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MR. H. VAN PEL, a fisherman of wide experience in Atlantic, North Sea, and Indonesian fisheries, has been appointed to the staff of the South Pacific Com mission at Noumea with the object of “encouraging more up-to-date methods of catching, processing and marketing fish” in the Islands.

He will work, in general, along the lines recommended by a panel of fishery experts who met in Noumea in 1952 under the Com mission's auspices.

If Dr. J. W. Davidson, a leading authority on South Pacific Affairs, spent a week in Fiji on his way back from Western Samoa to the Australian National University at Canberra.

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Mr. Charles Beckett

Residents of New Guinea, and particularly of the Morobe District, were shocked to hear of the death, ■on August 12, while returning from a holiday in Canada, of Mr. Charles IBeckett. He was 68.

Mr. Beckett had been connected with the Territory, first through the Navy, then through AWA and latterly through Telecommunica tions, since World War I days. He had been in Morobe longer than anyone else, knew it intimately and was one of the District’s most re spected citizens.

He was a veteran of three wars — the Boer War, World War I, when he served in NG with the Navy, and World War II when he was a Coast watcher.

After Navy service in the First World War he stayed on as a radio operator with AWA. During the Morobe gold-rush period it was he who established the first radio .station at Edie Creek in 1927. After World War II service he was back in the district, and set up his radio gear in a temporary building at Lae, and when AWA was taken over by the British Commonwealth radio communications service, Tele communications, he transferred to the new outfit.

At the time of his trip to Canada with Mr. Roy McConnon, also well known in Morobe, he was still stationed at Lae. Mrs. Beckett —she

was his second wife—died a year or so ago.

He was in Honolulu returning from Canada by ship when he had a slight stroke; he appeared to be re covering but between Honolulu and Suva his condition deteriorated.

His son, Dr. Hal Beckett, of Sydney,

flew to Suva and was with when he died.

He is survived by his son three daughters, Mrs. Inez Lesl Bulolo, Mrs. Enid Cooper, als Bulolo, and Miss Vera Becket Sydney.

Bishop Vesters

Bishop Gerald Vesters, MSC, ( for 16 years Vicar Apostolic

jbaul, and later Assistant Bishop the Papal Throne, died at Mary’s Hint, Melbourne, on August 30, ;d 78 years. ie was born in Holland, was icated in local schools and later Universities in France, Salzburg, me and Louvain. He worked as a ssionary in the Philippine Islands

1-1915, and later in Brazil 3-1920. He was then appointed feet Apostolic of the Celebes ision. [e relinquished this post to be le Bishop of Rabaul (Catholic sion, Vunapope) in 1923. He i forced to resign in 1938 owing ill-health. ope Pius XII then conferred on i the honour of Assistant Bishop :he Papal Throne. A gifted or iser and administrator, he played important part in extending the k of the Mission. In 1937 Bishop ters was awarded the OBE for work during the Rabaul eruption, any old residents of New Guinea feel a deep personal loss. Last ober he revisited Rabaul to id the Golden Jubilee of his ination with his former co kers.

Capt. E. E. Kettle

aptain Ernest E. Kettle, well wn Master of the London sionary Society mission ships, 1 at his home in Hurstville, Syd , on August 10, 1954, aged 78. orn in England, he first joined LMS in 1911, as second officer of mission ship John Williams IV, sequently becoming first officer, became Captain in 1915 and re ned in command for 14 years il the vessel was sold in 1929. i 1935 he rejoined the Society as >ter of the John Williams V, and, 3d at Suva, sailed his little ship over the Pacific Ocean, adding bis already extensive knowledge :he Islands and the people who d on them. Of his almost un ny skill in navigation by “dead coning” many stories are told.

The editor of PIM was one of those who sailed m John Williams with Captain Kettle. Towards the end of 1941 he wrote, thus, about it: “Although I spent some of the most miserable days of my life aboard the John Williams, I learned to love the ship. . . She wallows and she rolls and she produces, very often, a most unholy combination

of stinks; yet she is a very gentle old lady. . . Captain Kettle has spent so many years in this most danger ous navigation—probably amongst the world’s worst—that he guides his ship almost as much by instinct as by instruments. Squalls, unex pected and uncharted currents clouds which hide the sun for days on end are his common lot. (Over)

Bishop Vesters.

One night in thick wea heading for an Ellice island were due to pass another islan miles off, by dead reckoning. I the Captain fidgeting. Prese without a word, he went out turned the ship right around steamed back. Next morning clear and anyone could see if the ship had continued on course the previous night, she rr have climbed on top of the is she was trying to avoid.”

Captain Kettle retired in 1945, although he followed with greai terest the Society’s activities, never visited the Islands again is survived by a son and a dang!

Madame Leonie Bouzei

Madame Bouzer, a well-kr Tahiti resident, died there rece She is survived by her daug’

Madame Leverd, and two broth Madame Bouzer was born Tahiti in 1888.

M. Felix Grand

Monsieur Felix Grand, a known Papeete business man, there suddenly in June, aged 47. of a very well-known Tahiti far M. Grand was a member of Federation General Societe Spoi of French Oceania and had just turned from attending a fool match at the time of his death leaves a wife (nee Mile. T; Vincent) and four children, youngest only 18 months old.

Capt. D. C. Macdonale

Captain Duncan Cameron IV donald died in Auckland in e August, aged 66, after several y in retirement. He was the sor a Scottish Master Mariner, was H in New Zealand and trained in In command of the 3-masted t sail schooner Northern Chief captured the ’Frisco-Auckland cord under sail in 1920 but be; that, when Count von Luck escaped from Motuihe Island, At land, during the first World War was pursued in the Rira by Capi Macdonald, the cable-ship Iris L coming on the scene and recaptui the Count. Captain Macdonald later in On Chong vessels.

Mrs. J. Tariau And Tear;

Tiki.

Two well known Rarotonga sidents died there on the same early in August. They were M John Tariau, of Pue, and Teariki Tiki, of Arorangi.

Brother Thomas De!

Villeneuve And Brother

Enogat

Advice was recently received!

Papeete from Brother Rom Talvat, one-time rector of the Taj schools of the Brothers of Ploern that two other former teachers th recently died in France.

They were Brother Thomas Villeneuve, who served in Taj from 1908 to 1948, who died Joselin last November; and Brotd Enogat, who arrived in Tahiti!

0 and was there for many years. died in June this year.

Brother Thomas was 79 and other Enogat 82 at the time of ;ir deaths. Commemorative ser es were held at Papeete Cathedral.

Mr. J. G. (“Joe”) Davis

At. Joe Davis, a resident of Fiji ce 1922, died in Suva August 6. was on the staff of the Colonial rar Refining Company and was charge of the Drasa training m for some years. He retired 1950 but later rejoined the com ly’s clerical staff at Lautoka mill ere he was employed at the time his death. le was an Australian, an ex riceman of the First World War, 1 an Army boxer of some note that time. He is survived by his e, formerly Miss Dorothy Easton, »r daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. iton, of Sigawe, Ba.

He Rev. Austin Rowley

he Rev. Austin Rowley died at •eas, in the New Hebrides, on just 14. Mr. Rowley had been charge of the Church of Eng d Boys’ School at Vureas for le years. [e recently returned there after oliday in Australia.

Mr. Frederick Wallin

well-known former Islands nager of Burns Philp and Co., Frederick Wallin, died in Bris e on August 19. He was 84. [r. Wallin joined the Company in ) and for some years was in lensland branches. Later he was isferred to Sydney under the i Mr. Walter Lucas. When Mr. as became Islands inspector, Mr, llin became Islands Manager, a Ition he held until his retire it at the end of 1937. e became well known to many nds residents, and he travelled *nsively to the Gilbert and ce, Solomons, New Guinea and ►rides. uring the Second World War in the company was experieno staff difficulties, he voluntarily irned as a shipping clerk in the >bane office. [rs. Wallin died some years be i his retirement. There were no dren of the marriage.

To Far East

Messrs. Angus Smart, oF Maprik, NG, and F. I. Patten, of Tomabatt Pltn., Tabar, New Ireland, who left on the Eastern Glory in mid-August for a trip to Hongkong and Japan. Shown with them (centre) is Mr.

G. Pearce, a resident of Sydney, but well known to many NG residents.

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Yankee Sails NG River

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FROM Commander Irving M.

Johnson’s Brigantine Yankee, which is on her sixth world voyage (see PIM June), Mrs. Electa Johnson sends an account of their visit to New Guinea and, in par ticular the Yankee’s first trip up the Sepik river.

Although the vessel draws 12 feet they ventured over 200 miles up the river to Ambunti, travelling through country that was both beautiful and fascinating, says Mrs.

Johnson. Mr. Jim Leahy, of Goroka, accompanied them on the river voyage. Although, like his famous brothers, he has walked over great areas of NG, this was his first trip up the Sepik.

Yankee experienced no serious mishap, although the trip was not entirely without incident. A sub merged log bent one of the pro peller blades and to straighten it again necessitated removal of the shaft—a major operation in the ship.

On the way down-stream, the 200tons vessel, travelling at a good knots, ran hard onto a clay bank.

They were lucky, however, in the si?e and shape of the obstruction, and the position of a strong tree on the river bank.

With a salvage cable, which Yankee has carried unused around the world five and a half times, two tackles and 25-man power, they managed to pull the stern around, pivoting on the shoal, and into deep

water. Much as they enjoyed the Sepik, says Mrs. Johnson, they were extremely glad not to have been stuck there for a month or so.

Most of Yankee’s complement visited Goroka and other parts of the Highlands; some undertaking hikes with a patrol-officer. Every one took the opportunity of seeing a tremendous Sing-Sing and pig

killing on the mountain ou Chimbu Both the Commander and Johnson saw many changes in Guinea since their last visit t years ago. They were impn with the activity and pro* apparent in their many ports of and were also appreciative of

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Tiare. Angoram will be the main base, but the forward base will be somewhere near the Sepik’s junction with the October River; and thence progress will be made in smaller craft, to get in somewhere close to the Dutch border.

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P-NG PLANTERS MEET TO DISCUSS THEIR PROBLE[?] Desertions Rubber Copra Marketing Road

The shortcomings of the Native Labour ordinance were di: cussed at length at the conference of the New Guinea Planter Association concluded in Rabaul in mid-August. The report the Papuan Planters’ Association, released about the same tim was concerned about the unsatisfactory price of rubber.

IN Rabaul, particular concern was expressed at the continued high rate of desertions among labourers employed under agree ment, and the apparent failure of the Administration to properly police the movements of deserters, or to proceed against employers who wrongfully engaged natives already under agreement.

The conference decided to refer to all members the question of an in crease in the basic monthly wage of native employees, which is at present a 15/- minimum, although few planters pay as little as this.

The conference considered that an increase to at least £1 a month was warranted, in view of the rise in cost of commodities since the present basic minimum was intro duced about 1945, at the end of the war.

The conference also expressed the view that land should be acquired promptly for settlement and that an immediate survey should be made throughout the Territory by the Administration to determine what areas of agricultural land were suitable.

The conference considered that the fullest publicity should be given to the results of this survey, as settlers were needed urgently “in view of pressing world opinion in relation to vacant and undeveloped land.”

Other matters discussed were the unification and improvement of copra inspection methods, and the possibility of visits to the Territory by overseas copra and cocoa experts to advise and assist growers.

The conference elected Mr. Don Barrett president for the new year.

REPORT of the Planters’ Assn., Papua, states that copra and cocoa growers have enjoyed very satisfactory market prices during the year but the same cannot be said for rubber planters.

The market for rubber fell as low as 20 pence a pound f.o.b. Papuan ports and this, while difficult for all growers, was in the case of some planters, below the cost of produc tion.

The report said that it was only in recent weeks that an upward trend has restored the price to about 24 pence, which can only be re garded as a minimum level. A price of 2/6 a pound is required to give a fair return to investors and to encourage and enable continued de

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Some points from the report: COCONUTS: Once again we are abh look forward with confidence to the mediate future of the copra industry, i SVz years still to run under the long-t UK Ministry of Food Agreement.

For the remaining period of the Agi ment we expect that copra will be s as at present, through the Copra Marl ing Board and once again your Comm! has pleasure in noting the most efflci service which the Copra Marketing Bo has given to the copra industry.

After 1957, copra marketing arran ments cannot at present be foreseen, this stage it does not appear likely t UK Ministry of Food will wish to rei the contract and certainly, in the r two years, coconut planters should m arrangements for marketing after expiration of the contract and not le this vital matter to last minute negoi tion.

Among considerations which merit thought of all concerned is the possibil with the assistance of the Minister Territories, of retaining the organisat of the Copra Marketing Board in present, or like form, as a sei Government instrumentality, to mar copra from this country as a bulk se negotiating with the voice of the Cc monwealth Government. To achieve tl it would probably be necessary for majority of planters to agree to sell tb copra through this channel.

Your Committee will seek the views our friends. The Planters’ Association New Guinea, in this most import; matter.

RUBBER: Although the low mar price has created serious difficulties rubber-growers, a pleasing feature 1 been the quite considerable progress new development work. Most of i rubber estates now have new plant: programmes in hand, with high grs material.

Members are to be congratulated on marked improvement and uniformity grading, packing and branding of Papu rubber.

No serious pests or diseases have bi reported during the year, but the mi important advance has been made control of mouldy rot by the use Treseal and also in bark stimulation.

Rubber growers continue to feel tl it is unjust that Papuan rubber sho’ be subject to an import duty of 2d ] lb into our parent market in the Coi monwealth of Australia. We acknowleo the assistance of the Minister for Ten tories in arranging for a recent c: survey of the industry, with the purpn of bringing this matter before the Tai Board.

We will not attempt to forecast t rubber market but recent indications s toward a slightly stronger price. This M been brought about by increased wo< consumption and a small increase in fr price of some synthetic competitors.

The expected world surplus of natui

her did not eventuate last year and the present year it is expected that ,1 world production will be consumed, the present rate of increase in con iption is maintained, there may well a shortage of rubber. It is expected, ever, that synthetic production will increase and that the price for iral will be closely related to the ng price of synthetic general purpose iers. It is expected that synthetic es will rise when US plants are taken • by private enterprise.

OMMUNICATIONS: The continued de pment of communication is perhaps the t important essential to further agri ural progress in this country. is pleasing to note that the Admlnis ion is doing as much as its finances permit in the extension and main mce of roads. Progress is being made i the new road from Port Moresby to losia and it is hoped that this will be ;nded through to the Hisiu Beach and e Island areas. Much maintenance been done on the main road to the ortant agricultural area at Sogeri, and hope that the Administration will be ! to give some assistance to our mem i at Jawarere and in the maintenance improvement of the last 10 miles of road from Subitana to Jawarere. i due course, the development of roads the Abau area would open up much 1 planting land.

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To Help Samoans Export Bananas

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141

The new “Banana Scheme” building being constructed by the Public Works De tment alongside the loading jetty at Apia, Western Samoa. It was expected to completed by September. It will have administrative offices above and should litate the shipment of bananas to vessels loading in the lagoon. —Photo by Jack Thornton.

Licensed Hotel

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141

[?]nga to Have Licensed Hotel

3NGA is to get its first licensed hotel. This was announced re cently by Prince Tungi, elder i of Queen Salote. It will accom date 28 guests. Tenders will irtly be called. it the present time, boarding ises provide the only accommo ion for visitors to Tonga and nk can be bought from Govern nt supplies only on police permit, e of liquor in the new hotel will bably be restricted to guests. liss Margaret Ahearn, daughter Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Aheam, of -t Moresby, was married in Sep iber to Mr. Leslie Smith,

Teaching Natives to Fish

NEW ways of stepping-up fish production in South Pacific islands will be studied by Mr.

H. van Pel, who arrived in Noumea from Holland in mid-August. Mr. van Pel is the new fisheries officer to the South Pacific Commission.

En route he spent several days in Sydney conferring with Common wealth fisheries experts.

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Cocoa and Coffee

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143

[?]wer Prices for All Cocoa and Coffee

lERE was some confusion in the I Sydney cocoa market in early September. Accra (W. Africa) e. on which world cocoa prices usually based, was quoted on tember 6 as £540 (approx.) c.i.f.

Continental ports. NG cocoa, ch is usually quoted at £3O-£6O »r than Accra, on September 1 £550 per ton, with no forward s. This is a fall of about £3O [i last month, but still close to ra. tie vastly reduced Accra price cates buyer resistance, and d probably be explained by re is from the Gold Coast that the Accra crop is expected to ex [ previous estimates. The new » is already being offered for aary-March shipment at £550 irox.) c.i.f. ton main Australian s. a August 24 it was officially de ed that the value per ton of a exported from Papua and New iea during September would be , (This is the figure on which >rt tax is calculated), ivernment valuations for rubber copra are as follows: — ibber: Grade 1,2 s per lb; Grade > per lb; Grade 3, 1/11 per lb; lings, 1/11 per lb; scrap, Is. lb. >pra: Hot-air dried, £75 per ton; dried, £74 ss. per ton; Smoke 1, £7l 10s. per ton.

Increased Native

Plantings

itive plantings of cocoa in the elle Peninsula area of New ain, which last year produced ins (or 10 per cent, of the total itory output) now total around )00 trees yielding 1,500 tons a at full bearing, ost of the trees are still im are, and a big increase in pro ion is expected within the next years. itive planting began in the dis in 1948. The size of individual 3 now ranges from the legal imum of 500 trees (approxi gly 2 h acres) to as much as 15 s. Native producers are being airaged to process and market r output through central fer taries to ensure proper process and uniform grading. Two ve-owned fe.rmentaries are idy in operation and three more be completed shortly.

Coffee, Too

IPORTS in Sydney indicate that the overseas price for coffee had fallen by £lOO Stg. in the three cs prior to September 7. Prices New Guinea coffee, however, ; quoted on that date at 7/3 per vhich is equal to about £BOO per

Samoan Cocoa Market

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143

From Our Own Correspondent

Apia, Aug. 10.

LAST quotations received for Samoan cocoa beans were £490 Stg. per ton f.o.b. for Ist grade and £4BO to £485 Stg. for second grade.

There are still fair quantities of cocoabeans coming in, though the main crop is expected towards the end of the year. Weather condi tions so far have been favourable.

Diminishing Copra

Exports

Copra production seems to be stagnant or on the decline and com pares unfavourably with the pro duction of copra in Tonga which,

with a smaller area of land and a smaller population, produces more copra than Western Samoa.

This is partly due to the ravages caused by the rhinoceros beetle, which discourage the Samoans from planting new areas in coconuts, and causes them to change over to cocoa and banana cultivation.

A new Central School and Tech nical Centre was opened at Labasa, Fiji, on July 17. The day school provides educational accommodation for 344 Indian boys and 68 girls of classes 6 to 8. Similar schools will soon be built at Ba and Lautoka from a grant of £64,380 provided by the UK Colonial Development and Welfare Fund.

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Clarke-Hopper Wedding

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144

fiTHB marriage of Miss Patricia J. Wiseman Clarke to Alfred Alexander Hopper took place at Inverell, NSW, on July 16.

The bride is the elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Clarke, and was formerly the Regional Librarian at Rabaul and, later, at Lae.

The bridegroom, of Belik Planta tion, New Ireland, is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Hopper of Petersham.

The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a classical gown

of ivory French brocade, with an oval roulette neckline and a full trained skirt. She was attended by her sister, Miss Margaret Clarke.

Mr. Elwyn Hopper of Inverell was bestman.

After the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs.

Clarke entertained 80 guests at a re ception. Guests included many from Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and New Guinea.

U Mr. Robert McLeod Paterson, of Rabaul, married Miss Hilda Lillian Barkla, in Melbourne, on August 5.

The couple will live in Rabaul.

NAB Injections

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Natives Die Af[?] NAB Injections

(SEVENTEEN natives of

remote village on

Middle Ramu valley, NG,

reported to be dead following

jections of NAB given for y

by a native Medical Assistan

In early September an Admi tration patrol was on its way to village of Faita.

The patrol includes Mr. T. I of Madang, who will conduct coroner’s inquiry, and a patholoi Dr. E. Graggs, of Lae. They flying to Dumpu airstrip and Y a 2-days’ walk to the village, wl is on the banks of the Ramu, about 4-days’ walk from Mada; First reports indicate that August 18 the native Medical Ass ant was making a routine med patrol in the district, of which is a native, and was injecting IS solution for yaws. The orderly had 18 months’ training at an ministration medical school.

He injected 24 Faita people v a solution which he made up \ water from a coconut, and wit an hour five of them had died.

Many of the patients began vor ing and some entered a coma. ' orderly set off to walk to Mad for help, and later the Lululai of village went off to Madang report that within 5 days of the jections a total of 17 of the 24 1 died.

Cause of the tragedy will not known until the coroner reports meanwhile samples of the N powder used by the medical ass ant are being sent to Port More for testing.

It appears the water from coconut could have been the ca of the tragedy as water not fr from a newly opened nut is incc patible with human blood. 1 coconut water could also have be§ fermentation.

The P-NG Department of Hea rules that only double distil water be used for injections 8 has forbidden the use of coco:' water. (In its original state wit. the nut, coconut water is a ste; fluid and during the war and emergencies it has been use for jections).

Mr. Harold Corrigan, who di on July 18, at Buma Mission Malaita, BSIP, was born in N Zealand in 1895. He went to t Solomons in 1950 to establish hi pitals at Roman Catholic Miss; stations. His death occurred on t fourth anniversary of his arrivs He is survived by his wife, who remaining for the present at Bui Mission to carry on her work the Mission schools.

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[?]Ichard E. Vernons

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[?]Ere Were Two

IE mystery of Richard E.

Vernon is solved. There

e two Richard E. Vernons,

ier and son; and in photo

phs they resemble each other.

started in June last. We pub >d a letter from Richard E. non, of Queensland, insisting t no Patrol Officer under 25 lid be allowed out on his own mnt among the more primitive r Guinea natives. He sent a bograph of himself, at the Black mine, near Wau, in 1935, which also published. lis brought a letter from Mr. 3. Monfries, of Wau. He said — e properly—that he was “dumb ided.” In 1941, he enlisted in NGVR with Richard E. Vernon, m he knew very well; Vernon ed like the man in the photo >h: and this Vernon was killed me of the first skirmishes the /R had with the Japs on the kham Road. He is listed in Lae letery, No. 2003; and a road in >lo is named in his honour. ; first, it looked as if there had i a hoax, and then we noted the Queensland man who had ten us had been a regular sub >er for many years. So we set dries afoot. And here is the yer, from Mr. Richard E. Vernon, laldwell, Q.: ly son, Richard E. Vernon, was d by the Japs in 1942, on the kham River. He and I were ing together on the Black Cat 935 and 1937. I had to return Queensland in 1938, and when broke out I was not allowed eturn, and the military would accept my services owing to my The enclosed photograph irs us celebrating Christmas on Black Cat in 1937. My son is he right; then Les Ireland, then elf, and Bob Kydd is second i the left. My kindest regards 11 the old hands.”

Leaving Port Moresby

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145

Memorial Scholarship

FUND (Q’ld Division)

Two residents who recently left Port Moresby—at left, Mr. lan Wharton who goes to England, at a farewell party given in his honour. He has been con-

ductor of the Port Moresby Choral Society for some time. Right, Mr. Don Sneddon, popular radio announcer in Port Moresby for many years, at a farewell party givem by the staff of station 9PA on August —Photo by Papuan Prints.

ints previously acknowged as at Sept. BO, 3 £752 2 7 30—Interest on Bonds 3 7 3 16—Interest on Bonds 1 11 3 15 —Proceeds Xmas rty — including Raffles s. S. McCosker, and lation Mrs. G. Bliss 13 8 10 13—Interest on Bonds 4 13 9 31—Donation, Ian S. ry, Daru, Papua 2 2 0 1 as at June 30, 1954 £779 5 11

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146

From Our Own Correspondent APIA, August !

CONSIDERABLE amount local excitement was enge: ered in Western Samoa wl To’omata Tua, a member of Legislative Assembly, was char with assaulting another Samoi and ten other Samoans w charged with “threatening haviour with intent to provoke breach of the peace.”

When they were tried recently i fore the Chief Judge of the Tei tory, the Judge pressed the par to settle the case out of court.

Evidently some residents of i Territory disagree with the res of the action.

It appears that the trouble ar out of an incident last April wl a truck owned by a Chinese a driven by a Samoan was stoned a group of Samoans. Later, t Chinaman’s house was also stor and it was alleged that dams amounting to £6O was done to ] truck.

Well-Known Australian

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146

for Hebrides Missic

A WELL-KNOWN Australij clergyman, the Rev. Eric Owe will shortly forsake a comfo; able berth in one of Melbourn best Presbyterian parishes for 1 less comfort at one of the static of the Presbyterian Ove r s e Mission in the New Hebrides.

Mr. Owen has been called “fea lessly outspoken”—and he has be called a lot of other things, besic He has been accused of Communi sympathies, has had the distinctii pf having questions asked about h. in the House, and recently a fello citizen threatened to shoot h. when he helped organise a meetii protesting against the H-bomb. T Rev. Eric has not let any of worry him unduly.

It might be interesting to see wh happens when this irresistible for meets the immovable object in ti grained Hebridean apathy. If ; does not succumb to the stoi missionary theory that all nativ are exploited and all Europeans at exploiters, he might even do t; Hebrides some good.

Roads and Waterworks in Fr

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Fr. Oceania

WORK is at present proceeding Tahiti on widening and ts sealing the coastal road k tween Pirae and Arue. Six coc Crete culverts or bridges over sm.j streams are being constructed « the east coast and'- six others the Faaa district during this yet On Moorea, Papetoai is being pn vided with a water supply from waterfall some distance away, pipe line has been laid on the s* bottom across part of Opunohu Ba?

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Oil Co. Manager

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147

igadier Clive Pleasants, formerly inlander of the Fiji Military :es, and now in command of the :hern Military District in New and, visited Suva on holiday for ral weeks during August.

IT The promotion of four Administrative Officers to be Administrative Officers Class A in the Western Pacific High Commission Service was recently announced in Honiara.

They are Mr. P. A. Richardson, Mr.

V. J. Andersen, Mr. F. N. M.

Pusinelli, and Mr. T. R. Cowell. Mr.

P. A. Richardson is at present seconded to the Colonial Office Mr V. J. Andersen is District Commis sioner, Malaita, Mr. F. N. M. Pusi nelli is serving in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, and Mr. T. R.

Cowell in the New Hebrides British.

Service.

Douglas Gore-Brown, who has been [?]inted manager in Papua-New Guinea [?]he Vacuum Oil Company Pty., Ltd. [?]ucceeds Mr. C. Heavey, who has been [?]ferred to Melbourne head office

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Lucrative Crocodile

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148

Shooting in BSIP

of fashion in London

may this season be wearing

shoes made from Solomon

Islands crocodiles.

Mr. R. a. Dethridge’s crocodile shooting venture has disposed of more than 600 crocodiles this year, all of them from Ysabel and the Manning Straits. The skins are drysalted and sent to England, and the buyer reports that BSIP crocodile skins are excellent.

Most of the crocodiles are about three-quarters grown, and about 20 or 30 inches across the belly. Croco diles 17-ft long, with belly skins nearly four feet across, have been taken.

The BSIP estuarine crocodile is equally at home in the sea or in rivers. He spends part of his time inland, going right up to the head waters of streams, where he catches pigs in the bush.

When the schools of mullet begin to move down the rivers, the croco dile may follow them, and when the seasonal move of landcrabs down to the sea takes place, usually about October to December, the crocodile is likely to be near the saltwater, eating crab.

This year, both in Ysabel and Honiara, the crabs have already be

gun to move down, in August. Re cently a big crocodile was shot at Kia, in Ysabel, in deep water. A boy from the Lord Howe atoll jumped into the sea after it and hauled its corpse along so that the boat s crew could secure it to the dinghy Three times the tail slipped through their hands and the fish went back into the water. Each time the Lord Howe boy dived, swam after it, and brought it back. The fourth time, just as he got it to the dinghy, the crocodile revived and swam away from him

Wrong Name!

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148

In August PIM (page 31) we published this photograph, stating that it was of Mr. A. M. Andreson. It is of Mr. M. I.

Harper, now a resident of Sydney but formerly a well-known resident of BSIP, where he owned famous Mandoliana Plantation. Our apologies to Messrs.

Harper and Andreson.

Legislative Assembly

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Meeting Of New

W. Samoan

Apia, Aug. 3

THE first meeting of the Western Samoa Legislative sembly, which was elected April, commenced on August During the meeting Supplement Estimates w T ill be submitted an ? b6r of legislative measi tabled. Amongst such measures the Amendment of Standing Ore of the Assembly, election of a Ch; man of Committees to preside the House is in Committee, Samoan Antiquities Bill, Labour 3 Appropriation Bill, Ordinane Amendment Bill and Finance B The Audit Report of the Gove ment Accounts for the finan< year 1933 will be tabled during session, alsq the report of Public Service Commissioner i various other reports.

There will be a lengthy discuss of the report of Dr. C. E. Beeby Education in Western Samoa and the various recommendations cc tamed therein.

The proposal to appoint i elected members of the Execut Council to Departmental associa with undersecretarial duties highly controversial and will pr« ably be criticised by many membe

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[?]eresting Developments in New Guinea

IE feeding of the staff of the new plywood mills at Bulolo is building up new primary in ;ries in the Morobe District. t his big farm on the slopes at ag (half-way between Lae and jlo) Mr. Mick Leahy has intro jd and bred up a poultry estab aient of no less than 6,000 birds; he is sending about 800 eggs ly, and a steady supply of poultry bo Bulolo. » virtually pioneered cattle ling in this area, and now his rprise has come good. He main s a large dairy herd on the ures he laid down, and he has died milking machines; and dy supplies of milk from his e go up the road to Bulolo.

Leahy has engaged a poultry irt and a dairy expert, at large ries; and the data he is collect on these industries should be ;al value to the Territories. rer in Wau, Mrs. Nesbitt and Austie Ireland also are grow produce—vegetables and fruit — the Bulolo staffs. The produc of citrus is an interesting de ament —they are sending quant of good oranges to Bulolo. id this is only one aspect of an >rtant development in New lea. Planes arrive almost daily

now at Lae and Port Moresby loaded heavily with cabbages, potatoes, lettuces and tomatoes grown in the Highlands—vegetables of excellent quality. Similarly, planes now regularly freight Highlands produce —especially potatoes—out to Madang, where it is picked up by Navy boats and taken to feed the Service staffs at Manus.

II Mr. Niel J. Macdonald has re tired after nearly 27 years’ service as Wharfinger in Suva. A small gathering was held on the eve of his retirement and the men with whom he had worked emphasised the high esteem in which he is held. Mr. Macdonald intends to take up farming.

New Bank in Rabaul

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149

Australia and New Zealand Bank, [?]ed, will open a new branch at [?]l on September 16. Mr. T. M.

Ison (shown herewith), formerly [?]ger of a Melbourne suburban branch, [?]e manager. The ANZ Bank already [?]ranches in Port Moresby, Suva and ka.

Mission Printing Press

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Tackles Big Job

THE Melanesian Mission in the Solomons now has the Church of England prayer-book and a hymn-book in the Bogotu language.

The Mission Press at Taroaniara, which is in charge of Mr. F. R.

Isom, recently completed printing the prayer-book. All type was hand set by Mr. and Mrs. Isom—which meant handling about one million letters. An edition of 2,000 copies was printed. Melanesians helped with binding the books. In addition to the prayer-book, 2.500 copies of a hymn-book in the Bogotu language have been printed and bound.

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Fiji Lost, But

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[?]NZ Rugby

Fiji Lost, But Liked It

From Our Own Correspondent

Suva, Aug. 30.

I is recovering from a severe

attack of Rugby football

r inspired by the visit of the iri All Blacks from New

and.

e Maoris went back to New md to report that they had all but killed by kindness from Fijians they encountered at oka, Vatukoula and Suva, e is no doubt that in Fijian ly circles there is a special re fer Maori teams that is ac id no others. ;tty well everything possible ened to the visitors. In western northern Viti Levu they were d by blazing sunshine and :d on fields as hard as iron, ne of them contracted the pre ig influenza.

Suva they found cooler ler, soft grounds and torrents in that all but flooded out the and final test at Buckhurst , Laucala Bay. (Suva recorded y 6 in. of rain in one day and than 8 in. in two days). And day of the third test started the sharpest earthquake Suva felt for many months, a jolt recalled the after-shocks of the hake nearly a year ago. 3 second test drew nearly 9,000 ators to Laucala Bay—a re fer any sports occasion in Fiji I despite the deluge on August , Tuesday) the crowd was not . smaller. With fixed determin to be in at the kill, Fijians, jeans, Indians and Chinese re d their shoes or sandals and red in the vast expanse of for the sole purpose of cheering finners. j Maoris won seven matches on our, lost the first test at Lau and won the other two.

[?]hinese Priests for Fiji

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D Chinese priests, Rev.

Fathers John Kao and John Fang, have been appointed to the Chinese Catholic coun ty in Fiji. They have been 1 from their diocese in China, are now studying in Rome, ; they were ordained in 1950her Kao will complete his is for a Doctorate of Canon before leaving for Fiji in No er. Father T’ang will arrive in Auckland and will stay for il months to improve his sh.

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Te Rangi Hiroa Finds

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Last Resting Place

THE NZ Maoris having worked out their differences on place of interment, the ashes of Sir Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa) were finally laid to rest in August—two years 8 months after his death.

Sir Peter, a leading authority on Polynesian affairs was, at the time of his death, the director of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu. During his association with the museum he had been a member of expeditions to most of Polynesia and to Poly nesian outliers in the western Pacific.

His ashes were carried to New Zealand late in 1953 and held in Parliament Buildings pending com pletion of the tomb at Otaki, New Plymouth. The tomb, a Maori canoe prow of modernistic design, faces north, symbolising Sir Peter’s life in the Pacific Islands.

The interment, which followed a three-day ceremonial journey from Wellington, calling at Maori Pas en

route, was attended by the Gov ernor-G ener a 1, Sir Willoughby Norrie, and Lady Norrie, the Min ister of Maori Affairs, Mr. Corbett, and the four Maori MP.’s. The memorial was unveiled by the Gov ernor and the burial service was conducted by the Bishop of Aotearoa, the Rt. Rev. W. N. Panapa.

If Miss Diwani Krishanan, of Lautoka, Fiji, left for Australia re cently where she will do a three years’ nursing course at the Bal larat Hospital, Vic. She was a former student at the Natabua Indian Secondary School, Lautoka.

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Us Surveys Pago Tu[?]

THE quantity of tuna caug] Samoan waters may be si to seasonal fluctuations This is the opinion of an obs for the US Fish and Wildlife vice, reporting on the first months’ operations of the Van ( tuna cannery at Pago Pago, A; can Samoa.

He says that, initially, i Japanese fishing boats and American freezer ships prot about 590 tons of tuna, one-f( albacore and the rest yellc Towards late March and . however, catches declined sh Only experience in year-r fishing, says the observer, wil termine the cause and extent o fluctuations.

The fishing fleet worked i contract to a Japanese com which sold the fish to the can he said, and although a quantity of fish was frozen shipped to California for can sufficient was available to give cannery its first full-scale v out. Numerous problems rems to be solved, but the feasibilil producing canned tuna in Ame; Samoa was demonstrated. The demand for tuna combined witl many obvious advantages tc fotmd in Samoa’s position, v ensure every effort being mac get the Pago Pago plant into st production.

No Luck In Nth. Austro

Few tuna and only small qi ities of live bait were foun waters north of Townsville, said P. D. Lorimer, skipper of the ing launch Fair Venture, after « pleting a 3,000-mile survey of Queensland and New South V coasts.

This did not mean there no tuna in northern waters survey could have been undert; at the wrong time of the yea; Mr. Lorimer was accompanies the 4-weeks survey by a fishi official, Mr. D. Kurth, from Council of Scientific and Indus Research Organisation. Mr. K later joined the owner of Venture, Mr. F. Fair, on a sir survey in the Princess Char Bay area, northern Queenslam H The Postmaster-General J. A, Marais) has returned to from leave in South Africa.

II Dr. V. W. T. McGusty, form Director of Medical Services: Fiji, and Mrs. McGusty are ing Suva. They are guests at 0 ernment House of their sor law, His Excellency the Gover and their daughter, Lady Garv

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[?]emorial Gates For

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Women Remember:

[?]emorial Gates For Rabaul

NDS to provide memorial gates for Rabaul’s Queen Elizabeth Park will be raised by women bers of the Sydney New Guinea ten’s Club, the New Guinea s. of Melbourne and Brisbane groups of ex-NG women in lide and Perth. e gates will commemorate the Guinea men who lost their during the Japanese invasion te Territory. At present there j permanent memorial to these -300 of whom were lost in the \evideo Maru sinking and •s in the jungles of New in and New Guinea, e Queen Elizabeth Park in ,ul was named last year to the coronation of the Queen. b double gates will be of ght iron, hung between cement ■s. They will be approximately et wide; in the centre filigree ,ch gate will appear the Royal r, EUR. In one of the cement s there will be a suitably Bd metal plaque, is estimated that cost of the and their installation will be The NG Women’s Club of By will shortly open a subscrip list.

Picture Night

j New Guinea Women’s Club dney will hold a picture night Tuesday, October 12, in the nist Club, 77 King St. Coloured js of New Guinea will be a.

Hospital for Honiara

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hospital. It needed it. It n worse condition than that

le, New Guinea, which has

ved recurring blasts of pub

since the US Army vacated years ago. ! collection of war-time hut ients which have served oniara during the post-war are being replaced. Con ion of the much-needed new al Hospital should be com- I by the end of October and hoped that it will begin full fcion in early 1955. i iron and tarred paper con ion of the existing hospital is y giving way to well-planned, >us buildings of concrete i, lined with masonite and I with galvanised iron. Of the two TB wards, incor ing an entirely new form of 3r, are nearest completion and i be opened in September.

Diver Leaves Salvage

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Company

Bottom Out of Scrap Metal

DIVER and salvage expert John Johnstone has ended his agree ment with the Pacific Islands Salvage Company which was formed to recover scrap from ships sunk in Rabaul during the war.

Reason is that the scrap market has slumped and that the depth at which the ships lie in Rabaul harbour makes the work of salvage uneconomic at present prices.

Recent loss of the Coral Star ad ministered the coup de grace to the company’s prospects—it was carry

ing equipment that could have been used on the wrecks.

The days of scrap-metal fortunes in the Pacific seem to be over.

Japan, which is about the only country still buying scrap, can get all it wants close to home now— from Korea.

Mr. Kenneth Mills, of Auckland, has been appointed Resident Agent, Mauke, Cook Islands. His wife is a daughter of the well-k no w n Niiturepu family of Ngatangiia, Rarotonga. He is doing his final architecture at the University. He has also studied anthropology and archaeology and is interested in these aspects of the Islands. He takes up his new appointment in September.

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[?]gnet Crayfish Venture

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155

Still Harbour-Bound

X)NEY Truth has interested itself in the activities of the

pet Co. Pty. Ltd. (see PIM,

pst) which has spent the last

months skirmishing around idea of catching crayfish in Gulf of Papua for the dollar )rt trade.

Lth unkind humour and an dus warning to future investors, h has traced the erratic se made by the concern since formation in early 1953. The ipaper gives prominence to fact that although the company so far cost its investors about 00, without even reaching the ag grounds, it now seeks to in e the nominal capital by £50,000 proposes to make the original icate a public company, e syndicate was originally ed by ex-NSW policeman, Jack is Toyer, whom Truth describes orsaking police trawlers for the i-going type.” (It has been d also that he was Marine rintendent for Australasian )leum Co. in Papua before the ptain Toyer—“ Old Shellback” relentless newspaper calls him said to have “interested initial tors with tales of New Guinea rs full of 22-lb lobsters worth lb, and 24,000 acres of fine :al cattle country crying out development.” There was an ed £lO per week and up to £l6O nth in bonuses for those lucky ?h to be accepted as investors working partners, he is alleged ive claimed. money rolled in and on March >53, Captain Toyer left Sydney d for Daru in the MV C-Gull. other company ships were in md 15 of the 23 shareholders had invested £25,000 were •d. t then the trouble started. One was abandoned at Tuncurry as unseaworthy and the re der reached Townsville where diminishing funds caused the prise to be “temporarily” doned. ;k in Sydney on December 11, et Co. Pty. Ltd. was incor ed, with Mrs. Toyer as govern irector “during her life or until )ecame disqualified.” Further tors were attracted by a series dvertisements and records at tegistrar-General’s Department ;d Truth that the company has 38 shareholders with 45,600 s valued at £45,600. ets of the company are four s which Captain Toyer claims forth about £43,000. Investors aid to dispute this, however,

their valuation being put at many thousands of pounds lower.

The main part of the expedition is still in Sydney, and directors, try ing to safeguard the company from liquidation, say they need more cash immediately. On May 26, the Registrar-General’s Department re ceived notice that a special resolu tion had been passed to increase the capital by £50,000, and propos ing to make the company a public concern.

Whether Cygnet, C-Gull and com pany will ever reach Daru and com mence operations Truth doubts, although they admit that, basically, and in the light of other Australian crayfish packers’ earnings in the last few years, the idea is a good one.

Mystery

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155

No Light On The Monique

Some residents of New Caledonia are disturbed at the failure of officialdom to issue a public statement of their findings following the inquiry into the disappearance of the small motorship Monique.

THIS vessel, of 240 tons, left the island of Mare, in the Loyalty Group, on July 31, 1953, to sail the 50 miles to Noumea, New Cale donia. She was never sighted again and 120 passengers, including 20 Europeans, lost their lives. The weather was calm at the time.

Recently, the French Merchant Marine declared the ship, and those who sailed in her, officially lost.

Families of the victims may now claim damages.

Pastor Charlemagne, of the Protestant Church in New Cale donia, writing recently in his parish magazine, condemned the lack of

information that had been released to the public—and the apparent failure of officialdom to arrive at the cause of the disaster.

The pastor criticised the poor con dition of many of the ships operat ing out of Noumea and other New Caledonian ports, and said that many wrecks had occurred in sur rounding waters in the last few years. More could be expected if regulations were not enforced.

He recalled a public meeting, held after the loss of Monique, at which a letter, written by the captain of the ill-fated vessel some time be fore his last voyage, had been read.

The captain had complained at the instability of the ship and said that he had decided to settle ashore.

It was well-known also, said the pastor, that the Monique’s engineer carried a loaded pistol so that he could put a quick end to his suf ferings if he were ever trapped in the overturned ship.

Pastor Charlemagne said that evidence, given at the inquiry by certain missionaries who witnessed the Monique’s departure, should be made public. (Shortly after the disaster (See PIM Sept., 1953) it was alleged that Monique was grossly overloaded when she left Mare, and had a seri ous list to port. Copra was said to have been stacked 4 feet above the bridge rail, and the lifeboats stacked with luggage).

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Situation Confus[?]

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“fTTHE Cook Islanders don’t A a share in our Govern] Representation in our P ment is so far from their r that, in more than a week of cussions in Rarotonga and Aiti it was hardly ever raised as a ject of serious debate.”

The day that that appeared i Auckland newspaper, in one series of articles by a special c spondent who had accompi there the recent Parliamei commission of inquiry, it was nounced from the House of R sentatives in Wellington thj petition had just been received 180 Cook Islanders asking th Maori representative be appo to New Zealand’s Parliamen directly represent the Islands.

This Year, Next Year,

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Sometime, Ne[?]

AMADANG native, m Usamando, was sentencec death in the Supreme Cou: Lae on August 30 for hs murdered a fellow prisoner in Lae gaol.

Sentence was passed by the C Judge, Mr. Justice Phillips.

Usamando killed the prisoner a knife and then escaped; he re-arrested some hours later.

He told the Supreme Court he had committed a murder in but had not been apprehendec In January, 1946, Usami murdered his wife and sistei law; he was sent to Madang w in October, 1951, he killed a fel prisoner at the gaol.

He was later transferred to Lae gaol where he committed murder for which he was chai on June 22.

High in Syd[?]

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Qantas Will Build High in Syd[?]

Construction of Qantas’s h ultra-modern 11-storey bull on the corner of Elizabeth Hunter streets, Sydney, will b before Christmas, 1954, and shi take about two years to complex Built of aluminium and g with a black and red, tooled gra street facing, the building will, elude a large booking hall, fre and mail handling sections: theatrette, lecture rooms, b< room, managerial offices, staff ing, rest and lounge rooms, an library. The basement will vide room for a car park.

About 60,000 square feet of s]j at present occupied by Qantas h city and suburban localities will freed by the new building.

IT Mr. C. A. G. Coleridge, Colony’s new Director of Audit, arrived in Suva.

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SEPTEMBER, 1954-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

[E London Missionary

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157

Lms Under Nz

Microscope

\ Society forced Cook

iders to accept mid-Victorian

s of conduct—and thus they

“frustrated and culturally

Dverished”.

iis seems to be the opinion of Territories Minister Webb and Zealand Herald —both having a great deal to say about the ip recently. i the credit side, however, Mr. b went on record as saying that LMS had done great work in png Christianity and a high il standard to the people. If it one fault it was conservatism, perhaps it was rather puri al in its outlook, e Herald found the LMS’s at e a barrier to cultural develop and noted the unhappy effect le Society’s total ban on in it Sunday sport. It reported a ment by the Resident Commis r of the Cooks who considered jMS’s influence in the political •e “not from all respects de le.” , W. Murphy, head of the LMS he Cooks, gave a contrary on. He considered that the g over of the former LMS Is throughout the Group by idministration had had an ad effect on the young people, onsiders the cure for Sunday ■beer parties is in the hands e police. He feels that Euro > are abusing their liquor per by selling liquor illegally to ocal people.

Cook Is. Organisation

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[?]thusiastic Women Join Cook Is. Organisation

3 first Rarotongan Country /omen’s Institute was formed t Ngatangiia in March this With a membership of 36, the ute is entirely self-controlled orks in close co-operation with further Education Movement, further Institutes have since found, one at Titikaveka and ther at Matavera, and have a ned membership of 58. ■ Rarotongan groups are ted with the Country Women’s utes of New Zealand, who 3d in their formation. They already found a market for Bxport of local handicrafts, were also represented, for the :ime, at the recent Dominion rence held in Wellington, NZ. sident of the Ngatangiia In -3 is Pa Ariki, and Mrs. Neville, )f the Resident Commissioner, accepted the position of less.

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P. Moresby, Aug.

THIRTY years ago, C. E. I Poole reported very good si of timber, mainly hardv around the coastal end of Hydrographers Range, on the n east coast of Papua,” said or Port Moresby’s older business to me to-day. “As far as I t it never has been made use o fact, I think it will be found there is much timber, that n< valuable and well worth develo in the Northern District.”

Because it is a little off the b( tracks, the north-east coasi Papua has been neglected by big business and small settler; too long. In climate and reso' it is as good as anything in Dual Territory. The Admini tion seems ready to do some velopmental win d o w-dressin could not do wrong if it prod a plan for the encouragemer worthwhile private enterprise this Cinderella District. There considerable areas of Crown available there; a large and al untapped reservoir of good lat and, in places, a soil that stre favours cocoa.—R.W.R.

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From Our Own Correspondent NORFOLK IS., August THE Holmlea, which rece arrived from New Zealand petrol and a little cargo, back an unusual item on its fre list —half a ton of avocardo p These are regularly sent by freight and quite a trade is b developed in the Dominion.

Green beans, which at this of the year should be leaving Island in good quantities, were b damaged by recent gales, weather now prevails, however, commercial bean (seed) growers busy planting.

The Agricultural and Horticult Society’s Costume Ball, held cently for the first time in n seasons, was a great suo Costumes were striking and coloi and the large attendance raise substantial sum of money for prize fund.

Mr. Dennis Holmes of the Dep ment of Civil Aviation leaves she on transfer to Williamstown. and Mrs, Holmes have been : for only a year and local residl will regret their departure.

II Dr. H. J. Levelt, Senior C missioner for the Netherlands the South Pacific Commission, Sydney on August 5 for a two we visit to Dutch New Guinea, will attend the 13th Session of SPC in Noumea in October.

Levelt is Minister Plenipotent and Consul-General of the Netl lands in Sydney.

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SEPTEMBER. 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

[?]Ekeo Natives Are Now

Growing Rice

LTHOUGH the P-NG Admi nistration has been trying for some years to turn the Mekeo ives of Papua into rice growers, gress has only recently become arent.

Then the Administrator, Brigadier VI. Cleland, returned from a re t tour of the Mekeo district he 1 there was no doubt that the r scheme, introduced last year, been accepted by the majority he natives. nder the new system, the Rural gress Societies were replaced by age Co-operatives which pur je and market all native-grown : Payment is made immediately crop is delivered and this spot i return is providing an in ive for natives to plant increas acreages. le natives are being encouraged :row rice not as a village pro but in extended family plots. y have the option of growing r crop entirely by hand or hav the land mechanically cultivated sown under agreement with the artment of Agriculture. le total area cropped this year 180 acres, resulting in at least ons of rice for sale. This will the producers a return of oximately £B,OOO. le European grower, with about

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Water Supply For Labasa

AN expenditure of £89,000 on a water supply for Labasa, Fiji, has been approved by the Fiji Government.

The plan involves construction of a dam at the Nasarava Springs, a reservoir at Uluibenau, and a con necting pipe-line, in the first stage of construction, followed by re ticulation pipes to the more popul ous areas and further reservoirs at Uluivolenau and Nasekula.

Chatham Is. Wants Flyine-

Boat

THE New Zealand Parliament has been petitioned by 35 residents of the Chatham Islands east of New Zealand asking for a continua tion of a flying-boat service to those islands.

Due to the rearrangement of TEAL services and the abandonment of the flying-boats, the Chathams summer monthly flights are to be discontinued. The Air Department cannot provide a Catalina service.

There is a possibility that a TEAL aircraft, down from the Coral Route for servicing, might make a flight once in three months after re-fit in Auckland.

Samoan Boxers in Sydney

TWO Samoan boxers, at present being trained in Sydney, are re garded by their Australian sponsor as potential world-beaters.

They are Samoan heavy-weight champion Fosi Schmidt, and the light-weight title holder, Jimmy Ripley.

Sydney newspapers reported both fighters as training in Samoa with bare fists, using gloves only in a fight. But they are training in Syd ney with the gloves.

Their sponsor, Mr. Colin Mansell, who is well-known in the Pacific, says the boxers are green at pre sent, but that after a few months tuition they will be “something out of the box.”

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