Pacific Islands Monthly - 1 April 1955

Co-Operation In S. Pacific

Urged, Because—

Copra Planters Could be in Trouble after 1937

With the MOF Copra Agreement less than three years to run, and the free world price of copra declining, all interested British countries in the South Pacific should unite to organise a selling organisation to come into operation after 1957.

THE initiative has already come from planters in Papua-New Guinea where their represent atives in the P-NG Legislative Coun cil in March, urged the Australian Government to invite other in terested Governments, such as Fiji and New Zealand, to join Australia in discussions.

It is realised that any discussions and any organisation that might be set up subsequently, would have to be on a Government level. Many planters in P-NG have already ex pressed the fear that British pro ducers of copra might again become the victims of the Unilever com bine when the present arrangement ends.

Mr. B. Fairfax Ross, a nominated member of P-NG Legislative Coun cil, who is also President of the Papuan Planters’ Association, said growers had to decide whether to continue with bulk marketing after 1957, or to sell individually.

There were grave dangers in the individual system—dangers that the price would revert to the weakest seller. Mr. Ross said many planters believed it a good idea to retain the present Papua-New Guinea Copra Marketing Board, with government backing.

He was supported by Mr. Bob Bunting, another nominated mem ber, and by Mr. Don Barrett, elected member for the New Guinea Islands, who is also president of the New Guinea Planters’ Association.

Mr. Barrett suggested a meeting of all copra producers in the Terri tory to find a common ground on which to establish the future of the industry. He said his Association was at present conducting a survey of the opinions of all its members and the results would be sent to Canberra.

A Tax Is Cancelled

A FEW months ago, the Aus tralian Customs Authorities decided to put a special tax upon small boats built in Australia for the Islands, and equipped with British motors. Australian boat builders, agents for British motors, and Islands boat-users united in protest. The offensive measure— which was actually an attempt to protect Australian-built motors in this Islands trade—was withdrawn early in April.

Coral Route

More Trouble on Coral Route

T'ASMAN Empire Airways

Coral Route service received

another set-back early in April

due to breakdown in navigational

facilities in Western Samoa.

It came at a time when TEAL was getting its Fiji-Tahiti Coral Route Service reorganised following the recent grounding of the Mk.IV Solent aircraft.

On April 5, it was announced from Auckland that the Satapuala- Faleolo airport on Upolu, Western Samoa —the airport for Apia—was closed forthwith, and would probably remain so for the next six or eight weeks due to a breakdown of radio navigational facilities there. The Coral Route Service, Suva-Aitutaki- Papeete will continue —that is, TEAL will over-fly Satapuala.

The Solent Mk.lV’s used on the service had been grounded in late February after the discovery of a fault in the wings of a similar type of aircraft of about the same age in England, due to fatigue.

Pending the preparation of an earlier-type Mk.III Solent, which carries a smaller pay-load and which had been held in reserve in Auck land, TEAL hired a Qantas Sand ringham to make several flights on the Coral Route. The Mk.III was in service and the Mk.lV’s were ex pected back within a few weeks, when the April 5 announcement came.

The interruption is serious for Pacific communications generally, and particularly coming as it does when the tourist season is due to begin. fl Colonel and Mrs. H. T. Allan, formerly of New Guinea, and now of Mullaway, Woolgoolga, NSW, are booked to sail from Sydney on a leisurely world tour, via the Far East, at the end of May. They will be in Europe in August and September.

Colonel Allan has made a good re covery from the illness which over took him in February.

New Anzac Forces

Cold War In Pacific—

For Malaya

NEW ZEALAND, in order to ms sure that an enemy engaged infiltration and subversion cot be stopped before he reached t Dominion, has undertaken considi. able commitments in Malaya.

The Prime Minister (Mr. S.

Holland) told the NZ Parliament March 24, that he had recommenc to Cabinet that the Dominion shoi send air squadrons, naval units a a commando squadron to Mals and should raise an infantry divisii with armour, artillery and ancills units, “for use if necessary in t Pacific area in the event of war.

NZ, said Mr. Holland, had agre to send two frigates—and a thi if necessary—to Malaya This is additional to the grou attack squadron and half a trai port squadron which NZ had alres promised to send to Malaya.

Half a reconnaissance flyii boat squadron, now based in F would be made available for serv in Malaya.

The Australian Prime Minis (Mr. R. G. Menzies) said on Mai 26, after his return from Londc “It is vital for Australia that Mals and Singapore be defended w success against attack. . . She has* desire to leave her defence to othei A Canberra announcement sta. that Australia would train a ca plete Army division for use south-east Asia. A battalion whi the Federal Government was pi: ning to send to Malaya would only an immediate token gestui The proposed new division, 20,000 trained men, would be a to reach any Asiatic trouble-s in a matter of days. It was p posed to spend £A30,000,000 modern US transport planes, en& ing great mobility for the divisi

Norster-Hewitt Wedding

Mr. and Mrs. John Norster leavings John’s on the Hill, Port Moresby, £ their wedding on March 8. Mrs. Non was formerly Miss Mary Hewitt, of P-NG Administration.

Photo: Papuan Pn

Advertisements & other items, p. 20 (1 item)

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APRIL, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

Ustralia And P-Ng

p. 21

Excellency” Tabu!

Administrator

IANBERRA resistance to any I improvement in the official and plomatic status of the man in large of Papua and New Guinea typical of the mean and narrow itlook of the Australian Department Territories in matters of this kind.

Here are the titles of the govern sntal heads of all the other big irritories in the South Pacific: British Solomons High Com ssioner.

Fiji —Governor.

Western Samoa High Com ssioner.

Sew Caledonia High Com ssioner.

American Samoa —Governor. look Islands Resident Com ssioner.

French Oceania —Governor, h practically all these cases, the ,n occupying the position is iressed as “Your Excellency.”

Jut in Papua and New Guinea— ich in area, population and trade nover is the largest Territory in i South Pacific —the man at the i is Administrator, and is entitled y to be called “Your Honour”, hit the Administrator of Papua 1 New Guinea probably is sub ted to far more bureaucratic jrference from official head- Tters than any Governor or High nmissioner. Maybe, if he were nted the higher status, Canberra Id not order him around in the r that Canberra appears now to Maybe, that is why Canberra sts the change. There seems to no other reason. lERE were only four members — all Government members—who voted against a motion in the FG Legislative Council in March t the title of Administrator be nged to that of High Com moner. he matter originated at the ember sitting; and, in the rim, Minister for Territories luck announced that the title of ti Commissioner would be un able —“Administrator” adequate erved the purpose, i Port Moresby this was con ed as an attempt by the ister to tell the Government ibers of the Council how they ild vote in March, hen the motion came up in

ch, the Assistant Administrator,

Rupert Wilson, said that he done some research and found the present title was quite ible. It served very well in 'h Africa. It did not mean the Administrator at official

functions anywhere lost the pre cedence to which he was entitled.

“In these circumstances,” he said, “I cannot support a motion whose only effect would be to change a logical designation into an in appropriate one, and which altera tion would not in any way vary the present power, authority, ranking and precedence of the holder.”

After that forthright utterance, nobody seemed to want to take part in the debate, so Mr. E. A. James had the reply.

He said he couldn’t see what South Africa had to do with it, be cause the debate concerned the effect of the title of Administrator in the Pacific; and undoubtedly a changed title, from Administrator to High Commissioner, would improve the status of the head of

Papua and New Guinea inter nationally.

The international sphere was the important one; and (said Mr.

James) “Mr. Wilson, I suggest, is falling into an error which apparently was fallen into lately by another critic not in this Chamber, and that is that they are being prescribed in their outlook by looking at this with the Aus tralian view.”

The president (the Administrator) told members they could vote on the matter according to their consciences. Mr. James asked for a division. The four who voted against the motion were the Assistant Administrator; the Gov ernment Secretary (Mr. S.

Lonergan); the Director of District Services (Mr. A. Roberts); and the Collector of Customs (Mr. T.

Grahamslaw).

Do You Remember ?

p. 21

From PJM of 20 Years ago.

AT this time in 1935, the South Pacific—probably because of growing Italian and German

ambitions in Europe—slowly began

to emerge from the Depression.

Certainly it did not emerge very far before war conditions smote it,

but most commodity prices began to

move from the starvation levels

they had occupied in the previous

four years. There were no “rich

planters” then—but they managed

to exist. And, of course, there were some rich goldminers.

Here are some other extracts from our issue of April, 1935: Reorganisation of the Administration of Norfolk Island was ur-der way an Advisory Council was to replace an Executive Council: the Administrator to consult the Advisory Council on matters of public expenditure. These and other reforms were expected to “remove a cer tain antagonism against the Administra tor”. * * * Queen Salote was planning a trip to England and was expected to take with her as a present to King George V, on his Silver Jubilee, Tul Malila, the Royal Tortoise that Captain Cook is supposed to have given to one of Queen Salote’s ancestors. (Somehow neither the visit nor the gift seems to have eventuated.

George V’s grand.daughter, Queen Eliza beth 11, admired the Royal tortoise during her visit to Nukualofa in December, 1953). * * ♦ What happened to the 4,000 or 5,000 confessed Indonesian and Eurasian com munists who, in 1935, were living in special camps far uo the Digoel River in Dutch New Guinea? In April, 1935, we had a long article about these people whom the Dutch had marooned in what was described as the “centre of the great untamed island of New Guinea”. * ♦ ♦ The Union Company was calling tenders for a 3,500 tons vessel for the Auckland- Fiji - Tonga - Samoa run. (When she eventuated she was called “Matua”, but in the meantime the service was carried on by a series of makeshifts. The de

pression years had been a period of ship withdrawals from that part of the Pacific —presumably New Zealanders were not eating: so many bananas in those days). * * * A Hollywood party of 60, including Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, were reported to be en route to Tahiti to film “Mutiny on the Bounty”. ♦ * * Fiji was having a gold boom “in spite of what the Fiji Government has done to discourage speculations”. (Discourage ment unspecified). £lO shares in the Aloha Syndicate, which had an option over a block held by Costello interests in the centre of Tavua field, had soared to £430. * * ♦ In the same month the directors of New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., had decided to write down capital by about 75 per cent, —from £ 4,472,331 to £1,118,081.

Port Moresby was talking about a water supply from the Laioki River to replace the storage tank and the queer roof catchment on the hill behind the town.

But some residents were cautious—it was premature, they said, for a small popu lation of 350 to saddle itself with a debt of £20,000. (Population of Moresby is now about s,ooo—they waited until after the war for the Laioki supply—and it probably cost more than £20,000.) * * * There were indications, we said, that the Samoan Mau was breaking up as a political body. Many of the Chiefs were withdrawing their support; others were only luke-warm. * * * A prophecy that did not come true: "Though the depressing effect of whale oil flooding the copra market is only one of the factors that tends to lower the price of the Sooth Seas principal product, Pacific Islands planters will be cheered to learn that the recent indiscriminate slaughter of whales had decimated the sluggish leviathans and that within a decade whale oil competition will be nothing more than a dark memory”. * * * Fashion Note: “Clothes come to us classically simple in design, shrieking sophistication and poise, bouffant, billowy and ‘Little Women-ish’, with the eternal feminine in every fold.”*

Advertisements & other items, p. 21 (1 item)

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CIFIC INLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1955

Air Services

Changes in Pacific Air Services

hppn nroceeding on ORK has been P™ceemng Tontouta aerodrome, in^en donia, with the mten tion of makmg it fit ft>r 6 American Stratocruisers.

According to our Noumea corre spondent, Pan American has sigm- Sul New Caledonfa 8 In® its teans- Pacific services if Tontouta is brought up to international standard.

When Pan American resumed its trans-Pacific services after the war, Tontouta was included in the ser vice The Company then used Sky master aircraft.

In the last 12 months, drainage of the main runway has been under taken, surface has been improved and the French aerial technical ser vice now considers that it could take Super Constellation aircraft.

Stratocruisers are about five tons heavier. ...

It is believed that it w ll * be some time before Tontouta wlll be classed as up to Stratocruisei■ standaid due ’n ol i r corr - eS 1 p0 ri den f- S^te^o t < ? o tl ?n small financial allocations made to the French Civil Aviation service. It is believed that the same trouble is causing delay in reconditioning of the airstrips at Palikolo (Santo) and Vate (Vila) which are required be flyTng?boal a ser C 4 n e tothose areas to land-planes.

Sydney-New Caledonia-New

Hebrides-Fui Service

At present Qantas Empire Airways are accepting no further bookings for flying-boat services to Noumea, New Hebrides and Suva after May 31 It is possible, however, that the flying-boats may continue in service for some weeks after that date if airstrips to serve Vila and Santo are not in satisfactory condition.

This service eventually will be operated with Skymaster aircraft and the present shuttle service to Fiji (but to Nadi instead of Suva) will be maintained once fortnightly from Noumea in between the return flight from New Hebrides to Sydney.

This will still give New Caledonia its direct link with Fiji—but will land passengers 140 miles away from Suva, of course.

Lae Still Closed For

Skymasters

Lae aerodrome in New Guinea, which was closed for Skymaster air craft last November when ex cessive wet weather made the sur face unsatisfactory, is still “out” for these planes. The Sydney service terminates at Port Moresby and a DCS aircraft flies between Moresby and Lae.

DCA plans for New Guinea in clude a new airport for Lae at Malahang, several miles from the present site. It therefore would be uneconomic to spend too much on improving the existing strip. Take off and approach is over the sea at Lae and it is impossible to do much to lengthen the strip which is too short for modern aircraft.

However, something is being done to improve it in other respects and it is hoped that it will be back in service for Skymaster aircraft shortly.

East Samoa To Replace

Canton Is?

Our Pago Pago correspondent re ports that the President of the US has approved an application of Pan American World Airways eventu ally to set up active business at the Tafuna airstrip in American Samoa, and that this is only an early phase in a plan that will shift the PAA group from Canton Island to Tutuila. Preliminary plans call for a Hawaii to Eastern Samoa to Australia run.

Barracks

Taurama Barracks Church

The Administrator (Brigadier D. M.

Cleland) and Mrs.

Cleland leaving the new church at Taurama Barracks, Port Moresby, on March 6, after the opening ceremony.

On the right is Lieut. - Col. F. J.

Searle, Senior Chap lain Eastern C o m mand for the United Churches.

Photo: Papuan Prints.

Bank of NSW Expansion

in P-NG

THE Bank of New South Wa has a building programme urn way in P-NG which will c £1 million by the time it is cot pleted. (An announcement to tj effect will be found on pages 801 this issue).

The Port Moresby office was cently completed. Staff quarti and offices for Rabaul and Lae now planned. In April, as a meas'J of the bank’s growing activity that area, it was announced tl the New Guinea organisation will! detached from Queensland cont; In future P-NG will be a complet separate administrative div i s i ranking equally with any of Australian States.

The bank, which was establisl 45 years ago in Papua, r has Branches at Port Mores Samarai, Bulolo, Lae, Madang, s Rabaul, and Agencies at Gore Wau and Kokopo. The new adm istrative division will be supervii by Mr. A E. Davis, manager Port Moresby, who will still ret the management of that Branch

Question Aga:

Samoan Status Question Aga:

THE Western Samoa Execu Council approved in March setting up of a Samoa Sts Committee to carry out furl study on the complex questi associated with national status.

Under the present law m persons of part-European part-non Samoan, e.g. ps Chinese-part-Samoan) blood, r choose Samoan or Europ status. Status does not dep entirely on the proportion Samoan blood, but every men: of the population must fall ur one of the two headings, diffei laws applying to the two gro - ' especially as regards suffrage.

The members of the Council State and five other European Samoan members are expected form the committee. t it was stated in March PIM tl Mackay Pacific Trading Comp had been reorganised, without inclusion of Mr. C. W. Mansell, would carry on. However, suH quently, some difficulties develoi and Mackay Pacific Trading was, late in March, put into liqur tion. Another company, planneo engage in trading in the Pao Islands is in process of formal, and registration.

Advertisements & other items, p. 22 (1 item)

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APRIL, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Factory in Operation

p. 23

[?]Ew Industry

Or Papua

[?]ird Hills Cutch Factory in Operation

HHE announcement that the cutch L factory of the New Guinea orneo Mangrove Company was in eduction at Aird Hills, Papua, was ade in early March, after the ant had been visited by the mister for Territories, Mr. Hasluck.

Cutch is produced from the bark the Mangrove tree and is used r tanning and dyeing.

A spokesman for the company id in Port Moresby in March at cutch was used extensively in mada and Japan, especially in e fishing industry. Most of the tch produced in Borneo was ex rted to Japan.

As yet, only small quantities had en shipped to Australia, where other product was generally used r tanning. It was hoped to find

a market in Australia for the Territory product, however.

It is understood that when the company first set out to manufac ture cutch in Borneo over 40 years ago, it was believed that harvesting mangroves would be a 40-years cycle. Recent research has revealed. however, that the maximum amount of the material that makes cutch is not present in the mangrove until it is 80 years old, although it has regenerated itself and looks mature f? 40 years. This is the reason why the Vast areaS of mangrove SWamp m the Gulf country of Papua caught the attention of the company, it was hoped initially that pro duction would begin in July, 1953; then it was set at July, 1954, and again the factory was not ready, Setting up a cutch factory has keen in a sugar and the difficulties that have attended such a large-scale pro ject in the extraordinary and peculiar conditions of Papua s vast sw^iP p land ®> can be imagined, The su PP!y of mangrove bark will come entirely from local natives who will cut the tree and strip off the bark. A comparatively few Europeans are needed to run the factory once it is established.

Suva Gets Practical Help From Bayly Clinic

p. 23

?he J. P. Bayly Clinic which Tied in Suva, Fiji, in November doing such a fine job for the er-income families of the area t already accommodation is ed. Over 100 patients are a ted there each day. ’he clinic is the brain-child of George Hemming, who gave up /ate practice in Suva to devote time to it. And it was Mr. J.

Bayly, Fiji business man, who le the doctor’s dream a practical position by providing the fine iern building in which the clinic loused. . full-time nurse is employed the rest of the work entailed keeping records, admitting the lents, etc., is performed by a mteer group of Anglican nen. >nly members of families whose

total annual in come is £2OO or less are treated.

Each patient pays a nominal fee of 2/-. The waiting room is generally so crowded the observer naturally wonders what these people did for medical at tention before the clinic existed.

Suva is fortunate in having a Hem

ming-Bayly com

bination—the one to realise the need and be pre pared to devote his time to it; the other to provide the hard cash

without which the best dreams languish.

Photographs, show, top, the J.

P. Bayly clinic, which is situated in the busy market area of Suva; and, below, the men Suva has to thank for it—Mr. Bayly and Dr.

Hemming.

Six Indians Lost

p. 23

In Flooded

Viti Levu River

FLOODS swept large areas of the western half of Viti Levu on March 8, when the main high ways were cut at many points and Nadi Airport was out of action for a time.

Nadi township, where the flood was the worst for 23 years, was isolated. Shops and the new police quarters were swamped and crops in the district suffered badly.

The flood area stretched from Rakiraki, in the north-east of the island, to Korotogo, on the south coast. At Ba the traffic bridge was nearly 3 ft under water.

More flooding occurred on March 20, when four Indian men, a woman and a child were drowned.

The six victims were travelling from Tavua to Suva when their taxi fell from the Lomawai bridge, on the Queen’s Road, into the swollen river. A seventh passenger, the wife of one of the men drowned, was rescued by a Fijian ex-serviceman.

Those killed were the driver of the car, Mr. Sahai Butru, Mr.

Munsami Naidu and his son, Mr.

Hanumant Naidu, his daughter-in law Gangana, his granddaughter Dementi, and Mr. Desga.

Mr. Desga’s wife, Parbati, was rescued by Filimone Narube, a veteran of the Solomons campaign.

He dived into the river, dragged the woman from the car, brought her ashore and successfully applied artificial respiration.

Advertisements & other items, pp. 23-24 (3 items)

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ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1955

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Territories Talk-Talk

pp. 25-28

By Tolala

[ore “Lost Tribes” iscovered Towards the end of last month te discovery in P-NG of another jost Tribe” of natives was released the Australian Press, synchron ing with Minister Hasluck’s visit ; the Territory. (No, Ido not ne ssarily infer anything at all), id so another 20,000-odd primi res became material for Civilisa m’s Grist-Mill.

They were reported to be a par ularly friendly people and eeted ADO James Kent and his rty with lavish hospitality— tie realising the advent of the liteman means the introduction a thousand trials and tribula ns. restrictions and regimenta ns which they must face if they ; to secure the “advantages” and nenities” of the twentieth cen ■yfhere’s no doubt we take our ponsibilities to primitive peoples y seriously. Government and ssions will now make every pre ration for an intensive cultiva q of this virgin soil in which to se potential “democrats”, and lowers of one or more of the ny Christian denominations king adherents in the Terri y.

I’ime alone will tell whether se fine, primitive people will re i their happy, care-free disposi i after white contact. met ADO James Kent by nee a couple of days after he ived in Sydney Town—a quiet, ssuming cove, on well-earned r e and anxious to join his wife West Australia. He had been nping the streets seeking ac imodation until he could leave the West. o me it seemed incongruous that an whose achievements that day 5 being blazoned with pride ►ss the front pages of the Press, his gear checked in a railway k room while he searched for a e wherein to lay his head! A 3what different type of hospi y to that accorded him by the ly-discovered Faiwomin people, ;ed away in the Hindenburg ges. . . . People in Sydney at time were too busy thinking of my Ray and Spike Jones, no

orical

curacies iere was a lot of talk last th over the NSW Obscenity for the control of sex books,

Deadwood Dicks and so on. I should like to see a Bill brought down to censor historical inaccura cies concerning P-NG.

The reader of thrillers or sexy literature does not expect the truth, but does expect a degree of accuracy from newspaper feature articles—even on New Guinea, now and since the. war. Invariably, however, these Islands stories strive for such romantic highlights that the truth is handled care lessly.

And there is really no need. The truthful version is just as romantic —properly handled.

One such careless handling caught my eye last month. It purported to portray the attempt of August Englehardt to found a colony of sun-worshippers on the small island of Kabakon in the Duke of York group—not far from Rabaul. I have mentioned August Englehardt on several occasions in these columns. He was a most in teresting and attractive character, whom I knew personally. He came to the German colony in the early 1900’s.

According to the feature scribe, the “Palm Temple” was located on an island called “Kahakua” and Englehardt died (so the article in fers) circa 1904. I did not meet him until 1911, and the last I saw of him was when he was an in ternee in Rabaul (behind barbed

wire) in 1917. He died some years after that.

“No women were allowed on the island,” writes the scribe. But, ac tually, a woman did arrive, to marry one of the clan. But he had died, and so she lived with three or four other Disciples of the Sun for sometime before she also died of malaria.

Feature articles should at least be accurate in place names and dates, and thus have an historical value for the reader.

Strangely enough, the same island was featured in another Syd ney paper a few months previously, which described how “Pat the Miner,” had acquired “his own coral kingdom,” lazing the days away amidst “wild orchids (which almost over-ran the island), waving coconut palms, tropic sun and £62/10/0 a week.” But nary a word of its having been a “Palm Temple” for sun-worshippers!

A Touchy Spot

One is inclined to regard Lae as a super-sensitive spot in P’-NG where international incidents occur —or is it, perhaps, that the town has a more efficient publicity man?

In February there was the inci dent over the Japanese wreath. In March, a local complaint was lodged because US Army personnel showed a film (for which no charge was made) in the Stewart Hall.

Washington, advised by the US Embassy in Australia, sent an in vestigating officer from Guam to Lae, who fined the Doughboys £4O for showing films ashore, which

should only have been screened afloat. The reports published in Australia described a very petty in cident, which should never have oc curred.

To what extent will regimentation extend in this sad, old world in the Christian year 1955? And we are supposed to be a democratic people.

To Booze or Not to Booze It must have been amusing (were it not so tragic) to listen to portion of the debate on the Native Liquor •ill in the recent P-NG Legislative Council —especially when some vfembers could not understand Simogun’s Pidgin-English ut erances which favoured/did not favour the Bill!

It only goes to show how Pidgin can be misinterpreted and makes one a bit apprehensive about Court interpreters, upon whose transla tions often depend a man’s life.

A frequent pitfall for the unini tiated lies in the two negatives, which constitute an affirmative.

The debate undoubtedly resolved itself into the official and non official viewpoints—the former in favour, the latter against. I assume (from the reports) that the official attitude in favour of drinking per mits was merely in accordance with top-level instructions; whereas the non-official members spoke accord ing to their conscience, beliefs and experience, and paying no attention to the UNO policy of granting the native every human liberty possible —whether for his good or not.

In the matter of P-NG natives

drinking, it is a pity that the gov ernment of New South Wales does not realise the potential danger of its policy of allowing P-NG natives to drink in public bars there.

A senior P-NG government offi cial told me the other day of an in cident in which a soldier was enter taining a couple of P-NG natives in a Sydney bar and, on being ap proached by the official, the soldier expressed his annoyance at anyone taking exception to hospitality be ing shown to “these coves who probably hauled my mates over the Kokoda trail.”

Recourse to higher authority brought the official no satisfacti9n, as nothing in the NSW Act forbids the serving of alcohol to P-NG natives. If this statement is cor rect, action of some kind is certainly needed.

Only last month a Madang native was charged in a Sydney court with using indecent language in George Street, Sydney. City papers featured the case on account of the Pidgin- English employed. The native’s ex cuse was that he and another native had been drinking. He was fined £1; but no comment was made on his having been allowed to con sume alcoholic liquor.

Spare the Rod

The absurd extremes to which governments will go in their fear that the corporal punishment bogey may be thrown at them was exem plified in Rabaul recently, when a RC priest was fined for tanning the tails of a couple of disobedient native school-girls. And yet we have scores of long-haired psychia trists, sociologists and others vainly endeavouring to put a stop to child

delinquency and trying to exp! its causes!

About the same time that “offence” occurred, an Eng female school-teacher was finec a Northampton Court for caninj of her pupils. She appealed her appeal was upheld. The corder remarked: “It was regretti that the prosecution was launch And the same regret, in opinion, applies to the case of RC Father at Vunadadir. Such inane, near-sighted, velvet-glo mealy-mouthed policy in a com of primitives is the quintessenci absurdity, and is only encouraj future trouble —repeat, trouble.

As time passes, it becomes n apparent that we, as a govern authority in a native country. “1 not got the guts of a louse” w: disciplinary measures are concer And why? Because we are af of UNO censorship, or that sut peoples may become pro-Com nists. All of which is, indirect! victory for Communism, becaus is building up for a Big Pay when the undisciplined primf become mature.

A Bit Pessimistic Listening the other day t broadcast in the ABC Cour man’s Session I was surprise< hear that “coconuts in P-NG nearing the end of their bea period.”

I remember seeing coconuti Ceylon, 80 years old and prodr 12 cwt to the acre. The spe was giving a build-up for the c industry in P-NG. BMt surely t is no need to cry down the “Consols of the East” in the prc When we took over German in 1914, there were 86,000 i planted with coconuts; in 1953 bearing area was 187,594 acres, it would appear the majority o: conuts in the Trust Territory, way, are not more than 50 : old. Not too old for coconuts— viding you feed them occasion Kiap Cardew, down in Buk 1920, directed each adult nath plant 10 coconuts a year. A idea; but somebody got the ji and the practice went into dis Seemed a bit too much like “fc labour.” There would be a goo turn now in that area had the tern been maintained.

A Territory of

Snarls!

After reading a recent issu the SP Post it struck me that old P-NG had become, more ever, a Territory of Snarls.

There was Minister Haslucl tacking the people (European course) for “public apathy” reji ing the political development c country. There were aircraft doing a whinge about hotel

d service in Moresby. Another inge came from Manus military i air personnel because alleged idequate beer supplies were due poor shipping facilities. Others nplained of high prices, and tyed for price control. The nuabada natives wanted special oholic drinking privileges in a b!

Itifling departmental policies •e blamed by a resigning govern nt official for the loss to the Ad listration of many valuable pub servants. omeone has said somewhere, letime, that criticism and dis sfaction of present conditions d towards future progress. If so, 1G sho»ild go ahead by leaps and nds.

stal Gazing

saw recently the possibility of e changes in office among high -1 personnel; A sort of General t between Moresby, New York South Pacific.

Comment?

aly reference I heard on ister Hasluck’s return from

P-NG in March was an ABC s ment to the effect that an inc in the wages of native govern employees was being considi Rather a poor show for an newspaperman Minister, who s) know the value of good put at the appropriate time.

Pidgin Acquitted

Poor old Pidgin-English, y has been taking the knock UNO and some of the haireds, appears to have absolved of its crimes and into its own again. It is i officially adopted by P-NG cationalists, and the NT Educ Advisory Board is toying wit adoption—another brand, natr I hope the written form w English, and not the pin conglomeration as hitherto all due respect to the old Ge missionaries in the Territory): a lad has brains enough to then he has brains enough to to write in English. Not forg* that in Pidgin (true Pidgin) are no two words with the sound, a point I did not mentioned by Professor Hall i valuable treatise.

This might be a good tir cull out all the bastardised that have crept into Pidgin c the past two decades.

Paradise in N.G.

Chips Rafferty, film ma and slap-happy screen actor incidentally quite a good cove) to P-NG in May to “shoot”

Into Paradise, centring a; Moresby, Goroka and Me Rather an incongruous so] title, judging by recent hea of “Unrest in NG”. No, not hunters this time, but £-Hu due to the general dissatisfact; the ranks of the Public Sei and the reported raw deal i out to them by the Minister.

Rabaul Conditions

I see that Doc Calov has m return trip to Rabaul afte absence of many years and th< ditions there, according to SP shocked this former TNG M Officer —especially the unhy conditions in New Chinatowi The Doctor is not one publicity at any time, so h;. pressions of opinion can be as a reliable indication 01 situation. Shortage of staff cause (so I hear from quarters) coupled with shoe financing from the Big Tot Moresby.

Doc Calov is probably the known of all the old TNG mt. and will always remain pn with the old-timers. At one; he was Rabaul’s best on batsman in any cricket mate:

Reception at Port Moresby

p. 25

His Excellemcy Archbishop Carbouni, Apostolic Delegate to Australia, meets prot Moresby residents at a reception given in his honour at the Roman Catholic Presbytery. Mrs. John Aearn made the presentation. The Archbishop visited the Territory to open a new seminary for native students for the priesthood at Rabaul and to visit the Roman Catholic missions in Papua and New Guinea.

Photo: Papuan Prints.

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[?]ecision on Native Liquor Permits Deferred

From Our Port Moresby Correspondent Debate became heated at the March meeting of the Papua ?w Guinea Legislative Council when the controversial amend snts to the Native Liquor Ordinance were discussed.

[E Council passed more than thirty bills in record time dur ing the meeting (March 21-25) adjourned debate on the amend bill to the Native Liquor Ordin- I of 1953, to the Council’s next ig in June. bate on this bill showed an zing range of opinions on the bion of whether natives should llowed to drink, her important matters included II for superannuation for the Itory Public Service, which pro i payment of pensions for officers :ng at the new earlier retiring of 50 and 55; and a Liquor Bill ti governs hours and conditions erritory hotels and clubs, jviously there have been two r ordinances for the two Terri 5. and in Papua the clubs I’t been restricted at all—which nade many New Guinea hotel ;rs and clubmen a little un- V- When the bill gets assent, Papuans will be brought into ? Council got off to a good by passing a motion, moved by L A. James, that the title of nistrator be altered to that of Commissioner. This debate was vhat heated, too, although were only two speakers—the ;ant Administrator, Mr. R. n (who was against it) and ames.

James’ victory was regarded me quarters as a defeat for Minister for Territories, Mr.

Hasluck, who had previously n against the move, which was brought up in the Council in fiber, 1954. i March meeting of the Coun is one of the best yet. The N as done, and there was plenty portunity for debate—and the 3rs did not pull their punches. ;h of the smoothness of the ill’s business was due, as in the to its president, the Admin )r, Brigadier D. M. Cleland, s no novice when it comes to cting a meeting.

lie Native Liquor Bill

proposed amendments to the itive Liquor Ordinance are to ntroyersial Section 9. which at it gives the Administrator to issue permits to drink to i natives.

Although the Ordinance of 1953 was assented to last year, regula tions on Section 9 were not proceeded with because of the opposition from sections of the community.

Last November the Administrator, Brigadier D. M. Cleland, outlined a proposed new Section 9 to the Missions’ Conference, then sitting in Port Moresby, and asked for a re action. The reaction was that the missionaries could not agree. Some wanted the permit system intro duced at once. Others wanted it suspended for five years, and then reconsidered. And a third group did not want it at any price.

The new amendments seek to re peal the old Section 9 and replace it with one giving natives right to apply, in writing, to the Adminis trator for a permit to drink. The amendments set up a Liquor Con sent Board to advise the Admin istrator and to check on the applicant through the District Com missioner of his district. The Ad ministrator would have final say on whether an application should be received or rejected.

The Consent Board would have a membership of three—the Director of District Services (chairman), the Director of Health and the Com missioner of Police.

In the debate, a Mission Member, the Rev. F. G. Lewis, Methodist Mission, said the bill contained great dangers for the native people.

A nominated member, Mr. R.

nting, said if you gave one permit I would have to give hundreds.

Ir. G. Whittaker said the supply liquor to natives would increase ne. and already the police force 5 overtaxed. He said it was un al for such a measure to be en without a request from the ive people themselves and he ild like to know where the scheme [inated. imogun, a native Member, said was not against the principles of bill, but after talking to a lot tiis people he thought it would i good idea to defer the bill for •or five years. Some natives d drink but others could not. >hn Vuia and Merari Dickson, two other native members, jsed the bill and thought it ild be deferred. le Rev. D. E. Ure, of the London sionary Society, said liquor was ading and he believed that if ferendum were taken Territory rs would be 99 per cent, against r. S. Elliott-Smith, Sepik Dis- Commissioner, said he was in tort of the bill,, which was a one if handled safely, as he ved it would be. It didn’t allow icriminate drinking, as many le seemed to think. *. J. K. McCarthy, former New lin District Commissioner, said le couldn’t continue to put their s in the sand and ignore the that natives were drinking. This jould control native drinking. . E. A. James said in view of ittitude of the native members ouncil, he believed the Council d be shouldering a grave re sibility if permits were issued jdiately. It was a responsibility limself, did not wish to accept, le opposed the issue of permits.

John Gunther, the Director of ffi, in an eloquent appeal on If of the bill, said that unless ieople of the Territory gave the es guidance and leadership and ited them as partners they i become restive and want to n too quickly. Many thinking es wanted the privilege of be ible to drink if they desired.

Dill would not allow indiscrim drinking.

Gunther believed that because ssion was anti-liquor as part i belief, it should not be per d to push its views on to others ; majority was against them. gadier Cleland, in a statement the Chair, said that he accepted responsibility for the amend 5, which were not the result of d Nations proposals or pro -5 from any outside body. The :r had been brought up in its it form because he had ht, and still thought, that it ime, for it to be ironed out. 16 people were encouarging is to drink for their own

economic ends, he said, and native convictions for illegally drinking liquor were increasing. It had to be stopped and the proposed amend ments were aimed at that control.

However, he concluded, after hear ing the debate, he had formed the opinion it would be wrong for him to use the official majority to pass t he bill. He said he therefore sug gested that the debate be adjourned while he had further discussions with the proposed Consent Board,

Lifou Enterprise

p. 29

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For example, the Grand Chief Pascal, of Lifou Island, has entered the public trans port business with this bus. Driven by one of the chief’s men, it is well patronised, especially by those of the chief’s people who work in Noumea.

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BACKGROUND shots for a Holly wood film tentatively called “Pearl of the South Seas,” are being made in Fiji by Mr. Lee Zavitz, an RKO “special effects” man and photographer. Mr. Zavitz, who first visited Fiji with the "His Majesty O’Keefe” unit in 1952, said at Suva that because of over-ex ploitation, Hawaii was now little used by film-makers.

Fijian extras, who provided much of the interest of the “O’Keefe” film, have been engaged for some of the scenes and Mr. J. B. Turner’s vessel Scot has been converted into an old-time trading schooner. The scenes were shot on a small island about 12 miles from Lautoka.

The film will have Virginia Mayo and Dennis Morgan in the principal roles. In Fiji, doubles are being used for the stars in distance shots.

During March, a Universal group was looking over Fiji as a possible site for a Pacific war film.

Mr. Thomas Strabert, the man who filmed the famous “Conquest of Everest,” is planning a short visit to Fiji to cover agricultural pro jects.

A new TEAL 20-minute colour film of Fiji, made by Robert Steele Productions and entitled “Red Hibiscus,” deals mainly with Viti Levu’s tourist trails. Picturesque aspects of the island scene are well presented, and the film has been highly praised in NZ.

If M. Jean Brock, Customs agent at Noumea and Qantas agent for New Caledonia, is optimistic about tourist trade possibilities He plans to give organised tourist parties enough time at Noumea to become familiar with French life and customs and then to take them across the island to the picturesque east coast, where Houailou will be headquarters for further excursions.

As in many other countries, the standard of hotel service is a major question. M. Brock, who comes of British stock and is married to a Melbourne girl, will himself accom pany the parties.

Leper Scouts Save Man

p. 31

THREE Boy Scout patients at the Fiji Leprosy Hospital, Makogai, saved the life of a young man who had picked up a live electric wire. The wire had been broken during the felling of a coconut palm.

While one boy ran to have the current switched off, the other, using rubber-soled shoes as insulating pads, removed the badly-burned man from the wire. They carried him to hospital on a stretcher made from Scout poles and shirts. The boys had gained their first-aid badges three weeks previously.

Solomons Veterans Meet

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A REUNION of men of the Ist Bn., Fiji Infantry Regiment, who served in the Solomons campaign, 1943-44, was scheduled at Suva for April 13, the 13th an niversary of the sailing of the bat talion from Suva.

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On March 25, Austin (“Cu] Tea’ ) Buffet, aged 47, pleaded g to a charge of assaulting Ji Needham, and was sentenced t< months’ imprisonment, two mo of which he had already serv Buffet entered Needham’s gei store on the night of January and, with what a doctor terme blunt instrument,” struck Need four or five times on the head instrument was sufficiently sha] inflict several 4 in. wounds in IS ham’s scalp, and to lop off the of the third finger of his left i Subsequently, local JP’s comm Buffet for trial on a charg malicious wounding, and on M 24 Mr. Justice Simpson flew Canberra to Norfolk Island.

But, according to a Sydney report, “nobody at Canberra the foresight to save public rr by having the trial set dowr hearing on the day after J Simpson and the legal eagles in. Norfolk Island law requi] presiding judge to sign an for the empanelling of a jury requires that jurors receive days’ notice. Because Judge £ son had not signed the order b he left Canberra, the trial —if were to be one—could not be before Tuesday (March 29).”

On March 25 Buffet agree plead guilty to assault if Crown would prefer this char; an alternative to a charg' malicious wounding. On the morning, the charge was dealt by a Court which had been vened almost without the t ledge of anybody living at Nc Island.

During the hearing, counse the defence (Mr. Tony Larkii Sydney) asked Sgt. Alf Gor Nl’s only policeman; “Is it true the accused, at the time of offence, entertained suspicions his wife’s conduct with Neec whether or not those suspi were well founded?”

Sgt. Goulding replied: “From I have heard, yes.” ’

In press interviews, Mrs. I denied that there were any gn for such suspicion. Buffet n said that when he attacked . ham he (Buffet) was emotie overwrought. (The doctor who was sent Sydney to make the medica amination of Needham and gn medical evidence, was Dr. Alex of Port Moresby, wlm is at p: technically on leave in Sydne;

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[?]NG Could Save [?]00,000 its Rice Bill

[CE from the East, which last September was held in Papua r Guinea ports as a “prohibited 3rt” may be permitted into the itory if Australian rice interests lot bring Australian rice down to impetitive price. leaking on the subject of rice jrtation at the March meeting ;he P-NG Legislative Council, John Gunther, Director of th in the Territory, said: here has been a great increase le price of rice since 1941, and Territory has been aware that Australian trade at one time at an export price far in excess le home market price, but as trade at that stage had a >poly, the Territory had to )t it ... It was fair that this ralian Territory should give ity to the Australian trade, we expected to receive con ation in nrice . . . but despite ,ts that P-NG would seek its on the world markets unless Australian price became com ve, the Australian trade re ed adamant. The position has arrived where the Territory imer can no longer be used to lise the Australian industry.” - difference between the price istern and Australian rice is £25 to £3O per ton; as P-NG ts 15,000 tons per annum, this mean a saving of about £300,n the Territory’s rice bill.

Bn shipments of Saigon rice held up in P-NG last Sep r. PIM asked why. The 1 reply was that it was mt Territory policy that only ilian rice be imported.—” ermore, that Australian rice irown, Saigon rice was white f the latter were used for rations, supplementary foods have to be issued. that time there was a dif e of about £3 per ton in the Df Eastern rice in comparison Australian. fdney rice merchant said that igh price of Australian rice ow be largely attributed to rowers who were demanding £35 per ton for unprocessed rice. ydney firm interested in the ;ation of Far Eastern rice to Guinea said the the Admini n announcement was good for them and for consumers, was plenty of high quality astern rice available.

THE high price of Australian rice has always been a mystery to the PIM. In 1952 we tried to investigate the whole set-up and got nowhere —except to form a conviction that the whole thing was a racket.

At that time growers were getting £3O per ton; wholesalers were paying £75 per ton. When we attempted to find out what happened to that £45, we were smartly told to mind our own business—not to “blot our copybook” was the expression used.

If growers now are getting £35 per ton for rice, no doubt they earn it. (It would be interesting to know, in this connection, how much rice-growers in the Territory get for their rice). And we still believe that the exorbitant price of Aus tralian rice is caused by the middle man somewhere along the way between grower and wholesaler.

New Native Ration Scale

Dr. Gunther said that Australian brown rice was of high quality, well packed, with good keeping qualities. Some of the samples of Eastern rice which he had seen were rubbish, and unfit for con sumption. Badly packed and un dried rice would have poor keeping qualities. Importers would have to be on their guard or they might be faced with a wastage which could cancel out the whole of the price differential.

Dr. Gunther said also that changes in the native ration scale would be introduced shortly.

White rice would be deleted from the scale entirely and would be replaced by “processed rice” —a vitamin enriched product that was obtainable from the East and could be processed in Australia.

The new scale would also define “brown rice” and add another staple—baked pearled wheat which was as nutritious as rice although native labour might be inclined to reject it at first.

Australia’s Bid to Retain

p. 33

NG Trade

APRIL 4; Pirn was informed to day, by a representative of the Rice Mill Owners’ Association that that association had offered rice to Papua-New Guinea at “a very low price” in order to hold the monopoly of the P-NG rice market. The Association is awaiting the reaction of the Administrator of P-NG to its proposals.

At the same time we received the following despatch from our Port Moresby correspondent.

“The Australian rice trade in late March offered to reduce the price of Australian rice sold to New Guinea.

“Representatives of the Rice Mill

Owners’ Association of Australia told the Department of Territories at a conference that millers would re duce the price from £B3 a ton to £72, but no further.

“The Territories Department for warded the offer to Port Moresby for decision by the Administrator, Brigadier D. M. Cleland. Despite the reduction, there is still a big difference between Australian and world prices for rice.” (No comment on the above is necessary—except to say that while most employers of labour in P-NG would prefer to patronise Australia rather than the East, if Australia can compete on a reasonable basis, most of them will wonder why the Australian middlemen have so sud denly found that they can afford to sell their rice at £ll per ton less than they have been doing).

Two German deaconesses, Sisters Lydia Mohring and Elizabeth Kessler, arrived in Australia at the end of March on their way to Tari, in the highlands of central Papua They trained at the Martha Maria Deaconess Institute, Nuremberg, and underwent a course of study in Lon don in preparation for their mission appointment. At Fremantle they were met by the W. Australian secretary of the Methodist Overseas Missions (the Rev. A. Crookes Hull) and Mrs. Crookes Hull.

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Value to Australia

p. 35

Pim Is Challenged On

Value to Australia of New Hebrides

By a Special Correspondent

r DO not agree with your summary [ of the position in the New Hebrides —namely, your conten :on that that archipelago has no conomic future so long as the bndominium continues. I think it i of importance to the future of ustralia in the South Pacific that ustralian interests should be en mraged to go into this Territory, ad develop its rich resources.

The old days of the “Pande tonium” (governmental confusion id total lack of guidance for pri ite enterprise) have gone. In their ead has come prosperity—and a iry real prosperity—which is based i the rich soil of these islands.

The economy of the New Hebrides lands is now a very viable one, ised on copra, coffee and cocoa, ining of rich manganese deposits 111 shortly come into the picture: file, in the southern islands, there an active timber industry, run ’ Australians.

Co-operation, with some slight itional bias, is the order of the y between French and British, it there is competition in trading the Burns Philp interests seem to doing well, and are forcing the ench traders to keep prices within asonable limits.

There are 50,000 natives in this oup, and there have been interest l changes in recent decades. In 30, no less than one-third of all ese natives had spent a year or )re as plantation labourers in leensland, and the British indu ce was marked. Except for a mere ndful of officials, all the British the group are Australians; and th directly, and indirectly through Presbyterian and Anglican issions, they have maintained a od relationship with the natives, d that pro-British sentiment still marked.

FTER seeing the extensive i plantations, the bustling ship ping, and other signs of isperity, I cannot accept that .tement in the PIM recently that Jre has been no development of w Hebrides’ natural resources ce the World War I. phe Administration staff is small, t it is more than “a skeletonised ministration.” The Joint Court is ictioning at intervals, and its staff efficient. [he Australian Government hich, about 1906, fell heir to 1,000 acres of New Hebrides land, jueathed to it by the late Sir mes Burns and allied interests) s ceased to maintain a solicitor in a; but the need for this really

has passed Many of the land titles have been issued. When a solicitor is required, he is sent to New Hebrides from Australia.

The Tonkinese are not now the menace you have suggested. They are heading outwards, for Haiphong and Hanoi, as fast as they can book passages—I believe the number re maining in New Hebrides is down to 900.

There is a shortage of labour in the group, but it seems to be to some extent correcting itself. The residents of New Caledonia, who own many of the properties here, are not anxious that the immigra tion of Asiatics should be en couraged. They (the New Cale donians) now are looking for labour towards Wallis Island.

Editorial Note

THE well-informed comments of our correspondent embrace opinions which are not neces sarily those of the PIM.

Settlers in the New Hebrides have advantages (notably, better trans portation, no income taxation, little interference with private e ? t< r£ prise) which are denied those of the adjoining Solomofts Islands Territory. Nonetheless, there is nothing much in the over-all picture in the New Hebrides to encourage new settlement and enterprise. Lack of a labour supply is a very serious factor.

The British Administration is too

small, too remote, too disinterested and too ill-equipped financially to be of any real help or encourage ment to settlers. According to re port, the French Administration is more helpful. But neither can be expected to either actively assist new people to make their homes in these very attractive and rich islands, or to create conditions which would encourage suitable im migration.

The reasons for the lack of de velopment of this fine archipelago over the last 50 years have not changed.

It is generally believed that if no politico-economic partnership with the French in New Hebrides were involved, Australia would extend her Papua-New Guinea administration over Solomons and New Hebrides, to the great relief of the British Colonial Office and the British tax payer.

But Australia will not enter into a New Hebrides Condominium with France. One cannot blame Aus tralia for that.

The French, socially, are among the world’s most charming and agreeable people. But, politically, they are a pain in the neck. Aus tralia has had few contacts with the French in the Pacific—in the South Pacific Commission, for ex ample. No one can claim that they are happy contacts.

Australia, economically, is to-day almost bursting at the seams. Well endowed private enterprise, seeking opportunities, may move into the New Hebrides, as our correspondent suggests. But, if the dual control over New Hebrides could be replaced with something more workable, that trickle of private enterprise into one of Australia’s nearest and richest Tslands neighbours could become a torrent.

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p. 36

Coconut Fibre to Be Produced Again in N. Guinea

ANOTHER attempt to produce coconut fibre fcir commercial use is to be made in New Britain —but it will not be the first fibre produced in NG, as an article in the Sydney Morning Herald stated in March.

Credit for the establishment of this industry goes to Mr. Richard Gault. About six years ago Mr.

Gault discussed with Mr H w.

Green, of the Islands firm of Robert Gillespie Pty. Ltd. the commercial possibilities of various small in dustries. Desiccated coconut and coconut fibre were selected as two worth trying.

A desiccated coconut plant was established—then came the typhoid infection incident which closed down all desiccated coconut production in Papua-New Guinea. Attention was then turned by Mr. Gault and Gillespies, to a fibre industry.

Four years ago a New Hebrides firm which had purchased coconut fibre processing machinery and com menced operations, went into liquida tion and their machinery was pur chased by John Lawler & Sons Pty.

Ltd., of Sydney, who, as previous purchasers of the entire output of the mill, were keen to see production expanded to meet the demands of their mattress manufacturing in dustry. This did not eventuate.

Mr. Gault and Gillespies pur chased this machinery and shipped it to Rabaul in January, 1955. Meanwhile, Mr. Gault had also purchased fibre decorticating machinery formerly in use by Aus

tralian Fibres Ltd., which closed its Kokopo plant in 1953.

The new industry is now being operated by Mr. Gault and Robert Gillespie Pty. Ltd. An arrangement has been made, however, whereby John Lawler & Sons Pty. Ltd. will receive supplies of coconut fibre as payment for the machinery taken over from them.

The SMH article implied that John Lawler was operating the plant in NB, which is not so.

The article was also misleading in other respects. The mill will have an initial output of about 40 tons of fibre per month, and at the end of 18 months it may have worked up to its maximum capability of 120 tons per month. The plant will cer tainly not be “semi-portable,” as sug gested.

At present Australia is importing about 20,000 tons of fibre per annum from Ceylon, the present landed cost being £45 to £5O per ton. The new Rabaul plant, using a different process to that employed in Ceylon, will turn out a better quality pro duct.

THIS will not be the first coconut fibre industry to operate in New Guinea, as the newspaper article implied. Such an industry probably existed in German times; and in the 30’s W. R. Carpenter & Co. was pro ducing fibre at its Pondo, New Britain, mill. Australian Fibres Ltd. operated at Kokopo after the war.

Some of the problems met with by the Kokopo organisation were explained by Mr. Les Clark, formerly of that company. The mill was located too far from its sources of supply, its output was too small to be economic; drying of the husks was a major problem, and a high

freight rate on the finished produc was the final blow.

Mr. Clark states that from the be ginning, the freight rate to Sydne l was greatly in excess of the rat applying to fibre imported fror Ceylon. Then came the Bulolo fir while that ship was discharging i.

Sydney in late 1951. The shippini company investigators reached th conclusion (with which Mr. Clar disagreed), that spontaneous com bustion in a shipment of fibre wa the cause. Freight rates on fibre wer subsequently increased 100 per cent.

Prior to that, however, it has be come evident that a £4,000 kil dryer would be required to dry th fibre before it was baled.

The company was purchasin husks as they lay on the ground i the plantations. In New Britain damp climate these were invariabl saturated when brought in to th mill. Sundrying could not be don satisfactorily, and the fibre coul not be baled damp.

Mr. Clark considers that any com pany operating in that area wi have to contend with the dryin problem. However, the new compan is satisfied that it will be able t meet all the problems and delive its produce at an economic price.

More Japs In Hiding

p. 36

WHEN four Japanese soldie surrendered themselves to tl Dutch authorities in Hollandi Dutch New Guinea, last Octoh (they were recently repatriate aboard the Jananese mortuary sh which visited New Guinea —s< elsewhere this issue) most peop believed that they were the last the Jap troops still in hiding sm the Pacific War.

However, at the beginning April it was reported from Mani that military aircraft had dropp« leaflets over Lubang Island, miles from that port, urging Japs known to be in hiding thei to give themselves up.

Still in possession of their rustii rifles, but with their uniforms loi since worn out, the men are said be dressed in animal skins and a. led by a fanatical Imperial Guar' officer who will not let the m» believe that the war is over.

A Japanese mission, using a higl powered amplifier system, has far unsuccessfully tried to persua the party to surrender.

IT Mr. J. G. Smith, a Brisba:, barrister, has been appointed Pub.

Service legal officer in Papua-Ne Guinea. He will represent tl Crown in court hearings. M.

Smith and their three children w live at Port Moresby.

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p. 37

[?]Ap Poachers

Ire A Factor:

The Future of Fiji’s Pearl-Button Industry

lIHEN Mr. A. G. McCown visited f? Suva in March it was rumoured that he was planning to move is pearl button factory to that city om its present location in Levuka, i Ovalau Island.

Mr. McCown was non-committal, it he admitted that his location i Levuka sometimes caused trans lation difficulties.

One other difficulty which might ■ solved easier with a shift to Suva mid be the availability of skilled aftsmen from overseas for the anufacture of the button rpsidue to costume jewellery, etc. Skilled ;hnicians for this trade, like any tier, are scarce. They might be ghtly less scarce if they had to e in Suva rather than out-of-the iy Levuka.

Mthough Mr. McCown has all the ichinery necessary for this part the industry, so far lack of crafts n has forced him to concentrate ly on button making for which al labour is adequate.

Juttons made from a natural aki-coloured shell found in Fiji ters are popular and so far the entry of Japan into the button de and the consequent high price which trochus shell has soared, i had little effect on his market. before he began production he ested about £15,000 in trochus 11 at a time when it was only to £BO per ton on the open rket. His factory is still working that shell; and, in addition, he over half-a-dozen launches of own which are employed in thus fishing in Fiji waters. t present the open market price rochus is about £A4OO per ton— nee at which Japan, thorn in flesh of all button producers, 5 only about one-quarter of her urements. is calculated that for the re aing three-quarters of her needs manufacturers pay no more i £5O. This is achieved simply fle poaching and plundering of mese fishing fleets that have i seen everywhere in the SW fle in the last 18 months.

UHderstood that the men on ■: Ships receive a wage equivalent bout 7 dollars per month. In tion they get a bonus of seven Lr . s f or every ton of shell they he mothpr-rhip transports shell so poached back to Japan ibout 14 dollars a ton. The bulk ipanese requirements are there landed there for a ridiculously sum and as a result Japanese

manufacturers are prepared to pay a fantastically high price for the comparatively small amount of shell that cannot be poached.

Basically it is a problem of hungry mouths and population pressure: Japan has got to export cheap goods or go hungry.

However, other button manufac turers who are likely to be forced out of business by Japanese methods are not likely to take that academic view. They are more likely to feel that if a country like Japan, with so few natural resources, does not voluntarily put a brake on its dis astrous fecundity, the products of such indiscriminate breeding deserve to starve. And there is something to be said for that view.

Grim Liquor Problem

p. 37

Stressed In Nc

From Our Noumea Correspondent NOUMEA, April 1 CHARGED with stabbing her lover to death while she was under the influence of drink, a Loyalty Islands woman was sentenced at Noumea to three years’ gaol.

During the hearing of the case, the Procureur of the Republic (Attorney-General) strongly at tacked France’s greatest social problem—the excessive comsump tion of alcohol.

A grim picture was painted of the consequences of the evil in France as well as in New Caledonia.

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APRIL, 1355 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Fiji Pineapples Are

p. 39

Lautoka Cannery

Will Close

Fiji Pineapples Are “Uneconomic”

WHEN the Colonial Sugar Refining

Company pineapple cannery

doses down at the end of the 1955-56 packing season, Fiji will be without I cannery for the first time in about i quarter century.

The announcement in March by ;he CSR that it intends closing lown its cannery at Lautoka, Fiji, las had a disquieting effect upon he commercial life of the com munity.

In the past twenty years Fiji has een little progress in extending the ange of its primary or secondary ndustries. Its eggs are still arried in too few baskets.

The quality of the Fiji canned ineapples was generally considered verseas to be excellent, and in New iealand, particularly, there was a ood demand.

A Fijian resident who recently impled Malayan pineapples in ondon said that in comparison ith the Fijian product they tasted like cooked turnips.”

On the production side, the com any had its own land. It had

workshops and engineers available at the sugar mill to carry out any repairs; it had chemists, soil con trol, and men well experienced in agriculture. It also had the raw sugar. As one business man des cribed the situation: “If the CSR cannot make a go of it, nobody can.”

Apart from the announcement that it found the industry “un economic”, the company has given no detailed reasons why it will cease operations with the 1955-56 pack.

Probably one factor in the de cision is that the industry is merely seasonal, and except for a few months of the year the capital re presented by the idle canning plant is unproductive, A deciding factor may have been the failure of CSR experiments in pineapple growing on Vanua Levu. These had been going on for some time, but were abandoned as unsuccessful last year.

If pineapple growing in this area had been possible, this may have taken the place of the area ad jmning the CSR pineapple planta tions at Nadi which would have been the logical area of expansion had it not been for the fact that the land was used for establishing Fiji’s international airport.

The successful pineapple planta tions and cannery established in Ovalau by Mr. A. G. McCown in the early 30’s were later sold to a British company, soon ran into diffi

culties and closed down.

A similar late overtook several other companies which entered the industry. Nonetheless, it has shocked Fiji to learn that the powerful CSR company, after an interest in the industry extending back almost 20 years, is also preparing to quit the field.

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The P-NG Servant Problem

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Port Moresby, March 28.

JUST how great are the difficulties of obtaining efficient servants in Papua-New Guinea these days was emphasised at the Legislative Council meeting in Port Moresby in March, when one of the three native members, Simogun, had a few words to say about it.

Simogun, speaking in Pidgin, got up to draw the Council’s attention to the need for more native coconut planting, and pointed out the Morobe district as an example ot what was being done in the way of native economic development.

And then came the sting.

Simogun said he would also like to mention that the house made available in Port Moresby for the native Council members was in a disgusting conditio n—in parts shockingly dirty. The laundry, he said, “stinks.”

And the “individual” allotted to

the members as a personal servant seemed incompetent, and had dis appeared for the last two days, so the members had done the work themselves.

Simogun suggested that if Port

Moresby did not have any good se vants, then perhaps it would be good idea to get some from N Guinea.

Simogun’s complaint brought soi action. He reported next morni

hat things at the house were good."

A District Services official later •ported, although not to the Coun 1, that it was interesting to note lat the missing servant was, in ict, a Chimbu (from NG High nds). (Simogun continues to be the ‘rsonality man of the Legislative )uncil. When he gets up to speak ere is is an air of expectancy out the Council chambers because lat he thinks and believes he ys, and begs no one’s pardon. He more often with the Europeans an against them, but he has no aggerated respect for them, or for b Government. He speaks in igin and what he had to say out the house was no doubt an c of its kind. To say something inks finish” in Pidgin if, of course, b the vulgarity it is in straight ghsh—it is a plain term cover a plain state of affairs from an r-ripe paw-paw to the unsatis tory state of the drains.)

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C Nicke Mining

S an Indication of the size of its smelting programme, the Nickel Co. at Noumea has signed a itract with the Pentecote group mines (at Kouaiou, on the NC t coast) providing for delivery :he Nickel Co. this year of 150,000 s with an average nickel content I pc. ctivity in the Kouaiou region is t in full swing after a quiescent od. Bulldozers and “traxcavators” working at extraction of the from open-cuts. The mineral is *ied 20 kilometres along a new 1 to the sea, where a 250-metres ess belt conveyor is planned to I ships in a couple of hours, ut 200 workers are employed at installations. tie Pentecote group has opened a mine on the west coast. The mt—about 5,000 tons of low le nickel ore monthly—will travel dlometres by lorry to be loaded Japanese ships for Japan. The shipment is scheduled for I. ie Nickel Co.’s administration icil in Paris will shortly ask the eholders to increase the com fs capital from 984 million to 1 million francs. (It is presumed cs) ese are French Metropolitan Janwhile, the NC administration Jd recently that the country’s J ral riches are gradually dis anng. About 10 million tons of ore have been exported. (Most of 6 pc content but some ship s fl a X e been as rich as 11 pc.) ould have been politic to slow i the rate of export in past

years, and now, when there is a nickel boom, it is necessary to curb the draining away of the country’s basic wealth. In future, export licences will be granted only to those contracts which have official approval, and exports will be no richer than 3.5 pc.

Application of this ruling will be general, but exceptions might be made after study by the authorities. —Noumea Correspondent.

A .recent survey shows that the Territory of Hawaii now has thirteen ™P da / d . broadcastin g stations, three FM stations, and three television stations, in addition to hundreds of commercial telephone and telegraph stations.

Sere to establishSp 1 tJ 6

p. 41

Mr. Ff. J. Lahore Leaves

Suva

mHE new mnnao-Pr nf I br£S manager of the Suva cL ~i aR £ n *s® Australian and Mr. w - c - G Roberts, Lahore, been transferred to Brisbane as manager of Head Office there The bank’s eeneral manager (Mr. H. T. D. Willilmson) paid a brief visit to Fiji at the end of March J ena Mr i oVmro’c is reeretted bv d jfS a l£l?s«£ On J ?i J 1 Fiii rnmmimifv iiSSl 0 th !

Sere to establishSp 1 tJ 6

S w ™ n h Bank came oar? of thp’ h hii3« lCky be^ came part of the business and social me of Suva.

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Face Formidable Task

pp. 43-45

They Lack Basic

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TNG Students at Suva Medical School Face Formidable Task

The second Largest racial group amongst students enrolled this year at the Central Medical School, Suva, is the 25 young men from the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

IIJIAN students top the numbers poll with 48; in addition there are 19 Fiji-Indians; 11 from estern Samoa; 12 from the Cook lands; one from Nauru; three 3m the New Hebrides; 12 from stern Samoa; four from Tonga; ree from the US Trust Territory; jht from the BSIP; one from Ibert and Ellice Islands, and three >m Niue.

Df the thirteen P-NG lads who re sent to the CMS this year, 10 J in a preliminary class of 12 uch is being intensively coached English and mathematics, with ne preliminary science, in the pe that by 1956 some of the dents will be fit to begin medical dies.

"he following observations and tuctions with regard to the P-NG dents are my own and not those the staff of the School in Suva, ey are based on some knowledge the Territory, and on courteous

but sometimes non-committal answers to inquiries I made a jew weeks ago at the school in Suva.

No one at the school appears to know on what basis P-NG chooses its CMS students, but my own guess is that they simply choose the best available in the hope that Suva will be able to perform a miracle that so far P-NG has been unable to perform for itself. The fact that 10 out of this year’s 13 are now studying English explains clearer than a volume of words, the in adequacies of the P-NG native education system to fit students for advanced studies. The other three who were enrolled at Suva this year and are not in the preliminary class are probably taking the less exacting courses, such as sanitation, public health, Qtc.

The principal of the school—who is far more optimistic than I—thinks that by the end of 1955 six or eight of these boys now in the preliminary

class may be able t 0 begin First Year of the Assistant Medical Practitioner course. But he admits battle. How much French do^you know?” he asked me. I admitted to n ° n ? ore »„ t T h^ n , 1 had learned at f ch °A W how would you like to study medicine at a French Uni versity? That is about what it amounts to for these P-NG lads.”

It is probably even worse than that. Our education teaches us to hne up facts and come to a con other words, to reason, With NG education m its present 4 a S e > most of these native people simply regard education as a series of Euclid’s self-evident facts-to be swallowed whole, and as an end in

itself. In other words, they have learned parrot-fashion and not by reasoning. with little preliminary warning, 37 Micronesian students from the US Trust Territory suddenly arrived at the CMS; in 1952, 13 more came. Few of these had adequate English and, like the NG lads, had to go through the preliminary classes But "in the last graduating class the two top students of the year were Micronesians. They are de scribed as “not brilliant” in the full sense of that word, but so keen and so determined to apply the knowledge that they had, that they overcame all obstacles.

Students entering the school from Fiji are required to have passed the Senior Cambridge examination— which is roughly equivalent to Aus tralian Leaving Certificate standard.

How many students in Papua-New Guinea could even attempt such an examination? Judging by the fact that 10 of this year’s batch of P-NG students had to go to the prelim inary class at the CMS I think I am pretty safe in saying nil.

THREE are about 2 million natives in Papua and New Guinea, all in need of the kind of help pro vided by AMP’s. Graduating NG students from the CMS, for many years to come, will therefore be a

tiny drop in the vast stream of P-NG requirements. Is it of any value, then, that this token number of young men should go to Suva and struggle through the course?

In spite of the uphill fight that they have in order to graduate, and in spite of the inadequate way in which they have been prepared for the experiment in their own Terri tory, I still think it is.

These present students can make

little impact on the solution medical difficulties in their o< country, but the people who run t School in Suva are as much terested in turning out success; human beings as they are in tui ing out successful professional mi and in this way the P-NG men v develop a pride in themselves, their school and in their race, wh. is hard for them to do in th own country where race prejudice

[reater than it ever has been in Iji. They rub shoulders with other •acific Islanders, more socially and olitically advanced than they, but i an atmosphere where the tnphasis is on self-discipline and jrvice. They are guided by men ho not only are medical men and icturers, but who believe in the chool and bring to the solution of s problems, full missionary zeal.

The lads, no matter from whence ley come or how few have been leir advantages, are welcomed into le student body and made to feel part of it. Their material com rts are well taken care of in the sw school on the heights above iva where they live, attend their ;tures and laboratory work, and joy adequate recreation. [n the last three years of their arse, half their time is spent in actical work in the local hospitals. rhere is only one drawback to IS training for P-NG boys that I a see—and this applies also to ;ir own fellows from the other acationally backward Territories New Hebrides and BSlP—and it is the long years that the irse takes. The AMP course has v been extended to five years— -1 added to this the lads with in quate education have at least one .r, sometimes more, in the pre inary class. Six years is a long le in the lives of these young pie. *robably the best contribution *G can make to the success of CMS scheme is to get on with business of plain sensible educa i of its masses of children, and eave all the fancy window-dress for UNO for a couple of genera ls hence. The difficulties are nendous— everyone is prepared to nt that. However, the fact re ns that after over 70 years in iua and over 40 years in New nea, the Australian administra obviously cannot produce one uan or New Guinea student who capable of passing a Leaving tificate examination. * * * > I have said, no one in Suva could—or woald—tell me how P-NG chose its CMS students I did see some of the general pledge papers that the School P-NG contenders for CMS Durs. lere were about two dozen tions and many of the answers 1 hilarious—or pitiful, depend upon the way you looked at it. any of the questions were left iswered but many who did at )t to answer proved only that, he average P-NG youth, the a outside his village is still a and book. I forget most of the tions, and their answers but i are some I do remember:

• T r° tJ i e que . s f tio ? ‘‘9 n which river is London situated? one student answered “Nile.” Another said it was “on the land.” (Which I thought showed good commonsense, anyhow; I hope this StUdent got in ) o ° ne student said the present ? rlme Minister of the United King- Eli^hefh^ 6 " 216 ’’ Another - Queen Elizabeth.

One answer to “What is the laree Pacific Island, one half of which is administered by Holland and the by AUStralia '” was h the letters UNO

“United "Nations 6 Ohto”

uniiea nations Ohio, was one

answer. Another candidate thought it meant “United Nations October.”

However, in case Fiji should get too puffed up about its scholastic attainments by comparison, I was given these three genuine howlers which turned up in school examina tions (nothing to do with the Central Medical School) last year: Question: Name the two people who climbed Mt. Everest. Answer: Queen Elizabeth and Ratu Mara.

Question: Who is the present Commissioner of Police in Fiji?

Answer: Black Maria.

Question; Name two ways in which flowers are pollinated.

Answer: Butterflies and INCEST.

The capital letters are mine.

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ITOMEN in Tonga, led by Queen t Salote, are moving towards a general improvement in hous ig, hygiene and diet, said Mrs. ecomb, wife of the Rev. H. W. jcomb, principal of Tupou Boys’

Dllege, in a Melbourne Herald in rview. Mrs. Secomb, who spent uch of her childhood in Tonga, is been visiting her parents at elbourne, in company with her isband and their three children.

Conditions in some Tong an lages are very poor, and Queen Jote has asked church organisa ms to help, said Mrs.. Secomb. kt the same time conditions for ngan women have greatly im wed in recent years and a travel g baby health centre—a well lipped van operated by a Euro m sister and two Tongan sisters s doing valuable work.

Joth State and Church, in Tonga, re many plans for general social terment. The limiting factor is k; of finance. frs. Secomb’s father, Dr. A. H od, principal of the Methodist Lies’ College, Hawthorn, was nerly principal of Tupou College.

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AUSTRALIAN Minister for Terri tories Hasluck scolded like an irascible grandmother when n Port Moresby recently, he was asked whether the people of Papua and New Guinea were likely to be given a larger voice in the government. (At present, the Dual Territmr has a Legislative Council, on which there are 15 Ex-Officio members, 9 members nominated by the Admin istrator. and 3 elected members. The Council has little power—the Ad ministration has complete authority over it, both in the overwhelming number of official members, ana in the power of veto.) “Public apathy to the recent Terri tory elections was so great and showed such an unwilling desire to shoulder political responsibility that, at present, there is no prima facie case for giving the people mpre rep resentation on the Council,” Mr.

Hasluck said.

He continued in this strain for some time. He pointed out that Mr. E. A. James was elected un opposed, while only 530 out of a possible 1,135 voted in the other two electorates.

What inducement is there for residents in the Territories to take

any real interest in the Council, when they know that the Council can be over-ridden at all times and at any time by high officialdom?

The non-official residents have many reforms they wish to suggest, and many grievances they should like examined; but the Council, be ing without any authority, is of no help to them in those respects.

Furthermore, the limited electoral machinery that is provided is so cumbersome in character that a considerable proportion of people, who might like to vote, are auto matically shut out. t A new note in advertising films is struck by Holbrooks on Parade, pro duced by Mr. Eric Porter. This colour cartoon, which presents Hol brook bottled and tinned goods as characters, with Host Holbrook com manding the parade, has a back ground of specially prepared music.

It will be screened throughout Aus tralia, Papua and New Guinea. fl Mr G. H. V. Newman, Brisbane, who has been appointed manager of the Bank of NSW head office at Sydney, has worked for the bank in NZ and Fiji. He joined in 1922.

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From Our Suva Correspondent SUVA, March 3C A NUMBER of brand new tm just off the wharf were parU for the night outside a gars in Walu Bay, Suva’s new industi area. Several men worked energy cally removing the batteries wi the Punjabi night watchman can out his job of night-watchii thankful that he could sit wi others worked overtime.

The overtime, however, was the workers. They gathered their batteries and stole siler into the night in a waiting tm Next morning the watchman ported what he had seen and c covered it was a nice clean pi of thieving carried out boldly e successfully.

The manufacturers of th particular batteries have cea putting serial numbers on th product, which should make disposal of the batteries mi easier. fl Mr. and Mrs. Neville C. H Conachie, who were married at Bi bane on March 19, were schedu to go to Fiji early in April. : McConachie will work as an ■ gineer with the CSR Company.

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JJPONSORED by the South Pacific f Commission, a grassland survey ;am in mid-March completed its irvey of New Guinea, New !aledonia and Fiji.

The survey was an Indication of le importance attached to pasture nds as a factor in the economy of le larger islands, and especially ■om the viewpoint of providing od for their increasing populations.

The team included Dr. A. Kroon, ntch executive head of the Com ission’s economic section; Mr. A. T. imple, Range Management jecialist, Animal Production anch, FAO, Rome; and two Aus ilians, Dr. R. W. Phillis, CSIRO ,nd Research and Regional Survey ction, Canberra: and Mr. W. W. yan, CSIRO Plant and Soils boratory, Brisbane. Dr. Semple is thor of “Improving the World’s ■asslands,” compiled with the iistance of 77 experts, under the spices of the Food and Agricul •al Organisation, a UN Agency. fhe team studied the situation in i various territories, and as a ult of their work SPC will make :ommendations to the adminis tions on how the situation might improved. n the past, efforts have been acted mainly towards the intro :tion of pedigree stock to improve strains in the Islands, but it is v being realised that there is no at in spending big money on iable stock if the right kinds of ler grasses are not available for tn. ven where suitable grasses are iblished, they often suffer from management. For example, the may be lacking in certain trace tients. In such circumstances a and money could be wasted in mpting to establish new grasses tre soil deficiencies had been m care of. here are many such problems to investigated, but it is certain that k production as an important i of protein food can be greatly mded in many of the larger ids from New Guinea to the quesas if the problems are led by the separate administra s. r. Robert H. McEwin, manager the Kauri Timber Co. at Vani , BSIP, for the last eight years, med to Australia in March. In tj 9 n to his timber job, Mr. win was also (unpaid) customs port health officer, postmaster meteorological officer at Vani

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Current News Items From Our Correspondents

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In Papua-New Guinea

Native Liquor Ordinance

Strongly Opposed

Public opinion in the Territory, if (ou can judge by the statements of rarious organisations, is over whelmingly against the Native Liquor )rdinance amendments which give he Administrator the authority to ssue permits to certain natives to iuy and consume intoxicating drink.

Most outspoken are public and irivate bodies in New Britain—the [ew Britain District Advisory Coun il, the Rabaul and Kokopo Town idvisory Councils, the Rabaul Sub tranch of the RSL, and all except ne of the religious bodies.

More than half the inmates in le Rabaul Gaol are natives serv ig sentences for drinking liquor, mple evidence that avenues of pur lase of liquor are not hard to find.

Police on District Services raids i sing-sings invariably mean Tests for drinking. One sing-sing i the Kokopo area early in March elded a bag of 17 offenders, all of nom were given six-months gaol rms.

Despite the stiff penalties, there is been no noticeable decrease in is phase of “crime.”

A member of the Kokopo Town Ivisory Council suggested that

foreign seamen who paid for native women with liquor instead of cash were a major source of supply.

A few Chinese have been con victed of selling liquor to natives and sentenced to short prison terms, but the local under-staffed and overworked police force seldom secures sufficient evidence to bring malefactors before a court.

Drunken Driver In Fatal

Accident

Recently a native named Totil was sentenced at Rabaul to 12 months imprisonment for man slaughter.

Totil was the driver of a jeep in volved in a collision with another jeep. Of the two native passengers in the other jeep, one man had his right leg amputated above the knee.

Totil, who admitted being drunk at the time of the accident, was un injured. He ran away from the scene of the accident but gave him self up to the police next day.

As a result of inquiries, four other natives who had been drink ing with Totil on the day of the accident were each sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. One of them was the president of the Reimber Native Village Council

Though incidents like this greatly strengthen the argument against native drinking, it must be allowed that they are not a common occur ence.

There is a section of the Euro pean community, many of them thinking people in responsible posi tions, who have been in the country long enough to understand the native, who believe the only solu tion to the problem is the issuing of liquor permits to approved natives.

It is undeniable that, short of prohibiting the import of liquor into the Territory, natives will always find someone willing to supply them with it. On this basis of fact the “pros” parry the attack of the non supporters.

What if the native privileged to drink gets drunk? Why shouldn’t he get drunk, say the “pros.” in a democratic country where the law deals alike with all persons, irrespec tive of colour, why should one section enjoy “advantages” not allowed to others? (Over)

What if the drunken native causes trouble? Punish him and revoke his licence to drink.

And, being unable to drink legally, what is to prevent his buying his drink outside the regular channels?

The supervision exercised by those who have not abused the privilege granted them will do it, claim the “pros.”

To the argument of the RSL that implementation of the Native Liquor Ordinance would seriously endanger the welfare of the families of ex servicemen, the supporters of the Ordinance reply that this is an as sumption which only fair trial could prove right or wrong.

Of all the queries, the one un answerable is: “What good will it do the native ”

Native Liquor Question At

Port Moresby

The Territories Minister (Mr. Paul Hasluck) during his March visit to Papua, attended a meeting of the Hanuabada Native Council in Port Moresby to give the councillors an opportunity to fire a few questions to him.

Among other things, the natives asked if they could have permission to drink. They said they felt there should be some system introduced enabling selected natives to have a drink occasionally without being gaoled for it. and suggested that this could be done by establishing

a club and allowing selected natives to drink on the premises.

Mr. Hasluck had no direct answer, but said that the liquor question was complex and was being looked into.

Anyway, it seems to be another phase in native progress when councillors pluck up courage enough to ask the Minister himself.

The council was also concerned with the cost of living at Hanua bada, and asked that wages be in creased in line with the higher liv ing costs. They said Hanuabada

natives had a tougher time becau they had to buy from the stores, i stead of growing food.

The Minister was given an e ample of how Administration wag for natives were lower than tho paid by many private firms.

Fatal Shark Attack

A native was fatally mauled a shark at Loani, opposite Samar in March. The boy was wading waist-deep water when he was t tacked about the thigh, and d: before anything could be done ; him.

£2O Fine For Canings

A £2O fine (£lO on each of two harges) was imposed at the Rabaul 'ourt on March 17 on Father Stephen White, a Roman Catholic tiissionary of Vunadadir Mission, tear Rabaul. The prosecution barged Father White with assault, tating that he had caned two lative schoolgirls, aged 17 and 18, rom Vunapope mission school. In vidence, Father White said he had ily tapped the girls on the buttocks s a reminder of his instruction ) behave themselves in future.

It a dinner party on March 2, the home in Port Moresby of Police mmissioner and Mrs. C. Normoyle, the engagement was announced of their second [?] Tony, to Miss Dell Holt, of Port [?]resby. The young couple are shown [?]ve.

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Sogeri Road Smash

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in accident on the Sogeri Road, ow Rouna in the Port Moresby a, on March 13, sent nine people hospital, where five were ad ited. It was one of a series of idents which seem to occur on steep Rouna road, as on the d from Wau to Lae, and only Jty fences and similar improve rs are likely to put a stop to toll.

' is a pity that the Administra i is so busy pushing new roads without worrying about making existing roads a little safer. ■ fault does not always lie with driver. he March accident occurred in a utility driven by Harold ucka slid on loose gravel and t over an embankment, over ling twice. Besides the driver, vehicle contained three children five adults, luckily the children ping with little more than tches. Two others, Lloyd icka and Hans Smith, were ad ed to hospital in a serious con >n.

Noic Leaves Manus

It i?, aval offi cer in Charge of North-East Australian Area, at

Manus, performed his last official public duty on March 13 when he took the sal u te at the first ceremonial parade of A Company, PIR, at Manus. The company was recently established at Nutt Point.

Captain Walsh was to be relieved at the end of March after three and half years’ service in the area.

Captain M. J. Clark will take up the appointment.

Praise For Finschhafen

An American woman, Mrs. Mary Ruth Craig, had a lot of pleasant things to say about Finschhafen people when she made a brief visit there in March. She made the trip from her home in California to see the area from which her son, a fighter pilot, was reported missing in 1944. He last took off from the big wartime strip at Finschhafen.

(Continued on Page 113)

Ts. Craig planned the trip after war. When she arrived at schhafen she was shown over area by the ADO and his wife, and Mrs. Bob Bunting, arid srs, and she spoke of the friend -3S with which she was received.

R. Hasluck And The Psa

iiring his visit to Port Moresby Harch, the Minister for Terri es, Mr. Hasluck, would not com ,t on the attack on him by the G Public Service Assn, in re in to the cost-of-living case. He he understood the association planning certain action and it Id be improper for him to make imment. ’he association has stated it will the cost-of-living and salaries ter to arbitration, and it has i obtaining legal advice in Syd on the matter. By late March, ill had not gone to court). hile Mr. Hasluck was in the itory on his current trip he did speak to any association officials tie blow-up, nor did the associa seek an interview with him. feeling among association mem is “Arbitrate or Nothing.” Gen opinion is that the court is the means of deciding the issue be l doubt. tere is no doubt that even if Minister put forward another ■ it would be rejected out of 1 by the association, which feels tiis case that it has all Terri public servants behind it. le feeling in some of the out ons is even more explosive, and bers there are pressing the as ition council for quick action, le upset over wages is easily the ;st yet to hit the Territory, and rcussions are likely for a long yet. Mr. Hasluck is meanwhile i with an unhappy service in la New. Guinea.

Milne Bay Tremors

to earth tremors rocked Esa-Ala, le Milne Bay district, in early ;h. le first occurred at 7 pm on 'h 9, and the second shortly be -3 am the following morning, reported that there was little age. e Administration vulcanologist, leynolds, is preparing to take the available aircraft from Bougain to Manus to make another in ;ion of the submarine volcano ;. Andrew Strait. Tuluman, the mo which sprang out of the last year, has been in violent tion for several weeks, test news from the area is that main crater is now quiet, but south cone has become the °f the most violent eruptive ity yet seen. rly on March 8, a succession of >sions rocked Baluan as fiery

geysers of moulten material were thrown thousands of feet into the air. Brilliant flashes from the crater turned night into day.

Native villages on nearby Bam Island, south-east of Tuluman, are being deluged with pumice dust, which is ruining gardens and seriously affecting water supplies. It is thought that the 150 natives at the island will have to be evacuated.

Meanwhile, Mr. Reynolds has re- P Ol ted some change in temperatures in the Lake Loloru thermal region, in Southern Bougainville. He suggests that the area be kept under observation.

New Traffic Signs

Uniform traffic signs are to be erected throughout Papua and New Guinea.

The signs are being constructed by the Department of Works. They will be painted yellow, with a black border and black lettering.

At present the Territory is riddled with all kinds of road traffic signs, some put up by the Police, some by Town Advisory Councils and others by local district services officers. Most of them are said to be unauthorised.

Manus Shipping Service

Criticised

Mr. Don Barrett, elected member for the New Guinea Islands, criticised

urns Philp’s shipping services to anus Island on his return to abaul from a visit to the base. He limed that Service personnel were it getting regular supplies of fresh od and canteen goods, and sugsted that the Federal Government ould investigate the position.

Mr. Barrett said that service peranel, officers and other ranks ke. alleged that Burns Philp’s had jmised regular services, but had t maintained them. Complaints d been made to the Port Moresby adquarters of the company, he a • . , , , Jr Barrett said that the Navy’s ezer, which supplied all three vices at the Base, was designed cope with regular supplies. When ire were long delays and two vessels ived together, the capacity of the ezer was taxed. It also meant ,t there was a long wait until the :t vessel arrived, and servicemen n had to eat mostly tinned foods.

I realise that tinned goods are Dlesome,” he said, “but they are warranted in peace-time at a e where amenities are few ” t Port Moresby, the general nager of Burns Philp New nea Ltd, (Mr. Frame) described bSTO * as “ ex - [r. Frame said that Burns Philp i Guinea Ltd. had received no [plaints from Service chiefs at

Manus, and, in any case, the New Guinea company did not regulate the shipping services to the island, This was an arrangement between the parent company in Australia and the Navy Board, Mr. Frame said that if there had been any delays recently they would have been due to the conges tion and confusion on the Sydney waterfront, coupled with the heavy rain in February. These circum stances were beyond the control of any shipping company, He emphasised that from time to time the schedules of Burns Philp vessels calling at Manus had been rearranged to suit the requirements of the armed services at Manus,

Highlands Airfield

. . , A tl _. , T £ T e n ® w . airfield at Chimbu, in the ew Guinea Highlands, is almost finished. It crosses the old landing fie i d at its northern end. u Mos . t of , the work was carried out by prison labour.

An application will be made to Department of Civil Aviation within !? e next few weeks for an inspec tion to be made of the new air strl Plong police service A native of the Kikori district with 22 years service in the Royal Papuan and New Guinea con

stabulary died in the native hospital at Port Moresby in March. He was Sgt. Api, of Ravi Kivau village, who had retired from the force in January.

He accompanied his wife to hos pital, became ill at Port Moresby, and was admitted himself.

He was given a Police funeral and was buried at Kila.

Patrol Officer Flown To

Hospital

Two aircraft were pressed into service in March to get an Admin istration patrol officer back to Port Moresby from Kiunga, near the Dutch border, for hospital treat ment.

The planes, a small amphibian owned by Bahamas Helicopters, and a Qantas Catalina, both left Port Moresby at dawn on March 6 after officials had decided against send ing a helicopter because of its limited range. The Catalina, carry ing Dr. Scragg, of Port Moresby, and fuel for the amphibian, fled direct to Lake Murray and waited there for the smaller plane, which had to land at Kikori for fuel for the flight to Lake Murray.

Both planes then flew to Kiunga, where the amphibian landed on a narrow stretch of the Fly River while the Catalina circled overhead Ten minutes after picking up the

patrol officer, J. C. Baker, the am phibian was again in the air, head ing back to Lake Murray, where the patient was transferred to the Cata lina and flown to Port Moresby.

Special permission was granted

for the Catalina to make a night landing on the harbour.

The following day, the Bahama amphibian was out on another mercy flight. As it was returning to Port Moresby, it landed at Middletown, where the pilot and engineer received instructions to rendezvous with an APC launch on the Aramia River to pick up a native woman and fly her to Kikori.

At Port Moresby the Regional Director of Civil Aviation (Mr. J.

Arthur) praised the work of the crews of the two planes which took part in the Kiunga mercy flight.

He said: “The entire operation was a first-class effort on the part of

everyone concerned: I especially

wish to congratulate the pilot and engineer of the small amphibian. Such a rescue in such a small plane, in really heavy weather, was an outstanding effort.”

New Memorial Gates At

Rabaul

The Queen Elizabeth Park memorial gates (Feb. PIM, p. 39) at Rabaul, donated by the New Guinea Women’s Association, have arrived, and the association has sufficient funds to buy two small side gates.

Mr. R. Galloway told a meeting of the Rabaul Town Advisory Coun cil on March 3 that Mrs. Pratt, on behalf of the Association, had written asking for local opinion re garding the opening of the gates.

The council unanimously sup ported a proposal by the District Education Officer (Mr. F. N. Boisen)

that the Administrator be in\ to officially open the memorial g at a date to be arranged betv his Honour and the Park, trusi Mr. Galloway added: "I thihfe should all be happy to wait for representative of the NG Woir Association to come.”

The gates will be a memoria

ie NG civilians who lost their lives iring the Japanese war.

More Trees For Rabaul

After debating the claims of pell phorum trees and rain trees for anting in Kamerere Street (one Rabaul’s barest streets), the rwn Advisory Council decided lanimously on March 3 to plant in trees.

The discussion ended with the [lowing motion by Mr. J. L. lipper; “That wherever possible in unerere Street rain trees be jinted, having in mind the fact it at some future date much more night must be given by the Ad nistration to the locating of wer lines and the effect that such es will have on the beautifica n of the town.” it the same time a motion, pro sed by Mr. N. C. Barry and carried animously, asked the District tnmissioner to obtain information m Australia regarding suitable es for the lining of streets in a pical area.

Native Apprenticeships

’he first Native Apprenticeship strict Committee meeting in the ritory was held at Wau on March when the Wau-Bulolo committee mussed the application of the ;ive apprenticeship scheme to the a. t was agreed that the initial nber of Wau-Bulolo native irentices would probably be at 3t 36, covering such trades as ivial mining, underground min g. driver-mechanic, telephone ;man and baker. As the scheme gressed, the number would in ase. The recommendations of the imittee will be presented at a "ting of the Native Apprenticeship ird scheduled for about the end \pril. Similar district committee "tings are to be held at Port resby, Lae and Rabaul, and, ordmg to the board’s Executive cer. (Mr. A. Linton), the scheme probably be firmly established rtly after the board meeting.

Herican Soldiers Fined

For Free Film Show

lecause American soldiers gave free film show in return for pitality received at Lae, a US ny investigation officer fined m £4O. ’he soldiers were from American as making a survey of the New tain coastal area, and the films e shown in a hall belonging to i. P. Stewart, owner of the Hotel il at Lae. local cinema manager, Mr H rr. complained to Fox Studios, ney, that the soldiers’ free lenmg was “taking away his • The complaint was passed to the American Embassy, which t it to Washington. Washington )rmed US Army Headquarters

at Okinawa, and the investigation officer was flown from Guam.

The officer said that although he had found the complaints to be “completely unfounded”, the soldiers had broken Army regula tions by showing the films outside their ship.

Mrs. Stewart offered to refund the £4O to the soldiers.

Get Tough On Drink

Suppliers

A “get tougher” attitude with suppliers of native liquor was evident in the Port Moresby Court of Petty Sessions on March 28, when a Port Moresby man was fined £lOO for having given a drink of gin to a native.

The Magistrate, Mr. A. O’Driscoll, warned that next time offenders could look forward to a jail sentence.

He said he would be lenient with the offender, William John Dwyer, 52, contractor, in this case, because it appeared that Dwyer did not realise the seriousness of the offence.

The native was a friend of Dwyer’s and he had given him only a couple of nips.

The native, David Bourke, pleaded guilty to drinking and was fined £5.

The Port Moresby fine came only a few days after the proposed amendment to the Native Liquor Ordinance was debated at length in the Legislative Council in Port Moresby.

Dwyer’s £lOO fine came as a shock to some people in Port Moresby,

and no doubt elsewhere. Normally, drink suppliers are fined about £25.

The maximum fine is £2OO.

War Service Homes

The War Services Homes Division of Australia, in late March, opened, its own Territory office, at the Ad ministration centre at Konedobu, in Port Moresby. In future the office

U handle Territory inquiries from ople wanting to build under the ar Service Scheme. It has its n officer, Mr. M. C. McTaggart.

Erritory’S £Lo,Ooo To Nsw

Flood Victims

rhe Territory’s first donation for j NSW Flood Appeal was handed the Administrator, Brigadier D. M. ►land, on April I—a cheque for (,000. rhe cheque was handed over by i president of the Territory Flood ► peal Committee, Mr. John earn, who said that the appeal aid continue until April 15. brigadier Cleland said the Terri es response had been mag ,cent. The £lO,OOO had been col led in less than a month, and 5 an indication of what did occur the Territory in times of emerg y- . feature of the appeal has been large number of donations from ive villages—in some cases con ‘rable sums, that have been wn from the village coffers, he New Guinea native can be a y generous fellow in his own it, and his actions in this case something of an answer to those ► yell, “Exploitation!”

U Can Now Telephone The

Outposts

n important new step in the de pment of the Territory’s com lications system was taken on

April 4 when people in many out stations were able to talk by tele phone to subscribers in the main towns of Port Moresby and Rabaul.

The town subscribers could also put through trunk line calls to anybody at the outstations, so long as radio reception was reasonably good.

The new system links all the out stations working via radio to the zone station at Port Moresby with the normal town telephone system, and similarly at Rabaul. The Director of Posts and Telegraphs, Mr. W. Carter, in giving details of the new system, said that it was hoped that similar arrangements would operate in the other zone areas and that eventually anybody on a phone in the Territory could speak to any other Territory sub scriber.

The system got a test a few days before it officially came into opera tion when somebody wanted urgently to talk to Mendi, roughly in the middle of New Guinea island, from Port Moresby. The reception was excellent.

Administrator To Tour

The Administrator, Brigadier D.

M. Cleland, will begin a tour of New Ireland and Bougainville in late May or early June. The tour will probably take three or four weeks, travelling in the Administrator’s new vessel, Laurahada 11, which is at present being fitted out in Port Moresby.

It should be ready in about a month.

The Laurahada II will have a permanent crew—as master, Cap tain Bill Howard (formerly of the Administration vessel Tami, and now the Leander ), and as engineer V. J. Murray.

U Mr. Norman Deck, who spent more than 30 years in the Solomons with the South Sea Evangelical Mission, and Mr. J. Griffiths, a former director of the mission, have been visiting the mission’s stations in the

Bsip.

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Suva Finds City

Is Not All Joy

From Our Suva Correspondent.

SUVA, March 25.

NOW that the excitement is over, the problems involved in Suva’s elevation to city status, and its extension over the neighbouring peninsula, are becoming generally realised.

During the flag-waving in October, 1953, the former Town Council was naturally pleased with its enhanced dignity, and the Government was doubtless no less pleased to get rid of about 30 miles of indifferently formed roads, passing the buck to the Suva ratepayers.

Neglected maintenance in years when money and labour were cheap has left a backlog of work in the city itself. Many streets and more footpaths are in a bad state. Some busy thoroughfares have no foot oaths, and many roads need widen ing to cope with the fast-increasing flow of traffic. City roads have to be maintained, and the result is that querulous ratepayers in the outer areas engulfed by the city will see little return for their rates for several years.

Certainly a loan has been raised

for street and footpath maintenance and construction, but this will be spent mainly in the inner areas where for many years there has been little resealing, with consequent deterioration of the roads.

Meanwhile, the faulty sewerage system in the city is so overloaded that at places within a few hundred yards of the principal street the pan system is still in operation. t The farewell visit of the High Commissioner for the Western

Pacific (Sir Robert Stanley) to ti Gilbert and Ellice Islands Color was scheduled for March 28-April according to a GEIC news bulletii In February it was announced thi a pictorial souvenir programn would be produced for the occasic and residents in the Colony were ii vited to submit photographs. t The P and O liner Himalaya w: call at Suva on June 22 in tl course of a cruise which will ii elude Port Moresby.

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French Oceania’s Economic Worry

rHE heavy blow that will be dealt to French Oceania’s economy with the eventual loss of the Hakatea phosphate exports, is the lalient feature of the Territory’s rade report.

The report for the calendar year 953, published some months ago, hows an adverse trade balance of bout £Al,lso,ooo—about half that f the previous year.

The reduction was effected mainly y a restriction on imports of ondensed milk, butter, flour, beer, ;ment, cars, and certain building laterials other than timber.

Total imports were valued at M,830,000, with the United States le principal source (£A1,573,000), (flowed by Prance (£A1,267,000), ustralia (£A567,000), New Zealand A 245.000), Algeria (£A156,800),

ipan (£A172,500), England (£AI2S,

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Exports were limited to three iportant destinations France A 2,150,000), Japan (£A1,046,000) id USA (£A181,500).

Tota! exports were valued at 13,681, 000. Of this total, £A1,127, 0 was derived from phosphate ck exports from Makatea. As it 3ms to be agreed that Makatea .o lt c S n n p ? esent rate of exploitation [3,500 long tons in 1953), will be hausted in less than 20 years less some major development ces place in other industries the ministration—or Paris—will have serious financial problem on its nds by then. n the last 20 years there has m no important change in the bhshed export figures. Copra Jduction, which has averaged )ut 18,000 tons per annum, was tons in 1952 a nd down 16,850 tons in 1953. Phosphate put has risen from 120,000 tons its present average of about 230,- [p ns -.. Vanilla, which fluctuates atly with seasonal conditions, has raged about 180 tons. Pearl shell i also fluctuated greatly but the tons of 1953 would be about rage though the output has n as high as 1,190 tons.

'he report makes it clear that ! cup; ure in Tahiti could probably resent a substantial saving Rice coming mainly from hard rency areas a t present and costs Territory £A147,200 for the 1,185 s imported in 1953—over £AI24 on.

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Mag Azine Section

Maori Claim To Kiwa’S

Ocean Fails

i NCIENT Polynesian history was %. the basis of a claim by the Ngapuhi people of North Auck nd, NZ, for the vesting of the as round the Dominion, including ,st tracts of the Pacific, in Maori iistees. The Maori Land Court, at iwene, North Auckland, dismissed e claim on March 22.

The region involved in the claim »v er e d Te Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa [iwa’s Great Sea), across which e Polynesian ca n o e-voyagers .veiled to NZ from tropical eastern lynesia. The litigants said they d a duty to their ancestors to )w respect for the wisdom of )ana, the personification of the :an, who made the South Pacific :ion so large that Maui could fish i North island (Te Ika a Maui— ni’s Fish) from the sea.

Legends concerning Maui, the ori hero-god, occur in most parts Polynesia. He is credited with ling up islands as far apart as iga and Tahiti). ’he claim aroused considerable Brest in and outside NZ, and at vene, Judge Clark complimented claimants on the preparation of ir case, which covered much lent Maori history. He said, vever, that the relation to the was confined to regulation dis cs about Maori fisheries, pre yed to the Maoris under the

aty of Waitangi (1840).

he Ngapuhi representative nked the court for its considera i and said he was satisfied with decision.

Regulation Is Not

Ordinance

IE British Solomons are to be blessed with a Chamber of Com merce at Honiara, but only after £tain amount o* commotion in Western Pacific High Commission ette, which is still printed in i. A Gazette Supplement, dated iember 7, 1954, replaces Gazette 27 of 1954, which mistakenly Jared with an Ordinance head ie second time round, a Queen’s nation constitutes a BSIP tnber of Commerce. This Regu n, dated March 24, 1954, pro s that the BS'P Chamber of merce shall be “one body politic corporate,” “shall have perpetual sssion” and may have and use mmon seal. The Chamber may

sue or be sued in all courts of justice, and has the right of purchasing and holding property.

Abandoned “Paradise” In

South Seas

UP again comes the story of August Engelhardt, the Aus trian who dreamed more than 50 years ago of a Utopia at Kabakon Island in the Duke of York Group, between Rabaul and the coast of New Ireland. This time the tale is told by a writer in the Sydney Sun> whose version is summarised here under. He mistakenly calls Kabakon “Kahakua.”

Described as a blond, blue-eyed, bearded giant who had studied at the University of Bavaria, Engel hardt selected Kakabon as the site of the first of what he hoped would be a chain of sun-worshipping com munities encircling the equator. De nouncing the “suicidal tendencies of modern civilisation,” he called his new Sun Order the “Palm Temple of Pure Natural Life.”

Rather complicating matters, Engelhardt regarded women as the source of all evil and made no pro vision for Eve in his projected Eden.

Members of the community would eat nothing but fruit and nuts, and would wear no clothes.

There were many hundreds of would-be disciples in Europe in the opening years of this century, but only two ultimately joined Engel hardt at Kakabon—Max Lutzow a former director of the famous Lutzow Orchestra at Berlin, and Heinrich Eukens, a student from Heligoland. Others had been dis couraged by reports of fatal fevers and cannibals.

After a short period, Eukens, a man of slighter physique than the others, became ill and died Engel hardt and Lutzow continued the ex periment in reasonable contentment until an argument over music de veloped into a violent quarrel Lutzow took refuge in a Wesleyan mission cutter from nearby Ulu Island, but contracted a chill and fever from which he died soon afterwards. He was buried at Kaka bon.

Englehardt lived alone in the Palm Temple for many months, but a drought almost wiped out the fruit crop and in 1904 a storm des troyed the remainder. Islanders re ported to the German officials at Herbertshohe (now Kokopo) that the white man at Kabakon had gone mad, and Engelhardt was found

very ill; died immediately; and was buried there. (But our writer, “Tolala” (see “Talk-Talk”) says all this is non sense, and gives the facts.)

Puppies Just Happen At

Mangaia Nowadays

OFFICIALLY there are no bitches in Mangaia nowadays, because they have been eliminated, theoretically at least, by a medical and-Administration ruling. It was decreed that female dogs were in so small a minority as to constitute a disease-risk as well as making the males savage and potentially dangerous.

But people at Mangaia, writes a correspondent, have been wonder ing how certain little pups, ob viously born since the edict went into force, have materialised. Did

they, like a famous Negro in America, “jest combust spontan- And it is a little curious, too, that the sex of the newcomers should be exclusively male.

Samoan Burials Sometimes

Have Variations

THINGS do happen differently in Samoa, notes the Anglican Church Gazette.

For example, when a funeral party arrived at the graveside, it was found that the coffin was too long for the grave. And the grave had been hewn out of very rocky ground. What was to be done?

After fetching a saw, a husky Samoan imperturbably sawed the foot of the coffin in accordance with the instructions of the on- Furthermore, the day was tropi cally wet. It was disconcerting— but nobody saw any impropriety in the proceeding —for the clergyman to have to say the initial prayer with three pairs of eyes Peering earnestly at him from under the coffin in the grave. Three Samoan gravediggers, with hygienically bare torsos, were sheltering there from the downpour.

Britain’S “Colour” Policy

DESPITE the recent noise over the post-war migration of West Indies people to Britain, in the United Kingdom it still is considered shameful to air colour prejudice m public, noted a writer in the Daily Telegraph, London, on March 2. He added; “Most of the West Indians here are happy and want to stay. In general, they seem to be regarded as excellent workers. Behind all the objections to them there may well lie a fear of competition for jobs, houses, wives and everything that people compete for. . . But it should be remembered that if we are really sincere in our policy of conferring self-government on coloured peoples, the best way to fit them for it is is not to grudge them a chance to learn our skills and way of life.”

Chauvel Has New Film

Plan For Tahiti

CHARLES CHAUVEL, Australian film producer, spent four days in Paris in early March to dis cuss the possible making of a French-Austyalian film in Tahiti.

Between the two World Wars, Tahiti was a happy hunting-ground for film-makers. Some of the Holly wood productions were excruciating claptrap: but others, like Ramon Novarro’s The Pagan, and the pictorially lovely White Shadows in the South Seas, had their moments, while Murnau’s Tabu, filmed mainly in nearby Borabora, remains a classic.

Serious filmgoers with long memories will recall that in 1933 Charles Chauvel’s In the Wake of the Bounty, contained many breath taking shots of Tahitian scenery and traditional dancing. An un

pretentious production that roused little interest outside Australia and New Zealand, this Chauvel effort, inter alia, introduced Errol Flynn as Fletcher Christian and, despite some inevitable shortcomings, gave a rather more accurate reconstruc tion of the Bounty saga than did the opulent later production which Hollywood based on the Nordhoff and-Hall novel.

In the Wake of the Bounty also gave a vivid picture of Pitcairn as it was in 1932, when Charles Chauvel and his wife were there.

Perhaps because of this, 16 mm prints of the film are still current for educational purposes.

H M. Rene Hoffherr, Governor of New Caledonia and HC for France in the Pacific, has gone to Paris accompanied by the head of the NC Mining Dept. A Noumea com munique stated that the main reason for the HC’s journey was the ques tion of the hydroelectric installation proposed for the Yate River in asso ciation with the nickel-smelting operations at Noumea.

SW Pacific Navigator

p. 59

JACK CHARLES BARLEY is the cheer ful and courteous skipper of the Con dominium motor yacht DON QUIJOTE in the New Hebrides. He is also known by his Fijian name of Bainivalu, mean ing “Fence-of-War”, or perhaps “Stockade”.

He was born at Sigatoka, Fiji, in 1926.

His father was a member of the Colonial Service—now retired—and his mother was part Rarotongan. Jack was educated at St. Felix College, Suva, and at Auckland, and went to sea in 1946. From 1947 to 1953 he served in small ships of the Western Pacific High Commissioner in the Solomons. including the legendary KOVALA. In 1953 he was seconded to the Condominium to be skipper of DON

Quijote.

Jack was married in Sydney on November 9, 1954, and he and his bride are settling down at Vila, in a flat in the old building of the Joint Court. May they live happing ever after!-BRETT

Hilder.

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Monkey Business

p. 60

We had a little mincer— Nothing would it do But mince the meat up finely And make a splendid stew.

We had a little cookboy Who liked to see it mince.

He minced with it on Thursday.

We haven’t used it since.

We had a soda syphon That syphoned very well.

The drinks we served the passer- Were really rather swell.

We had a little cookboy Who tried it by himself.

He tried it on a Saturday. . .

It now stands on a shelf.

We had a small alarm clock Which had a good alarm.

We had a silent primus That acted like a charm.

We had a brand new thermos, A special latching door — We had a little cookboy. . .

Need we say any more!

Noelle Mason

P1M Crossquiz No. 62

pp. 60-68

Solution oi Page 62.

Across

I.—What was the name of Sir Francis Drake’s ship in which he sailed around the wbrld?

7. —About what famous British Administrator has Richard Aldington recently written a highly contro versial book? 8. —What is the name of the ornamental staff placed on the table when the British House of Commons is sitting? 9. What is the surname of the actress who won an academy award for her role in Johnny Belinda? 10. —What is the name of the famous explorer who wrote “In Darkest Africa”? 11. —Who painted the famous masterpiece “The Descent from the Cross”? 13.—0 f which of the United States is Salt Lake City the capital? 15. Who is the present Prime Minister of New Zealand? 16. —Who became Prime Minister of Australia in 1932? 18.—In which of Puccini’s operas does Baron Scarpia appear? 20.—Who was the male singer in the Marx Brothers

film “A Night at the Opera”? 21. —What is the national drink of Japan? 22. —V/hat Hebrides island has given its name to a breed of terrier?

Down

1. Who wrote “The Forsyte Saga”? 2. —What is the present name for the strait once known as the Hellespont?

3. —what is the answer when 54 thi is divided by 2? 4. —-What is the term for the tend® of a body to preserve its state of res. uniform motion in a straight line?

5. —Who wrote “Guys and Dolls”' 6. —At which French vililage did Ec>: 111 have a tremendous victory oves French in 1346? 12.—What is the capital of New MO 14. —What is the term for the a grace by which a ruler or governing! pardons political offenders? 17.—Which famous Australian ractc had 18 straight wins? 19. What timber was used for dux British ships up till the advent of :

A Matter of Ballistics

pp. 61-68

By A. J. Murison

rHE Coaster was behind schedule, and the work up to date; so the cognescenti at our Papuan tation voted for a day of pigeon hooting on the mainland.

The party was carefully chosen, 'irst, Lennie, who was the chief itizen, an experienced boatman and enerally acknowledged as a leader. 3ck, a Patrol Officer, was welcomed -he to provide the Government ,unch. Clancy, a mechanic; and ?uce, a trader, completed the ex jdition.

Overtures were made to “Doc” to ime along; but, on learning that le country was mostly sago swamp id not a planting potential, he ked to be excused.

Preparations went smoothly. The rosene refrigerator was loaded ito the launch with a minimum of ratches and breakages; cook boys ire warned of an early start; and e hunters spent the evening oil ? shot-guns and other essential ;chanisms.

Daylight, and an early start found e party plugging up the river amst a strong tide. \round a bend, the daddy of all >cs lay snoozing and was reported the launch-boy. fiancy grasped weapon and am imtion but was restrained by nnie. “Only a waste of ammo— )tgun pellets won’t hurt him ” rhe launch drew slowly abeam 3 Clancy became frantic.

All right,” said Lennie. “But you only wasting a cartridge.” fiancy sighted and fired. The c leaped like William Tell’s apple

and hopped into the water. Birds fluttered and squawked. And “Told you,” from Lennie.

“ ’Tis policeman’s thray-oh-thray we’re needing,” wailed Clancy.

“Away back, and we’ll be getting wan.”

This was opposed by the others.

“Mon, the fuel we’ll waste,” said Jock. Clancy countered by point ing out that the launch burned one gallon of diesel fuel per hour, cost approximately ninepence (the good old days); and “T’was return we would for a decent weapon.”

Bruce sagely remarked that if they returned, the District Officer’s wife might commandeer the launch for a picnic.

In face of this, Clancy capitulated and the voyage continued. Crocs abounded and dozed on, regardless of the launch and the baffled Clancy.

Lennie outlined the plan of cam paign; anchor launch, slake thirst, spend an hour ashore with guns, and return to launch with bag.

The anchor went down and the party landed—less Clancy, who stated he was not going to hunt pigeons “at all, at all.” He was warned against any excessive open ing of the refrigerator door, and the others disappeared into the bush All was silent for an hour and then the party returned with empty bags.

It was now that Lennie showed his qualities as a leader. Shot-guns were transferred from Taubadas to cook-boys, and the latter told to get busy. Lennie then poured the drinks Clancy was busy with an empty

shot-gun cartridge, a knife and a spare .303 round found in the bottom of the launch tool-box. These operations were viewed with some apprehension, and Clancy was re quested to move forward in isolation it being agreed a glass would be passed to him as, and when, re quired.

THE day passed pleasantly, with an occasional shot sounding from the bush, in good time, • e cook-boys returned with a siezable bag.

Jock’s boy produced a tangled °* feath .ers, flesh and bone n ? aintai ned, represented two fella pigeon. When asked for a? explanation, he stoutly argued S}?* J l6 , had shot to instructions.

His Taubada had been most in sistent that he “no losem” anv cartridge, so he had only fired when a kill was certain.

Jock was warned that extreme parsimony of this kind would not be tolerated on future occasions Ciancy now declared for home and produced the result of his labours for inspection. He had cut * k°le in the end of the shot-gun c H. tlld S 0 and placed the base of a .303 round through this hole, filling the space between the inner side or the shot-gun cartridge and the outer side of the .303 with wet j? ape V’ firmly rammed. It looked a formidable projectile, and the bird &h,?9ri^rs e^ed it with alarm.

Tis a croc I’ll be shooting on the way home. Faith, I’ll borrow your gun, Lennie.’’ (Clancv’s eun was of the gas-pipe variety)

(Continued on Page 60)

croc leaped like William Tell’s apple

A tangled mass of feathers

Illustrations by Bill Gill.

“No!” Lennie‘s firing-pin was a bit worn and might not detonate the charge.

“How about Bruce’s?” Bruce, who owned a fancy Greener, neither made excuses nor strove to be polite.

“Not on your blanky life,” he said.

Jock “didna wish to appear unco canny like the ithers but, mon, ‘twas no his gun, but one he had borrowed from the Sergeant of Polis, and he felt obleeged to take guid care of it. He’d maybe have to make good any defects and he couldna afford”...

Lennie moved that Jock be no longer heard. Carried, with Jock dissenting.

Resignedly, Clancy picked up his gas-pipe without more ado, moved forward and proceeded to load. “I’ll be having a practice go,” said he.

Hastily, the others dissuaded him.

Noise would disturb the crocs, and so no shooting on the way home.

May not be another .303 round to

make a new projectile. Etc., ei Lennie closed the discussion opening the refrigerator. There w; an element of greatness in Lennc The launch was soon homewas bound, with the hunters comfortaH ensconced “below.”

Soon, the native coxswain pok his head over the coaming and at nounced —“Big fellow wallegoa stop.”

There was a momentary rush climb top-side and see. But it v Clancy’s moment, and he mov forward with gun and ammunitiu Quietly, as ordered by Lennie, t engine was slowed and the laun edged into the bank. Clancy pla» his back against the mast, a steadied fo” action. The engine di to a whisper, Clancy raised his g; took a steady aim and then — AT any time, .303 ammunitj carries a powerful charge s is normally fired from world’s best rifle. Jock’s predeces had been a keen rifleman s possessed the latest sporting Enfield. He had also acquiree brand of ammunition with a spe; charge for shooting crocodiles, : it was a stray round of this t Clancy had found in the tool If During the excitement of sig ing the croc, Clancy had b careful to pick up, unnotti Bruce’s full-choke Greener. Br recognised his gun as Clancy fir The launch hesitated for an stant, from the recoil; the b reverberated up and down the rij and an old grey shag, which fished off that same mangr stump for years and years fi himself madly skywards and flap away—Lennie reported three moi later that he recognised the fellow on the fairway buoy Thursday Island —he had becorn New Australian.

Smoke eddied around Cla* Bruce danced and howled. Jock Lennie cursed crew-boys, ClaE crocs, the brand of rum they been drinking and themselves,, ever going to sea.

Recovering somewhat, grabbed Bruce —who appea, hysterical—held him firmly searched for wounds.

“Where are you hit?” as Lennie.

“I’m not hit,” screeched Brut “Whyinell all this fuss, therr “That blanky Sinn-Feiner used my gun!” He was shooeo to cool down and examine his which Lennie passed back to K The croc lay on the mud wi nasty wound in its side—dead! was eventually roped and ha

alongside, and triumphantly towed home bv the launch.

Much honour and glory came Clancv’s way, over this, but it was Sited 7 that when later shooting parties included Clancy, every one made sure there were no stray .303 rounds lying around, while Bruce showed a tendency to keep his “Greener” in its velvet case and close at hand.

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There and Back In a Dreamship

pp. 62-64

This continues the story of my dreamship Tovata—ex Purple Sea—ex SC67I from page 21 of March PIM. Rightly, I feel it should he entitled “In praise of an Avomine Pill.”

SUVA, March 25.

SOME days before we finally set sail for Naitauba, I asked Mr.

W. G. Johnson, who managmg directs Tovata as well as the other W. R. Carpenter enterprises in Fiji, just what sort of a ship she was.

Did one just sit on the deck, or was there a bunk? .

“Good God,” he said, “This is a real ship—of course, it has cabins, and bunks with new spring mattresses.” He left me to digest this for a moment and then added: “If you are not used to going to sea in small ships, of course, and there is any 'sort of weather, you will probably just want to curl up in your bunk.”

I thought it very probable.

There followed a couple of days of delay when a tropical depression hesitated somewhere to the north of Fiji, then departure time was set for 9.30 am on March 1. This also was the date of arrival in Suva of the Orsova and as a family friend was passing through from America I decided to go on board to break fast with him.

This was bad psychology—for the friend. After we had eaten in Orsova’s air-conditioned dining room he walked with me to the other end of Suva wharf where Tovata lay champing at the bit. His predic tions, after he had sighted her, were so dire I immediately got out my tin of Avomine tablets and ate one pill.

I inspected my cabin. Not very large, certainly, but the inner-spring mattresses were there as per speci fication. It lacked only one thing which I demand in any sea-going vessel —something in which to be

sick. Apparently these people had more faith in Avomine and the Tudor stomach than I had. Well, sans faire rien.

I hauled myself up on to the very top deck above the wheel-house and felt pretty good.

But the Captain, going into his wheel-house saw me there, looking pleased with myself, arid remarked: “I don’t know about the weather.

Maybe we get it pretty rough later on out there.”

This had the neces sary deflationary effect and my reaction was immediate. “In that event someone had better get me something to be sick in.” He

grinned and gave an order in Fijian and next time I went back to the cabin there was a new galvanised bucket under the bunk.

Then I ate another Avomine pill.

We sailed eastward inside the reef and a fierce squall came down out of the north blotting out Suva

By Judy Tudor

and the land. I was invited into the wheel house and stood behind the helmsman, and the captain got out his charts and showed me the course.

We entered the open water near the small island of Nukulau. The sea was heaving about in big lumps and Tovata began her peculiar cork screw motion into it But so far, so good. Avomine was living up to its reputation. , if it gets rougher, said the Cap tain, it will be beyond that point there—in about an hour. The Point came and went and if the sea got any worse I failed to perceive it — Tovata was already do ing most of the things I have hitherto objected to in ships any how, with no ill effects. I retired with a book and a deckchair to the top deck.

At frequent intervals someone came along and pushed a cup of tea and biscuits into my hand, and I disposed of them. At less frequent intervals an oriental-looking lad came along and hissed “Food!” and made enticing motions towards the dining-saloon I had inspected this —about as big as a large dining table and seats around it—and had

decided that it was not for me, i matter how scientific and effectii seasick pills are these days. It w, sandwiches on deck, or nothin And ginger-ale. I had been told th some ginger-ale had been put the ice for me.

“Sandwiches?” The steward guess he was a steward —looked though he had never heard of the; but after pondering for some tir he went away and a long time aft he came back.

“Ginger—no, no!” he sai “Sardine, salmon, pilchard—gingei no. What you like, eh!”

I gave up. “Tomato,” I yell!

“Tomato, tomato.” And forgetti what country I was in—“ You sav tomato?”

He evidently did. Some very go tomato sandwiches eventually turn up. Some time later he appeal again with a broad grin and a la:, tin of icy-cold pineapple juice, took the last of it into the cal. with me that night and during 1 darkness the can rolled off the slu Ever tried to put yourself togetl, in a 6 x 5 cabin, in the dawn, wM the cabin floor is awash with pii apple juice?

With the first light Tovata r just lolloping along on slow swe The Captain said the sea had g«; down at midnight. I climbed on deck and dangled my I through the wheel-house wind Naitauba stood out ahead silhouette against the new o Someone brought us hot coffee.

Perhaps the spirit of Ron Johnson, who drifted in Ton (then SC67I ) from Hawaii to in 1948, momentarily left his h sent stand at the Sydney GPO ;

“Tovata” to-day . . . 100 tons Ocean Greyhound.

yas somewhere around at that noment. I guess he never got It so food! Journey’s end, a fair morning ind hot coffee. What more could me want'/ * * ♦ HOR those two weeks on Naitauba I —with the rest of the South Pacific —we suffered a succession f tropical depressions of high, xoderate and low intensity. Con jquently my only contact with ovata was as she threshed her way ast the island one night during le worst of the blows and some ow, between 9 pm and midnight, in Teaming wind, torrential rain and imbled sea, managed to decant veral bundles of reeds (for re aring the vatas —t hose raised ands on which a great proportion Fiji’s copra is cured) and half dozen people before she went on Suva.

Delays now began to pile up and lally it was decided to divert her len she had finished a voyage to itewa Bay ports (Vanua Levu) to :k me up at Naitauba. rhis was about 100 miles and a od half day out of her way and such consideration on the part any ship owners has never ne my way before, I was de mined to play my part. )ur rendezvous was for 7 am on ursday, March 24—more or less, r it is one thing to make mdezvous in these circums f ances; )ther to keep it. No sooner had date been made on the Tues r (by radio-telephone) than the mlins got busy. Up came another jpical depression”; up came the nd, screaming and howling DUgh the coconuts, blowing back Ir fronts like the manes of wild ses; down came the rain—inches t. So it continued Tuesday, and

inesday, and Wednesday night..

rovata will never come in this,” ■ the Hennings. Still, I was up daylight. Seven o’clock came, no Tovata. Miraculously, we tied to have hit a patch of calm the sea was comparatively flat there were patches of blue sky gave one cause to hope. But iy. 1 nine we were again being e g by squalls; at 9.30, Mac came , Tovata has gone around the t, he said, casually. Having i brought up to the stern ol which believes that ships wait said, casually. Having been ght up in the stern school h believes that ships wait 10 one, I was ready to decamp nee. But no.

x they said. ita had come on the last 11 and was ering anyway, ite my break but it could ly be said I relaxed,

prudently,

an Avomine

Ten-twenty. The Tovata had not come back, neither had it sent its launch, as was hoped. The planta tion launch was made ready. I col lected my luggage; put my three cameras in a zippered bag and hoped that they would not end in the drink; took off my shoes; rolled up my jeans; put on a hat that a female in a Sydney shop had sold me as waterproof; buttoned on my plastic raincoat; said my goodbyes and was ready. Mac came along; and Finau to captain the launch; and Sinbad to tend the engine; and two or three other large Fijians whose job was (1) to see that Tovata did not roll on the launch; and (2) to throw me onto Tovata if necessary, and heave my baggage on after me.

THE Tovata could now be seen coming from around the point She began to describe circles off the normal anchorage, carefully keeping a safe distance from the reef. (Anchorage is a misnomer here—it is too deep to anchor and ships just hang about outside; the passage through the reef is too shallow for craft larger than launches).

By now the sky in the north began to assume the colour of an over-ripe plum and as we got into the passage the storm hit us. Down came the rain in a solid wall and in a matter of seconds visibility was reduced to nil. Naitauba was blotted out; so was the reef. The last I saw of Tovata was her square stern disappearing at speed away from us. I felt that her captain was now beating it to Suva while his luck held.

“See, the rain is flattening the waves,” said Mac soothingly, but I wasn’t interested in waves, large small or flattened, except that now,’ they alone were left to show us that we were heading in the right direc tion. More clouds emptied them selves upon us. Once I was asked if I would like to shut myself in with the engine. I refused. On another occasion Mac wanted to know if I were wet. I said no—but that was a lie. When I examined myself on the ship I looked as though I had been dunked in the sea. The allegedly waterproof hat was a pulp; the rain had come through the plastic coat as though it were muslin; enough water streamed from my shirt and pants to float the Tovata and both items are, at this writing, still draped over

the rail on the back landing of the GPH still drying out.

In this fashion we played tag with the Tovata in and out of rain squalls beside the Naitauba reef for what seemed hours—but probably was less than one, the while the men kept up a high-pitched conversation accompanied by a wealth of gesticu lation which—so far as Fijians are concerned—always leaves me in doubt as to whether we are on the

"Tovata" at the end of her long drift in 1948.

Johnson “never got It so good (A photo of him In Suva after his 1948 drift).

brink of disaster or whether they are merely enjoying themselves. And, as visual with people, who spend their time amongst Fijians, Mac in his excitement would forget to in terpret for long periods.

Finally there was a more than usually frenzied shriek from the lad up front. This is It, thought I or the Tovata. Minutes later, Tovata had emerged sufficiently from her shroud of cloud to appear dimly, like a ghost ship. Slowly we crept up on her, while she prepared for more manoeuvres. At the first attempt, Tovata bobbed madly above us and threatened to fall on us.

No dice. Both boats sheered off in their own semi-circle while howls and yells of encouragement, rage, in structions or heaven knows what were exchanged between ship and launch. , A ..

Then the Tovata completes another abrupt manoeuvre and miracle, the sea seems smoothed out and we approach without undue trouble. Get ready to jump, I’m told. I need no second bidding—l fly through the air with the greatest of ease and there are a dozen pairs of hands to grab me. My baggage comes on without mishap.

Off goes the launch, off into the rain, Mac and the men laughing and waving, mission completed—and out of my sight. I drip and run water and wave in return from Tovata, which by some strange metamor phosis since I first saw her in Suva, is grown big and solid and as sub stantial as the Queen Mary. (Purely illusionary, however; she bounced plenty later).

I go to my cabin and start to strip off my sodden clothes, only to be confronted unexpectedly by the captain. Draped decently in a bathtowel we hold converse, then later, having found a pair of dry shorts and a shirt I get into my bunk to read the afternoon away with difficulty—the bunks are built across-ship. So as she rolls, one stands first on one’s head, then on one’s heels. Soon in comes a steward.

Fijian this time, and in a soft re spectful voice says, “Food? Fried fish?”

“No,” says I. “Sandwiches. Tomato sandwiches. Here.”

This seems to be where I came in. * * * SOME hours after I arrived in Suva yesterday, the managing-director of Tovata rang up to find out how I fared. Fine, I report. I like his ship, and equipped with suf ficient Avomine tablets, I am pre pared to circumnavigate the globe in her. But there is only one thing— since I got off her, I have been about 75 per cent. deaf. Such a thing has never happened before.

Must be the noise of the engines.

“No, no, couldn’t be the engines,” says the voice at the end of the wire. “Probably caused by being too close to sea level!”’

Well —he could be right.

LATER: On reading this story over in Sydney, it occurs to me that the reader might get the impression that I was so glad to quit Naitauba I was prepared to put to sea in a typhoon. This was not so—according to my schedule, that was the time for departure. And, for the record, I should like to say that the two weeks I spent on the island were amongst the pleasantest and most profitable I have ever spent. Cer tainly it rained, but that was a phenomenal period all over the South Pacific. And I am used to that: My own family can now con fidently predict cyclones by the times I leave or arrive at Sydney airport.

How on earth can people run a copra plantation or load copra in such circumstances, others might ask. They do not, of course, load copra under those circumstances, and probably for 90 per cent, of the time, landing at Naitauba is as I found it when I arrived — calm, with the wind from the right quarter; not blowing a gale from the north, and on to the reef, as I left it.

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Cific Islands Monthly _ A P R 1 L . 1955

CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY A P R 1 L . 1955

Song Of The Pacific

p. 64

Gently borne upon the breeze, Comes the love-song of a bird, Comes the fragrance of a flower, And the salt-smell of the seas.

Somewhere now upon a beach Flash the bodies, naked, brown, Rise the voices, shouting, glad, In a strange, poetic, speech.

Come here, you who want no slaves, Care not if a skin is brown, Understand the stranger’s wish, Seek the peace a sad heart craves.

Here within the silent reef, In the fern and palm-tree’s shade, In the magic southern land, Here only is there peace. —Phyllis Parham. (Phyllis Parham, aged 16, was born in Fiji, but was only 3 years old when she went to Canada. She lives now in Montreal.)

"When it's Springtime in New Guinea

p. 64

New Guinea . .

There’s a valley that is hidden, That has been seen by none, Though said to be discovered In 1891.

And later viewed from sideways, In 1923, When seen round the corner By John McMurkitry.

In the valley that is hidden They don’t wear any clothes.

The girls are rather nifty And the men—they don’t propose.

The atom bomb’s unknown there — All other bombs unbid.

If they have any sense there, They’ll go on being hid.

Noelle Mason.

Lost Passports

pp. 64-65

THAT seems to be all,” said M Glover. “I’d better take oc passports now.”

Mr. Davies stared at him in su prise. “But you’ve got the pas ports,” he said.

“I have NOT,” declared IV/ Glover. “They’re still with you.”

Mr. Davies went into what irre erent people call a flat spin.

The place was the Travel Depai ment of the Bank of NSW, in Sy ney. Dramatis Personae were IV E. P. Glover, managing-editor South Pacific Post, Port Mores'; and Mr. Nigel Davies, manager the Travel Department. Time w Wednesday, March 9—the day M fore Mr. and Mrs. Glover were sail for long leave in England.

In these days of bureaucrat chains and shackles, a traveller ca not move without a passport.

There was a wild scene in t Travel Office, until Messrs. Glo’i and Davies finally got onto the saj wave-length. Then they decio that the passports had become sit tracked somewhere in their tortm movements among shipping offio banks, taxation wallahs and all • other officials who dance upon 1 necks of prospective travellers.

While Mr. Glover marched up a down the office, and fumed a steamed (it was one of those res “sticky” days), Mr. Davies suppl a telephone solo of great lem and variety. It was calculated t; at one stage he had fifteen curse people in ten different ofE searching through files and recce at the one moment.

But—no passports. Everyone I seen them —all insisted they I been passed along the con channels.

So then, in rapid, well-direo motion, Mr. Davies reacted to accepted fact that The Passpti Were Lost. He began a plea* High Officialdom that applicate be accepted for issue of two ot passports, to catch up with travellers in London, and that Glovers be given some sort special certificate to allow them leave on the ship on the morrow Meanwhile, Mr. Glover seizes taxi and frantically sought I Bunty Glover. Port Moresby’s n popular young matron eventu was tracked down at a cosy fare; party, amid eight adoring worn® The haste with which she was moved left the ladies gasping. E Mrs. Bunty Glover’s sweet ten broke under the stress of husband’s explanation that shej to be passport-photographed wi ten minutes. . .

The day waned. The tired (so far as one half the partnen is concerned, anyway) enfurr Glovers had a harassed late din and began to pack.

Then Mrs. Bunty Glover stopped nd stared, and stiffened. [“Ted,” she said, in a quiet, danger us voice, “what is this?”

There was a packet. Inside were vo passports. The packet had been laced in a drawer among Mrs.

Hover’s garments, and somehow ad become buried.

“I cannot remember collecting lem,” wailed the defenceless Mr. lover. “I did not put them there, am sure I did not even call at ie Bank until to-day.”

That line of argument proved tile. Mrs. Glover knows about the itorious forgetfulness of harassed itors. . .

Then Mr. Glover collapsed again, [y God,” he cried, “how am I go l .to tell Davies about this?”

Mrs. Glover was not sympathetic. ‘Bunty,” began Mr. Glover, softly, ou have always been a great [p to me.”

Bunty turned upon him a very d, suspicious eye. He blundered We could say that you collected se passports, and forgot to tell about it. Yes, that would get r everything. . .” tut it was not Ted Glover’s lucky He accomplished nothing, illy nice wives will enter into 5t domestic conspiracies, when ;umstances seem to call for it. , “deceiving courteous and helpful vel men, who have done every ig possible for us” is, according Mrs. Glover, one of the things done. [r. Glover was at the Bank at next morning, and grovelled un )mingly. Mr. Davies laughed. r main feeling is one of relief ind that Our System was not at t,” he said. r. Glover began to depart, still ling apologies. ust a moment,” said Mr. Davies, lat about the 34 6 I paid for e passport photos yesterday?

“ct me to carry that lot, too?” * ♦ * irewith, please see the photo ns in question. The circum ces under which they were taken ain why Mrs. Glover is show her teeth without smiling, and Mr. Glover looks less like an »r than an ogre.—RWß.

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Site of First Church in Polynesia

p. 65

[By Marjorie Henry, of Buckland’s Beach, New Zealand, great-greatgranddaugher of William and Sarah Henry, first Pacific Islands missionaries (1797) A IN the shade of a great breadfruit tree, at Matavai, Tahiti, and near a dilapidated Tahitian hut, stands a smooth grey stone.

Animals crop grass around it, children lump over it, adults sit on it; and there is no sign to tell the world that this spot was the cradle of missionary endeavour in Poly nesia.

Along the 80-miles road that circles Tahiti there may be seen, every few miles, substantial cement churches white, * candy pink and baby blue—and to them on Sun days, answering the call from many belfries, come the Tahitian con gregations, dressed in white.

It appears that they neither know nor care about the worn grey stone —which is all that remains of the church built in 1798 by the first brave missionaries sent out under the auspices of The London

Missionary Society.

On the other side of the road, the land is swampy from a stream that has become choked with weeds; but, as the curator of the museum, Aurora Natua, pointed out, it would not always have been like that.

It was beside that stream that the missionaries, voluntary exiles, built themselves a home, preferring it to that built by the Tahitians for Captain Bligh of Bounty fame which had been given to them on arrival.

We stood in the moving shadows of the coconut palms and thought of them, of the missionaries and their wives, of their courage and their discouragements (for it was 16 years before they converted any one) .

In Tahiti there are always new churches under construction—yet it appears that neither the adminis tration nor the numerous clergy consider this sacred spot worthy of a monument.

T he . actual . site of first Christian church built in the South Pacific Islands.

It was at Matavai. Tahiti. The dark object in the foreground (a foundation stone) is all that remains of it, now.

The Landing of the Missionaries in Tahiti in 1797 the queen are carried on the shoulders of slaves.-Prom Painting by M A. Smirke, RA.

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the Firelight

p. 66

New Guinea Interlude: Forest Dancers in the Firelight

By S. Van Der Werff

THERE is a clearing in that dark forest of Netherlands New Guinea. . . Cicadas hum and myriads of mosquitoes are successful as never before.

Here the Papuans who have been travelling with us have built camp.

Having eaten their fill —a wild boar and two fat crown-pigeons—they are talking. The usual topics for such fireside talk are the origin of mankind and the earliest ancestors of the tribe.

Then an unbroken silence falls until a few of the older men begin to hum a tune. Others join in and gradually the humming becomes a forceful song. Fingers begin to tap the drums, and suddenly a strong, well-built man leaps into the middle of the ring formed by the singers.

His blood-curdling scream echoes in the hills.

One by one the men rise, their feet beating the ground. A stormy rhythm soars through the trees, wild and indomitable, and the clearing becomes a turmoil of glistening bodies. The dance becomes wilder, like a rising hurricane. Parrots and other birds fly screaming from the tumult.

It is impossible to remain un moved by this scene. The dance rhythm creeps into your blood.

Automatically your fingers drum in sympathy, and it is only by an effort that you stop yourself from leaping into the ring of dancers.

And then —silence. Like a rushing

river the rhythm flows away and the dance ends as suddenly as it began. The panting dancers huddle together on beds of leaves and twigs and almost immediately all are in deep sleep. . .

There is happiness in life among such companions, and the thought that soon they may be drawn into a society they cannot comprehend awakens a feeling of intense pity for them.

Many times I recall adventures shared in that vast land. I remember so well the satisfaction of conquer ing a mountain after toiling through burning sunlight or incessant rain, and how, at the end of an expedi tion, came the offers of Papuan hos pitality in homes and sleeping places.

Often I feel a boundless longing to see that land again and to meet its people, gay and laughing as in the past.

Papuan ot the Waroppen coast.

“Feet beat in stormy rhythm.”

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MME Rose Marie Ollier, formerly a secretary in the French Embassy at Canberra, who was arrested on charges of alleged espionage and was taken to Pans last year, has been released.

A commission was sent to Aus tralia by the military juge d instruc tion. The finding was that the charges preferred against Mme.

Ollier were without foundation. t a £l,OOO torsion balance —an in strument which has played a major part in the discovery of many of the world’s oilfields—has been pre sented to the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources by the Vacuum Oil Co. Pty. Ltd. By measuring slight gravitational differences and the directions in which their varicpus intensities are exerted, the torsion balance detects the presence of structures not discernible by surface or subsurface geology.

A Mission History

p. 68

mHE Rev. F. G. Lewis, MLC, chair -1 man of the New Guinea District 0 f the Methodist Church has just completed a history of the Methodist Mission in New Britain, covering the past sixty years of work there. The Methodist Mission began operations in 1875 under the Rev. George Brown, the Rev.

Benjamin Banks, and Fijian and Samoan assistants.

Keller Mystery is Ended

pp. 68-69

Captain Haug Sums Up

AMIABLY exercised in his min by being called “an inquisitiv bloke” (October “Territoru Talk-Talk”), Captain Carl Hau wrote from Darmstadt, Germany, c March 3 to “give the gist of m inquisitiveness” about Captain Kelle (Writing in the December PIK Mr. H. C. Corrie, of Sydney, sa: that Otto Keller was killed i January or February, 1913, c the coast of Malaita between Foando and Quarrie, and that tM murderer was subsequently hange at Tulagi. Other people had d< scribed another Captain Keller. Tlf PIM finally said there must ha’ been two Captain Kellers).

Captain Haug writes that wh« he met Jack London at Sydney, 1908, London mentioned a Captai Keller whose schooner had gone the rescue when London’s Snai was on a reef in the Solomons.

Captain Haug continues: "IV friend Captain Fehr, who owned I Plantation in Bougainville but w expropriated in 1920, later told r of a curious coincidence. In 18£ when he was in the British fou masted barque Garnet Hill, one his shipmates was a Swiss sail named Keller. In 1920, when he h to leave Iwi, he took passage in coasting steamer; and, on the fii evening aboard, found that the caj tain was his former shipmate a: that he (Keller) had recognised li as he came aboard.

“I wanted to learn if the Kei;. of London’s story was the KeU who had been with Fehr in tl Garnet Hill, and to clear up t) question I wrote to PIM. T answers have cleared it up. Ja London’s Keller was killed in 19( The other Keller died in camp Singapore during World War 113 1171 TH regard to Markham and tr W Lily (“ Talk-Talk” in OctoT PIM), Captain Haug adds: think it is right to assume tM Markham bought his Lily frr Hernsheim, because the firm had schooner with that name. But did not buy Jack London’s Snc and rename her Lily, as alleged. T Snark was sold at Sydney for t trifle of £Stg.soo, in 1908, and far as I know Markham did not; to Australia until after 1910.

“I met London in Sydney at the Snark had been sold. Had I n him before I would certainly hu bought the Snark myself; she M cost Jack London 60,000 dollars building and for repairs at Honolv Charmian (Mrs. London) me later that the ship, re-ngged( a schooner, was recruiting in New Hebrides.”

Captain Haug concludes: “Itf good to give old memories an airr

Ind I am glad that the PIM note has given me the chance. . . If that iamned 1914 war had been avoided t would, I am sure, be living now n a cottage at Rose Bay or Wat sons Bay as I once planned to do. if the 1948 money reform had lot snatched most of my savings, : would have travelled to a part of he world where I lived in paradise srithout realising it.”

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Mr. T. Grahamsiaw

P[E appointment on March 3, of Mr. T. Grahamslaw as Chief Collector of Customs, Papua nd New Guinea, in succession to Ir. F. Lee, has pleased old Terri jrians.

Mr. Grahamslaw has been in apua since 1911 and joined the apuan Service as a Cadet Clerk in le old Treasury, Customs and DStal Department in 1916.

Since then he has served at Daru, r oodlark Island, Samarai, the orthern Division, and Port oresby in an extraordinary imber of capacities ranging from Loler to Assistant Resident Magis ate, his more unusual jobs inter red at intervals with the more ual one of Customs officer.

He has spent considerable periods Acting Chief Collector of istoms, but since the appointment Mr. Lee from the position of Elector of Customs, Townsville January, 1953, he has been sistant Chief Collector.

Prom February. 1942, to October, 15, he served with distinction with e Armed Forces in Papua. He 'S in the Buna area and on the )koda Trail in 1942, and with a lited States Division towards the d of that year, followed by an riod with the Advanced New inea Force. Subsequently he ’ame ANGAU District Officer :h headquarters at Higaturu. th the rank of Lieut-Colonel, he s appointed Regional Commander Southern Division ANGAU, ic area south of the Markham rer in NG and including all 3ua) in July, 1954, and retained s position until he handed over ny Administration to Colonel J Murray in October, 1945. il or his war services he was arded the OBE. bartered for 15 months by the kel Co., at Noumea, the Scandin m ship Gordonian (6,000 tons) not be permitted to carry nickel between mining ports and the imea smelters. As a foreign ship, Gordonian under French law f not trade between NC ports’ ! shl P will now transport coal be en Port Kembla, NSW, and imea.

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Guinea Goldfields Shares

SINCE the recent annual meeting of New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. (when the first dividend for 13 years was announced, and an in dication given that further dividends might be expected) the market quotations for NGG shares have shown a sagging tendency and sales have been reported at 1/11.

This is surprising. Even if future dividends do not exceed 3d per share, 3d per share is 12i per cent, per annum on 2/-. The Co. is maintaining its revenues from its main enterprises—Golden Ridges mill and timber-cutting—in fact, timber production continues steadily to increase.

t There is an airmail from Aus tralia to Fiji every week-day, except Tuesday, and an Australian-bound airmail closes at Suva every week day, except Monday. There are four airmails every week from Fiji to NZ and three from NZ to Fiji

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News Of The Small-Ships

pp. 71-82

It Happened In April;—The

antucket whaler Oeno was wrecked n Vatoa (or Turtle Is.), southern au Group, Fiji, in April, 1825, all ut one of her crew being murdered lere.

Oeno, owned by Aaron Mitchell, id commanded by Capt. Samuel iddell, cleared Nantucket on No imber 4, 1824,, for Bay of Islands, Z. She sailed from there on April 1825.

Ata, Tonga’s southern outlier, was issed on April 13, and a course is laid for Wallis Island. The ■eck occurred shortly atfer 2 am xt morning. The boats were armed and the captain was for iling for Wallis. However, the ite was in favour of landing on toa, where natives could be seen lore. This was agreed upon. The people on the island proved endly, but next day, while they re busy stripping the wreck, 20 ices with about 80 men in full r rig arrived from Ono. These n were not actively hostile at two days later, having rked themselves into the right od, they captured and killed all crew with the exception of one n. William Cary, who managed conceal himself. ’wo days later, weak and without a or water, he gave himself up acting to be killed. Instead, he

was treated kindly and eventually taken to Ono and later Lakemba.

There he met David Whippy—the two had been school mates. Whippy had deserted from a whaler and had established himself as a beche-de mer trader. Cary went with Whippy to Ovalau, writing home from there with the first news of the loss of Oeno. In June, 1833, he joined the whaler Tybee, in Sydney, and finally arrived home at Nantucket on October 26, 1833, where he pub lished the story of his adventures m Fiji—a valuable fragment of Fiji’s early history.

LONG TOW:—An unusual visitor to Sydney in March was the 517tons Honolulu tug Ahi, skippered by Captain Robert K. Nakea, with a crew of 19, and with two big loaded barges in tow. Ahi must have been the first vessel of Honolulu registry to enter Sydney for many years.

Owned by Isleways Co., a sub sidiary of the Hawaiian Pineapple Co., the 135-ft diesel-electric tug was built at Orange, Texas, in 1945, and is one of three similar vessels owned by the company. They are normally engaged in towing pine apple-laden barges from distant plantations to the cannery at Hono- The big 180 ft by 44 ft steel deck barges each carry 1,200 to 1,400 tons of pineapples, but on the present

voyage they carried 90 war-surplus vehicles which had been purchased at a Honolulu sale by an American Arm in Sydney.

For the 4,555-mile voyage, partly through hurricane-infested waters, the vehicles were welded together and to the barge decks by steel straps, and were also chained Ahi and her charges successfully

tyT non-stop, ‘3S&W only

oSe of the Santa Cruz Group.

Mate Henry Kahalioumi said that last vear Ahi towed an old snip as well to seaward of Guam.

After only three days in Sydney Ahj cleared again for Honolulu with her barges unladen and should be back on the pineapple run when this appears. Her sister ships had maintained radio-telephone contact with her up to 2,000 miles from Honolulu on the voyage south.

Lifeboat Investigation

Believed to have been one of the two lifeboats belonging to the Fiji registered Nukalau, which foundered in the western Tasman Sea on June 13 1954, a 16-ft lifeboat was found on Narrabeen beach, NSW, early March. Badly damaged and covered with weed as it lay on the mud flats, it was being investigated to established identity. The other boat was found on a northern NSW beach last October. No trace, in cidentally, has ever been found of the Suva-registered 437-ton vessel Awahou which went missing with all hands in September, 1952, bound from Sydney for Lord Howe.

FOR TONGA: —W hen Prince Tunsi of Tonga, called at Australia en route to Europe in February he indicated that one of the objects of his iourney was to finalise plans for the construction in a Dutch ship yard of a 500-ton vessel for the Tongan Copra Board. This vessel will replace the A’omu, Suva-built

120-ton ketch, which is becomir inadequate for the task of gatherm in the copra crop from Tongs outlying islands like Niuafoou an Niuatobutabu, a task which she hi performed since 1945.

TOTAL LOSS:—The 40-ft keh Tonga, which Mr. “Snowy” Crai

nployed as a base for shell-diving jerations in the Ninigos, New uinea, last year, became a total ss in February, and owner Crack id his wife narrowly escaped with leir lives. The ketch was anchored f a Queensland port when the irricane which had caused ship ng losses in the New Hebrides area rlier, struck. The ketch foundered 0 yards offshore and Mrs. Crack is knocked unconscious by float g timber. Mr. Crack made the ore with his unconscious wife after tough struggle, but Tonga was it.

In the same blow, the 65-ft irrier Princess, of Mackay, out on 12-day cruise training aqualung rers for trochus fishing, was lost th nine men aboard.

Solomons Post;—The Bsip

►vernment has recently been ad rtising overseas for a man to fill oewly created post of Port Officer d Superintendent of Lights, niara, at a salary of up to £1,530 • annum.

N THE MOVIES; —The 30-ton d-scow Scot, owned by Mr. J. B. rner, of Suva, which went to Fiji eral years ago, has been chartered RKO Films as a base of opera tes for the shooting of certain jkground scenes for a film en ed, “The Pearl of the Pacific.” e unit chose a small island off 1 Levu’s N-W coast for their erprise, but they immediately ran d difficulties with the continuous I weather that was experienced Fiji (and most of the South :ific) in early March. cot was built in 1905, and after

a useful career on the New Zea land coast was purchased by Mr.

Lew Graham several years ago— prior to his acquiring the Nukalau mentioned elsewhere. He sailed her to Suva and sold her to her pre sent owner, and she has been in the inter-island trade ever since.

Dutch Visitor:—Hmns Van

Zull, 1,250-ton Dutch destroyer escort, under command of Captain F. G. H. van Straaten and with 193 officers and men aboard, made February calls at Suva and Papeete, homeward bound from Korea via Yokosuka and Hollandia. The vessel

cleared Papeete for Easter Island* Valparaiso, Callao, Panama, and Curacao.

Van Zull was acquired by Holland from the United States in 1951* having been built as the USS Stem in 1943.

Still Tuna Hunting:—The

US Fish & Wild Life vessels engaged on the Pacific Ocean Fishery In vestigation project, and based on Honolulu, spend a great deal of time at sea. According to the latest progress bulletin, the Charles H.

Gilbert made a southern cruise to study the winter (Northern Hemis

per: The US merchant marine train [?]essel GOLDEN BEAR.— Photo M. B. [?]ont. wer: PHILANTE II, wrecked on Lifu has broken completely in two abaft

phere) distribution of skipjack in February. The vessel operated in :the vicinity of Palmyra, Washington, Fanning, Christmas, and Johnston.

Only 9 schools of skipjack, 5 of yellowfin, 23 of unidentified fiish, and 2 of mixed fish were sighted during the cruise, and only 2 of the yellowfin schools responded to live bait.

All schools proved “wild,” dispers ing rapidly. An artificial bait con sisting of 2 in. x I in. x i in. strips of tuna juices solidified with agar, and with a small added amount of artist’s glitter to simulate scales, was tried unsuccessfully. In the

search for live bait, small quantities of 5 in. to 8 in. mullet were found in the shallows near Palmyra and Fanning. The report says “No bait ing was done at Christmas Island where it is now prohibited by the British Government.”

Though that island is British administered at present, the weather station is serviced from Honolulu.

There is also American sea-tempera ture recording equipment installed and maintained there by the Fish & Wildlife Service.

Viti Again:—Mr. H. S. Orr, Re

ceiver for the debenture holders of

the former Fiji Government vessel Viti, said in Auckland, in March, that the vessel would shortly be advertised for sale. Viti, whose owners are in bankruptcy, was then undergoing repairs in an Auckland drydock. Meanwhile the smaller Vasu arrived in Auckland after many months of activity in the

Captain Trevor S. Withers’ “Blue Lagoon” (ex “Viti II”).

area, and was despatched again for Rarotonga on March 1.

BLUE LAGOON :—Captain Trevor S. Withers advised us, just too late for March issue, that he is re naming his recent purchase, the former Fiji Government’s patrol boat Viti 11. She is now Blue Lagoon, and was expected to enter her owner’s Lautoka-Yasawa Island cruise service by late March, re placing Turaga Levu, which may now be sold. Blue Lagoon will com fortably cruise ten passengers—four more than Turaga Levu. She will be far the most luxuriously appointed passenger vessel in Fiji waters.

FROM SANTO: Bearing the largest bottom-cargo of shell-fish to enter Sydney for many a moon, Mr.

Marcelle Marinacce’s New Hebrides trader Deutgan returned to that port for dry-docking in mid-March.

The steel converted barge had left Sydney 3 years ago to begin a new life in the Islands trade, and had not been docked since then.

For the run south she was com manded by Captain George O’Brien, now resident in Vila, well known in the Western Pacific as a specialist in delivery jobs. Mrs. O’Brien also came along. The 211-ton (136 nett) vessel had some scrap metal, cocoa, and 28 tons of trochus aboard, and it was expected that she would be

several months in Sydney. Captain O’Brien was flying home. Deutgan will be registered in Vila under the French flag. Until now she has not been on any register, and without signal letters. She wore the pro visional registration number “NH27” on her bows when she arrived. A rough voyage was experienced en route.

While in the New Hebrides the vessel is normally commanded by her owner, who, with Madame Marinacce, lives aboard his private yacht-cum-trading craft. They were on the wharf to meet Deutgan in Sydney, having flown down earlier.

Captain O’Brien reported that Tamatea, Captain Hamilton’s vessel, formerly of New Zealand, and a

[ feature of Vila harbour for the past several years, where she has lain \ idle at moorings, was beached several months ago and now lies on the shores of Iririki islet in the harbour, within a stone’s throw of the British Residency.

GOLDEN BEAR: — The American merchant-marine training vessel Golden Bear called at Papeete late February in the course of a cruise, having come from San Francisco via Acapulco, San Diego, San Pedro, and Honolulu. At Papeete the officers were entertained at a cock tail party by Governor Toby, and Captain Rick Barnes, proprietor of Les Tropiques hotel, arranged a special Tahitian feast for the ship’s company.

Golden Bear is owned by the US Department of Commerce A twin screw welded steel vessel of 6,059 GT, 3,288 nett, she is powered by turbo-electrics. She was built by the Walsh-Kaiser Co. at Providence, RI, in 1945, and is likely to be seen from time to time in the South Pacific in future, during the course of her training cruises.

Passing Through: —Ei S E

where there is mention of Ahi and her long tow. On the same day that Ahi cleared Sydney on her re turn voyage, the 525-ton tug Golden Cape, of Hongkong, cleared Welling ton, NZ, with the 30-year-old 2,400ton Union Company freighters

Kartigi and Kiwitea in tow, bound for a new life in the Far East, where they will be reconditioned. Golden Cage, with a crew of 32 and com manded by Capt. A. McCulloch, called at Manus on the run south.

There an examination was made of a sunken Liberty ship with a view to salvage.

The tug and her charges were likely to be seen in New Guinea waters in early April. They were expected to pass through Dampier Strait between New Britain and New Guinea.

OUT OF GAS:—Because the Port authorities at Vila had run out of carbide, the automatic acetylene light at Pango Point, at the entrance of that port, was out of com

mission in February-March,

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ING: —A Port Moresby native co operative took delivery of another 40-ft vessel from a Brisbane yard late March. This was the latest of a succession of small craft which have gone north to native co operatives over the past couple of years.

KURIMARAU: —According to waterfront gossip in Sydney in March there appeared to be distinct possibilities that the former BSIP Government flagship Kurimarau might be seen again in the Western Pacific ere long. The 288-ton, 25year-old Hongkong-built vessel meanwhile lies at Ballina, NSW,

Upper: Luxury cruiser PHILANTE II, lost on Lifu in February hurricane. (See photo, page 67).

Middle: SANTA TERETIA, Gilberts Catholio Mission Vessel, lost on Nikunau in January.—Photo: A. Herrick.

Lower: A scale model of the BOUNTY made entirely from local materials by a Pitcairn islander, for Pastor Norman Ferris, MBE.

under the ownership of Mr. Svere Berg, of Sydney.

PHIL ANTE II: As briefly re ported last month, M. Martinet’s converted Fairmile luxury cruiser Philante II was wrecked on Lifu, Loyalties, in the February hurri cane. According to later advice the Noumea vessel had broken in two.

The Havannah made a voyage out to Lifu in March to see what could be salvaged, if anything. Also lost were the small vessels Orion and Metaven in the New Hebrides.

Philante II had only recently secured a contract to maintain a Noumea-Loyalties passenger service.

UNDER TWO FLAGS;—Possibly unique in world shipping will be a small vessel now building in the yard of Wynne S. Breden, of New castle, NSW, for the New Hebrides Condominium Government as an official patrol craft for the French and British Resident Commissioners.

It is reported that the vessel will fly the French and British flags simultaneously, one from each quarter. (Whether the crew will also be duplicated or whether she will be manned by men of mixed French-British descent is not clear!) Ihe dual flags, instead of a single Condominium flag, seem to pose some interesting possibilities under International Law in certain cir mmstances.

SANTA TERETlA: —Further de vils of the loss of the Catholic

Mission vessel Santa Teretia on Nikunau, Gilberts, in January, show that when a sudden westerly blow sprang up Brother Gautier decided to put to sea. However, the engine failed and the anchors were unable to hold the ship in the heavy squalls.

The wreck has been stripped of everything except the motor, which can probably not be recovered. The remains are dry at low tide.

STILL THEY COME:—One of the most recent vessels to join the New Guinea coastal fleet was the Kobo, delivered from the Sydney yard of Bjarne Halvorsen Ltd. by Captain A. M. Stanton to Steamships Trad ing Co. at Port Moresby. Kobo was the fifth K-class, 56-ft copra scow to be despatched to the Islands from this yard. These popular craft carry 25 tons of copra on a draft of 5 ft.

Steamships Trading Co. have Kari, Kone and Kobo; Australasian Petroleum Co. have Kibeni; and F. M. Campbell and Sons of the Solomons have Bauro. A sixth is on the stocks for Public Health Dept., Port Moresby, differing only in accommodation lay-out.

Bjarne Holvorsen will also shortly despatch as deck cargo a new 40-ft work-boat for APC, Port Moresby.

FOR GEIC: —Captain P. J. Kenny, of England, has joined the Gilberts fleet as master of the 60-footer Maureen. Captain A. MacAdie arrived from Australia to take com

mand of Tuvalu, relieving Captain G. Douglas, who goes to the UK on vacation.

EXIT CAPE VOGEL : —A dramatic story of the sinking of Cape Vogel was told by survivors when they reached Samarai early March. The little vessel, owned and skippered by Mr. Ted Smith, of Tarakwaruru,

north coast of Papua, struck a reef in Collingwood Bay m hea v y weather. Mr. Graham Kmgsford- Smith. a passenger, said that there was just time for himself, Mr. Smith, and the six Papuan crew-men to snatch some food and a compass, and clamber into the 11-ft dinghy before Cape Vogel slipped off the reef into deep water. The strand ing occurred at 7.15 pm in pouring rain and the party battled all night in heavy seas to keep the dinghy afloat, finally making land at Mm dino village about noon the follow ing day.

Mr. Kingsford-Smith, by extra ordinary luck, managed to save some of his belongings, which happened to be packed in a metal patrol box.

After taking to the dinghy the patrol box was seen floating past, and was taken in tow. It rode out the storm even better than the dinghy. A stud boar was lost in the wreck.

The wreck again emphasised the need for charting and establishment of lirhto and beacons on this sector of the coast, numerous unmarked reefs and shoals filling the 70-mile bay and making it one of the most dangerous areas in New Guinea waters.

A Marine Court will investigate the Cape Vogel sinking.

Pacific Record:—The New

Orinet liner Orsova broke a 34year-old record on the San Fran

cisco-Honolulu sector in March.

Steaming time was 88 hours 53 minutes, clipping 3 hours off the record held by the US vessel H. F.

Alexander.

Those Treasure Seekers:

—Recently we mentioned that the steam trawler which was scheduled

to take a treasure-seeking party from Auckland to the Auckland Islands had been sold to a Sydney firm and that that particular ex pedition appeared to have dissolved.

We now hear that the other ex pedition en route from England in the small wooden vessel Absit Omen, complete with television cameras

f and all mod. cons, for treasure f seeking, went on a reef in the Red Sea in February. The Australian ; and English crew reached shore. It c is assumed that the ship, which was earlier in heavy-weather trouble in the North Sea, is a total loss.

Across the Pacific, on Cocos, a party of 14 Americans had arrived in an ex-sub-chaser to chase the famous Cocos treasure at about the time of the above Red Sea wreck.

SPRUCING UP:—New Guinea Industries Ltd.’s smart 600-tonner Viria, and New Hebrides Trading & Shipping Co.’s Vila Star were both undergoing refit at Sydney ship yards during March, in addition to Deutgan mentioned elsewhere.

When In Frisco:—If The San

Francisco Maritime Museum Asso ciation’s dreams are realised, one of the sights to see there in future years will be the well-known full rigged ship Pacific Queen, ex Bal clutha, ex Star of Russia, at per manent moorings but completely re stored to her original sailing con dition. The Association is at the present time making an earnest appeal to all lovers of sail for financial support in the project.

Lying at Pier 43 she will become a permanent maritime museum of historic photos and relics of the days of sail. This ship was well known in the Pacific in her day.

One of her companions, Star of Russia, was wrecked at Port Vila entrance and is possibly still in use there as a hulk.

March Launching:—To Be

named Viniore, a 75-ton auxiliary schooner was to be launched from the yard of Adrien Le Prado, Tahiti, on March 23 for the Papeete firm, Societe Polynesien. Dimensions are 75 ft by 17 ft on an 8 ft draft.

A 95-hp Atlas diesel was expected to drive the craft at about 8 knots.

She will enter the local inter-island service. A photo will appear next month.

Sub In Papeete:—Uss Wahoo,

submarine, under command of Lieut.

Commander W. S. Anderson, USN, arrived at Papeete March 7 in course of a training cruise. While in port, large crowds were attracted by the nightly free movie shows on deck as the vessel lay at her berth.

So many attended the free shows in fact that local movie owners were said to be viewing the visit with some disfavour.

Radar For John Williams'

The first radar equipment to be in stalled on a vessel sailing out of Suva is now operating on the Lon

don Missionary Society’s motor

vessel the John Williams. It is a second-hand Deco plant, and cost approximately £9OO to install. A trial r uP outside the Suva passage en abled the ship to pick up an island nearly 30 miles distant, and all reefs at least six feet above water Pa § e explained that it would be used as an aid to naviga tion, and certainly would not be

relied upon completely. But, he said, it would be handy for verification.

JOHN WILLIAMS makes long voyages to all islands in the South Pacific. It left Suva March 26 for Apia and the Tokelau Islands. Its next trip will be a 10,000-mile voyage to points as far distant as the Caroline and Marshall Islands.

News of Cruising Yachts

• CALYPSO, American yawl in which the Litton family cruised French Oceania a year ago, has been sold in Honolulu, and John Litton and family have departed for a job at Panama. • KONA, US yacht which arrived in Auckland December 19, and was reported

for sale, will probably head north for the New Hebrides in March or April under the same ownership—Messrs. Blackford and Skolmen. Whether Bob Houtz, who wenl back to a job in Fiji some time ago, is also to rejoin the yacht, is not yet known.

It is understood the boys plan some aqua lung diving for trochus. • KORRIGAN, changed from French registry to American, and with the prefix “LE” lobbed off her name, sailed from Papeete for Vila via Pago Pago on February 21. Lone-hander Bob Grant, formerly of American yacht MANDALAY, returned to Papeete to purchase KORRI GAN from Commandant Faye, when MANDALAY was sold in the New Hebrides late last year. KORRIGAN Is 31 ft. 8 in. by 10 ft. beam.

• MANDALAY’S ex owner, J. S. Rocke: feller of the US, travelling: to Europe afte; selling the yacht in the New Hebride; late last year, is off on a movie-making expedition to Lapland, according to wore received by Ernst Lamberty of ANNi ELIZABETH now in the New Hebrides. • SUSAN, which owner Wally Waltoi of Auckland and a companion sailed t< Norfolk Island two years ago, left Auck: land in March for Sydney and probabll further afield. The 22-footer will be om of the smallest ever to make the Tasmai crossing. A call was to be made at Lor- Howe. • EURYDICE, a 20-ft. cutter mannet by Frenchman Maurice de Verteui] cleared Sydney for Lord Howe Island o March 6. Weather was bad off the coas at the time with a forecast for worst to come and de Verteuil was advised tl remain in port. A week or so later, whe; there was no word of him from Lor Howe and aircraft on the route wen alerted to keen a lookout, de Verteuil wa “discovered” lying snug at a Sydne Harbour mooring. He had nut bac shortly after sailing. He planned to sai again late March. • TAHEA, 28-ft. ketch which cleare Los Angeles May 24 last (PIM, Septembe* arrived Papeete March 15 and sailed agai for Honolulu a few days later. Owne Rolph Thorvaldsen, ex US Navy quartei master, said that he planned a lon« handed round-the-world voyage when li left the States last year. • SOLACE, Commander Victor Clark 30 ft. ketch, wrecked at Palmerston ata November 14, was in the news on Marc 25 when a NZ Civil Aviation Dcpartmei aircraft dropped repair materials. Tb aircraft, on a routine flight from Aituta. to Faleolo, also dropped medical supplii for the island. No regular ship scheduled to call at Palmerston L probably two months, but the atoll h: a radio station for communication wi Rarotonga.

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Reds In The Solomons

p. 82

RED agents—mainly Australis seamen in trading vessels —a:, making active efforts to spres discontent among the Solomo Islanders, said Bishop Wade, SI Roman Catholic Bishop in Bougaii ville, when interviewed during visit to the US.

He believed that the answer w' largely in improving native stai dards of living by providing agi cultural development programm and teaching the essential “kno T how.” t A correspondent says that seven 1-ton pick-up jeep trucks late have been taken by plane into tl New Guinea Highlands and land'] at Goroka. The Goroka airstrip hi now been made a double strip. T? effect of these important transpc aids should be reflected in an iJ crease in the already rapid develot ment of the Central Highlam natural resources.

H Miss Maadi Gobrait, well knov Papeete personality, returned the in March per Caledonian aft vacation overseas.

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Faipule Ask for Clean Up of Suva’s

p. 83

Increase in Pay Eating Houses

SALARY increases were sought by members of the Fono of Faipule in Western Samoa at the Fono’s February session. Rea sons given were increasing living costs and the heavy entertainment expenses demanded by the Mem bers’ positions.

The Faipule, at the High Commis sioner’s request, elected a committee of four to consider the question.

The HC said that the Government was perturbed at the widespread public service demands for salary increases. Sources of revenue at present were inadequate to meet the additional costs.

Earlier, Government employees had asked the NZ Territories Minister for higher pay.

Tourists Like Volcanoes

When Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano blew ip in March after 50 dormant years, inter-island Airlines, Ltd., rushed in with ipecial tourist flights over the mountain md did a roaring trade. Hire car services it Hilo also boomed. No lives were lost n the eruption, although the village of topoho was overwhelmed and a large ugarcane area was burned.

From Our Suva Correspondent SUVA, March 25.

A CAMPAIGN to clean up Suva’s cafes, waged by the city’s chief health inspector, has encountered difficulties at times, but has now pro

duced fairly satisfactory results.

Residents of all races, as well as tourists, have often lamented the low standards of too many of Suva’s Chinese or Indian cafes. (Public eating-places outside the four hotels are virtually a Chinese-Indian monopoly).

In some cases, for instance, it was recognised that it would be un just to insist on immediate structural alterations when the tenants of down-at-heel buildings were on a month-to-month rental and would have to bear the expense.

However, the campaign has pro duced a useful general overhaul, and badly-needed repainting has brightened many of the dingy back rooms which passed as cafes. The personal cleanliness of cooks and waiters is a point that has been stressed, and all eating-places have been supplied with posters showing the effects of dirty conditions and contamination of food by flies and other pests.

Meanwhile the well-known green grocery of Yee Joy and Co. is build ing new premises in Gumming Street and will open the top floor as a modern cafe. Mr. Yee Joy, sen., sent one of his sons to Sydney for ideas about equipment, and the restaurant will be spacious, well ventilated and well-furnished.

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t Japanese fishermen who were im prisoned in November for poaching in New Guinea waters have been repatriated in the vessel Tokay a Mam, which returned to Rabaul at the end of February to pick up a crew member who had been receiv ing treatment for an injured eye.

U Dr. Felix Emberson, of Suva, has been appointed to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, for his three years’ clinical training. Dr.

Emberson, a Colonial Development and Welfare scholar, gained his Bachelor of Medical Science degree at Sydney University, where he has been doing research on bone de formities.

t Whales sighted in the Paci: probably come from the same sto as those which concentrate in tl Ross Sea Dependency area summer, says Mr. W. H. Dawbi Lecturer in Geology at Victor University College, Wellington, N He has asked for help from Fiji his researches into the movemer of South Pacific whales.

Undersea fishermen Roy Cheval (on right) and Gay Dumte, members of the Chasse Sous-Marine Club of New Caledonia, display their catch. The admiring onlooker is R. Peyiolle.

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Young Officer’S Death

Fijian Career

MANY people in Fiji—and a number in New Zealand—be lieved that a bright future lay ahead of Lieut. M. R. D. Vula, a Fijian soldier whose death occurred it his home at Vatukarasa, Nadroga, jn February 18, soon after his return from Army service in Malaya.

Misiwata Ratulevu Domoni Vula, who was in his early thirties when le died, received his secondary jducatioh at Queen Victoria School md later entered the Government service. As a clerk in the Secre iariat, at Suva, he soon won a high •eputation, and it was common mowledge that in 1951, when the :all was made for Fijian recruits or Malaya, the Army had to em >loy its powers of persuasion to secure Vula’s release from his Gov irnment post.

In 1950, a wide circle of friends, hjian and otherwise, were interested ti the fact that M. R. D. Vula was -as far as anybody could discover -the first young Fijian to go over eas as an unofficial individual raveller. Through a New Zealand riend at Suva, he had been in ited to spend three months’ leave ,s the guest of a South Island amily.

PHIS interlude, which took him to many places where no Fijian had ever been before, worked ut unexpectedly as an unofficial oodwill mission. Fijian courtesy, itelligence, and charm of manner layed their part, and the NZ visit an unalloyed success.

Further, the traveller was con iantly astonished to discover an nfailing fund of quiet affection to ards the Fijian people in southern [ties and remote townships alike, art of this could be traced to NZ jldiers who had been in Fiji dur ig the war, part to the splendid ijian war record, and part to the npact of Fijian cricketers, foot alters and athletes in the Dominion, In a Fijian language broadcast fter his return to Suva, Vula told ow, on occasions when he and his Z friend arrived without warning : crowded hotels in Westland, embers of the hotelkeepers’ families ould often bundle out of their own >oms on the grounds that “this is ie first Fijian to come here, and place must be made somehow!”

PUBLICITY was avoided, but in the larger cities the press was promptly on the trail, and at r ellington the holiday visit was sur risingly described as “a welcome meriment in Fijian-NZ social re .tionship.”

At the end of it all, when questioned about his first tour outside Fiji, Vula summed it up as follows: “All the way from Auckland to Dunedin I was made to feel welcome. I thought I might feel sometimes like a stranger or a curiosity, but I didn’t.” At the same tSt wUd d mo™tato

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months later jDecause of the death of his wife, a former nurse, who left a baby son. He remained with the Army in Fiji until May, 1953, when he returned to Malaya shortly after his second marriage. His Army record was as consistently good as his civilian career had been.

At the funeral, at Vatukarasa, the Fiji toy & dct&chmcrit from the ColoniB»l Barracks at Suva, and the Govern ment was represented by Roko Tui Nadroga and Navosa (Ratu George Cakobau). The Rev. S. Nabanivalu officiated at the graveside and there was a very large gathering of relatives and friends from Suva, Lautoka and other centres of Vlti Levu.

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A Major-General Talks in Fiji

BUT IS IT NOT TIME THE FIJIANS

When the sudden call was made for Fijian soldiers to serve against the Communist terrorists in Malaya (Oct., 1951), it was indicated that the term of overseas service would be two years.

In 1953, the term was extended to four years; and, in the last six months, there has been speculation, mixed with misgivings, in Fiji over a widespread belief that people in high places, military and otherwise, may want yet another extension.

ON March 13, Major-General

L. E. C. M. Perowne, CB, CBE, General Officer Commanding the 17th Gurkha Infantry Division, with which the Ist Battalion, Fiji Infantry Regiment, is serving in Malaya, broadcast at Suva in the course of a four-day visit to Fiji.

General Perowne gave his listen ers an outline of the emergency in Malaya, emphasising the imperial aspect of the fight and refuting the Communist claim that the terrorist thugs in the jungle are part of a nationalist movement struggling for freedom from British “colonialism.”

His talk had something of the air of a recruiting campaign.

With regard to the Fijian soldiers (all but a very small proportion of the Ist Bn. men are indigenous Fijians), General Perowne voiced the following salute: " Gay, incomparable fighters, going to battle with a song in your hearts; fearless, great-hearted sportsmen; the admiration of all your many, many friends and the terror of your enemies; loyal subjects of the Queen and truly representative of your race, Fiji may well be proud of you. From all in Malaya—except

the Communists greetings and thanks. In the words of General Bourne, Malaya’s Director of Operations: ‘There is only one thing better than a battalion of Fijians, and that is two battalions!’”

The people who have persistent, criticised the Malaya assignment fo the Fijians will recognise this as sincere, well-deserved tribute. Bu they may also wonder if it is in an way a build-up for something ur pleasant.

General perowne said th* the Fijian troops “came to u as the result of an offer initiate in Fiji and sponsored by the Fii Government.”

The preposition “in” is correct. P one time there was a tendency t hang everything on a famous de claration of loyalty to the Thror by the Council of Chiefs, but, late: the Ist Bn. newspaper, Hunt an Kill, stated that the original ide of sending Fijians to Malaya cam from Colonel (later Brigadier) C. I Pleasants, the NZ officer who was *

that time Commander of the Fij Military Forces.

This, however, is a minor poin compared with the overshadowin fact that in October, 1951, the 130,0 G (now 143,000) indigenous Fijian were suddenly called upon to hell the 5,000,000 or more people o Malaya by providing hundreds o hand-picked young men to fight ii the jungle. (It has been pointed ou many times that the Fijians, life the other Empire troops, have bee: in effect fighting to make Malay, safe for self-government. Th SEATO and other large-scale de fence plans are much later develop: ments).

Major-General L. E. C. M. Perowni CB, CBE, General Officer Commandin the 17th Gurkha Division to which t[?] Ist Battalion, Fiji Infantry Regiment, attached in Malaya, paid a short vis to Suva as guest of the Fiji Governmen He was accorded traditional Fijian cert monies of welcome at Colonial Barrack[?] Suva. Photo (by Rob Wright) show Major - General Perowne inspecting Guard of Honour at Nasese Camp, Fi[?]

5 In December, 1951, a Reuter re port contained the following com ment ; f “To a population of 130,000, out numbered by aliens in its home land and battling hard to adjust its whole economic system in the face of great obstacles, the with drawal of hundreds of the most promising young men for two years is considered likely to be much more than serious. This point is the spearhead of criticism by pro- Fijian Europeans, who add that only recently has the Fijian popula tion level began to recover the ground lost between 1880 and 1920” [N 1951, doubts about the fairness of calling on the Fijians to fight in Malaya were expressed in the PIM and in many other quarters, vhile strong protests were made by Methodist Church spokesmen in Fiji and Australia.

There was more criticism when ;he term of the Ist Bn’s service was ‘xtended until 1956, and last De :ember a statement by the British Uommissioner-General in South east Asia (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald) lad repercussions in Fiji’s Legis ative Council.

Mr. MacDonald was reported in *Z as saying that the Fijians would »e in Malaya for “quite a long time.” mmediately a new spate of specula ion and criticism went the rounds n Suva, and in the Council the lev. S. G. C. Cowled (Chairman of he Methodist Mission, which has /ell over 80 per cent, of the in ligenous Fijians as its adherents) isked (1) if the campaign in lalaya were getting anywhere; (2) I the military approach were the ight one; and (3) if the Fijians rere being asked to do too much ecause of their high reputation as ungle-fighters in the Pacific War nd in Malaya.

Reflecting the apprehension over possible further extension of the srm of service in Malaya, Mr.

V. G. Johnson stressed that there ras a feeling in Fiji that the ijians had done their bit and tiould return at the end of the pre mt term—at the beginning of 1956.

There was a good deal of selfish ess somewhere, said Mr. Johnson, nd perhaps the big Dominions nould shoulder more of the burden f fighting terrorism in Malaya.

Replying for the Government, the olonial Secretary (Mr. A. F. R. toddart) said that these pertinent uestions could be answered pro erly only by the UK Government nd the Malayan Government. The uestions exercising the minds of eople in Fiji had also exercised the find of the Government in the ast when making the decision that le services of a Fijian battalion lould be made available.

Referring to the NZ report of the rniark attributed to Mr. Mac donald, Mr. Stoddart said: “I think

members will be quite sure that that remark, if it was made, was m no way made with the authority of this Government. Though we have not got the precise text or context of what was said, we do not think it was any more than a general re mark which was particularised in

reporting.”

GOVERNMENT and Army spokes men at times have caused plain speaking in Fiji by claiming that overseas travel and experience rby way of the campaign in Malaya) “broadens the outlook” and other wise greatly benefits Fijian service men and their families.

General Perowne said something of the sort in his Suva broadcast, and last year Brigadier Pleasants stirred up a sharp press retort by suggesting (in NZ) that examples of the broadening process were to be found among Fijian ex-service men who had come back to drive taxis or work as hotel waiters!

The reply was that if this sort of thing had to be the summit of Fijian ambitions the Fijian soldiers should come home straight away, before any further “broadening” occurred at a time when the Fijian people were being constantly ex horted and badgered to make full use of their birthright (the land).

WHEN the Ist Bn. sailed from Tv Suva on January 8, 1952, a press commentator estimated that at least one, in 12 men aged between

20 and 30 had been withdrawn from Fijian life. This, of course, took no account of the many Fijians in the forces at home or training in NZ; or in the police force, or in mining and other in dustries, for which there is a steady demand for Fijian workers, largely from the villages.

Since the recruits taken into the

forces are all selected healthy me the proportionate loss is actua. higher than any figures indicate THE Fijians’ success in Mala was never a subject of dou General Perowne said that th have maintained the highest rate killing-per-contact of any u n engaged in the theatre. “The hi

andard of their junior leaders, eir natural ability in jungle-craft, eir energy and determination, and eir tremendous endurance all con fute to this result,” he said.

One officer and 12 other ranks we been killed or died of wounds id others have died as the result accidents or sickness.

A Singapore report on March 8 ited that the Fijians had counted for 176 terrorists, includ y three captures, and that their erage was 100 man-hours for each il.

Because of a Colonial Office ;tum, the total number of men, jian or otherwise, in the defence rces in Fiji and overseas is an icial secret. This curious security le applies to the whole Colonial apire. A conservative estimate uld put the number of indigenous (ians in the forces at possibly >re than 2,000.

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When Tonga Used Fiji’s

p. 91

Postage Stamps

KDR a short time before the issue of the first Tongan postage stamps in August, 1886, current and 6d Fijian stamps were used, t none has been discovered bear l a Tongan cancellation earlier an August, 1866 (reports the mthly journal of an Auckland m specialising in Island stamps).

Lhe writer of the note then bos hes an envelope which was ought to his attention recently, [dressed to Robert Schmidt, Esq., o German Consulate, Apia, moa, it was postmarked at Nu alofa on January 9, 1888, and ars three 2d Fijian stamps. Some structions written along the top ge are indecipherable, the writer jrs, but there appears to be the trd “Maile”, which “leads one to mder if it could be the name of ship”. [t certainly could, as many old ners in the Islands will know. lile, a smart sailing craft, erated a regular service from ickland to Tonga and probably to moa as well. F. A. Eaddy’s Us Beneath the Southern Cross, viewed in January PIM, men ms the vessel. tfiss Moira MacDonald, the part moan girl who, while working at ? Bank of NZ, Apia, was given an portant role in the film, “Return Paradise,” arrived in Sydney late March for three weeks’ holiday, e was accompanied by a friend, *s. V. M. Croudace, of New York, to has been making a long visit Samoa. Sydney newspapers have adlined the fact that although )ira was offered an American film atract she preferred to stay at lia.

Officer's Widow Goes

p. 91

Home to Fiji

Mrs. Heather Genge, Widow

of Major Robert Genge, who was killed by Communist terror ists in a jungle ambush in Malaya while serving with the Fijian troops, arrived at Sydney on March 14 on her way home to Fiji from Malaya. With her were her chil dren, Christine, aged 8, Robert (5) and a baby daughter, Talei, who was born only a fortnight before her father’s death.

In a Sydney press interview, Mrs.

Genge said that Major Genge had visited her at Kluang Hospital on

February 29, the day after she had been taken to hospital suffering from food poisoning. On the way back to barracks at Labis (Johore) with three Fijian soldiers, he was shot dead in the first burst of fire from the concealed terrorists. Lieut.

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t The Apia Debating Society, after a long period in recess, came to life again in February with a debate on the controversial liquor question.

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pp. 95-97

[?]elf-Help Experiment:

Profit and Loss at Mangaia

PROFIT and loss in his efforts to help Mangaia people help jmselves (Nov. PIM) are reported Mr. Ronald Syme, writing in mid arch.

One of the projects was to monstrate that the local cost of ing could be lowered, and trade >re business boosted, if the trade )re owners were prepared to set eir profits at a 33 per cent irgin, and use discrimination in lecting their overseas buying irces.

Vlr. Syme gained the co-operation a Maori trade-store owner who rchased goods overseas, and per tted Mr. Syme to police his counts and margins. Business Mned —but only while the luntary policing lasted. Then atives were able to out-talk Mr. me in convincing the owner that long as all the traders charged * same excessive prices, the public uld simply have to pay more— ace greater and quicker profits. . Syme says that business has iguished greatly in consequence, d the storekeeper is rather less ■e that his own system is better. *o early revolution in trading as and methods on the grand ,le is seen for Mangaia. Still, i demonstration has given food thought—and even that is pre ss. 1 the copra sphere, the island now has five kiln driers where there were none a year ago. pra standards have risen rkedly as a result, and producers now getting together and ship g their copra directly to the New iland crushing mill (where all )k Islands copra goes) rather n through local traders. With increasing output of all produce, ter shipping connections for set shipment, and the saving of mt £7 in transhipment charges Rarotonga, seem likely.

Growers are clubbing together to )ort their own sacks—few alone i afford the cost of a minimum er of about £l5O to gain the lefit of a direct purchase from manufacturers.

'here is progress in the pineapple ustry. An idea seemed to have ome current at Mangaia that particular variety of pines wn there could not be canned cessfully. Mr. Syme has or tised an experimental shipment canned pulp which has been re ted on satisfactorily. As a re : the Cook Islands Administra i has shown immediate interest

and is now considering assistance to a small community cannery.

THERE is a keen demand for the produce so long as it comes up to the standard of the experimental shipment, and, with the supervision of the Resident Agent or some other reliable person, there appears to be no reason why Mangaia cannot develop a promising industry. A cannery is the obvious answer to all the problems of irregular shipping which plague the fresh-fruit industry.

Though coffee prices have fallen somewhat since last year, a drier is ready to go into operation and a good initial shipment is forecast as the crop becomes available this

winter. A keen revival of this once important industry seems possible.

Mr. Syme, whose brother is a Governor of the Northern Terri tories of the Gold Coast, considered that dhurra—a kind of sorghum grass—could be usefully introduced to Mangaia from Africa. He suggested it to Mr. H. C. Gerlach, tropical agronomist of the NZ De partment of Agriculture, who pays regular visits to the Island terri tories. Mr. Gerlach was in favour of the idea and dhurra seeds have arrived.

“It’s a 6 ft high grass which has a fine head of corn on it within 90 days of planting. The corn is a first-class food for human beings, either as a rich flour, or in porridge

m. It also provides a fine grain horses, goats, pigs, and poultry ,nd God knows the Mangaian ‘stock need some decent food,” s Mr. Syme.

The stalks are excellent for ,tching, etc. and can be used as ■ fodder for some animals. It is principal food for man and mal in the Sudan”, he adds, lhanges will not come rapidly in Cooks, but some of the projects hand are a step in the right jction.

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R-Freighted Food For

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Port Moresby

URNS, Queensland, has started a trade in airfreighted fresh vegetables and meat to Port •esby. The first consignment of 0 lb of frozen beef and a large ntity of vegetables went north a Qantas aircraft in February. shipment went to the Port ■esby Freezing Co. In the past, t Moresby has been getting air ?hted meat, but from further ;h, and most of its air-freighted ‘tables came from the NG tilands or Wau.

Australian passion-fruit growers s had a lot to say recently it imported passion-fruit grown ‘cheap-labour” countries. Per s Goroka vegetable producers

could now protest against competi tion from Australian vegetable growers.)

Down In Tahiti

p. 97

Coconut Mills Close

A COMPANY, which operated a desiccated coconut factory in Tahiti, has closed down. It was owned by Mr. A. J. Burtschy, employing about 50 persons. It was known as Society Imtex.

Another coconut-products plant, the Chin Foo oil crushing mill, which has been turning out a pro duct with the trade-name Cocofine, is reported to be closing down.

The reasons for the decisions to close may be associated with the imposition of an export tax on these products. It is recalled that in 1920 an American mill operated by the Vegetable Oil Corporation of New

York shut down in similar circum stances. Its machinery was shipped to the Philippines.

French Oceania exported 8,758,000 francs worth of oil (approximately £A61,500) in 1953. The quantity of desiccated coconut is not known.

Coconut Shell Used For Decarbonisation

p. 97

Decarbonisation

PULVERISED coconut shell, blasted under air pressure into the cylinders of internal com bustion engines through the spark plug vents, is being used success fully in de-coking engines. Each cylinder of the average car takes about 8 minutes to decarbonise thoroughly by this system, states a motoring magazine. An injection of air minus the pulverised shell completes the removal of shell and leaves the cylinder and piston top thoroughly polished.

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LOLOMA, one of Fiji’s famous goldmines, is almost worked out, and, according to a Sydney re port, there was little over a year’s feed for the mill available at the end of last June.

Accordingly, investment interest now centres mainly on the com pany’s big investments and in the possible opening of a new mine in a jointly-held area on the eastern boundary of the Emperor leases.

The two main companies in the Tavua field —Emperor Mines, Ltd., and Loloma (Fiji) Goldmines, NL— forming part of the Associated Gold mining Companies of Fiji, were started in the 1930’s by Melbourne investors led by the late E .G.

Theodore. A smaller associated company (private) worked the rich Dolphin property.

Mining has been by both open cut and underground methods, the ore being treated at a huge central plant. Before and after the war Fiji’s gold exports were over the £1,000,000 mark annually, and the Vatukoula mining settlement has grown into a flourishing little modern town.

IN 1952, the Fiji Government and the Australian companies an nounced an agreement regard ing new and intensive exploration for gold. Under subsequent legisla tion the Government reduced its goldmining revenue by £F200,000 in the period to 1956. Royalties on gold and silver were cut and the

Governor-in-Council was empowe to make a further special reduo; for new mines. At the same fj the Government permitted all c ital spent in developing new m;j to be set off over the year of penditure and the succeeding years for income tax purposes.

Simultaneously the companies

Dunced a three-year programme »r exploring the Vatukoula-Tavua •ea. Emperor, Loloma and Dolphin ich applied for prospecting jences covering 14,000 acres hord ing areas hpld by the companies, was stated that some of the holes i be churn-drilled would go as deep i 2,500 ft, and the estimated cost the programme was £200,000, in uding plant and equipment.

A report in March stated that in ie area adjoining Emperor’s eastern »undary two of four holes drilled dicate the possible existence of a »od tonnage of rich ore (core assay oz) east of Emperor’s Nos. 8 and levels. It is intended to test the iw ore-zone by cross-cutting from nperor’s new internal shaft, now ing sunk. It may be two years more before the ore-zone in the intly-held property is fully ex- Dred and its value known. Mean lile, Loloma will share the cost exploration equally with Em ror.

OLOMA has a paid capital of i £A93,375 in 5/- shares, of which 180,000 are fully paid and the lance paid to 1/6 each. For the ar to June 30, 1954, the Co. netted 5,663 (down £81,020), of which ,752 (down £74,414) came from ining, and £87,991 (down £6,610), ual to 2/4 a share, from invest mts. Dividends totalling 2/- a are (£82,500) were paid, and an tler 1/- a share was sent out on ;cember 21, 1954, making total /idends paid to date £1,189,375, or /10 a share.

When the books closed current sets totalled £1,255,491 and current bilities £82,672. Investments, which nsist mainly of scrip in sound istralian industrials, stood in the oks at £1,031,712. Their market realisable value last November is put at £1,249,459. rhe market prices the Co.’s scrip 24/6, thus valuing the entire dertaking at £1,010,625, or £217,750 ;s than the market of the invest mts alone.

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iTITHOUT the missionaries, Aus r tralia would not have half the control it exercises in Papua iw Guinea at the moment, said 5 Minister of Territories (Mr. Paul isluck) at Melbourne, on March 2, len speaking as chairman of the sthodist Missionary Conference. ’. Hasluck said that the Australian wernment had given more than 137.000 to Methodist missions in pua and New Guinea. At the ne meeting the treasurer (Mr.

C. Sandow) said that during the >t year Victoria had given 50.000 to the missions, but this is insufficient for the work being ne.

Valuable Property

p. 99

Tupai Atoll Company’S

PLANTATION de Tupai, the company which owns Tupai atoll, north of Borabora. has undergone some reorganisation, ac cording to a notice in Journal Officiel of French Oceania.

In 1951 the island was advertised for sale at the equivalent of £A160,000. It was then said to have 2,000 acres of cultivable land and a copra capacity of 1,000 tons per annum.

The present owners, according to the notice, are Mme Henriette Amedet, widow, of Papeete; M.

John A. Moon (Papeete) and Mme Modest Pommerais, widow (France).

They appear to have taken over from the late M. Amedet and a Mr.

Homes. The latter was probably an Englishman, long resident in French Oceania, who died last year. The company’s capital is 5 million francs (about £A35,000) in 500 equal shares. t Regimental plate and crested silverware to be used when the officers’ and sergeants’ messes of the Ist Bn , Fiji Infantry Regt. are hosts to the many visitors to the Battalion in Malaya is to be purchased with the help of a £3OO grant from the Lady Garvey Fund. The plate will return with the Battalion to Fiji, to become a permanent possession of the regiment.

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ITESTERN Samoa has become the It object of an extraordinary mount of research in the political,

;onomic, and geographical fields.

In the political sphere there has, i the last two years, been a close tamination of all the implications I approaching self-government. In )53, Mr. V. D. Stace carried out an jonomic survey for the South acific Commission. About the ime time Dr. Norma R. McArthur, nder a research grant from the ustralian National University, lade a study of population trends id implications. Recently there as been an aerial mapping survey ' the Territory, and now at least ro other projects are getting under ay.

The first is a survey of the sources, population, economy, and intemporary land-use practices, id the implications to the amoans of a transfer from a ibsistence to a modern commercial ionomy.

This project is being carried out r Professor Kenneth B. Cumber nd, MA, DSc. and a team of re archers from Auckland University

College. The project was announced late 1953 and some preliminary work was done last year by Mr.

Leslie Curry, MA, but the main work will begin in August and will be spread over several years, different workers spending periods on the job in rotation. First to arrive in August will be Mr. Bryan H. Farrell, MA. The work will be financed by a grant from the Carnegie social science research fund of the University of New Zealand.

ANOTHER Auckland geographer arrived in March, to carry out a year’s mapping of Samoa’s forests and assessment of their worth. He is Mr. S. S. Cameron.

His work will tie in with Professor Cumberland’s project, but it is a separate project, financed partly by research fellowship fund from Yale University, the Bishop Museum (Honolulu) and the Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.

More Cattle For Fiji

p. 101

101

FIRST draft of the famous Santa Gertrudis strain of tropical breed cattle to be exported from Australia, was despatched in March consigned to the Fiji Gov ernment. The shipment consisted of four yearling stud bulls ,and the shippers were King Ranch (Aust.) Ltd. The sale was arranged through Dalgety & Co., Ltd.

t Records were set by January and February imports at Suva. Forty six ships discharged 44,710 tons, compared with 37 ships and 12,050 tions in the same period of 1954. Im ports warrants passed by the Customs Department totalled 8,020 (4,666) and customs duty totalled £428,700 (£421,481).

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Samoan Entertainers

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102

If Major Oliver Edwards, of Nausorl, Fiji, was scheduled to go to Malaya early in April to join the Ist Bn.

Fir.

ti Dr. and Mrs. T. H. Allen and their two children have gone from Adelaide to Fiji, where Dr. Allen will work in partnership with Dr.

T. Oldmeadow, of Suva. Dr. and Mrs. Allen have been presidents of the Student Christian Movement at Adelaide and leaders in the

Missionary Fellowship.

If Squadron-Leader I. Rockell, MI Administration Officer at t ] RNZAF Station at Laucala B Suva, has been transferred to ] after nearly three years’ service Fiji. He will be replaced Squadron-Leader Poulten. Fit.-Lie Lane is also under notice of trans to New Zealand.

After performing in Australia as the Tuli Brothers, specialising in modern Polynesian singing and dancing, Henry Hunkin and William Miller are back in Western Samoa. Henry works in the Justice Department and William is em ployed by an Apia trading firm. In the last year they made occasional broadcasts in Australia and appeared in many stage shows. In Sydney Jeanette Christian (a Fletcher Christian descendant) joined the Tuli Brothers as a dancer. —Photo by Jack Thornton.

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The Gilberts

'HE Gilbert & Ellice Is. Colony Depart ment of Information, in a survey of igress made in the Colony daring 1954, ntions the following construction work: Completion of King George V Secondary 100 l to take up to 150 boy boarders, sated at Bikenibeu, Tarawa, the school s built under a Colonial Development nt. fork commenced and is now in full swing a new central hospital, located near [ school. Built under a similar grant, hospital will become an important ining centre for nurses and dressers, ently needed in the outer islands, i new Residency was completed, and a nber of new permanent staff buildings being built at Bairiki, Tarawa. .t Betio, Tarawa, a new District Office I completed and the DO has shifted his dquarters from Bairiki. Erection of [sing for District staff is in progress. * * * t is expected that a new Land linance will be enacted this year, iwing considerable work by a Native ds Commission last year. The new inance will introduce a greater degree standardisation of land laws through the Colony, based on the recommenda s of the Island magistrates. The in ising interest in land ownership makes new legislation of great importance. * * * reater responsibility and authority to 1 governments throughout the Colony probable as the result of recent dis iions at Tarawa and Honiara. The ive Governments Ordinance is likely ?e amended soon. * * * tie Ramage Report of salaries revision low being considered by the Govern t with a view to possible improvements salaries and conditions of service of lie servants in the Colony. * * * line with most other South Pacific Itories, plans are being made for the tment within the Colony of most s of leprosy, instead of sending the ents to Makogai, Fiji. New drugs - rendered possible this local treatment all but a few cases. (Eastern and tern Samoa, Tonga, and the Cook ids have taken similar action). * * * ie Rev. Mr. Spivey and Mrs. Spivey, the London Missionary Society, have the Colony after many years’ service.

Spivey is succeeded by the Rev. E. ■s as chairman of the Gilbert Islands >ion Committee. * * * ie Rev. Mother General of the Sisters he Sacred Heart visited the Order’s don stations in the Gilberts from ice in January. She was accompanied i Sydney by the Mother Provincial of Order in Australia.

French Culture

p. 103

103

In Islands

From Our Noumea Correspondent NOUMEA, March 29.

NEW Caledonia and French Oceania are small in comparison with the French African terri tories (there are only about 60,000 people in each), and French metro politan aid is essential to the de velopment of both, said M. Roger Duviau, State Secretary of the French Empire, in Paris after re cently visiting the South Pacific.

M. Duviau said that all the people

had had schooling and the French language was universally understood.

There was no racial problem.

“Thus the seeds of French civil isation are bearing fruit,” he added.

“They should be cultivated with care.”

M. Duviau described Tahiti and its sister-islands as a “paradise on earth.” New Caledonia, much larger, had different problems. The French population gave great promise, but there were not enough people to develop the island’s natural resources.

“I have examined some of the pro jects over there,” he said; “especi ally one to develop the ferro-nickel industry to make it a world-leader.”

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Noumea Recalls

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1942 Events

HE historic occasion when the Americans, under General Patch, ded at Noumea, is too often gotten, said a Noumea newspaper the 13 th anniversary of the jing, on March 12. oon after the Pearl Harbour ick (Dec. 7, 1941), Fighting nee, under General de Gaulle, lared war on Japan, and New edonia was offered as a base to Allies. The arrival of the first voy, with 40,000 American troops, ;e months later undoubtedly ;d Fiji, Australia and NZ, as well Caledonia, from the horrors Fapanese invasion. sventy ships, escorted by about 10 ships, arrived at Noumea on •ch 12, 1942. Other convoys ved within a few days, and NC ime one of the most powerful is in the Pacific theatre. tie American “occupation” ight NC a prosperity it had ;r known before and probably never know again, but few re ders of the feverish boom era ain to-day. Occasional grass vn ruins indicate the sites of j camps. le best-preserved of the Amen

can buildings is the former “Penta gon” of the US Army at Anse Vata, now the headquarters of the South Pacific Commission. Behind it stands the now-shabby church which served US servicemen of all denominations.

It is no longer used or cared for.

The huge US Navy warehouses and other installations have gone.

The American cemetery, from which the bodies were all taken home years ago, is overgrown with weeds. . . But, though sometimes forgetful, Noumea people remember March 12, 1942, with gratitude and appreciation.

Inquiry About C. F. Maxwell

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NEW ZEALAND’S Department of Island Territories is seeking a photograph of Mr. Christopher Freke Maxwell, who was Resident Commissioner at Niue in 1904. Any reader who may know where a photograph may be obtained, or the whereabouts of members of Mr.

Maxwell’s family, is asked to com municate with Mr. J. B. Wright, Secretary, Department of Island Territories, Hotel Cecil Building, Wellington, New Zealand. t Lae clubs and societies raised more than £1,600 in March for NSW flood relief. This represents more than £1 a hpad for the local Euro pean population.

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t Triplets (a rarity among Fijians) born at Savusavu on February 18 are making good progress at the local hospital. All are boys and are named Samuela, Eliki and Kitione.

Local Fijians have provided a trust

fund, and gifts and contribui have helped to provide the sp food required. The mother, Matavuva, is with the babies aj hospital, where the father, S Dudo, is working as a grounds

Professor H. Belshaw, Economist at Victoria University College, Wellington, NZ, who, with Mr. V. D. Stace, economist of the Reserve Bank of NZ, will carry out an economic survey of the Cook Islands this year. Professor Belshaw recently has conducted similar surveys in the Manu’a Islands of American Samoa, and in the Tokelaus.—Photo: D. E. Ross.

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[?]dem Dress and Outlook

larked Change in Fiji's Young Women

By Frank Ryan

1 the last 20 years, Fiji has ex perienced most of those changes inevitable in a “young” country, w buildings are being erected, the julation continually increases, and s City of Suva is rapidly extend : over the adjoining hills, hobably not so noticeable, except the streets of Suva, is the marked mge that is taking place among i young Fijian women, n the old way of life, Fijian men, unless of rank, occupied a nial position. They had no tiative, and were not encouraged extend their activities beyond tring children, looking after their nfolk, and working in the village ntations. To a modified extent, s still prevails in village life, hit, among the younger educated men, a marked change is apparent, to comparatively recent years women wore very plain and un ealing dresses, and invariably a u was worn underneath. The 1 of this plain piece of cloth tally hung incongruously below skirt, with anything but pleas effect. ’o-day, young Fijian women ’king in offices wear stylish, well de dresses of the best material. ; sulu, draped under the skirt, ; been discarded. Under voile, on and georgette upper garments ider bra and petticoat ribbons w, in attractive contrast against pely brown shoulders, heir carefully-tended frizzy hair, ly maturity, and their free, ceful carriage as they stride in companionship alongside the ng men with whom they work, [ to their charm. hey ride bicycles, a few drive 5, and many don short bloomers nheard of a few years ago—to ipete in athletic events. An .stant in the Fiji Visitors’ •eau is a softly-spoken girl, ruana Sorowale, who represented in the broad jump at the tish Empire Games in Canada.

Medical Students

t the Central Medical School, an girls sit attentively through ures or bend intently over oratory benches, ultimately to duate as Assistant Medical Prac- Dners, or as dentists, he attitude of Fijian men toward ir womenfolk may require that a while these girls may have be used in child-welfare or ilar work, rather than in nurs ; but, as the men seem to like ministrations of Fijian nurses i difficulty may not arise. In the mtime the Principal of the

School speaks with enthusiasm of these promising girl students.

At Adi Cakobau School the scholastic attainments of the girls, their vitality, adaptability, eagerness to learn, and their neat, wholesome appearance, have commanded the admiration of many distinguished visitors, most notably Her Majesty the oueen. ... , It is interesting to observe how cultural environment, and the in- Sjf nC dnwn thp nimd? 6 a 1 ?’

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Something similar was said by a former matron at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, who lamented that no sooner had she got her trainees in order than someone married them. If they married medical assistants, as is often the case, they should be helpful to their husbands in their work, which they could share. If the husband was an educated boy, there was equality in culture and outlook.

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[ men alone. For that reason, mg women in Fiji are being en gaged to learn and develop tiative and confidence. _n the iools, training colleges, hospitals 1 in Government and commercial ces, young women are showing rked signs of advancement and, the same time, developing pride their sex. ’hey are already emerging from cocoon to explore new fields of *k in the development of their e.

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[?] Iron Ore Prospects

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ROSPECTS for the sale of New Caledonia iron ore are hopeful.

A new road gives direct motor imunication with the mine, and s hoped that shipments to the ken Hill Pty. will start this year, an (a substantial pre-war buyer) r imports iron ore from the lippines and Portuguese ndia, in view of the present political ation in Portuguese India, Japan j again look to NC. ew Zealand is regarded as an gr possible future market. — imea Correspondent. astor J. B. Keith has replaced tor H. White as president of the Union Mission, with head rters at Lae.

Out of Jungle After Ten Years

p. 109

This photograph, taken by Mr. Walter Barker, of Wewak, shows the four Japanese servicemen who, in February, came out of hiding in the Dutch New Guinea jungle and 10 years after the cessation of the Pacific war, gave themselves up. They were picked up in Wewak by the Jap War Graves Mission ship and taken to Tokio where, on ar rival early in March,

they were literally overwhelmed by Japanese reporters and photographers.

The four servicemen, even after 10 years, were not easily convinced that the war had ended in the defeat and surrender cf Japan.

They are pictured here as they were immediately after landing from a Qantas plane which brought them from Hollandia to Wewak.

Suva-Tarawa Mercy Flight

p. 109

MAKING a mercy flight from Suva to Tarawa on March 21, an RNZAF flying-boat returned with a nursing sister requiring urgent hospital treatment. A doctor from the Suva Hospital went with the aircraft.

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THE Matson Line may establish a tourist hotel in Tahiti if current discussions with the Tahiti govern ment are successful.

The hotel would operate in con junction with Matson-Oceanic plans to re-enter the trans-Pacific passenger trade with two big new liners in 1956 or 1957. Matson are already in the hotel business in Hawaii. Their fourth hotel, the 270-room Princess Kaiulani, will open shortly in Honolulu.

Discussing progress in regard to the new ships, Matson’s Sydney manager said, in March, that tenders have now been called from ship yards. If prices quoted meet the Matson estimates there would appear to be no reason why work should not go ahead rapidly. The plan is to use standard “Mariner”-Class hulls, many of which are under construction in American shipyards as fast cargo vessels.

The service will be heavily sub sidised by the US Government. The Sydney manager anticipates that

the vessels will appear before the end of next year. (First Matson brochures had appeared in Suva in March. Matson contemplates a round-the-Pacific service, Papeete, Pago Pago and Suva being on the route, but not necessarily ports of call on both northbound and southbound voyages.

It is a thousand pities that someone cannot persuade Matson to build a hotel in Suva, which is an accom modation bottle-neck to any in creased Fiji tourism).

t Suva employers of casual w labour are to issue permits only men with permits will be ployed. This scheme, which not affect permanent employee intended to provide as much \ as possible for men who depen< stevedoring for a livelihood, regularise the engagement of w ers from the various areas of cruitment and to make it ei to check on men who infringe Fijian Regulations.

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Cruising in the Pacific

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LUSTRALIAN parents with vision and money to spare may, in the coming term holidays, send their children on a 12-days air cruise of ew Caledonia, Fiji and other Pacific Islands.

i announcing in March, details :his first air-cruise with Frigate i 111, Sir Gordon Taylor said: om the educational aspect, I that well within the adult lives today’s school boys and girls world is going to look more and ■e to the Pacific region as the r world of the South, and I am ing to give as many young Aus ians as possible a pre-view of world.” ir Gordon has left open at this :e the full itineraries for the r Caledonia and Fiji regions be se, between now and May he ts to look closely into the best bination of educational and day enjoyment. :igate Bird 111 is a Bermuda s flying-boat capable of carry -35 passengers. Cost of this ;icular cruise (with Sir Gordon ommand) is £AI9S for children, 35 for adults. The itinerary is ainly interesting. tie programme now reads as >ws; Depart Sydney 10 am, May arriving at Grafton. NSW. 2 rs later. Lunch at the Crown si, an afternoon car drive, ier and an overnight stop at hotel. In the air again at 8.20 next day, with lunch in flight an arrival at Noumea about 4 where the party will stay at s Vata. Details of the two-day at New Caledonia are still to worked out, but there will be e local flying. igate Bird 111 will take off n at 9 am, May 14, bound for a but with an examination of of Pines, the Loyalties, the awas, and the coast of Viti Levu >ute. A 4 pm arrival is expected jauthala Bay. Plans still have le completed for a 2-day stop e, but at 10 am on May 17 the ig-boat will head for the Lau ads, landing at Nabavatu in aa Balavu, one of the Exploring ;, about noon, to spend four > of local flying, swimming, and .ng in that region, which is one be most beautiful in the Colony, off the beaten track for ists and most residents of the e populated areas of Fiji. 8 am, May 21, Frigate Bird 111 commence the home run with air reconnaissance of Koro, ua Levu, and other islands Kite to Noumea. There, after ther overnight stop at Anse

Vata the big flying-boat will head south-west for the Middleton Reef, and, if weather permits, a brief look at Lord Howe before arriving back on Sydney Harbour about 3.30 pm, May 22, to land, we imagine, cargo of very good publicity for further cruises.

Fijian Headquarters in Central Suva

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Central Suva

Headquarters of the Native Land Trust Board, at Suva, will be in a £40,000 building to be erected on a site between the new Broadcasting House and Victoria Parade. (Some critics have murmured at the disappearance of yet another of central Suva’s few open spaces).

The two-storeyed building will also house the Fijian Development Fund Board and the Native Lands Commission, and the large Board Room (with tapa designs in the ceiling) will provide a Suva meet ing-place for the Council of Chiefs.

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r. G. R. Powles, High Commissioner New Zealand in Western Samoa tre), and Mrs. Powles, paid their first at the Tokelaus in February, when >utine official visit was paid to the atolls, per RNZAF Sunderland aircraft.

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Gilbertesc May Go

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114

Another Pacific Migration?

Gilbertesc May Go To Gizo

PLANS for settling Islanders from the crowded Gilberts at Gizo H 2,800 acres) in the British Solomons are under way.

Last year a pilot party of 10 Gilbertese went to Gizo and re turned in September with a favour able report.

A good many problems will have to be solved, and the initial settle ment will be experimental. People used to an atoll climate may not readily become acclimatised to a different type. (But the Ocean Island Banabans, after early bouts of homesickness, soon become comfort ably settled at Rabi, in Fiji). There is also a malaria problem at Gizo which does not occur in the Gilberts. (This still appears the most ex exaordinary of all the planned Pacific migrations. As PIM said in October, when we first learned of the proposal: “Why Gizo?” Gizo is a small chunk of volcanic red mud, mostly in the perpendicular, the Ad ministrative centre of the Western

Solomons and a port of entry. The natives of this part of BSIP seem reasonably industrious and it might be imagined they could make use of their land. Guadalcanal, on the other hand, has a great deal of un

used land, and a small populat However, neither BSIP or G & E made any official statement 1 regard to the migration—so we not know just where in Gizo Gilbertese are to settle : —or why

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[?] Problems

[?] The Colony

[?]jian Youths [?]efore the Courts

From Our Suva Correspondent SUVA, March 25. lANS between the ages of 17 and 19 were the main offenders recent wave of larrikinism in the ny. is is a development utterly jn to the Fijian way of life tias disturbed serious observers, have long been pointing out erious lack of social and other i-time facilities for youths. It ieen suggested frequently that lack is probably to a consider degree responsible for some of iccasional “crime waves” that I Fiji’s capital. ne of the amateur criminals in serious theft cases have been ;y in their methods and have caught trying to dispose of loot. An enterprising youth slid down a rope from the roof liter Home and Co.’s shop later d up a suitcase full of reels tton. Another took about 12 of gramophone needles from ;’ shop. Both were caught trying to sell the proceeds of robberies. ir youths, all in the 17-19 age », wore masks when they held young couple in the back seat car on Queen Elizabeth Drive, arge of robbery was ruled out ie grounds that statements had improperly taken, and all the is were sentenced to three hs’ gaol for being rogues and >onds. a police appeal, the Chief ce gave them 12 months for ng a wristlet watch. (The is had said that they would n the watch if the young man 1 furnish a bottle of overproof the following night. However, he meeting-place the young its found a police officer and a r of Fijian constables). e root of much of the evil lies e continued drift of young men the city. A move has now been : by the Commissioner of Police E. K. Laws), who has formed rong committee to set about istablishment of a Boys’ Club. th organised sports and boxing es, this club, backed by the n leaders, is calculated to appeal tion-loving lads who might fall the traps set by those who are y s ready to take advantage of ignorance of city life.

However, not all the trouble occurs in the city. There was an outbreak of larrikinism in Lomaloma, Lau Islands, recently when a gang of youths damaged a bridge and some private property.

Older residents believe that it is the result of seeing too many movies. A contributing cause could be the fact that under Fiji’s system of centralised government, the centre for dispensing law and order lies over 200 miles from Lomolama, in Suva. The theory apparently is that Fijian community discipline should be sufficient to control this sort of juvenile deliquency.

Pagopago Fish Cannery

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AFTER two months of packing fish and preparing fish meal, the Van Camp Sea Food Co., at Pagopago, stopped active opera tion on March 1 for a week. The machines were overhauled for the next loads, due in mid-March Two of the Japanese fishing vessels have been released. Taiyo Maru sailed February 2 for Japan.

This was the ship whose captain was fatally attacked by a 13-ft shark in Pagopago Bay in January. Nissho Maru left for Japan on February 26.

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Sunderstanding

p. 117

Income Tax

Cook Islands?

QCH of the Cook Islanders’ agitation over the application of NZ income taxation to the ids appears to be due to a mderstanding of the position, i certainly is the case at igaia. any people outside Rarotonga ive that all earnings, however 11. will be taxed. They have yet been told about the annual unt at which taxation begins or it the exceptions allowed.

Europeans have been surprised he failure of the authorities to public meetings at which the me could be carefully ex led. In the case of most iders, knowledge of events is 5d at the village raintank. to inspectors who made a dilig round of stores, etc., assembling icial facts, are said to have surprised at the simple systems nonly adopted in Islands trade, o, the authorities must have unaware of the marked differ between Islands trading and trading. At all events, the tion officials received civil co ition all round the Group, me Islanders maintain that ; is no point in paying a tax vhich neither representation in ament nor tangible Island re -3 may be expected. Yet some

of these critics earn more than many Europeans who are paying tax in the Islands.

The non-application to Cl of social security provisions under which, for example, the NZ Maori receives 10 - weekly for each of his children, is another Cl “grouch.”

Islanders persistently overlook the point that their NZ cousins must pay social security taxation of 16 in the £ on all earnings and, in many cases, income tax as well, and that Islanders in mainland jobs also pay both if their earnings bring

them into the income tax net.

EG.

Jap War Graves Mission

p. 117

Tour Ended at Manus

THE Japanese War Graves Com mission, which left Manus for Tokio on March 6, collected the remains of 5,093 Japanese war dead, and has taken their ashes back to Japan. The burial-grounds from which the remains were recovered were marked in each case by a simple cube of stone, on which it was recorded that war dead had been removed from the site. The mission’s tour started on February 1.

On March 6 the mission’s final religious ceremony was attended also by local residents at Manus.

In a farewell message to the Administrator of Papua and New Guinea (Brigadier D. M. Cleland), the chief of the mission and the

captain of the ship Taisei Maru ex pressed appreciation of the assist ance and co-operation of the Ad ministrator and his officers, adding: “Thank you very much. We wish you health and happiness.”

Society

p. 117

Pacific Islands

A RECORD gathering (well over 100) attended the Pacific Islands Society’s meeting at the Femin ist Club rooms, King Street, Sydney, on March 24. Mr. Brian Chaseling, Public Relations Officer, Bank of NSW, screened three excellent documentary films —a Canadian colour film of Eskimo life; a film of the Great Barrier Reef, and a cartoon-type record of the develop ment of the “horseless carriage.”

After the screening, the President, Major C. A. Swinbourne, and Mr.

Chaseling said that in view of the popularity of the programme, similar evenings would be arranged for members and friends of the society.

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Mangaia Not Interested

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In Visitors

(Mangaia Correspondent) MANGAIA, an island where alien settlers are not encouraged and seldom arrive, might be called the Tibet of the Cook Islands. In recent years incredibly primitive liv ing conditions have been aligned more or less with modern European concepts of sanitation and hygiene, but the land laws have not been relaxed, and there is no way to lease or rent a holding. To find accom modation at Mangaia is one of the hardest things in the world, and this information has been sent to an American who wrote from California about the prospects of a travel film in colour of Mangaia.

The wild, craggy scenery of the island would probably be effective in a colour film, but singing and music are at a curiously early stage of development. Genuine Mangaian chants are purely a cacophony, fol lowing no scale or rhythmical pat tern, and apparently evolve as the singers sing. There is no idea of parts and harmony, and there is no voice below tenor (or soprano) in range. t Imported potatoes in New Cale donia are to pay a tax of 50 centimes a kilogram. Revenue will go to wards reducing the price of seed potatoes for local planting. Potatoes may be imported only when local growers cannot meet the demand.

If Mr. M. R. Raymer, OBE, an Ad ministrative Officer in Nigeria, has been appointed Director of Organ iastion and Establishment in Fiji.

This new appointment rises from recommendations by the London consultants who are studying the Fiji Government’s organisation and methods. Principal assistant to Mr.

Ramer will be an Establish!

Officer (Mr. A. L. Baker), anctf J. B. Claydon will be Organiss; Secretary. li Mr. J. W. Ackroyd, princips Nasinu Teachers’ Training Co) Fiji, is going to the UK on LJ Mr. H. F. S. Hammond has t: over as acting principal.

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In Islands

p. 126

126

Mormon Church Grows In Islands

THE Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, with 10,645 missionaries throughout the world, is working out a big building plan in the Islands and elsewhere, re ports Mission President Howard B.

Stone, of Western Samoa.

In Samoa, 12 chapels and three schools have been built in the last three years, and a new high school and four more chapels will be built this year. A costly schoolhouse has been built in Tonga, and this year new chapels will be built in the Cook Is. If suitable land can be bought in Fiji, chapels will be built there.

In Hawaii, 2,000,000 dollars is be ing spent on a new school building, and a big new college is being built at Hamilton, NZ.

The report adds: “Not a penny is being taken away from the Islands.

The buildings are all financed from the tithes of members throughout the world, and labour is contributed by church adherents. The 10,645 missionaries work without pay and are financed by themselves or their families.”

BSIP’s Chinese

p. 126

126

Criticised

Uncultivated, and sometimes uninhabited, land in the British Solomons was the subject of comment at a BST 13 Advi crvr y Coun cil meeting by Mr. G. H. Kuper,

Bem.

“It might be argued,” said Mr.

Kuper, who comes of a long-estab lished pioneering family in the Solomons, “that these are the nro tected Solomons. But X maintain that the Government will not be protecting the Solomon Islands un less these waste lands are put into production. It would not be protect ing them if we let things go on as they are and if, in years to come, some Asiatic race, seeing that the Solomon Islands are not being developed, came down and took them over,”

When referring to possible new settlers, Mr. Kuper criticised certain trading practices, and in particular referred to the Chinese. He said: “New settlers could be assisted by a law to prevent people from trad ing and scraping the cream off the country unless those people are also producing something from the land.

In particular I refer to the Chinese.

“The pioneers came here s sweated. It was hard work in th days, and still is. They made plan tions, and in that working pen they traded. They had no Chin to oppose them in trade. I am here opposing the Chinese if L are prepared to settle on the la Give them trading licences ! everybody else, but I am opposed this idea of just going about pit ing up produce, etc. The man v has done the hard work should r the full benefit.

“You might argue that, if bring in such a law, automatic; we lose all Chinese revenue fr imports. I do not agree. The : ports are governed by the consun not the importer. As long as consumer is in a position to b the imports will be regulated acca ingly.”

If The marriage of Mrs. Gard Hales, a well-known Sydney ra and advertising personality un the name of Hilda Morse, and Lee H. Johnston, of New Caledoi will take place on April 16 at Alban’s Church, Lindfield, Sydn Mrs. Hales, the widow of Gardner Hales, is the only daugb of Mr. and Mrs. Cuthbert Ma Auckland.

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127

128

the Good Years

PLANTERS who grow their copra in more meteorologically predict : able parts of the South Pacific an Fiji, probably have little idea the natural anxiety that attends e barometer-gazing months, De mber to April, in that area.

Like many others who have never id first-hand experience of them, have always imagined that a irricane would be something in e nature of an entertaining spec cle —once, anyway.

Lwo weeks in Naitauba, in the ,u Group of Fiji, cured me of that. >t because we experienced a hur lane in that period, but because was able to appreciate, for the St time, the real economic tragedy at a hurricane can mean, rhe last hurricane occurred there 1948 and this is

i first year of full Dduction follow l it. On parts of aita u b a, the iture coconuts, as result of that ►w, are now so isted out of align nt that they look though they have e n stirred up h a giant stick 3 have no re ablance to the lal neat lines of ntation - planted onuts. ?he amount of r astation caused a plantation can calculated by the nber of coconut nds that are de 3yed. am told that if coconut loses all fronds, then it I need to make more before it . again bear nuts i time, a period about 2 years. It I be some years re before it is in in full bear . It is unlikely, course, that even ad hurricane will v all the fronds all the trees, damage is ays sufficient to atly reduce the put for several are years, mall wonder n, that the raters of these rt s are avid mers to weather

adcasts and,

ing heard the ally dire predic ts of Suva radio,

rush to their own barometers to see if anything untoward is hap pening nearer home.

It is debatable whether predic tions Qf eyil are any better received when delivered in a bright manner but tbe tragedienne accents of the £ who acquaints Fiji of what it might expect in the way of no .t make listeners feel any better, either, Those weeks were weather freaks and the forecast came in only two varieties, bad. and worse, Either a tropical depression of moderate (or low or high) intensity was converging on Fiji from the north and west; or it was “moving across Fiji to the east.” The out look was for “showers.” Or “changeable weather.” Those showers were usually something akin to what would be called a cloud-burst in more temperate zones; and changeable weather, In that period anyhow, was simply the

Ixture as before high winds from e north, grey v and, of course, in.

Phis was not ifined to Lau. It is the same in ;va, and on the rth-west coast, n d Australia, w Hebrides and ewhere.) Per ps I w a s the n a h —on the Dining I left va it was mag icent; at Nadi was truly Nadi ather; hot and my and not a ud in the sky. low, with my larture and the I of April in it, perhaps my inds out in Lau i uncross their ;ers until the x t hurricane son —and begin vatch the level their water ks instead, i v i n g on a ra producing ad in Fiji does, many respects lify for that zh abused

a, paradise. But from an lomic point of view, planters ■e deserve every advantage a 1 year can give them in order nake up for the years of ad ity. lanters in Fiji have two eternal its that their brethren in New nea know nothing about. One nrricanes; the other is income —J.T.

Charming Lautoka Bride

This happy wedding: photo was taken at the end of last year, after the marriage of Miss Evelyn Waddingham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wadding ham, of Lautoka, Fiji, to Mr. Keith Ussher (left). Mr. Fred Ussher. the bride groom’s brother, is shown right.

Another Coconut Hazard

p. 127

127

These coconut fronds have been almost skeletonized by a pest called a stick insect—a creature six or eight inches long.

Unlike the Rhinoceros beetle it does net attack any other portion of the palm crown—but anything that attacks the fronds weakens the tree and reduces its nut-bearing capacity.

This photogranh was taken at Naitauba, Lau Group Fiji in March.

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[?]aked Ladies Were An Obscene Libel

p. 129

Obscene Libel

[ARGED with “publishing an

obscene libel”, Leong Shorn, a Mantanikau storekeeper, was i £l5 at the Deputy Com ;ioner’s Court, Honiara, BSIP, (larch 10. In a reserved judg t, Mr. M. B. Hamilton held that ick of cards which the accused caused to be sold, showing ngraphs of naked or near-naked ien, was in all the circum ces. obscene. the end of the case the rney-General (Mr. P. N. on) notified the Court that he .d apply for a summons against accused to show cause why iar packs of cards found in his ' should not be destroyed.

H. A. Leventsam, Assistant Jtary to the Western Samoa Tnment, is on several months ugh in New Zealand.

Anti-Leprosy Fight

pp. 129-130

130

Extended In Ng

SEVERAL years ago a doctor was heard to say that there “would not be more than 300 lepers in all Central New Guinea.” Instead of that, there are thousands. At the Hansenide Colony, at Togaba, alone there are about 400.

The institution at Togaba (which is 11 miles past Mount Hagen, in the Western Highlands) was visited in February by Pastor A. J. Camp bell, of the SDA Eastern Highlands Mission, Goroka, who was accom panied on the jeep trip by Pastor E.

Roenfelt, an Australian, who has been with the church’s head office at Washington, DC, for eight years.

Pastor Campbell comments that the Hansenide Colony is run by the SDA Mission with strong Govern ment support. A second colony will be opened shortly at Hartsfelthaven, north-west of Madang, and is ex pected ultimately to receive 500 leprosy patients. This will be operated on similar lines, with Gov ernment support, to the Hansenide Colony.

The mission is awaiting the arrival from America of Dr. Yeates and his wife, who is also a doctor.

Dr. Yates will be responsible for the medical oversight of these and other medical institutions. (I Miss Mary Edwards, well-known Australian artist, who returned in March from a painting expedition in New Guinea, will in future sign her paintings with her legal name, Mary Edwell-Burke. She has made this decision because of confusion caused by her use of the two names.

H Mr. A. T. Low, formerly in the service of Messrs. Burns Philp (SS) Co. Ltd., has been anpointed Man ager of the Lautoka Branch of Messrs. W. R, Carpenter (Fiji) Ltd.

Mr. .low, during 19 years, served the Burns Philp Co. in various branches notably Rotuma, Pago Paro, Norfolk Island —and latterly has been Accountant at the Head Office in Suva.

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At Bourail

THE NZ War Cemetery at Bourail, New Caledonia, will be formally opened on May 8 (V-E Day and also the French national day of Joan of Arc).

The general secretary of the British Imperial War Graves Com mission (Brigadier Brown) has been making the arrangements for the opening in NC.

Big ceremonies are planned by both the NZ and French authorities.

About 30 official and military guj will go from NZ, and it is posa that a TEAL airliner may bring passengers.

The cemetery, on the outskirts Bourail, overlooks the countrys which is surprisingly similar to p: of NZ.

The graves of 287 soldiers are the cemetery, all except two () soldiers), New Zealanders from Solomons or New Guinea campai?

There is a monument to the n who have no known graves, on it have been placed 200 bra tablets bearing the names of Ai and RNZAF men. —Noumea Coi spondent.

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This picturesque grey-stone church at Suva Point will soon have a tower—it will extend six feet above point reached on this photo. Like the church itself, most of work of building the tower has been done by volunteers who have made the task a labour of love, as well as one of strenuous effort.

Brigadier Brown (white hair, centre) at the cemetery at Bourail.

Photo: F. E. Du

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Spowart- Saxton Wedding in Suva

p. 131

131

The marriage of a member of a well-known Suva family took place at Holy Trinity thedral, Suva, on February 18, when Miss Mary Spowart, daughter of the late Mr.

Spowart and Mrs. Spowart, was married to Mr. H. A. Saxton, of London, England, ose shown in the wedding group, from the left, are Mrs. R. H. Edmonds, wife of ! Principal of the Central Medical School, the Rev. H. Figgess, the Rev. Dr. G. mming, the bride and bridegroom, Mrs. A. Griffin (niece) and Mr. F. I. Ryan, s. Edmonds was Matron of Honour, Dr. Hemming gave the bride away .and Mr. an was bestman. The bride is a member of the Cathedral Choir and a voluntary per at the medical clinic run in Suva by Dr. Hemming for the benefit of people small incomes.

of water. After the rain ceased, floodwaters quickly abated beforedamage

p. 131

131

It Was a Wet March in Samoa

A week's almost continuous rainfall followed by a tropical downpour caused wide and flooding in Western Samoa during: March. Apia Observatory recorded five [?]es of rainfall one day, and residents say the floods were the worst for about vears, Picture shows the Mormon Mission compound near Apia under about two of water. After the rain ceased, floodwaters quickly abated beforedamage [?]d be done, but the rainfall adversely affected cocoa craps.—Photo: Jack Thornton

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PIM Cover-Girl Marries in Nukualofa

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133

flMiss Myrna Phamm, Queensland, a trained teacher-deaconess, is to do mission work for the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Menyama, in land from Lae, New Guinea. She will open a girls’ school, and will teach, in addition to the usual curriculum, sewing, handicrafts, housekeeping and hygiene.

t Western Samoa’s banana exports are now being maintained at be tween 30,000 and 35,000 72-lb cases of fruit per month.

I! Monsieur Guilpain, well-known Papeete attorney, and Mme. Guil pain, returned to Tahiti per Cale donien in March after a visit to France.

A wedding of note [?]k place in Nuku [?]fa in February [?]en Palu Vava’u, [?]ghter of Mrs. [?]ne M. Tupou and [?] late Vilai Tupou, [?]rrled Mr. Richard Cousins, who is Istant secretary to Tongan Govern [?]t. (Palu Vava’u [?] featured in the at page of July I with Veiongo [?]aua on the occas of their visit to [?]don to welcome [?]e Queen Eliza [?]). The wedding attended by en Salote and 500 sts at the Free

sleyan Centenary

[?]rch, Nukualofa, afterwards at a [?]e p tion at the chers’ Training ege Hall. The

e was given away by Ulukalala-Ata, Minister of Police, who acted as father the bride. The photo shows (left to [?]t): Tuifua Vuna and Veiongo Fakaua desmaids); Hon. Ulukalala-Ata. ister of Police; the bridegroom; the [?]e; Mr. L. W. Robertson (bestman); [?] Vi and Charlotte Brown (brides [?]); and two little flower girls, lokamana Tuita and Tuna’ula fahu, nieces of the bride.

[/]W Reported

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[?] Link-Up Over

Chrome

i’rom Our Noumea Correspondent

Noumea, Mar. 29.

EGOTIATIONS between the New Caledonia Nickel Co. and Falconbridge Co. of Canada have cen down, reported a Senator to French Parliament after an in lation mission to NC. he object of the negotiations the exploitation of the NC lit deposits. he Canadian company has now led to the Lafleur group (chrome es) in NC. is reported unofficially at mea that a company has been led, with Senator H. Lafleur ' as president, linked with the eur group, Falconbridge and dated Canadian companies, h giants as Creusot, Schneider its European bank, Credit tmais, and the Bank of Paris, said to be interested. mator Lafleur’s eight-year term end soon, and it is thought in mea that a hard fight may be id of him if he seeks re-election.

If Mrs. Mary Houng Lee, Fiji’s oldest Chinese resident, celebrated her 99th birthday on April 2. Three sons and a daughter live in Fiji.

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Fijian Development

Fund At Work

Copra Money to be Put to Good Use

NEARLY four years after the

Fijian Development Fund levy

on copra began to operate, the system is working smoothly as a whole, but any ideas of a sweeping economic “new deal” for the Fijians have had to be diluted.

When the plan became operative in 1951, some of its most earnest supporters saw it as a bold experi ment in social planning embracing features of self-help and self reliance. It involved compulsory levies from earnings, yet it retained the principles inherent in the structure of Fijian society.

The Ordinance established a fund into which are paid compulsory deductions of not more than £FIO a ton from the purchase price of copra produced by indigenous Fijians.

All payments to the fund are credited to the person or body mak ing the payment and bear interest at 2 pc. Withdrawals from the fund can be made only with the consent of the Fijian Development Fund Board and for a purpose approved by the board.

Chief architect of the scheme was Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, who said in 1951 that the object was “to obtain for the Fijian community some last ing benefit out of the high prices being paid for commodities, to bring the marketing of all economically important native produce under one

control, to gain for Fijians a b«

bargaining position in busi

transactions, and to help the vij communities to emerge from state of sole reliance on a sub

ence economy.”

It was intended, he added, the owners of the fund pro themselves with better ho< healthier and brighter surroundl and good and sufficient water

plies before anything else.

In Fiji’s main copra-produ

areas —the Lau, Lomaiviti Yasawa Groups, Vanua E Kadavu and Taveuni —live i than 50,000 of the 140,000 indii

ous Fijians.

The 1953-54 annual report of Development Fund Board states ths July 31, 1953, the amount standing ti credit of depositors was £26 additions during the year 1953-54 hr the total to £420,746, and withdr totalled £23,174. Interest amounte £6,235, and the depositors’ total om 31, 1954, was £403,808.

In the first year of operation the a-ton levy on Fijian copra y: £103,374; in the second £131,408, ai the third £150,960.

The renort states that the av monthly receipts in 1953-54 amount £12,619. This compared favourably the monthly average of £10,951 in previous year, but was still far belor anticipated average of £16,666. Hov in July, 1954, the last month ol board’s year, receipts rose to £17,54!

"The board has ample evidence this money-saving scheme is g: appreciated by a majority of the ] copra-producers,” the report conti "But it has also received information there are many who are willing t their copra to buyers who are; licensees of the board, thus ens them to avoid the £lO-a-ton dedr . . The board decided in April, to appoint a travelling inspector duty it would be to visit all Fijian o producing centres to endeavour to e -that Fijian-produced copra is dispos through the proper channels. It was thereby to reduce the illicit trade in copra”.

In July, 1954, a regulation was under the Fijian Affairs Ordinance: hibiting the sale of coconuts. The had learned that many thousands ot were being bought by itinerant ti and were being converted into without any benefit to the Develoj Fund.

The growth of the organisatio illustrated by the fact that on Juli 1952, depositors’ accounts numbered A year later the number was 9,512 at 1954 the total was 12,120. Withdn .have risen from £6Ol in the first y» f £23,174 in the third.

A large percentage of the sums drawn has been for the building of S'i and the installation of water suj In these cases, where the work had! approved by the heads of the depart! concerned, it was customary fon Government to contribute a moie; the cost. The board had encourages Fijians to withdraw their deposit! these purposes, but during the yeat Government grants ceased.

"The Colonial Secretary was ask? reconsider these Government deo which threatened to affect the h( policy adversely,” the report conti "Subsequently, further Goverr funds were made available fori installation of water supplies, anti question of grants-in-aid for bin schools is under consideration.”

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Acific

pp. 135-137

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136

Rices Of Most

Rducts Are Easing

NCE our last survey in December, 1954, prices for all South Pacific commodities, with

! exception of shell and rubber,

re shown a falling tendency.

[)PRA: Since the beginning of the year, rt from one brief gain, the price of ■a has shown an overall decline of ;g.7/15/-. Here are the London quo ins for Fair Merchantable Straits ■a, delivered to Continental ports, ■ the period: Dec. 30, £ Stg.74/15/-; 6, £76/15/-; Jan. 13, £75; Jan. 20, ;/10/-; Jan. 27. £74/15/-; Feb. 3, £74; 10, £72/15/-; Feb. 17, £7l/10/-; Feb. £69/5/-; Mar. 19, £6B/15/-; and il 1. £67. i the present BMF price to Pacific lucers is equal to about £Stg.77 on a ?ered basis, producers receiving the ract price are currently enjoying a Inct advantage over their free-market hren in the French and American [tones. Only explanation appears to ncreasing supplies reaching the market he present time. )COA: Cocoa, too, has declined by £Stg.9o per ton. Though unsteady, price in London for good fermented 1 Coast was in the vicinity of £Stg.3Bo mid-February. It had dropped to f. 295 by April 1. Early March Western oa was receiving offers as low as 125 f.o.b. Apia, but on April 1 this back at £Stg.36o, which is a loss E Stg.2o on the early January price t. [ELL: Trochus and MOP on the other I have shown a substantial rise in In mid-October London reported less in Singapore trochus at £Stg.46s the market held at around that price ugh November. In mid-January the ’ went to £Stg.sls. In mid-February as £Stg.49s, with business reported nd the £Stg.soo mark since. Pacific ius does not appear to compare with Singapore grade, but the Sydney :et seems to have moved in sympathy, e was business in good quality NG ius early January at £A375, in h at £ A 390, and on April 1 this f was quoted at £A435. Offers of [•0 c.i.f. Auckland were failing to business in MOP shell from the Islands, the producers there rently receiving better bids from the We believe the price on an f.o.b. tonga basis is at present in excess iStg.3so, with business being done, e has been no shipping outlet from hiki. the shell-producing island, for al months, as the inter-island vessels away refitting during the hurricane in.

FFEE: Because of currency readjust s in Brazil and a heavy new-season in that country, prices have fallen antially there and, in sympathy, in producing areas. Brazil producers talking of burning “six or seven

in bags” of the new-season crop to the prices up. There is little coffee ig forward from NG at the present because this is the off-season there, for what was offering quotations to have declined from about 6/- to r 4/- per lb over the past two is. The world market is unsteady most buyers are showing little st. as they appear to have quantities jfh priced coffee from earlier pur ; on hand, which they are finding It to sell due to consumer-resistance, ants are expected to cut their i and allow a drop in the retail in the very near future, probably by ich as 1/6 to 3/- per lb, so as to their accumulated stocks.

London, Uganda native robusta, 1 at £ 5tg.333 per ton in mid ber, was down to £Stg.34B in mid- BEK; Singapore quotations for ribbed smoked sheet have declined the high figure of 103 cents (36d early February, to 88 cents early ril, which is still well above the e of about 65 cents during most t year. The rise is thought to be largely to the US Government icement in February that the rate ktegic stockpiling of natural rubber would be increased by 5i per cent, ilitary services would increase pur from 5,000 tons per month to 7,500 Immediate speculation caused the ry high price.

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lagi is on the Way

p. 137

*NS Philp & Co. report that he new cargo-passenger vessel 'ulagi for service on the Syd ilands service cleared London r maiden voyage to Australia irch 29. The vessel is coming iez, bunkering at Aden and )ore, and also calling at n and Port Moresby before ng Sydney. earlier announced, her first ; is expected to be a ;ing one carrying Gilbertese ers to Fanning, Washington Christmas, and repatriating to the Gilberts from those 5. Date of departure from 7 on that voyage is as yet 1 It is anticipated that it e late May before Tulagi s Sydney from London.

H. P. Hall, MBE, who has over from Mr. J. B. Side i as head of the Pacific De ;nt at the Colonial Office, i, arrived at Honiara on 14 in the course of a tour HC territories. He discussed natters with the High Corn ier (Sir Robert Stanley) and r the Russels and Malaita rch 17, returning to Honiara lays later. On March 23 he with the HC in the Nareau ' GEI Colony and the New JS.

Unattractive Summary of

p. 137

Is Private Enterprise

Attracted?

Unattractive Summary of Conditions in Solomons

ONE newspaper report says that Mr. H. E. Maude (Executive Officer for Social Development, South Pacific Commission Staff), following a visit to the British Solomons, “spoke in glowing terms of the opportunities at present offer ing for private enterprise in the Solomons.

“While trade and industry in other parts of the Pacific were to a large extent in the hands of a few big firms, none of these had as yet re commenced operations in the Pro tectorate, and the field there was still wide open to the small man with enterprise and the necessary capital.”

Comment

Everyone is ajixious to assist the lion-hearted Sir Robert Stanley in his heart-breaking, bricks-without straw task of making the British Solomons at least self-supporting, and advancing development to the point when it may discourage an Asiatic invasion of this huge, fertile archipelago.

But there is no assistance in Mr.

Maude’s phrases. As we have pointed out again and again, there actually are no inducements and few oppor tunities to attract private enterprise into the British Solomons. The Territory is moribund. Here, for example, is a summary of the reasons given to PIM in March by a man who had rejected, after careful examination, a proposal that he should take over a large, well planted coconut property there: • Profits can be made out of

copra—but, unlike New Guinea and New Hebrides, those profits are sub jected to quite heavy income tax ation. • The labour supply is very un certain. Malaita-men —the main source of labour—are increasingly unwilling to enter into any contract over six months. It costs £lO per head to recruit labour, whether for six months or 24 months. There is no non-Solomons labour available. • Practically all transport is water-borne. The availability of suitable vessels is vital. But, except for the Lever Company’s slipway in the Russell group, there is not one slipway available in the Solomons for the repair and maintenance of small ships and launches. If BSI ever is to be developed, there must be good slipways available at at least three points in the archi pelago. • The Chinese have virtually taken possession of all small trad ing and retail distribution in BSI, and there are very few European traders left. There appears to be a slow trickle of Chinese immigra tion from Hongkong (a British Colony) into BSI.

That is how the situation strikes a recent observer. It scarcely justifies Mr. Maude’s “glowing terms.”

The British governmental authority has promised to alter con ditions so as to attract new enter prise. But no details of its plans yet have been published.

The Rev. A. H. Schubert, secretary of the New Guinea Mission Board, has been doing propaganda work in South Australia and Victoria. He was also to attend the annnal synods of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church.

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Prabipm Grows

Prom Our Suva correspondent TT , TA ™ u oc SUVA, March 25.

CJUVA’S overcrowding problem is

still with us. Above four Renwick Road shops, now being demolished by Gty Council order, more than 50 Fij.ans Sr has night. Now that their shelter has gone, they are probably jammed into some other overcrowded place, . - +v ,_ The Government is aware of the situation. At the last Legislative Council session it was stated that if an increase in housing construe tion by priv&tc enterprise did not occur as a result of the new Fair Rents Ordinance, the formula for fixing rents would be reviewed and revised on a less generous scale. u Many tenants among whom Indian tenants of Indian landlords were some of the most vocal, opposed any tinkering with the old system of rent-control, but one of I f, f ™mf P n mntmSnThaUt C would

enrnnra!? I sntetanttel n

biSifdtae substantial increase in The New Ordinance applies only to the main centres. An assurance was given by the Government that

tween Suva and Nausori, or near Navua) landlords were taking advantage of accommodation shortages and were charging exorbitant rents, control would promptly be applied to tbe areas affected.

Further difficulties have followed ?L rf e fl x r w Sio f!! in pin dip boundaries to include almost all Huts and Authority (which realised that In mos t cases t be occupants could do no better) suddenly had to come up to city standards. But on a wage of about £3 a week a septic tank is an impossibility> and more often than not the shacks are not worth i mnrov ine anvwav p g ’ y y- Fi.jiH.ns B.nd people of Polynesian descent predominate in the Peninsula region, most of them on low wages Those evicted from condemned huts have either moved in with relatives or friends (causing more overcrowding) or have moV ed out to rural areas. In the seC ond group those who work in Suva have to find bus fares of 1/a day or more . Again, some of those S vic /? d , ha l'u been }? ft virtl i?, lly des {!, tute ’ thus creatm « another problem.

The obvious solution, a Government housing scheme, is something which the Government seems to prefer to avoid.

Question Discuss

p. 138

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Cook Is. Shipping

THE New Zealand Governn had apparently reached no cision regarding the future the Maui Pomare up to April 1 elsewhere this issue), but an nouncement was made on that ■ that the Tasman tSeamship » 701-ton Viti had been chartered Island Territories Department an initial period of 3 months, would leave Auckland about P 7 on her first voyage to the Coo Viti’s refrigerated space for ; cargoes is about half that of R Pomare, and she carries no pass*; ers, though a permit may be is; for the carriage of inter-island « passengers.

Parliament was in session e in April, at Wellington, and it assumed that a decision regar Maui Pomare’s future would be made. Meanwhile no move been made towards initiating major repairs required to her r deck before she can again g< sea. fl Miss Elizabeth Farquhar, daug of the late Mr. C. R. Farquha, Suva, and of Mrs. H. L. M. Crosi of Sydney, announced her eng ment in London recently to Douglas Middleton, of Chicago, couple met in London.

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139

Conomic Changes

Picturesque Fijian Houses May Go

T could be that, in the years to come, the best samples of ijian traditional building will be und only at resorts where the urist is lodged in a bure—with all odern conveniencies attached, of iurse.

From the annual report of the jian Development Fund Board: Jonsiderable sums have been ex uded in erecting, or assisting in ,e erection of, wood and iron ►uses in Fijian villages. Houses so ected have been built to various ans, mostly prepared by Fijians.”

To all lovers of the traditional jian (or Samoan or Tongan for at matter) style of housebuilding, is statement will have an ominous ►te. It suggests a development at is economically commendable 3 a point) and aesthetically out geous.

When the Governor of Fiji (Sir maid Garvey) told the Legislative ►uncil in 1953 that the big copra oducing province of Cakaudrove is contemplating a programme of lusebuilding with permanent aterials, a good many people saw as a drastic new step in the ssing of the old-time Fijian ,ttern. But it has been made clear ain and again that if the Fijians e to win their battle for economic rvival, changes will have to come, d the picturesque individuality of jian housebuilding may be one of e casualties.

A well-built Fijian house will md anything short of a hurricane, it the materials are not “per ment,” and in many regions the iditional materials (mainly forest nber and reeds for thatching) ve to be carried long distances be use of the destruction of the itural growth near areas where Element and cultivation have read.

Housebuilding and repairing are long the major communal tasks at occupy a sizeable part of the ne in any village community, irther, in many villages the work s been made more onerous by the thdrawal of young men for the my and for industries. (In some ses this became very marked ter the call-up of Fijian recruits fight in Malaya), rhe true Fijian house is cool, airy d comfortable. What is more, it beautiful and as much a part of e tropical island landscape as the cient timber-and-thatch cottages e of the English countryside, idernity has disfigured many ands with huts built of imported nber and corrugated iron—which come ovens in the heat of the day

—and a general extension of this kind of ugliness would be something of a tragedy.

In Fiji it is being justified as a result of the economic squeeze on the Fijians. On the other hand, in Western Samoa the retention of the traditional style of building has long been officially encouraged, and the Samoan village remains the loveliest thing of its kind in the South Seas.

It is interesting to note with re gard to the above, that the owners of the Korolevu Beach Hotel are planning more and more bures.

These all have modem showers and toilet arrangements attached, and the bures themselves have wooden

floors and modern furnishing, but apart from that, they are beautifully made and finished in the best traditions of the Fijian house builders’ art. t Though there were recent sugges tions that a whaling industry might be revived at Norfolk Island, a traveller from the Island said in April that the project is still very much in doubt due to an insuffiicent number of whale-kills per season having been so far approved by the International Whaling Commission which limits the indiscriminate kill ing of whales.

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i N appeal for more news for the L people of Papua-New Guinea was made by Mr George liittaker, elected member for the »w Guinea Mainland, at the March eeting of the Territory Legislative juncil.

Mr. Whittaker said the radio news illetins broadcast by the ABC ation in Port Moresby were too ort —five minutes was not enough. ; said the bulletins contained ws of importance and interest for ople in Papua-New Guinea, and 50 Northern Queensland and other tcific Islands where the station uld be picked up.

He suggested that instead of the lletins being repeated during the y, fresh items of news be sup ed and broadcast. If necessary e ABC should consider getting an ditional journalist to make this ireased coverage possible.

Vlr Whittaker said he wanted to ike it “crystal clear” that he was nplaining about the quantity of 1C news from 9PA, not the ality, which he considered was aerally cf a high standard.

Editorial Note

!t will probably be useless telling tfG listeners that they are already ;ting better news-services than y other South Pacific territory e article on page 140). Or as good they are likely to get while the »C provides only one journalist in ■t Moresby to collect and assemble the news from the large Terri y of Papua-New Guinea. Like St other enterprises in the Terri y, the demand for news coverage s grown in the last few years— ; 9PA’s establishment has not iwn proportionately. But P-NG lio service must be regarded as lational necessity and not as an nomic proposition—and local vs services are vital in that Terri y. In essence, what Mr. Whittaker nts is more ABC staff to gather i news. Radio news does not jpen—it has to be assembled, at, of course, is a matter of ance—and how 9PA is financed don’t know. Is it a charge on Australian taxpayer? Or, does Administration pay certain irges? Certainly, broadcasting mce fees would not cover the t of the services already given.

'astor Salerua, of the New arides Presbyterian Mission, visit- Australia, was presented with a r of hansome mulga-wood book is by a women’s group at Lismore, W, in March.

Service Is

p. 141

Tri Lingual Radio

Costly In Fiji

BETWEEN June and December,

1 1954, Fiji’s radio licence total

jumped from 3,288 to 6,986, as

the result of a “very minor ad

vertising campaign” by the Broad

casting Commission and some effort

by the police.

The annual report of the Com mission, however, points out that before the FBC started broadcasting on July 1, 1954, it was estimated that there were something like

10,000 or 12,000 receiving sets in

active use in the Colony.

As it planned to derive at least one-third of its revenue from licence fees, the Commission pressed the Government for more effective licensing and collection of fees.

The report adds: “The Commission cannot rest until every receiving set in the Colony, or its owner, is licensed and an adequate con trol and collection system is established and effectively maintained by the Govern ment.”

The report points out that the Com mission must have a commercial basis if it is to be mainly self-supporting. It will “jealously control” both advertising and supporting programmes in order to minimise the offence which many listeners take from radio advertising, or which most listeners derive from over-com mercialised broadcasting or poor advertis ing.

The FBC plans to spend approximately £2,000 in recorded programme material for “sustaining” purposes in 1955. The report states that of the 5,000-6.000 un classified gramophone records which the Government acquired for it from the former station ZJV, about 2,000 were dis carded as worn out and another 1,000 were set aside for day sessions only, be

cause of high surface noise. The FBC acquired 1.500 new discs from overseas before July 1, 1954, and since then sup plies have been arriving regularly, “atlhough not in sufficient quantities for our desired programme formats”.

The BBC Transcription Service has made available to the Commission more than 8,000 discs free of cost. “But for this extensive and superb BBC library,” the report adds, “the Commission would have had to reduce considerably its 90 hours of broadcasting weekly.”

The report stresses that when the Legislative Council debated the establish ment of the Commission in 1952, no con sideration was given to the question of what funds the Commission would require to operate successfully, or to what its revenue might be, or to what extent the Colony might have to subsidise it. The Council, “having willed the end, must will the means . To give a reasonable tri-lingual service of information, educa tion and entertainment to a large and fairly scattered population is a costly business”.

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p. 141

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New Papuan Tribes Found

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Outstanding Patrol:

New Papuan Tribes Found In Upper Fly River Area

An outstanding patrol has been completed to the Star Mountains and the Hindenburg Range in the upper region of the Fly River in [western Papua.

It was conducted by Assistant District Officer, James W. Kent, and Patrol Officer, David R. Jacobs, with a party of nine native police, a native medical orderly and 51 carriers.

IHE patrol entered mountainous areas not previously penetrated by Europeans, and most of the itives met had never before seen been seen by Europeans.

This exploratory patrol lasted for days and travelled from its base Daru to within two days’ walk » distance from Telefomin just ross the Papuan-New Guinea rder.

Fhe new native groups visited by b patrol gave the party a friendly Icome, and at no time was there y action on the part of the tribes lich could be construed as a stile act, passive or open. In a w villages the people were shy and lid until their confidence had Bn won, but in many other areas 3 natives were completely un paid and gave the party a most thusiastic reception. rhis was particularly so in the ;ion occupied by the Wopkeimin d Faiwoimin people, about whom •. Kent wrote as follows in his fcrol report: ‘We were greeted by small bands natives who cleared the track by ;ting every tree and bush within ich. As the patrol progressed yards villages and camp sites the mbers grew until we were sur mded by hundreds of singing, acing men, women and children, eir greetings rent the air, and were embraced, hugged, and ;ted.

Headmen from the various ages vied with each other in their )rts to express their pleasure at • arrival. We were introduced to fir families—their wives, their is, their daughters-in-law and sir children.

Our skin and clothing was ?ered, and they were astounded find that when we removed our )ts we had feet like their own.

When more and more newcomers ived we would be requested to ke an appearance for the women, 0 would gasp in astonishment at • white skins and start animated cussions when they noted that ; of the two Europeans had blue s, and the other officer brown s. They followed us everywhere, 1 their curiosity and interest

were endless. The headmen ordered food, and food came, hundreds of taro, some cooked and some raw.

“They showed us an excellent station site, arranged a dance in our honour, and provided guides to show us the various tracks. Their generosity knew no limits. Whole heartedly they gave us their friend ship, and without a doubt they are the friendliest and most hospitable, and the most likeable natives I have ever met.”

IN his report, Mr. Kent said that inter-tribal warfare in the area covered appeared to be almost

ion-existent. A majority of the tatives met on the track, although rmed. carried mainly hunting weapons. There was no sign of rarlike weapons, and the only reapons seen were bows and arrows.

Those visited varied from short, tockily-built people with broad and ither heavy facial features, to thers 5 ft 7 in. tall, whom Mr. Kent escribed as being fine physical jecimens. He said that the men ith their deep chests, wide shoulders arrow hips and clean-cut features ere amongst the most handsome atives he had seen.

In most areas native food supplies ere plentiful, and in the higher titudes the climate appeared to be litable for many types of imported sgetables such as carrots, Chinese tbbage, English potatoes, lettuce, dish and tomatoes. Many of the irdens covered extensive areas and though the methods of agriculture ere very primitive, some of the ibes lavished much care and time i their gardens, each plot being pt scrupulously free of weeds or bbish. Some stone and citrus nits could also be grown.

DESCRIBING the various hair r styles adopted by the tribes, Mr.

Kent said that in one region the m shave their hair back from the rehead for two or three inches, d the hair on the crown is rolled to a number of tightly-woven ass-covered plaits which are col itively rolled into tightly woven ndanus bark, forming a single •ge pig-tail up to two feet long, le hair from the back of the skull treated in a similar manner to ike a secondary pigtail 9 in. to in. long. The crown and the two ?tails are heavily coated in a tural red ochre, and both plg 1s extend stiffly back from the ad.

Dther tribes kept their hair shorn the skull for anything up to three :hes round the head, leaving her a tuft of hair covering the .ole of the crown, or else a top ot stretching back from the fore ad to the back of the skull. [OST of the villages consisted of communal dwellings with as many as eight houses in the tlement, each occupied by several nilies. In some regions these Jses are built up to 20 ft from ! ground, the method of construc n being to locate them near four five medium-sized trees growing se together. The limbs and upper nk of each tree are lopped off the desired height, and the mework of the house is built md the trunks which act as main ■ces and supports. Long poles ex dmg from the ground to the floor the house give further support.

'here are usually two entrances, J for men and the other for Tien. The men’s entrance is by a der leading to a small doorway

and access to the women’s section is by a ladder to a trapdoor in the floor. The men’s and women’s sections are divided by a central wall.

In most villages the settlements were clean and free of rubbish.

The type of country covered by the patrol north from Kiunga varied from broken foothills to high steep ridges and precipitous limestone mountains. Often the track traversed razor-backed ridges where the path frequently narrowed to a width of 6 in. to 12 in. with a sheer drop below of up to 1,000 feet. In the higher altitudes the route lay through stunted moss forests.

WRITING of the country along the most northerly section of the patrol, Mr. Kent described it as follows; “The Star Mountains and the Hmdenburg Range form part of the high mountainous backbone of the Territory, and reach an altitude of over 10,000 ft. In this region there exist areas of indescribable rough ness—weathered limestone with a confusion of jagged pinnacles and deep boulder-strewn sinkholes through which the drainage escapes to underground channels.

“It is dreadful country to traverse.

In their upper reaches all the major rivers flow with incredible swiftness through huge limestone gorges, the sides thousands of feet high and marked from gigantic landslides which have left glistening white scars hundreds of feet high and wide. At various places the track along which the patrol travelled had been cut by landslides, and they formed the only means of access to crossing the ranges. • was hair-raising enough scal ing these almost sheer faces with

only slender toe-and-finger holds and by the assistance of vine ropes, but crossing the loose eroding rubble areas in the knowledge that any undue heavy movement could quite easily set the whole area in motion, was a terrifying business.”

In one region the patrol saw some isolated pines of gigantic size, and there seemed to be no lack of timber suitable for erecting station buildings. Much of it was similar to that growing around Kiunga. r|TWO possible aerodrome sites were A located, and in one of the most heavily populated areas the natives voluntarily showed the patrol an excellent site for a station.

Populations estimated to approxi mate 20,000 were visited in the new areas, and other groups were known to exist farther to the east of the patrol route.

Mr. Kent commented that it was impossible to count the people who visited the camps and all attempts to do so had to be abandoned as on arrival the patrol was immedi ately surrounded by a laughing, dancing crowd, all attempting to embrace and shake hands with the patrol personnel.

IN his report, Mr. Kent pays a high tribute to the nine members of the Royal Papua and New Guinea Constabulary attached to the patrol. He said they were among the best he had ever had.

They behaved splendidly. Nothing was ever too hard, and their atti tude and bearing were in complete accord with the traditions of the Force.

The party travelled up the Fly River from Daru by the vessel Elevala to the Kiunga Patrol Post, and then moved overland to the

north. On the return journey a portion of the trip was covered by canoe, the party constructing its own canoes, and travelling down the Gumu and Fly Rivers to Kiunga.

Commenting on this patrol, the Director of District Services and Native Affairs (Mr. A. A. Roberts) said it was of an exceptional nature and excellently carried out. It en tailed considerable hardship in very difficult country. Valuable informa tion had been obtained, and excel lent contacts made with tribes be yond the area of Kiunga patrols.

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p. 146

Adi Cakobau School

ADI CAKOBAU School for Fijian girls, at Sawani, near Suva, is to have a new tuition block. The estimated cost, £F35,000, with an other £2,000 for furniture and equip ment, will be met by the United Kingdom Colonial Development and Welfare Fund.

The main two-storey building will contain entrance hall, offices, eight class rooms, laboratory, domestic science room and library. Two one storey. wings, will, house a large crafts and sewing room and sanitary accommodation.

Designed to harmonise with its picturesque surroundings, the build ing will be constructed to resist earthquake stresses.

Bringing the News

p. 146

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A DOZEN enterprising women of Lautoka, Fiji are producing a roneoed newspaper (News and Views ) which is providing more local, personal news for that large area of Fiji than any of the com mercial newspapers in the Colony.

The women are all members of the Lautoka branch of Red Cross, and proceeds are for that organisation.

The paper has been appearing fort nightly at a cost of 6d per copy.

Advertisements also have been a source of revenue.

The paper is, however, temporarily suspended at present, pending the clarification of some legal point in regard to its registration as a news paper.

It would be a thousand pities if the enthusiasm of these women was dampened because, at the moment, Fiji is rather short on local news services. And the Fiji Broadcasting Commission, in spite of its magnificent headquarters and impressive set-up, produces no local news at all, apart from shipping and weather broad casts. The only local news broad cast from the FBC is through the Newsletter which is compiled

and presented by the Public : lations Officer, in a half-hour sess once weekly. (The Public Relati Office in Fiji performs a rather traordinary service for a Gove ment instrumentality. Most G ernment PRO s merely present Government view in any ma pertaining to administration.

Fiji PRO does this, of course, as well, performs the function c local news agency).

To make an odious comparis The ABC in Papua-New Guii with largely makeshift quarters, revenue from advertising, and n of the ballyhoo that attended setting up of the FBC in Fiji, produce local news bulletins f] 9PA daily. News gathering is ur the control of a special hig qualified journalist in Port More and each township in the Terril has a part-time correspondent y dispatches local news to HQ.

Certainly, residents of PNG c< plain about the service—maybe cause they don’t know how well

they are-

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Seton-Lynch Wedding

p. 146

A photograph taken after the marn of Miss Sally Lynch, only daughter!

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Seton, of Lutee. Choiseul, BSI, at I Trinity Church, Glen Innes, on Jam 31. The bridegroom’s mother was pres but his father was unable to journey fi the Solomons in time for the occas Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Seton are now H residents and probably will not ret! to the Solomons, where they first set in 1927. The bridegroom is a field oft in the Department of Agriculture, Ques land.

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LANS for a 40-bedroom hotel at Marau (commonly called Mos quito), one of the little islands the Bay of Islands area across i harbour from Suva, about three es out by road, are under way, j the Deputy Mayor (Mr. W. E. odsir) on March 22.

Ir. Goodsir said that he and ociates had taken a lease of the nd, which comprises several acres rounded by white sand beaches I is about 100 yards from the in highway. A viaduct would be It to the island and the hotel lid provide several types of ommodation —luxury suites with ir own private beach frontage, ti-bedded rooms with their own Rrers, etc., and large family rooms i about six bunks for local people ting a low-cost holiday.

Presumably something drastic be done about the mosquitoes of jquito Island, now to be called :au. For venom and ferocity they ild be hard to beat, according experienced people. And, like it mosquitoes, they dearly love blood, including tourists.)

Club Hotel Licence

[eanwhile the bar of the South s Hotel (which functions under old Club Hotel licence), in tral Suva, has been completed refurbished to the standard re ed by the authorities. The iting of a licence for this bar date the only operational part he projected hotel to replace the ricane-wrecked Club Hotel) was le conditional on an assurance ig given that the accommodation of the hotel would be proceeded i in a reasonable time. The n building has hung fire since Suva earthquake in September,

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SCIPIENTS of the insignia of honours awarded by the Queen, presented by the Acting Gov ir (Mr. A. F. R. Stoddart) at the ling of Fiji’s Legislative Council April 1 were listed as follows: i Edward Cakobau, OBE (Mil.); Lieut. G. T. Beban (serving in with RNZAF) MBE (Mil.) ; I Dr. J. A. R. Dovi, MBE; Sgt. naia Ravoka, MM; Sgt. Puran war, Colonial Police Medal; and isarni Mudaliar, ISM. The widow gt. Napolioni Wara, Mei Lewatu a, received the DCM awarded er husband in Malaya. •. John Hughes, of Adelaide, left in March to take charge of the ley Memorial Hospital at Baier r, in the New Guinea central lands.

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Suva Has Its Traffic

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l/THOUGH probably one of the smallest capitals in the British Commonwealth, Suva already its traffic problems. It has had n for some time. at of the town, the roads twist turn around the natural gullies i wind down to the sea. In the i there are two main streets, only one is open to traffic both s. To make matters worse many hese streets, both in and out ae town, meet at sharp angles.

Ith very little improvement ted in widening streets the town seen motor vehicle registration ;ase from 3,741 in 1950 to 6,621 5)54. In the same period, driv licences increased from 8,585 to 1. irther aggravating the position, rood people of Suva, accustomed he Islands habit of expecting js to come easily, have taken r granted that they could park ■ cars where they wished —pre- )ly right outside their office or . To have to park, as they do irerseas cities, half a mile or a away, to them would be almost lievable. Perhaps another m why life in Suva is preferable fe in Sydney! t all that is now to be altered.

Suva City Council has recently i over control of parking—or do so as soon as the new ations are gazetted. Parking s and pedestrian crossings will rovided, and speed limits fixed iertain streets.

Safety First Week, organised by Suva Rotary Club, is also being led in a belated attempt to in ime traffic sense into the heads »th drivers and pedestrians.

C education of pedestrians may e a more difficult task. Among h e Fijians, part-Europeans, 3se and Indians using the ;s there are many in town just the day. Many are literally i the bush,” where narrow s, winding along the river 5, up hill and down dale, do levelop that sense of alertness •affic generally found in the -dweller. ;ently, this correspondent met ears-old Fijian who was paying irst visit to Suva And his :e was only a little over 20 from the city. So absorbed he in the passing scene that little in the way of traffic or traffic co-operation could been expected of him, or of ■ others who wander at will ; the streets. veyer, a start is to be made; with talks to school children 1 schools both in and outside va, a constructive approach to s traffic problem may be made.

Doing Well

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Island Boxers Are Doing Well

■J7" ITIONE LAVE, Tonga’s internationally popular heavyweight boxer, weighed in at 14 st 7 lb at Perth on March 14, when he scored a technical knockout over Steve Zoranich (13 st 13 lb), of Western Australia, in the fifth round of a scheduled 12-round bout.

Zoranich was hopelessly outmatched, according to Perth critics. Early in the second round he went to the canvas for nine, and in the fourth round he went down for a count of eight.

After Zoranich had been felled early in the fifth round, the referee stopped the fight.

Lave was at prohibitive odds-on to win the fight, and the “West Australians” critic said that the boxers were badly matched. He added: “Lave is probably the best heavyweight in Australia”.

Lave, 20 years old and 6 ft. 1 in. tall, has been beaten only once in 62 bouts.

His best win was in NZ last December, when he knocked out the Australian heavyweight champion, Ken Brady, in the last round of a 12-round bout. 1 AVE’S only defeat was in February, 1331, at the hands of Brady in a 12round bout at Auckland. This fight, avenged 10 months later, was far from decisive. Most of the spectators had no idea who had won until the judges gave their unanimous decision.

Lave’s biggest physical joi: to date probab’y came from a Fijian, Semi Galoa, who, in a bout at Suva in 1053, caugh* him with a terrific right-hand wallop in the fifth round. Lave, however, was up before a count and promptly had Semi flat on his back for the full count.

Lave was one of the star pupils of the famous Daunibau, unbeaten Fijian ex middleweight and light - heavyweight champion, who in 1947 went to Tonga at the invitation of a Tongan nobleman, Vilai Tupou, to help Tongan boxers end a long succession of failures against Fijian fighters. \/f LAN WHILE the procession of Island boxers to NZ continues, and H.

Laitia (Fiji) and Sefo Lepea (Samoa) will

probably appear at Auckland this winter.

The unbeaten Laitia (25 years old, 5 ft. 10 in. and 12 st 6 lb) holds the South Seas championship and the Fijian light heavyweight title. He has nine knockouts, a points win and a draw to his credit.

Lepea, Samoan light-heavyweight cham pion, claims a win over the formidable Fijian Atunaisa Camaibau, who, under the professional name of Henry Bray, has won substantial successes in Melbourne, Sydney, Vancouver and NZ.

Another Samoan, Niko Kronfeld (middle weight champion of Western Samoa and former welterweight champion), has also been visiting Auckland. He made his NZ debut on April 4 in a bout against Henry Sadler.

The main contest in the same Auck land programme was between Peter Schmidt (Samoa) and George Naufabu (Tonga).

Fossie Schmidt (brother of Peter), a heavyweight who was recently accorded good publicity in Australia, has been on holiday at Auckland, and so has Jimmy Ripley, the Samoan lightweight who beat Ray Coleman, a former top-rated Aus tralian.

Fossie Schmidt has had a formidable list of knockout wins in Samoa but was sur prisingly knocked out by Ross Jenkins, who was subsequently easily beaten by Kitione Lave.

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THE strong feelings held in quarters, relative to the u:. perambulations of UNO Tru ship Council “missions” in the * Territory of New Guinea, adequately expressed recently a UNO Trusteeship Council at ' in New York, by Mr. W. D. For Mr. Forsyth (a former Secret General of the South Pacific < mission, and Australia’s repre ative at UNO) was dealing witl affairs of Tanganyika—a Territory like New Guinea, similarly subject to Trusts “mission” visits.

A “mission” report had sc correctly described condition Tanganyika (its report was c “unbalanced and unrealistic”) the Territory’s Legislative Cc had made a special protest to I! and Mr. Forsyth—speaking of ganyika, but doubtless thinkiri New Guinea —said some forth things: “Sir Charles Phillips (a petit from Tanganyika) pointed out: the visiting mission had dealt scantily with economic affairs, munications and social service had placed undue emphasis political questions, whereas it: the feeling of almost all info persons that the great need o< Territory was concentration economic development. Commui tions, for example, are vits progress in such a very country, and communication Tanganyika, according to Charles, are in great neei improvement. The visiting mi: however, paid little attention to basic need without which ecor development must be halting; Mr. Forsyth said that the mis;; emphasis on “time-limits for towards self-government” in ganyika was “not only conf: and trouble-making in the poll field, but tends to retard ecor development by disco u r a g essential investment.”

It was an ironical and deploc fact, he said, that practically no in Tanganyika had thought abn time limit until the visiting mi made a feature of the idea.

Suva Cigarette Factor

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BECAUSE a cigarette factox planned at Suva, a bill has i introduced in the Legisl; Council providing for the fixing collecting of excise duties on ar manufactured in Fiji. The Tobacco Co. (Aust.) Ltd. will the factory soon.

Another bill before the session deals with the revisic: the Colony’s laws, now being caE out by the Solicitor-General W. G. Bryce). The revised ed will contain the laws in fore: April 16, 1955.

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Someone Else Will!

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hey Say it Again!

level op New Guinea or Someone Else Will!

From Our Own Correspondent Papua-New Guinea was described, in March, as having an “almost frightening” potential and as a prize for over-populated countries. Development with all speed was urged.

The man who saw the territory in this light was Mr. A. F.

Bell, Director of Agriculture in Queensland and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Australian Agricultural Council.

?he Council (the permanent heads the State agricultural depart nts) plus a few Commonwealth iresentatives, made a two-weeks ir of the Territory which took m to most of the places that mted, and gave them an insight d Territory agricultural progress ,t will do them, and the Terri y, a lot of good.

Tie Standing Committee is con ned with policy and planning, 1 until the Territory tour was anged there was obviously a gap their knowledge—a fact which committee was quick to admit, hese are not armchair experts, men who know what they are ag. Government sponsored eer ily, but capable of looking at ti sides of any problem, he experts gave a brief outline their views at a special public iting of the Papua-New Guinea sntific Society, held* in Port •esby a few days before their arture. They were introduced to meeting by the Secretary of the artment of Territories, Mr. C. R. ibert, who flew to the Territory le present. Also at the meeting, he audience, was the Adminis or, and the Assistant Admin itor, Mr. Rupert Wilson, ood news for the planters was statement by Mr. F. W. Hicks, erintendent of Extension and mical Services with the Tas lian Agricultural Department, said the Territory’s extension :me for natives was excellent, there had to be more than ve settlement in New Guinea, as e were “envious eyes” on that itry. The planters have been ng that for so long it has lost ificance.

Dod news for the Administra was the statement, by the :ern Australian Director of Agri ire, Mr. G. Baron-Hay, that the itry’s problems could not be ed out in five minutes, and natives and the planters Id be first to condemn iepartment which gave them ig information because it was soon to know the correct fil iation. hich is what the Territory cultural Department has been ig for a long time.

The speakers generally had a lot to say about the need for develop ment in New Guinea.

Dr. A. R. Callaghan, the South Australian Director of Agriculture, said Australians should not fail to realise the significance of the pressure made by a world popula tion increase of 100,000 a day. Dr.

Callaghan also spoke of the dangers of planning a settlement scheme on anything but long-term occupation, and not in the light of current world prices.

Mr. A. F. Bell, the committee’s chairman, who is Queensland Agri cultural Director, said he had not seen a tropical country in which the soil had a greater punch, and he had seen a lot of tropical countries.

Dr. H. C. Forster, assistant executive officer of the CSIRO, told the meeting that New Guinea had rainfall, which was its greatest asset, and any problem of soil fertility could be overcome by science. But it needed more land surveys than it was getting—many more—and it needed more trained men, badly.

Dr. Forster said undoubtedly there would be demand for settlement, and the land had to be surveyed so that settlers would know what it was best suited for.

Vapon Industries Extend to

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the Pacific

VAPON Industries of Australia, a Sydney firm of merchants and manufacturers, with a number of important agencies, has estab lished an Islands Division to handle the buying and selling of Pacific produce and the supply of mer chandise to South Seas traders and residents.

Mr. Colin W. Mansell, who is ex perienced in Islands marketing and trading conditions, and Mr. Robert M. Creighton are co-general man agers; both will leave shortly to visit Fiji and the Central Pacific Direct ing' the enterprises of Vapon In dustries is Mr. Arthur Mawson, who recently made a trip to Western Samoa and other Polynesian centres.

The Company’s address is 88 Burfitt St., Leichhardt, Sydney.

II The Rev. Gordon L. Cook, min ister at the Larina Methodist Church, Queensland, for the last three years, has been appointed principal of the Paula Training College, Samoa. Mr. Cook also served for three years in Papua.

Findlay-Kennedy Wedding

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Miss Barbara Kennedy, of Port Moresby, and Mr. Stuart Findlay, of the Civil Aviation Dent., who were married at Ela Protestant Church, Port Moresby, on March 19.

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[?].S. Doubts About A United Samoa

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Tripartition Question

IE ending of the arbitrary political partition which divides Western and Eastern Samoa, ussed as a future possibility in January PIM, is recognised as seful objective by a number of i South Pacific authorities. At same time, it is generally con id that, practical politics in the ted States being what they are, e is not much hope of anything factory happening in the near re. »w Zealand, as United Nations tee for Western Samoa, would lably be willing (under certain guards) to link her responsibil with those of the United States thus to become jointly respon for the reunited Samoans s one authority). But some ricans, still obsessed with out d ideas about British “colonial ’ would immediately start look for an “imperialist grab” some •e or other. 1946, when high chiefs of Western Samoa sent a petition ) the United Nations, through the Government, suggesting early government, there was some ; vague talk about a reunited oa. that time, however, various le at Washington went to a t deal of trouble to demon e to their own satisfaction that 1899 the Eastern (American) )ans had mysteriously become •ent people from the Western )ans, “who had been German 4 years and British for the rest le time.” Such an argument I not be accepted by Samoans 7 anybody else, but at least it ated the state of mind in some [uarters, the indications in Western )a are that the Administra ; objective has been, and is, to ;e political tension to enable 1 economic development to go 1 It is clear that the rapid ase of population—the total is more than 70,000 compared fewer than 20,000 in American >a —calls for a stepping up of al investment and capital de ment if production is to keep with the population increase.

Samoan “Controversy

Taken to NZ”

C Hon. P. L. Morgan, a member f the Western Samoan Legis itive Assembly, left Apia for Zealand in March after ex ing the hope that he would be itted to address members of the Parliament on the political Jon in Samoa.

Morgan has alleged that there

was “political scheming and bull dozing of delegates” at the November-December Constitutional Convention, of which he was a member.

At Wellington the Island Terri tories Minister (Mr. Macdonald) granted an interview to Mr. Morgan.

When NZ press reports of state ments attributed to Mr. Morgan were referred to the Minister, Mr.

Macdonald said that to his know ledge Mr. Morgan’s views did not reflect accurately the political situa tion in Western Samoa.

An Apia correspondent comments: “Mr. Morgan created a controversy by refusing to accept the rulings of the chairmen of the Convention, the High Commissioner and the Hon.

Tamasese, and subsequently left the Convention. There does not appear to be any evidence that in NZ he represents the views of any section of the European or Samoan popula tion of Western Samoa.”

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L. G. Usher) will go on overseas leave at the end of May and will spend some time in the United Kingdom.

Lautoka’s Hotel Plan

rE proposed new hotel at Lautoka, Fiji, is planned for a site at the corner of Tavewa Avenue and Verona Street, almost opposite the Northern Club, said Mr. Reginald Grayson, of Casino, NSW, correcting an earlier report (Feb. FIM) that it was proposed to build the hotel opposite the Bank of NZ.

U Mr. Charles T. Poroi, who is man ager (and the Fils) of Messrs.

Alfred T. Poroi and Fils, import and export agents, of Tahiti, spent some weeks in Sydney recently.

Plans Made for 1956

Pacific Conference

MR. J. RYAN, Assistant Secretary- General of the South Pacific Commission, and Mr, M. G.

Collins, a member of the Com mission’s administrative staff, have been visiting Suva to discuss arrangements for the 1956 South Pacific Conference, which will be held in Fiji. (The first conference was held at Nasinu, Suva, in 1950).

Subjects for conference discussion will include economic education and industrial development, farming systems, co-operative societies and credit unions, the place of custom in the modern world, and infant and maternal welfare.

The Secretary-General of the South Pacific Commission (Dr.

Ralph Bedell) spent several days in Fiji before going on to Sydney, en route to Noumea. He and Mrs.

Bedell left Sydney on April 13.

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Netherlands NG

FIFTEEN American Martin flying boats, including spare parts, have been bought by the Nether lands Government for service in Netherlands New Guinea. They will replace well-tried Catalinas.

The building and renovating costs of a flying-boat repair shop at Biak are estimated at £160,000.

The Netherlands New Guinea Air Transport Co. (De Kroonduif) will be founded on July 1. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will manage the new company, which will be operated with the assistance of the Dutch NG Government. The three DC3 air craft used by KLM in NG for a seven-town air network will be transferred to the new company, as will two de Havilland Beavers bought by the Government for incidental flights for administrative purposes. fl Memory of the late Mr. W. J.

Lambden, one of the most notable RM’s of the Hubert Murray regime in Papua, is revived by the an nouncement in Brisbane of the en gagement of his son, Mr. W. J. G.

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Norfolk Is.

Petition Rejected—Canberra

Encourages Industries

Amass of material, official and non-official, relating to the Norfolk Island community’s pro test against increased taxes, and against an expensive administrative set-up in which the people have little voice, has reached PIM re cently. Some extracts follow.

The Islanders’ petition to the Queen eventually was referred to the Governor-General of Australia,

who re j ecte d it- The grounds of rejection have been set out in a long statement by the Australian Department of Territories.

Some of the proposed taxation has been withdrawn.

Australian Department of Terri tories (through Mr willoughby> in charge of economic planning section) is trying to strengthen the Island’s weak economy by introduc ing new industries in NI. Active encouragement is being given to a whaling enterprise, which may be headed by Mr. Anderson (whose meat retailing organisation is well known in Papua and New Guinea).

The main obstacle to this is the international body which controls catches of whales. It has been try ing to cut down Australia’s whale

quota, and may react unfavoui to application for a quota for It seems likely that NI will tinue to resist all demands foi creased taxes, direct and indJ while Australia continues to si large sums on the mainten of an administrative organiss which most observers agree is m unnecessary and mainly orname

Petition to the Queen

CLAIMING that Norfolk Is “suffers under an almost « plete dictatorship,” 375 of island’s 583 adult residents landholders have signed a peti to the Queen, states Mr. R. P Nobbs, chairman and presider the Norfolk Island Advisory Con Dated January 26, the peti asks the Sovereign to repeal!

Customs Ordinance 1954, procla; law in Norfolk Island by the « ernor-General of Australia on vember 30, 1954 —and claims the Ordinance is “contrary to fundamental principle of Bi government, that there shall b taxation without representation asks the Queen to “restore to u: democratic right of control our domestic affairs.”

The petition states that s from the 375 signatories, “64i too sick or absent, and 102 are terred from signing by their d or indirect Government emj ment. Others, while they agree,, it might prejudice the receip pensions and destitute funds,, sole discretion of this being in hands of the Administrator, balance have not had the op tunity to sign or decline to doi The petition, it is stated, is outcome of a unanimous dec at a public meeting called by elected councillors to protest ag;: the Ordinance, which is said to imposed further taxation “wit) representation or consent or sultation with our elected counc:;

as promised.”

THE Customs Ordinance, subjected a large range articles to ad valorem ranging from 5 pc to 20 pc on of heavy shipping freight (£:! ton for 950 miles). It has pointed out that “practically ev thing imported carries the apprf ate mainland production taxe addition.”

‘Comic Opera Island’—

‘Bureaucratic Comt

ALTHOUGH the heading Merton Woods’s article in Sy\ Sunday Telegraph about co ditions on Norfolk Island is “C' Opera Island,” and “Bureauc: Comedy of Errors,” the wr summary of conditions as he? observed them there is not n funny.

He shares with most observer;* wonder that the Australian Gov

•nt should find it necessary to em >y a staff of 42. complete with [ministrator and Government iuse trimmings, to govern a small and with 583 adults and about I children. ie describes the expenditure by stralia of £131,000 on Norfolk and in the last three years as xe nation’s craziest dogfight”— ►ecially in view of the facts that [ is stagnating and declining and ,ny of its settlers are poverty icken.”

Hie reporter is caustic and amus : at the expense of “dapper” igadier Norman, the Adminis ter who, he says, maintains “the mality of a near-Vice Regal ahlishment” —he “dresses five hts a week for dinner at Govern it House and rides in a car which ries a pennant.” ■he cause of NX’s “revolution” has n described in recent issues of A. The Australian Government ided to obtain another £3,000 per mm out of the NI taxpayers, and K)sed new import duties. NI pie protested vigorously and, ;n they were ignored, they itioned the Queen for review of new taxes, and for relief from oppressive governmental system. * Australian Governor-General cording to the Sunday Telegraph April 3) refused to grant the ition; but the Government did ise the proposed taxation, so that now will take only £1,700 per ;um more from NI. he Telegraph publishes a de ption of Nl’s medical service ch it says should make “the dais of the Department of Terri es in Canberra hang their heads hame.” The newspaper suggests t the medical care of NI should attached to the Papua-New nea Department of Health, be Telegraph writer seems to c reached the same conclusion as the PIM long ago—namely, that le Australian taxpayers are pre )d to foot the bill, there is no ion why NI should not have its ic opera governmental set-up; if the 580 adults on the island expected to pay for all the sense, it is time that the whole the Government administrative ngements were reviewed in the t of practical politics and com isense.

1 Council May Appeal

Again Over Ordinance

(From Our Own Correspondent)

Norfolk Is., March. 25.

DRFOLK Island’s 1954 Customs Ordinance caused a hullabaloo, including the petition to the :en and letters to all members the Australian Parliament, but amended Ordinance has been )pted by the Advisory Council, he Council, after a long dis >ion today, agreed to accept the

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Wicks-McNicol

Wedding

Mr. and Mrs. Allan Wicks after their marriage at the church of Our Lady of the Rosary, Port Moresby, on March 12. The bride was formerly Miss Judith McNicol. Both bride and bridegroom are Civil Aviation Dept,

personnel.

Photo: Papuan Prints.

revised Ordinance—but it reserved the right to appeal again for its abolition.

In the amended Ordinance duties have been waived on apparel (excluding silk), carpets and floor coverings, paints, radios and a few other lines.

The clauses of the new Ordinance were explained by the Administra tor at a public meeting. In the course of his speech he referred to the petition.

His Honour granted the righ f of residents to sign the petition, but he protested against what he termed inaccurate statements in the letter accompanying the petition and, to a greater degree, in the letter sent to members of the Federal Parliament.

An example, he said, was a state ment that £200,000 of the taxpayers’ money had been spent in the last 2 h years on the restoration of old, convict-built buildings at Kingston while urgent work on the hospital and school was neglected.

The Administrator said that £20,- 800 had been spent on restoration at the special desire of the Federal Government and at no expense to the Islanders.

The President of the Advisory Council (Mr. R. Nobbs) conceded that the word “including” had been omitted before the word “restora tion.”

There was a considerable amount of heckling at the meeting, some of the questions asked by interjectors being: Had the Administrator represented the case of the majority or the minority to Canberra?

Would the public have an opportunity to criticise his repre sentations? Had the Administrator refused to discuss estimates unless in committee? No replies were made to the interruptions.

Mr. Nobbs, who is also chairman of the Island Petition Committee, apologised for anything that could be misread, but said that the issue was quite clear to most people. He emphasised the seeming unwilling ness of Administrators to give the Council and the public the estimates and expenditure “in any practical way.”

Mr. Nobbs said that to prevent any doubt as to how the estimated £200,000 in 21 years was arrived at, he would quote the official Aus tralian annual estimates, the trust fund credit balance of £38,000 in the 1952 balance sheet (the latest published) and Mr. Lambert’s “whittled down” average revenue.

The total for the period was £200,- 000, as stated in the letters, said Mr. Nobbs. (The 1952 balance sheet shows: (1) Credit balance in trustee fund, £38,600; Australian estimate and

expenditure. 1953, £40,247; £58,256; 1955 (£lO,OOO receive Jan.), est. £20,480. In 1954 revenue was £25,000. but Lambert’s average of £21,000 annum was taken, making £ for 21 years. This accounts fo 2i years’ total of approxini £2OO 000).

The Territories Minister Paul Hasluck) has indicated, the handing over of more gove powers to an Executive, inste; the present Advisory Counc: still being considered.

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

oug Berry, ZK-l-BG, Rarotonga’s Brmed 80-metre CW addict, reported latest on the Cook Islands Ham front mid-March. Doug now has a tally of countries on 80, a few of the choicer nt additions being VP9BL, LU2RD, (Gambia), KM6AX, and EL2A. part, ZK-l-AA, one-time very active lon, is still not on the air since shift headquarters a mile or so along the itonga beach to Avatiu. However, the is still in existence, so there are hopes he will appear eventually. >ug Cunnold, ZK-l-AB, another usually lar CW outlet, has been less active of His health has not been the best in at months. Nat, ZK-l-BH, is also t, but Norman Ashwell of Rarotonga :o staff, latest Cook Islands addition amdom, with the call ZK-l-BJ, should n the air very soon. Ron, ZK-l-81, ning to concentrate on 15 mc/s, is building a new rig.

Suva Stan, VR2AS, appears to be ag some trouble with his antenna es. Writing to “Break In’’ he quotes different variations of a formula for ©-element rotary beam gathered from ally reliable sources’’. sanings from other sources: QST says FOBAG has shifted from Makatea d to Papeete. As far as we know

he has not been active however for some time, and unless he has recently been back to Makatea he actually left there over two years ago. Interesting also is a report that FOBAJ might appear on the air from the Tokelaus this winter.

According to our most recent report from FOBAB in Papeete the call FOBAJ is not at present allocated, having lapsed.

The Hallicrafters Co., who largely financed the recent Clipperton expedition, and also possibly the latest Cocos (Pacific) expedition, is said to be preparing some more Pacific DXpeditions.

On Easter Island CE-O-AD is active, but his hamming is strictly limited by the necessity to conserve diesel fuel for the generating plant. It all has to be brought at considerable cost from Chile once a year. CE-O-AC returned to Chile last year, so AD Is the only station now there, according to CE3AG (ex CE-O-AA).

Incidentally for those awaiting QSL’s from Easter there is good news. The Dutch warship “Van Zull", en route from Papeete to Chile and Panama, was calling there in March and would certainly lift the island’s mail.

Island Hams are invited to send along photos and news of latest developments from their areas. Failing more active interest the column will be curtailed or abandoned.

fl Miss Cynthia Cooper, second daughter of Mrs. Frank May, of Eltham, NSW, and the late Dr.

R. W. Cooper, MBE, formerly of Rabaul, is in her final year at the Royal Melbourne School of Nursing.

She celebrated her 21st birthday on March 30.

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Colonel Murray, former Ad istrator of Papua-New Gu has been appointed first prir of a women’s agricultural co in Ceylon.

Mrs. Murray is a gradual! agricultural science. She andl Murray left for Ceylon on Apr They will live in the college, v has been built by the Ceylon ernment, near Kandy. The app ment has been made under Colombo Plan.

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THERE was much water in sky but none in Noun supply-pipes for several hot sticky days after a moderate hi cane on March 2-4 had dam the system.

Peak velocity of the storm 80 an hour, but no great pro] damage was reported in the Nov area.

The Noumea mo to r-c ru; Philante 11, owned by M. Mart was at Gaitcha Bay, on the coast of Lifou, in the Loyai when the storm struck. Shei thrown on a reef and seemed II to become a total loss. The \) had been making subsidised voy to the Loyalties from Non carrying up to 60 passengers on trip.

Considerable damage was dor NC’s east coast coffee plantatf which promised a good harves- Tf Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, whoc become the first Speaker of; Legislative Council of Fiji year, will go to London this nr to attend a course in Parliamen procedure organised by the 0 monwealth Parliamentary Ass« tion. On his return journey, a August, he will visit the Ist: Fiji Infantry Regiment in Mat

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People

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Deaths of Islands People

Mr. John Alexander

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r. John Alexander Carpenter, of the five brothers of the well wn Islands trading family of penter, died in Sydney on March aged 80 years. f. Carpenter was the second st of the brothers, and has not i associated with the firm of R,. Carpenter & Co. since 1936. •om 1929 to 1936 he was joint laging-director of the firm’s aul Branch. The other brothers, tur, Herbert, William, and Sir ter all died before John. ; is survived by his wife, one son two daughters. Another son killed during the war.

Mother Mary Agnes

lown throughout the South fic for her 33 years’ work as ;r-in-Charge of the Fiji Leprosy

ital, Makogai, the Rev. Mother t Agnes, MBE, died at the Dn on March 17, four days be her 85th birthday. She had suffering from pneumonia and ictured leg. >ther Mary Agnes went to Fiji Brittany 62 years ago, and etired from her post at Makogai larch, 1950. For many years iad charge of about 700 patients won universal affection and re

photograph of Mother Agnes on the ion of her receiving the Legion of [?]r in July, 1953.

:t for her enthusiasm, organis ability and capacity for leader ). i 1937, when the then Governor Fiji (Sir Arthur Richards) pre :ed to her the insignia of MBE, said; “Without her marvellous jtion it is difficult to see how togai could ever have existed.” i July, 1953, Mother Mary Agnes ived the French decoration of valier of the Legion of Honour.

Mrs. W. G. Bovell

rs. W. G. Bovell, who was lerly Miss Viola Riemen leider, of Fiji, died at Sutton, •ey, England, last month. Mrs. ell, who had lived in England JO years, is survived by her hus -1 and twin daughters (Lucy and 3ara), her sisters Mesdames E. ?ton (at present in England) Phelps, of Suva, and brother, D. Riemy, of Suva.

Aptain Lucien Lefevre

iptain Lucient Lefevre, whose h occurred at Noumea in March tie age of 70, spent the greater of his life in New Caledonia, •e he was regarded with tionate respect. •rn at Le Havre, he went to sea indjammers, and at the age of vas first mate in the France 0 tons), the world’s largest sail ship. A five-master with a top 3 of 18 knots, the France was lost the reef near La Foa, New donia, and until her hull (in ; fragments) was broken up for ) a few years ago, it could be clearly from the main west ; road. ter leaving the sea, Captain /re became local pilot, shipping rintendent, navigation inspector finally harbourmaster at nea. He was an active member he Cape Horn Association, a 3 of old salts who had hered the Horn under sail. He a Chevalier of the Legion of lur and an officer of the Merite time.

Captain F. T. Giblin

ptain Frederick Tarta Giblin, an with an unrivalled know -1 of the western seas round Fiji, at his home at Suva on March ; the age of 68. ptain Giblin was the third son le late John Giblin, who went ji before Cession (1874) to work i tea plantation at Wainunu, la Levu. Educated at Sydney, worked as a clerk before re ng to Fiji to work for the idian Timber Co. as a bullock r at Dreketi. He studied ation and sailed in many trading from Levuka. At •us times he was master of belonging to the Fiji Shipping Burns Philp and Morris trom. ptain Giblin is survived by two Messrs. George and Fred n, both of Fiji, and a hter Maud (Mrs. T. Cornish).

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“TNTERNATIONAL events giving X the opportunity, there should be a great future for New Guinea,” writes Pastor A. J. Campbell, of the SDA Eastern Highlands Mission, Goroka. “Australia, very rightly, is taking a lot more interest in New Guinea than it used to, but for the life of me cannot understand why it does not take a whole lot more.”

Noting some recent developments in the country, Mr. Campbell says: “Roads are improving, but not as rapidly as they should: better bridging is being promoted (a great

need); a good deal of settlement is taking place, as can be seen from the ‘highway’, and small native coffee plantations are springing into being. The new Banz-Minj bridge, nearly finished, across the Wahgi River, will be a great asset to the area. The Goroka airstrip is being made into a double strip.

“There is an air of activity in this country these days. And thus it should be, for how can we keep a valuable country like this without doing something about it when, in these times of rapid air travel, hundreds of millions of people aie milling about close to our doors?” he continues.

“Without question this country could take a good deal more Euro pean settlement, thus making de velopment more solid in outlook.

With the right safeguards, it would be of benefit to all concerned. Pro mising industrial development seems to be looming on Goroka’s horizon —a fine thing for the country.

“Private enterprise—w it h, of course, deep, sympathetic Govern ment interest—could play a great part in the development of New Guinea—the bridge to Asia, or from Asia to Australia, whichever way we look at it.”

Keys-McLaren Wedding

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Photo: Papuan Prints.

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THE manner in which the Chinese are slowly, steadily and inexorably extending their hold over the islands of Indonesia and the Pacific is not generally recognised.

Elsewhere, reference is made to the way the Chinese traders are showing up again in the Solomon Islands. Elsewhere in this issue, also, a commentator reminds us that most of the worth-while trade in French Oceania is commanded by the 10,000-12,000 Chinese there , . . The Chinese community in Fiji is small, but influential.

A well-known writer, describing conditions in and around Indonesia said recently that “Communist China’s education authorities have prepared a new geography text book for Asian schools which shows Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaya, Singapore, Sumatra and the Celebes as part of the New China.”

Apart from the predominant Chinese community in Malaya, there are over 2,000,000 Chinese in Indonesia, and they not only

control the commerce but also the politics of the late Dutch empire.

There is so close a connection between Communist China and the Chinese in Indonesia that it is now generally accepted that Red China virtually directs the policies ostensibly framed in Jakarta.

THIS is what Osmar White, well known Australian commenta tor, said about the New Guinea Chinese in Melbourne Herald of March 29: The plain, inescapable fact is that a great deal of the Trust Territory of New Guinea is already under Chinese commercial and financial domination, Chinese trade stores in the larger centres like Rabaul, Lae and Wewak do the bulk of business with the natives, and Chinese retailers have practically captured the casual shopping of European women.

Many a small European planter or businessman raises the wind, when his own bank has turned him down, from the Chinese store owner who doubles as agent for

some rich and powerful Chi] bank whose name is unknown all but the best informed w men.

More and more Chinese are ing over ownership of copra, co rubber and coffee plantations assume control of them straight-out investors or m gagees.

How does this sort of t; happen when Australia so stn gently restricts Asian migratioi The New Guinea Chinese ar theory anyway, either Austrs or Island-born—some third fourth generation expatriates 1 China. We possess no legal r to expel them.

OVER the years and throughi generations, they have served their Chinese cult their Chinese thinking, and t Chinese way of life. Their i giance, in sentiment and phi ophy if not legality, is to t mother country. Although ni of them are educated in the Australian schools, their west isation is merely a useful vem There is no real secret in t amazing success at silent, im ceptible colonisation and dora tion.

They are the most unobtru of citizens —quiet, law-abiding, polite. Seldom or never do admit to possession of a polii opinion.

n business they are commend y honest, superb but self icing salesmen and uncannily sclent buyers. They are thodical, terrifyingly industri i, and terrifyingly frugal in ir personal lives; •hey have large familes at an ly age, and the cohesiveness of Chinese family has to be tested be believed. ■hey are not, and seemingly e not the slightest wish to be, orbed by the alien communities which they live.

'o me, these are the people who xant the drawing of fresh maps delineate the borders of the v China. To make a personal ss. I should say that most of tn are secretly but profoundly ifferent to all political theories lat they are as little moved by ) (Communist leader) as they by Chiang (Nationalist leader). . They are soulbound to their her country, whoever her lers may be. his truth is something Aus ia’s leaders must consider, and irately evaluate, if they are to : the security of Australia’s itiers and the protection of tralia’s vital interests in the ific. rich Oceania’s Asiatics

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Noumea. Mar. 29.

JESTIONS concerning Asiatics ir

New Caledonia and other French fic territories have been discussed ally in Paris and Noumea by orities from widely-separated s. r. Florrisson, Senator for Tahiti, e a controversial speech to the sell du Republique in Paris. >ng other things, he seems to ; made an indirect attack on South Pacific Commission, ;h has its headquarters at mea. ; reported at Noumea, his words “What is this South Pacific mission trying to do for us? never hear it spoken of in our titutional assemblies; no parlia tary member for French inia is a member of it.”

Florrisson said that it would ‘great folly” to take to Tahiti leighbouring but foreign labour 5 under United Nations control.”

J warned the French Govern t against “neighbouring young jrialists,” and urged that at ion be given to “certain faults to be committed in French mia” and to the adjustment of

fits already committed while »re was yet time.

Surely, he said, more suitable grants could be found within the ;nch Empire—North Africa, for tance. Workers from such terri ies would be French citizens and ers—although, he added, these Uifications might not please the ninistration in Tahiti, deanwhile at Noumea the ques a of repatriation of the remain- Indo-Chinese in New Caledonia 5 again been raised in the As ibly. Repatriates who have gone k to Haiphong and Hanoi have tten letters complaining of cial taxes imposed on them, ne who were quite wealthy say y now have little money left, n reply to a question in the embly, the Secretary-General 1 that in his opinion the Ton ese could be forced to leave NC. ;y had come under labour cou nts, and now that the contracts e ended the onus was on them leave at the expense of the NC /eminent. However, lack of ship g had prevented this policy be carried out. everal members pointed out that st of NC’s carpenters and build tradesmen were Tonkinese, but member representing the trades ms said that the technical col i at Noumea was turning out iesmen. The Tonkinese, with an [•-increasing number of children, e, he said, a threat to the present future non-Tonkinese trades i. was also suggested that fialised labourers could easily trained among the people of •-populated indigenous tribes. two-member commission came Noumea from Saigon recently to sstigate the possibility of settling asians from Southern Vietnam tfC. These Eurasians are in an appy plight, and it is certain ; in the event of all Indo-China’s ing out of French control tier by joining the Communist minh or by complete inde ience), they would be treated as ;siders”. a report of the commission’s £ or conclusions has been made lie, but it has been rumoured i there were hopes of settling ) Eurasians here. Such a e would be greeted with very 3d feelings in NC.

Iditorial note: It is assumed Dr. Florrisson’s reference in s to a “neighbouring but foreign ur force” may possibly be linked i the 1954 Noumea-Suva dis ions on a proposal that young Indians should work in New donia for a fixed term. This appears now to have been iped. As far as is known, tier Tahiti nor the United ons came into the picture at stage).

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Japs in Fishing Industry

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For New Hebrides

A TUNA fishing company which says it will go into operation in N. Hebrides next year will make use of Japanese fishing skill.

The company is registered as D. J.

Gubbay & Co., Vila. It is a British organisation, and has the financial backing of a number of planters and business men. A refrigeration plant with a capacity of 2,000 tons o' fish is promised at Santa soon. Seven 100-ton tuna clippers are reported on order in Japanese ship yards. They

will be owned by the company, regis L ered in Vila, and manned by a few skilled Japs and mainly Euro pean and native crews. The com pany expects to begin active fishing in January next. The market for the f ro zen tuna presumably is USA. . , . .

T Better rubber prices are being re fleeted in bigger dividends for Papuan rubber company share holders. Koitaki is maintaining its interim dividend at 71 (equal to 15 per cent p.a.), and Kerema, with its profit for 1954 up from £8,638 to £13,384, has raised its dividend from 5 to 10 per cent, p.a., transferred another £4,000 to reserves, and carried forward £3,000.

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Boroko Agency

The Bank of New South Wales is pleased to announce the extension of its services in Papua and New Guinea.

GOROKA BRANCH

NEW GUINEA

The former Agency at Goroka has been converted to a Branch. It is open for business during usual banking hours and provides a complete banking service.

BOROKO AGENCY

PAPUA

On Monday, 2nd May, 195 5, an Agency to the Port Moresby Branch of the Bank of New South Wales will be opened at Boroko. It will be open for business on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.

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nolulu-Papeete Service

p. 167

167

approval GIVEN

nolulu-Papeete Service “About September”

►BLOWING lengthy and search

ing construction-and-perform

ance examinations by the US 1 Aviation Administration, South fie Airlines Solent Mk. 11l air t have been accepted, subject to w modifications, as suitable air t to operate a planned Hono ■Papeete air service via jstmas Island. lis was reported by Australian iain Bryan W. Monkton, the cany's operations manager, who in Sydney in March. He, and crew, planned to leave Sydney r May with the second Solent h has been hauled up at Rose ever since the company pur ed it from the now defunct is-Oceanic Airways. In mid l, four new motors were being lied and the Australian registra markings painted out and re ;d with an American flag and letters “N9945F”. ptain Monkton said that apart some structural modifications le aircraft, the principal task to be done before the service tiences will be the establishment ull radio, meteorological, and ing facilities at Christmas

Island. None of these facilities will be provided by any Government agency.

There will also have to be some emergency overnight accommodation for passengers and crew. On present indications it will be another five months before flying can commence —much later than had been hoped.

Captain Monkton said that SPA never had any plans to use Palmyra.

The climate there was wet with frequent low visibility, unlike dry Christmas Island. And Christmas is more suitably placed as a half way point. The company, had, however, considered using land planes at one stage, but Pan Ameri can Airways had a prior applica tion for such a service to Bora Bora and that company strongly opposed a SPA land-plane application. Con versely, the French authorities were strongly in favour of a flying-boat service right in to Papeete and had given SPA backing in Washington in favour of their application for the flying-boat service.

It was not yet decided just how many passengers would be carried but fares were calculated at 11 cents per mile.

Capt. Monkton was able to ex plain why, about a year ago, a de tachment of Gilbertese police were despatched in great haste and secrecy from Tarawa to Christmas aboard a GEIC Government vessel, under a European officer. The United States has always claimed at least

equal rights with Britain—as at Canton —in Christmas Island. The Robert Dollar Co., which is financi ally backing SPA, decided to send a retired American sea captain down to Christmas to thoroughly investi gate what ground facilities would have to be established there. He was to remain on the island as a local representative. Evidently the British authorities got the idea that he was going to hoist the American flag.

He was met on the beach by the British police detachment when he came ashore from a small vessel, and told that he could not remain.

Captain Monkton said that while the British authorities have not actively opposed SPA’s plans, they have given absolutely no co-opera tion or assistance. British airline in terests were probably not pleased to see SPA entering that route.

II Mr. and Mrs. Fr an k Exon, formerly of Suva, arrived in Sydney from Europe early in April. After completing a lengthy term as Fiji manager of Amalgamated Wireless Ltd., Mr. Exon decided to spend long leave abroad —mainly in Eng land —and he now expects that he will spend several months at head quarters in Sydney before going on to his next posting. Their elder daughter, Elizabeth (now Mrs.

Cottee) is a resident of Brisbane; and their younger daughter, Jocelyn, has just announced her engagement to Mr. Neil Gow, of Brisbane.

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FLAT AT MANLY, Sydney, Aust.—s min. surf, ferry, pool, shops, overlooks Manly.

Ocean, Heads. LUXURY furn., w./w. carpets, refrig., hot water, ’phone, garden & lawns. Accommodation; Dbl. 8., 2 SB.; Day B. IMPORTANT; Due to difficulty experienced in arranging date of arrival with vacant accommodation, I am inviting applications and ALTERNATIVE DATES.

Please state period required for. Reply to "Manly Holiday’’, G.P.O. Box 417, Sydney.

NORFOLK ISLAND, "Burnt Pine" Real Estate Agency. Cable Address: "Adage Norfolk Island”. Properties for sale In peaceful surroundings and beautiful climate of Norfolk Island. All enquiries promptly attended to.

DR AND MRS. H. L. ZIELE, New Zea landers, wish to announce they hav< opened their home, centrally situated ir peaceful surroundings at Double Bay foi Pacific Islands and Interstate guests foi breakfast Laundry facilities £ mt to excellent restaurants ai Tinripr tv, Bay ’ 10 . mmutes from City $5 Personal supervision of Mrs S« ,e ’ 37 M anni ”g Rd„ Double Bav Sydney. Phone; FM2761.

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Strictly confidential —No obligation—New Australians welcome.

FOR SALE

TOOLS and equipment for mechanics, blacksmiths, carpenters, etc. Catalogue posted free on application to R. Sanderson & Company, 68 Blues Point Road, North Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.

MARINE ENGINES at Samarai. Pair used Widdop marine diesel engines, 4 cyl., 48 H.P. Complete with gear boxes, air bottle, air motors; also hand starting. Port engine requires new oil pump, both in need of overhaul. Address enquiries to: Milne Bay Wholesale Association, Samarai

P.-N.G.

ELECTRIC GENERATING SETS.—New 9

K.V.A. English “Meadows” 240 volt single phase or 415 volt 3 phase, 50 cycles, driven by 18 H.P. petrol engine, radiator cooled to suit tropical conditions. Complete with switch board and voltage regulator.

Two only, balance of stock—special price to clear £350 each, F. 0.8., Sydney. Available for test before shipment. Hardman & Hall, 161 Missenden Road, Newtown, Sydney.

BOOKS

ANY NEW BOOK (English), which Is in print now, posted to you In a few days.

I also find rare and out-of-print books to order. Large Pacific clientele. Banking accounts at Sydney and Wellington. Write Philip R. Boulton, Bookseller, Westbury, Wilts, England.

HANDBOOK OF PAPUA & NG, 1954.

320 pp and maps; contains all details about the administrative and commercial organisation in the two territories; includes directory of all European residents and business firms and of the leading Chinese residents. Price: 15/- (plus 1/-

posted). HANDS OFF PIDGIN ENGLISH!

by Professor R. A. Hall, Jnr., of Cornell University, USA.—A defence of the “lingua franca” of Melanesia and a plea for its official use and control. Price: 15/- (plus 1/- posted). Copies from Islands Stores and Booksellers or direct from Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd.. 29 Alberta St., Sydney.

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p. 168

For Oranges

A “LARGE shipment” of or and lemons is expecte; Auckland via Suva California early in May acca to a Wellington announce': The fruit is aboard the Bl vessel Port Alma.

Every year a large quanti' citrus fruit is imported into Zealand from South Africa, tralia, and the West Indies, m during the Cook Islands off-si which extends from about Mi September. Even during the Q citrus season supplies come in other sources to meet requirements.

The importation of citrus dollar sources, however, ap unusual.

Sources of supply are limite the existence of fruit pests in exporting countries, which appear otherwise eligible to New Zealand demands.

Polynesian Association

p. 168

Concert

THE Sydney Polynesian Ass tion gave a concert on . 1, the entire proceeds of v were donated to the NSW 3 Relief Fund. The Association several such concerts each yea, charitable purposes.

Plan for Catholic

p. 168

Village Near S

A VILLAGE of from 50 to Roman Catholic Island fair is being established at Lan harbourside suburb of Suva, rej the Catholic Weekly, Sydney.

All from island groups out Fiji, these people have been lii for many years on Catholic mis properties near Suva. With thei forcement of land subdivision II however, permission to build s able houses was withheld from t; except under subdivision, the re states.

A portion of the Lami prop has been reserved for a chu parish buildings and recreation g H Mr. B. Raghvanand, MBE, will tire shortly after 35 years in Government service in Fiji. He for many years an assistant to< Commissioner for Fijian Rese (Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna). He is of the nominated official memben the Legislative Council and is third son of the late Mr. B!

Mahraj to sit in the Council.

Badri Mahraj was the first Ino member of the Council.

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162

APRIL, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

index to Advertisers

p. 169

169

E 152 IR. Ltd. . 132 L. & F. . . 157 |Vite ... 77 linium Ltd. 126 )co Pty. Ltd. 73 lion Ltd. . . 78 tt. Wm. . 138 a 49 [ Tr. Jnls. 143 ian. Sales . 41 f Recondi ners . . . 124

[of NSW . 47,

80, 81, 159

[of NZ . . 90

lolemew.

W 29 sll, Gwyn . 1 twood Hodge 64 and-Rae . 70 lell-Spence 129 i.C 4 lord Mills . 44 ion Bros. . 107 6 Holliday 146 ;woldt 84, 106 m, W. S. . 74 veldt, G. . 76 h Paints . 52 ;on & Co. . 46 i Pty. . . 100 ng, A. H. 112 ughs ... 6 50, 61, 90, 149 iry-Fry . . 24 ’s Studios 107 s Ship. Co. 73 inter 98, cov. iv fied . . . 162 te 26, 121, 144 in’s Mus l ... 49 ial Meat . 104 r W’s’n. 88, 158 Bros. . . 151 Co. . . . 31 nond Co. 150 i 77 s, S. W. . 66 i ... 127 [. . . 68, 163 d Ltd. . . 84 ass, W. C. 97 p Rubber 42 maid ... 83 lay Pro ;s ... 133 •, Wm. . 117 ike & lecke ... 38 , D. & Co. 108 e Rum . . 99 er Eng. . 66 tt, D. & M. 164 ;k Hotel . 3 i Remola 145 i Battle . 69 , W. & A. 34 ie Bros. . 91 )ie, R. . i, 34, f 4, 99, 122, 148 ;e Ltd. . 141 n Vale . 113 n’s Gin . 108 m Books . 45 (Suva) . 5 Ltd. 46, 115 ■sen, E .69 •sen, Sons 67 lon Court 143 ! & Spear 30 ian & Hall 28 7 Trinder 22 Agencies 38 gs Diesels 86 7s Ltd. . . 72 y Ltd. . . 71 R 23 oks Ltd. . 62

Hygeia Co. . . 92 Is. Industries . 93 Is. Transport .

Johnson’s Wax . 83 Kennedy, Capt. 73 Kerr Bros. . . 139 Kiwi Polish . . 34 Kopsen & Co. . ii Lillis & Co. . . 94 Maclntyre, T. . 92 Manning & Osborne ... 116 Mendaco ... 87 Millers Ltd. . . 104 Mitchell, R.

Wallace ... 114 M. H. Ltd. . 18, 105 Morgan Vernex 142 Mungo Scott . 140 Mcllrath’s ... 120 McNiven’s Pty.

Ltd 136 N. & R. . . 79, 101 Needham & Co. 95 Nestle’s ... 36 NG Aust. Line . iii Nile Products , 102 Nirex 142 Nixoderm . . . 155

Nznac ... 2

Opportunity Wanted . . . 95 Pacific Con solidated ... 45 P. I. Line . . . iv .Papuan Prints 10-3 Piccaninny Wax 153 Qantas . . . cov. ii Qld. Insurance . 27 Qld. Milling . . 161 Ransomes Co. . 123 Refrig. Inst. Co. 50 Riverstone Co. 118 Robinson, G. H. 37 Rogette (Imp.) Co 35 Rohu, Sil . . . 91 Sails & Covers . 65 Scott’s Detergent 40 Seppelt & Son . 8 Seward Ltd. . . 155 Shaw Savill . . iv Shell Co. . . .75 Spruso Co. ... 20 S. Ltd. . . 11l Stapleton Pty. 117 Stewarts-Lloyds 128 Sthn. Pac. Ins. 25 Sullivan Ltd. . 103 Suva Motors . . 85 Tait, W. S. . . 1 Taylor & Co. . 147 T. . . cov. iii Thornycroft Co. 119 Tilley Lamps . 109 Tillock & Co. . 51 Tongan Photos 111 Tooheys Ltd. . 130 Tooth & Co. . . 87 Turners Supply 116 Tusculum ... 96 Tyneside Eng. . 89 United Radio . 151 University Graham ... 154 Vacuum Oil Co. 160 Valiant Rum . 100 Vapon Industries 32 Ventura 70, 156, 164 Vi-Stim ... 128 Vincent’s APC . 21 Wakefield Oils . 43 Warnock . . . 112 Westfield Meats 134 White, John . . 33 Wills Ltd. ... 110 Wise Bros. . . 135 Wright & Co. . 65 Wunderlich Co. 63 Yorkshire Ins. . 33 Young, H. ... 39

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As well as having all the features you demand in a commercial Rotary Hoe the new “Yeoman” fairly bristles with new devices never before seen in Australia. You’ll be amazed, for instance, how easy the job of changing implements can be. A single operation of the quick-release clamp instantly frees your cultivating unit or attachment. Another lever operation takes up the next attachment. It’s as easy as that! See your local agent to-day about this and other exclusive work-saving features the rugged, new “Yeoman” can bring you These features give the "Yeoma ★ Instantly DETACHABLE ROTOR assembly. ★ Two-speed rotor.

Three-position wheel lock giving “differential action.” n" greater work capacity: ir Four forward speeds. ★ 15 in. cultivator width. ★ Adjustable track width. ★ Big range of attachments.

Distributors:

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Radiograms: “DANGARS”, Sydney.

SkJ? lllespie Ltd > RABAUL. Century Motors, LAE. Pacific Island Motors, PORT MORESBY. A. H. Bunting Ltd., SAMARAI. F. L. Kwock Cheong, RABAUL. Madang Slipways Ltd., MADANG. W. J. Meehan KAVIENG J. H. Ellis, GOROKA. ’ RHI9 104

Islands Produce

p. 170

(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency. Aust. £ equals approximately 24/- Stg., NZ, or W.

Samoa; 22/6 Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons & WPHC areas; 140 Pac. Francs; $U52.23.)

Copra

Price negotiated between British Ministry of Food and British South Pacific Territories for 1955 is £ Stg.6s, FOB main ports—a reduction of 7.14% on the 1954 price. Stabilisation funds and other charges reduce the actual prices to pro ducers to those given below, per ton;

Papua - New Guinea:—Hot Air

£69/15/-; PM (Sun) £69; Smoked £66/15/-.

FlJl:—Plantation £F63/5/6; FM £F63; moister grades to £PS9/15/- minimum.

W. SAMOA:— £842/6/-, £B4l/18/-, and £S4I/12/- icr the three gradings in use.

E. SAMOA; —Adjusted with free-market fluctuations. Currently $89.60 (£A4O approx.) per long ton. Periodic bonus if average proceeds exceed Government buy ing price.

SOLOMONS: —Honiara / Gizo; Hot Air

£ A67/10/-; Mixed Ha/Fm £A6I/10/-; Fm

£ A57/10/-; Yandina: 5/- higher.

NEW HEBRIDES:—ApriI 1: Merchants paying 7,000 Pac. francs (£ASO).

FRENCH OCEANIA:—Latest quotation 6.25 Pac. francs per kilo (£A4S/6/aprox., per long ton) delivered in bulk, Papeete.

TONGA:— £AS9 and £AS3 per ton for the two gradings in use.

COOK IS.:—Growers receive £Stg.37/3/to £ Stg.3o/6/- depending on quality and freight rates from particular island to Rarotonga.

COCOA;—lslands prices are based on the rate for Accra cocoa which, on April 1, was £ 5tg.295 in bond, London.

P.-N.G.; £A32O-£330, delivered Sydney.

COFFEE:—P.-N.G.: Little business. £450 per ton, delivered Sydney, for a recent poor lot.

PEANUTS;—P.-N.G.: Ready sale for Virginia Bunch, in shell, large, well cleaned, 1/4 per lb. delivered Sydney.

RUBBER:—P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore, which quoted April 4, No. 1 RS3. spot 83Vs cents (29,4 d Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp, Tulk & Co.. Sydney, quoted April 4: Tahiti—White and Yellow label 64/- lb., Green label 63/-, c.i.f.

RlCE; —Price adjusted May 1 each year.

P.-N.G.: Dry brown and dressed £B3 per ton, f.o.b. Other Pacific Islands £9O.

PEARL SHELL.—Prlces fixed between Torres Strait producers and Otto Gerdau Co. (USA) for 1955: Sound grades. £A735; D, £ A 390; E, £ A 300; EE. £A225, all f.o.b. Australian port. Manihiki: Offers

of £A4OO, c.i.f. Auckland. No actua ness quoted.

TROCHUS:—ApriI 4, in store ! subject to rejects: P.-N.G. to £■ Hebs. to £420.

Green Snail:—P.-N.G., In

Sydney, £3OO approx., subject to

London And U.S. Prices

Copra:—London, April 1: Straits £ Stg.67 I £ AB3/15/- i. N. Hebrides: (Mar. 19), 71,000 Metro, francs pi ton ( £ A92/5/-). Philippines, afloa' 19), $lB2 ( £ ABl/15/-).

Cocoa: —London, Mar. 19: Gold March-May delivery, c.i.f. U.K., £.

April-June £312/10/-; New York, IV Sanchez 35.1 cents per lb. (£AI long ton).

Coffee: —London, Mar. 19: Uganda robusta, unwashed, f.a.q., prompt ( £Stg.24B, April-May £Stg.243, Ju £ Stg.24o; Prime Santos £Stg.4Bo, ii London: Kenya “A” £Stg. 509/10/ £ Stg.44l/-0/-, “C” £ 5tg.432/10/- Mombasa: New York, Mar. 19: “Fours”, spot, 58.3 cents per lb. (, Trochus:—London, Feb. 10: Sir early delivery, £ Stg.sls; Sim Macassar, £ 5tg.435; Mergui, Maro delivery, £ 5tg.375, all c.i.f. (Marl since continued to rise).

Greensnail: —Last quotation, Di Singapore £ Stg.34o. Since increas Rubber:—London, April 1: Spot, 25%d Stg.

Islands Mining Sha[?]

p. 170

Fiji

Aug.. 1939 July, ’54 A Emperor . . b9/ll bl7/9 s Loloma . . .

S25/6 b27/- s

Papua-New

Guinea

Bulolo . . . bl24/s60/- fc Mandated All. b3/8 bl/- s N.G.O. Ltd. . bl/10 bl/liy 2 s; Oil Search .

S3/11 b32/- s Ent. of N.G. .

Si Oriomo OH . b5/sl5/6 b Papuan Apin. b4/ll b7/2 s Placer Dev. . b68/6 b260/- Si Sandy Creek . bl/5 s6d s

Exchange Rates

p. 170

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSH BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £Alll/2/6; £AII3. Fiji-London, basis £lOO I B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-Fiji, basi NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

Samoa.—Through Bank Of Nz

tralia on Samoa, basis £lOO

B. £ A123/12/6; S. £Ai24/10/9.

London, basis £lOO London: B. £'.

S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £1 B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Fij £lOO Samoa: B. £111; S. £llO.

Papua - Ng.—Commonwealth!

(Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, R Madang), BANK OF NSW (branch Moresby, Lae, Bulolo, Rabaul, V.

Samarai; agency: Wau) and ANZ! (Port Moresby) quote exchange Australia-Papua-NG: 10/- per £lOl

Bsl—Commonwealth Bank

at Honiara) quotes exchange rat tralia-BSI: 10/- per £lOO.

Fr. Pacific Colonies.—Pacific;

most valuable of the three franc in French Union, are used in Nev donia, New Hebrides, and Fr. C FRENCH BANK (Comptoir N D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney Selling 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.; 1J fr. to £Stg.; 63 Pac. fr. to US $.

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PiOVIDORES

TRADE THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC

OVER FORTY YEARS OF PACIFIC ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE

BUYERS AND EXPORTERS OF ALL KINDS

OF ISLAND PRODUCE, COPRA, COCOA,

M O P. SHELL, TROCAS SHELL, ETC.

i AGENTS FOR AUSTRALIAN, EUROPEAN

) AND AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS.

\ DISTRIBUTORS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION

< OF MERCHANDISE.

Through our Sydney office, branches and agents, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of general merchandise.

W. R.

Head Cable Address:

“CAMOHE.”

In London:

CARPENTER & CO. LTD.

Office: 16 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Telephone: Postal Address: BW 4421. G.P.0., Box 168, Sydney.

W, R. Carpenter Cr Co. (London) Ltd., 13 Rood Lane, London, E.C.3.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THI PACIFIC: '

IN NEW GUINEA: IN PAPUA: IN FIJI; Island Products Ltd., »V. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Port Moresby. Ltd., Suva.

New Guinea Company Limited, Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng.

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