Pacific Islands Monthly - 1 October 1955

[?]ditor-General's Charges

Inefficiency In Papua-Ng

Unwillingness cf capable officials to serve in Papua-New Guinea was eason for waste and inefficiency in Territory projects, said the Australian leral Minister of Works (Mr. Kent Hughes) when replying in Parliament barges of maladministration of his department’s projects in Papua-New inea.

UTICISM contained in the 11954-55 report of the Auditor feeneral is at several points ilar to criticism levelled Ernes against certain depart ital activities in other Pacific nd territories, notably Fiji and Item Samoa. he Auditor-General (Mr. J. phy) said: “The seriousness of lack of adequate accounting and trol over public funds in Papua f New Guinea cannot be too ugly emphasised.” he report states that although ►expenditure had been reduced day-labour projects, the position Id not be considered satisfactory, his included: Lack of adequate design and [ard planning, and faulty cost nation; Insufficient supervision of work fogress and over-expenditure of Is: Performance of additional work put authority, and failure to ess cost variations promptly [to guard incorrect work and

payments.

E report stated that economic development and the demand for administrative facilities in [Guinea and Papua had out ped the Administration both ibney and manpower, rears of accounting and other lously reported unsatisfactory ires had not been adjusted, he inadequacy of storage [ties and excessive stocks again ributed to substantial losses by jioration,” it continued, adding: bntly £3,000 worth of rice was binned as unfit, due to bad ge” e report stated that the Rung unsatisfactory features aoned in last year’s report still ed; adequate control of payment of s to natives; failure to account Irticles manufactured by native

trainees and copra produced in native school grounds; unsatis factory accounting at agricultural establishments.

Varying charges for hospitals and medical fees and some overtime payments to customs officers for private work were being met from public funds, it added.

WHEN making his reply at Canberra, the Minister of Works said that good men were unwilling to work in the Territory because they often missed promotions when they returned to Australia.

He said his department was well aware of the laxity of control in the Territory, and was taking steps to remedy it. Because of the wide ramifications of the department, mistakes had to occur, as neither he nor his officers were perfect.

The Auditor-General’s report, said Mr. Kent Hughes, only con firmed the reports of his officers who had made an inspection 12 months ago.

Fijian Matrons

See the Sights

TO the changing-times depart ment in Fiji belongs the news that 30 elderly Fijian women have collected more than £BO to hire a bus to take them on a tour of Viti Levu.

They belong to the village of Bukuya, Magodro, in Nadroga- Navosa Province, and none of them has previously visited the large centres of population.

The party arrived at Suva on October 5 and arrangements for their accommodation were made by the head of their Province, Roko Tui Nadroga-Navosa. Their pro gramme in the capital included a visit to Broadcasting House.

After visiting the Nausori sugar mill and the Vatukoula goldmines, the travellers planned to go home by way of Lautoka and Nadi.

Rabaul's New

Activity

The new Pre-School Centre at Rabaul, opened on September 26. —Photo by C. H.

Meen.

Mercy Flight to Niue

Niue Islanders watch the RNZAF Sunderland which flew from Suva to Niue in August to pick up 21-years-old Fatahetoa, who had suffered serious facial and eye injuries in an explosion (September RIM, page 40). Mrs.

Jean McG. Storck, whose husband took this photograph, reports that at Auckland Hospital, NZ, the sight of one of Matahetoa's eyes has been saved, and in late September there was hope of saving the other. Aircraft are almost as rare as snowflakes at Niue, and the alight ing of the Sunderland at Alofi Bay caused excitement among Niueans and Europeans alike.

Big Nambas Cause

Strife in NH

THE Big Nambas tribes of central Malekula, in the New Hebrides, are among the most aggressive Islanders to-day, and clashes between the Big Nambas and the Little Nambas, on the coast, are reported at intervals.

Latest such report comes in a personal letter from a Santo man, writing in mid-September: “There has been big trouble in Malekula between the Big Nambas, out in the hills, and the salt-water people living near the coast. It went so far that, to prevent murder, nearly 300 people were evacuated from Malua Bay and surrounding places, the Condominium Govern ment being unable to maintain order. The Big Nambas chiefs would not give way to threats.

“I believe the main trouble started when Big Nambas chiefs claimed some women from the coastal natives,” the correspondent adds.

Rim's Editor Returns

After Overseas Tour

MR. R. W. ROBSON, founder and editor of Pacific Islands Monthly, returned to Sydney on October 11 after a five months’ overseas tour which included Indonesia, Malaya, Great Britain, the Continent and South Africa.

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’ I F I C ISUNDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1955

Debate Over Japs New

Hebrides Still Going On

CONTROVERSY over the proposal

to establish a New Hebrides’ tuna-fishing industry by the entry of Japanese moved into the Sydney Press on October 9, when Mr. H.

W. Henderson, chairman of the protesting group of Britons in the

New Hebrides, was quoted as saying

at Sydney that the move “would establish a Japanese Pacific base nearer Australia than any before or since the last war.”

The Sun-Herald report stated that “the non-British company spon soring the venture had secured British registration, which would allow the Japanese vessels to fly the British flag.”

The report quoted Mr. Henderson as saying: “This is an outrageous scandal that should be fully investigated by the British and French Governments, who jointly administer the islands. This company, controlled by three non- Britishers and formed with Japanese capital, plans to start tuna-fishing at Santo, the main island of the group.

“The company is bringing about 200 Japanese to the islands to operate the business. They will use seven fast, 100-ton ships, each manned by Japanese and native crews.

“By securing British registration, the company may fly the British flag on these ships. They may go unquestioned anywhere in the area or along the Australian coast.

“The company proposes to build slipways and other establishments at Santo, which will give the Japanese a Pacific operations base further south than they have ever had before. The New Hebrides is the most important strategical position in the south-west Pacific and should not be thrown open to Japanese infiltration. . . .

“The Japanese are expert smugglers and, as their vessels are identical, cargo-switching in the outer islands would make easy the evasion of customs and export charges. It is almost impossible to keep track of vessels in the 30 islands within this small area.

“Within the last few months the British District Agent at Santo spent more than a week searching for a Japanese ship which had illegally entered the area. While the agent was away, the ship brazenly entered Santo harbour.

The crew came and went as they pleased for a few days. The ship left Santo before the agent returned and was not seen again.”

VIEWS somewhat similar to those of Mr. Henderson were expressed in June FIM in a

letter from Mr. T. M. Smith, of Santo.

In the same issue, the British Resident Commissioner, Brigadier H. Flaxman (since retired) was quoted as saying at Sydney that he did not think there was much opposition to the employment of Japanese under contract in the tuna-fishing industry. It had been proved, he said, that the industry could not be otherwise based at the present time, and any suggestions that the fishing company might be allowed to carry on other trade with Japan were based on wrong information.

Brigadier Flaxman’s comment was made to a PIM representative in May.

Fijian Commander For

Troops In Malaya

Lieutenant-colonel ra t u Penaia Ganilau assumed com mand of the Ist Battalion, Fiji Infantry Regiment, in Malaya on October 1, succeeding Lieutenant- Colonel H. J. G. Low, who is re turning to New Zealand.

Wedding at Sydne[?]

t Because boarding school a modation is extremely diffic: arrange in New Zealand, the partment of Island Territorie advised Islands people to plans three years in advance

Miss Betty Eileen Smith, elder dau[?] Mrs. and the late Mr. V. G. Smith, was[?] to Mr. Keith Halfhide at Sydney in Sea[?] The bride, whose father was widely[?] for many years in the Islands as a co[?] traveller, is photographed here with Mrs.

Sullivan, head of the well-known Island[?] ing firm which bears his name, who [?] away. Former Islands people at the [?] reception included Mesdames H. H. Pa[?] Adams and R. Heming (formerly of New and Miss Marie Adams.

Do You Remember?

From PIM o.< 20 Years Agot.

INTERNATIONAL shipping com

petition on the Pacific trade and passenger routes was a red-hot political issue in October, 1935, and PIM, in common with many newspapers in Australia and New Zealand, was vehemently pro

testing against the “undermining of

the unprotected Union Company

(British) by the heavily subsidised Matson Line (American)”.

Here are extracts from that issue 20 years ago: Dealing with the shipping commotion editorially, PIM said: “It would benefit all British interests in the South Seas if cer tain (extremely Leftist) Australian gentle men who are a menace to good government and industrial peace were summarily dis posed of . . . Can one imagine Mussolini standing idly by and allowing some big organisation carrying his flag to be torn to pieces between foreign interests and Bolshevists? Has a century’s residence beneath the South Pacific sun sapped our Australasian nations of their finest British qualities of strength and aggressiveness?” * * * Methodists in Fiji (who include most of the Fijian people) were celebrating the centenary of the landing at Lakeba, Lau. of the pioneer missionaries, the Rev.

William Cross and the Rev. David Cargill.

Queen Salote of Tonga was a guest of honour at the celebrations at Lakeba where a beautiful church was built to commemorate the centenary. (The Fijian Centenary Church at Suva, opened in 1954, is also closely linked with the land

ing of Cross and Cargill on Octoc 1835). * * * Australian miners at the Theodore in Fiji had been threatening to strike. The demand was for “at lo a week of 44 hours”, but direct; had been delayed pending a com after Mr. Theodore’s return from Am ❖ ❖ ❖ Employees of New Guinea Goldfiea staged the first strike in the Ten history, and great was the appres lest the example be taken to heart d thousands of native workers on tW * * * Kava-drinking, a perennial subc erudite debate in Fiji and Polynese described by Mr. A. J. Vogan, FRGI back in Sydney from Fiji), as "amu weirdest of poor humanity’s drug ■ habits”. (The consensus of opinionr seems to be that kava—yaqona in if properly prepared in clean utensi drunk in moderation is unlikely to anybody. Emphasis is laid on the “moderation”). * 5jS * In Tahiti the beautiful Island thatched house of F. W. Murnau (a .

German-Hollywood film man) at Pun had been destroyed by fire. Murnas made the still - remembered “Talj Tahiti and Borabora, had been k:i a car-smash in California a few? before, and the burning of his hoc vived stories about his alleged in ment of actual “tabu” (more c»c “tapu”) by using a traditionally and haunted islet on the Boraboit for film purposes.

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OCTOBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

[?]Onference Emerge

p. 19

[?]formation Search

[?]Ew Details About

[?]Anila Copra

[?]Onference Emerge

details of the discussions lat the Manila Copra Conference lin August were available in bey by early October. Not a [d on the conference had appeared the daily press, although Australia ■officially represented, and the Iters discussed could reasonably lonsidered to be of interest to itralian copra producers and limers. he Territories Department’s ney office, in response to a phoned request for information, Lined from Canberra a verbal ine of the final resolutions of bonference early in October, and tiller statment was being pre id. tie verbal statement said that [conference was attended by batiks from India, Ceylon, fcesia, and the Philippines, by rvers from 11 other copra pro ng or consuming countries, and I United Nations observer.

FORE the conference closed on August 31 several resolutions were agreed to by the four (her countries. [was agreed that annual con ices were desirable. Ceylon bsed that the next be held at tnbo, probably in August fember, 1956. [sub-committee consisting of a iber from each of the four fries was elected to study and I recommendations for the ig up of a joint sales-promotion [information board, and to mt a plan for its joint king. pther sub-committee is to line and report on methods of b liaison between the various Lng coconut research institu- I with a view to boosting re rch. b member countries agreed to f and enforce a system of ng and standards of copra pther coconut products, and to pmate information on such ards for general information in respective countries. f members agreed to request he United Nations Food and gric u 11 ur a 1 Organisation h to carry out a world survey Joconut acreage, production I.and marketing problems, further sub-committee is to I warehousing and handling ems and to report to the next fence. It is to take all possible Ures to persuade shipping

companies to remove certain differential freight rates, and to undertake to give copra shippers adequate notice before raising freights at any time.

The conference unanimously agreed to enlist the aid of the United Nations and other interested international bodies in solving the industry’s various problems. t Lae Golf Club’s new £15,000 club house will be opened on November 18.

Fiji's Governor Back from Leave in United Kingdom

p. 19

Sir Ronald Garvey, Governor of Fiji, Lady Garvey and their younger daughters returned to Suva in the "Orcades", on September 25, after nearly eight months' absence on leave.

In the top picture Sir Ronald is inspecting bandsmen of the Fiji Military Forces Band in the guard of honour mounted at King's Wharf, Suva. Below is Lady Garvey (on right) with her daughters and Mrs. Ragnar Hyne, wife of the Chief Justice of Fiji. At a civic reception on September 28, the Governor said that at the Colonial Office he had "put in a bid" for a £2,000,000 development loan for Fiji. Al though the allowance made was below this, he added, "I made it quite clear that I wasn't satisfied and would be like Oliver Twist...

However, we did get our fair share of the money allocated for the Colonies". —Photos by Fiji Public Relations Office.

Air Services in Fiji

p. 19

Three Applicants for Air Services in Fiji

A FIJI Government Gazette Ex traordinary, published on September 5, contained the applications of three concerns to run an internal air service in Fiji.

A United Kingdom application was from Overseas Aviation, Ltd., Channel Islands. The others were from Fiji Airways, Ltd., Suva, and Fiji National Air Services, Ltd., Wellington, New Zealand.

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CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1955

Travel Notes And Comments

p. 20

Written in Europe

By R. W. Robson.

Aluminium from the

Gulf of Papua

THAT plan to harness the great rivers which flow into the Gulf of Papua, so as to get the massive electricity supply necessary for the manufacture of aluminium, is still on; but it has taken a curi ous twist.

For the production of aluminium from bauxite ore, there must be a huge output of electric power, far away from any large settlement which might interefere with con tinuous generation. (There now are large aluminium production works on the northwest Canadian coast, based on the big rivers of that sparsely-populated area.) And, of course, there must be large supplies of bauxite.

In the Papuan Gulf plan, bauxite was to be brought across Torres Strait from Arnhem Land (in Aus tralia’s Northern Territory) where there are large deposits.

Quite by chance, I got in among certain aluminium interests n Lon don, which knew all about the aluminium schemes of Papua Gulf and Bell Bay (the big Australian aluminium establishment in Tas mania). I learned that the pro posal to establish the hydro-electric works in Papua will go on, but that the idea of bringing the bauxite from Arnhem Land to Papua, and from other parts of Australia to Bell Bay, has been abandoned, be cause of the very heavy labour costs in Australia.

There are large bauxite deposits in North Borneo and in British areas thereabouts; and careful investiga tion has shown that it will cost about £6 per ton less to mine it in Borneo and carry it by ship to Papua Gulf and Bell Bay, than if it were mined in Australia.

An important consideration is that the world demand for aluminium is growing steadily, and the world bauxite deposits are not unlimited.

It is argued that it is wiser, at this stage, to use the Asian deposits in the way proposed, while conserving the Australian deposits for a later stage.

“For Service” !

Various things plague the traveller in Europe and Asia; but the worst nuisance is the now universal practice of tipping. It seems that every single soul connected in any way with public service, from trans port to food preparation, has his hand out for the coin (or, in France and Italy and other places of vastly depreciated currency, the filthy little banknote).

The practice of tipping is so gen eral that these servants regard their

tip as a matter of right; and, if nothing comes their way, they will put on a demonstration calculated to destroy the non-tipper’s morale.

The female ushers in Paris theatres, for example, expect quite a large tip for the privilege of showing you to your seat, and will literally scream if nothing is forthcoming, or the amount, in their opinion, is too small.

The absurd thing is that all hotel and restaurant bills, in all countries, now carry a surcharge of from 10 to 20 per cent, for “service.” This plan was introduced gradually, over the years, with the plea that the traveller thus was freed from tip ping or from the often embarrassing necessity of finding out what he should give the waiter or the porter.

But now it is a fixed charge—and the sum thus accumulated is simply used by the owners to pay part of the wages of the staff.

But God help you if you think that payment of that item frees you of the tip obligation—you must either shell out all the time to every kind of servant, or you must endure embarrassment, insults and poor service.

England is as bad as the Con tinent; and London, in some re spects, several degrees worse.

“ . . Cooin’ ”

In London, where traffic was halted at an intersection, I hopped smartly into a bus and was promptly intercepted by a bulky conductress, with all her feathers out.

“ ’Ere, you cawn’t do that. Cawn’t you see they’re cooin’? Get orf!”

Greatly puzzled, I got off. It took me quite a long time to work it out. The buses were crowded. People may enter them only at the desig nated stopping-places; and at these places, even if there are only two or three, they just habitually form a queue, and stand there wanly waiting. In English life, the queue is a sacred institution —in shops, in railway stations, at fruit barrows, at the postage-stamp counter, in lavatories.

On the Continent, whether in shops, trams, streets or planes, they just push and shove, and devil take the weakest. In England, they form queues, and stand like pale and patient automatons, ignoring backache, rain and their neighbours alike.

I don’t know which is the worse system. It all adds up to the same thing—there are far, far too many people in Europe for happiness or comfort.

This Hatlessness

I have commented before on the

hatlessness of the males and a proportion of the females as« in the streets of most oversea pc Most of the younger men in tralian cities to-day are wit headgear; but in Europe when latitudinal slant removes muu the sun’s bite, the tendenw much more marked.

But most travelling Austi: men seem to bring along theii headgear; so that in a Londil Continental street they stano conspicuously. An Australianr be disconcerted when addiJ familiarly by a Cockney port!

Italian lift-driver with “Go digger,” or “Bonza day, M Kangaroo”—but this is om natural deduction from hisc Without his hat, and with his M camaraderie, he is usually take; an American.

Incidentally, many Austn travelling in Europe identify 1 selves quickly not so much by\ accent as by the distinctive mn colour of the Qantas overnight they carry.

Japanese Equipment at Noumea

p. 20

Noumea

Japanese-made equipment for New Cale[?] mining industry arrived at Noumea in [?] freighter in September. The top picture[?] large barges to be used for ship-loadin[?] lower pictures show modern earth[?] machinery being unloaded. Consi[?] quantities of New Caledonian nickel o[?] exported to Japan. —Photos by F.[?]

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OCTOBER, 1955-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTIB

Rabaul

p. 21

Derelict Shantytown

[?]lum Area of Rabaul Under Attack

SHE name Chinatown, writes a I Rabaul correspondent, V. H. iedlander, used to suggest Oriental nc, mandarins in flowing robes, Red voices in dimly-lit buildings d quiet gardens, tea served in per-thin cups, and, in short, an a (or an illusion) of mystery, hence and exotic fascination. But Himpsc of Chinatown at Rabaul Iters any notions of the kind. 5 a populated area, Rabaul’s w Chinatown” came into being p the war, when several hundred lese moved into the Matupi in area. piled labour and tools were fee. and building materials were fcer. Bush timber and old cor ked iron were used to build fes of shanties amid the junk I discarded war material that red the place. le unfortunates settled down, fcrarily they thought, and after igqurs of the Japanese oepupat- Ithis was at least an improve t. They were advised not to Id money on their huts because k expected that the whole area p be surveyed, cut up into al fents and offered for tender. (ice the war, the Chinatown jation has increased by at least b, and the district has become

felict slum.

pidreds of natives live in far I squalid conditions than the

Chinese. Men, women and children exist in humpies dilapidated almost beyond belief.

IN 1954, when the Lands Depart ment surveyed Matupi Farm and divided the area into allotments, it was found that sometimes three or four families were living on one surveyed block and that many huts were built over block-boundaries.

Last November 132 blocks were put up for tender. More than 200 persons applied, and the successful tenderers were ordered to build houses to a minimum value of £1,500 on their blocks within nine months.

This seemed reasonable enough until it was realised that the pros pective housebuilder had first to evict the people living on his land.

And since there were still about 90 families without land of their own or alternative sites to move to, the impasse remained.

When the nine months had elapsed, not more than half a dozen purchasers had completed or started building on their land.

In September 45 blocks of land in the Matupi Farm Extension area were being applied for by tender by more than 90 persons. After the allocation of these blocks, about 50 would still be without land.

DR. ERIC WRIGHT, of Rabaul, said in late September that the New Chinatown area contained many hovels, heaps of junk and conditions favourable to the spread of disease. Roads were in a deplor able condition, and the dust was causing considerable hardship to many people.

Dr. Wright suggested that the Administration should provide the destitute people with sufficient materials to build themselves decent houses. This, he held, was the only way to eliminate the present squalid conditions.

Dr. Wright attributed the situa tion to Administration indecision over a firm policy for housing the local Chinese people.

He added that he would like to see an old men’s home built at Rabaul, or the present Asiatic hos

pital turned into an old men’s home and a new hospital built. He also suggested that old-age pensions should be paid to deserving cases.

The Administrator of Papua-New Guinea (Brigadier D. M. Cleland) has announced that he has called for an immediate investigation into Dr. Eric Wright’s claim that conditions at Rabaul’s New Chinatown were worse now than they were ten years ago.

[?]retail establishments in the post-war of New Chinatown, Rabaul. Both are in [?]in street. The only household water for the edifice pictured below is kept [?]allon drums partly covered with pieces [?]and a length of timber. —Photos by V. H. Friedlander.

Rabaul's "New

Chinatown"

This is a typical back yard scrap-dump behind a house in the Rabaul area known as New Chinatown. —Photo by V. H.

Friedlander.

Queen Salote To

p. 21

Visit

Nz And Sydney

QUEEN SAXiOTE will arrive at Auckland in the Tofua on November 28, states an announcement by the Prime Minister of Tonga.

The Queen and her party will stay at the Tongan royal residence, Atalanga, Epsom, until the first week in January, when Queen Salote will travel by plane to Sydney.

She will return to Auckland in February and to Nukualofa in March.

The Auckland and Sydney visits will be 'unofficial.

Murder of Young

p. 21

Samoan Constable

A YOUNG Samoan policeman was shot and killed on the evening of September 27 while he was sitting in his house with his wife, talking to a visitor.

He was Constable Failelei, of Fagaloa, who was stationed at the police post at Poutasi, Falealili.

The blinds of the Samoan house were lowered, and the murderer is alleged to have pushed a .45 revol ver through the blinds when he fired.

Constable Failelei, who was 28 years of age, had been at Poutasi for three months.

An arrest had not been made up to September 30, reports PlM’s Apia correspondent.

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IF IC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1955

The Editors' Mailbag

p. 22

Dismemberment of Fiji?

“For mercy’s sake do, or say, something about the merciless dismemberment of Fiji that is going on in the Australian Press” is the burden of an appeal from a Suva correspondent.

First cause of complaint is a colourful two pages in a Sydney weekly in August depicting part of the large and well known island of Vanua Balavu in the Lau Group of Fiji.

Possibly for purposes of pic turesque romanticism, the seldom used name “Exploring Isles” has been revived, and the publication quotes none other than Sir Gordon Taylor as speaking of three island groups—New Caledonia, Fiji and the Exploring Isles, the latter described as “a British colony under the Governor of Fiji” and obviously an almost unique place— “almost like Tahiti before the Bounty”

As far as is known, no move towards the secession of Vanua Balavu, which is an integral part of Lau Province, from the Crown Colony of Fiji has ever been thought of by anybody.

Next comes an excruciating effort by a Sydney daily paper on September 24.

Under the headline “It’s Dandy at Nandi”, this contains the useful information that Fiji’s inter national airport is at “Nandi Island, a Pacific ‘dot’ of 400 square miles.”

In accordance with the Australian newspaper tradition of knowing little and caring less about the Islands, it appears that somebody has achieved the geographical feat of prying the 400 square miles loose from Viti Levu, which has an area of 4,011 square miles.

Another Point of View

A Cook Islands reader criticises a seeming implication in the Tom Davis book Doctor to the Islands (reviewed in August PIM) that comparatively little appeared to have been done medically for the Islanders before his (Dr. Davis’s) advent.

The correspondent writes: “Dr.

Ellison, OBE, had child welfare committees in the villages many years before the Davis’s arrived, and it was because of Dr. Ellison’s representations to the Government that ultimately the sanatorium plan was passed and the building opened in his time.

“Before the wartime airstrip was made, it took too long for Wellington departmental heads to travel by ship, and nobody bothered about the Cook Group. The medical grant was very small and

things merely struggled along. With the advent of planes, Rarotonga was inundated with officials who poked hither and yon and declared that practically everything was the last word in awfulness.

“My own opinion is that for a long time Miss Lucy Hawkes had to put up with a great deal more than any hospital matron should be asked to cope with.

“And I cannot understand why the work of the senior AMP, Tau Cowan who, incidentally, was selected to go Home to the Coronation—is not adequately men tioned in the book.”

Things Are Moving at

Goroka

Writing in mid-September, Pastor C. J. Campbell, of the Eastern Highlands SDA Mission, New Guinea, says that the arrival of a large water-waggon by road from Lae was an important event for Goroka.

“Detours had to be made across most of the rivers and creeks because the bridges are not strong enough, but it shows what can be done,” he continues.

“Many new vehicles are coming into Goroka, and activity is expanding in this country, but it needs, and must have, more money for roads.”

Gatton Scholarships for

Fijian Students

An old European resident in Fiji who not long ago in PIM criticised the sending of Fijians to Gatton College, Queensland, is taken to task by a Fijian correspondent.

“However good his intention, it seems to me that ‘Old European Resident’ is one of the people who remember the days when the Kai- Viti was expected to be a useful tool and nothing more,” the writer says.

“Gatton College is one of the few places where Fijians may learn something that has reason ably general application to con ditions in Fiji. Nobody wants these students to try to be encyclopaedias of scientific knowledge, but that is no reason for regarding the Fijians as minor cogs in the economic life of their own country.

“Some of the European criticism of the Fijians as a people is both ill-informed and unfair —and that goes for a few old residents as much as for anybody else.

“Inquiry would show that one thing Fijians and others learn at Gatton is tolerance and a genuine understanding of other people’s problems.”

Belgium's 1940 Campaigj

The Belgian Consul at Sc (Mr. Ernest Vanderlinden) strongly criticised the inclusii Belgium among those con.

“where political conditions corrupt and rotten” and had bolstered by Britain when shf fighting Germany and Italy in The reference occurred in a j to the editor published in the tember PIM under the he£ “Have You Forgotten?”

Mr. Vanderlinden writes tlr the outbreak of war Belgium i ised her forces to defend her' tiers should her declared neuj be violated. He continues; “Violated it was, and Be fought back with all the vigo: her manpower and materis sources. The retreat of the Belgian army before the enoc might of Germany was the S 3 retreat in Europe in the S World War. Eventually, wii back to the sea and all its i bases gone, the army held om final positions, thus making p« the famous British evacuation Dunkirk.

“The Government, in exiles tinned the war against the • with air, naval and military not to mention a strong resit movement in the home c<; from the beginning right up end. Does any of this action S 3 a corrupt and rotten political J tion? . . .

“I must condemn the reft to Belgium as having no bas fact and contrary to all evide.

Madang Mem[?]

p. 22

Coast Watchers' Madang Mem[?]

Detailed plans few memorial to the 36 Watchers who died iii Second World War when opu in enemy-occupied islands ii Guinea and the Solomons a:j advanced, reports the Watchers’ Memorial Comr Melbourne.

It is expected that constd of the memorial will start ei£ 1956.

It will take the form navigational light of a disth design at Madang, New Guinu it will be called the Coast Wa Light.

The structure will be of reiu concrete, with an surround and a cruciform p;c approach. It will be flooic night. t TRANSPAC of Noumea annn in September that its DH I aircraft which recently arrives England has been licensed aviation authorities and cornu flights should begin in CD within New Caledonia.

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OCTOBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

[?]Aning Said To

p. 23

[?]nishment Question

[?]E Better

[?]Han Imprisonment

rYOUNG Papuan or New Guinea I offender who was caned or Jged for a misdemeanour would er less than if he were jrisoned, said the Australian ritories Minister (Mr. Paul sluck) when replying in Parliament

a question about corporal punish

it. he Minister had been asked if •tralia had refused a United lons request to abolish corporal ■shment. [e said that flogging in Papua i New Guinea was usually pd to juvenile offenders, rhis is not flogging in the baric sense, like the cat-o’-nine I, but punishment with a cane,” continued.

Ihe imposition of these canings pore appropriate for juveniles n imprisonment or holding p. in restraint. The only other ;s of caning are for certain pees of violence which would I be punishable by caning or ging in Australia, h recent years the number of ishments by flogging or bping or caning has decreased.” utside the House, Mr. Hasluck [there had been only 12 cases iorporal punishment in the last I years, and only four of these [occurred since 1952.

I ten of the cases, punishment [ been six or fewer strokes of pane, in one eight, and in the lr 12 strokes.

E annual report of the of Papua states that Suveniles sentenced to corporal Ishment are flogged with a

cane or strap. Women and girls do not have to suffer corporal punish ment.

The trend of “modernity” is reflected in the report’s list of offences tried in native courts this year.

The most common offences were riotous behaviour (829 convictions), gambling (642), assault (535), drinking liquor (82), escaping from fs3) an d obscene language

Members of the 39th graduating class of the Eastern Samoan School of Nursing received their diplomas at Pago Pago on August 25. [?]t to right: Nurses Salumalo Vila, Fa'aulufalega Peai, Katerina Ameperosa, Aiga Maluia and Tu'uloto Lesa, Vaovai Tuinei, Peneueta [?]galilo, Talaia Fanoga, Vira Leota and Faitupe Liulamaga. A special prize was awarded to Nurse Ameperosa as the outstanding student the class.-Photo by Pan American Prints.

Displaced Eurasians Might Aid

p. 23

Indo-China to Pacific?

French Policy In New Hebrides

INSTEAD of trying to settle several thousand Eurasians from Indo-China in New Caledonia—if there is any serious intention of doing so—the French Government should look rather towards the New Hebrides, where at least 300,000 hectares of land are owned by the French Government, say some New Caledonia people.

This opinion has been widely ex pressed in Noumea’s unofficial dis cussion centres, which have been striving to assimilate a crop of startling ideas.

The suggestion that New Caledonia may be regarded as a potential home for the displaced Eurasians has followed the reported possibility (September PIM, page 17) that 20,000 troops might conceivably be transferred from Indo-China to the Pacific Colony.

So far without Government con firmation or denial, the current widespread report is that the re settlement of the Eurasians was dis cussed at Noumea during the recent visit of French Parliamentarians.

THE consensus of local opinion is that such a move would be more than unfortunate for New Caledonia, particularly as most of

these Eurasians are believed to be without either capital or agricul tural or industrial training.

If about 10,000 (the figure com monly mentioned) such people were moved to New Caledonia, there would almost certainly be an abrupt rise in the cost of maintaining the public services, schools and health organisations.

Some Noumea commentators point out that if the Eurasians were taken to the New Hebrides (which are referred to as a natural zone for French expansion in the Pacific), the importance of France in the South Pacific would be in creased.

British Commonwealth reactions to such an argument presumably re main a subject for speculation, although the New Hebrides are technically as much British as French.

Returns To London

p. 23

Miss Evelyn Cheesman

Miss Evelyn Chessman, The

famous 74-years-old British entomologist (September PIM, page 21), said at Sydney in late September that her recent New Hebrides assignment was her last visit to the Pacific Islands.

Nevertheless she has made no plans to retire.

“We drop down, or get run over,, but we never retire,” she told an interviewer.

Miss Cheesman has now returned to London. In the last 26 years she has worked in places as far removed as French Oceania and New Guinea.

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[?]D Of Mof Copra

[?]hat Is To Follow 1957?

From R. W. Robson

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£ERE is no sign in high official mom here of any move to create [any new official machinery to idle South Pacific copra at Gov ment level when the 9-years’ ash Ministry of Food copra con- K expires at the end of 1957. pvate interests are showing in ising curiosity regarding the flitions likely to rule after 1957. le express the view that some i of official machinery to take folace of the copra marketing rds in New Guinea, Fiji, etc., is ain to be created. But top lals to whom I have talked this t simply say that, so far as can een now, copra will revert com lly to private handling after the of 1957. t Edwin McCarthy, Australian ie Commissioner at Australia se. said he had no doubt that, request for some kind of prefer- I for British-produced South fic copra were made through Governments concerned to the ish Government, it would have Smthetic consideration. [ pointed out, however, that it [is the deliberate policy of the sh Government to leave all such ? in private hands, and various wnents made in the late ;ies to cover various kinds of pionwealth products had been red to lapse. But owing to al circumstances the system [continued in some degree in ion to meat and sugar. By sment with the British Gov lent, all the British sugar-pro ig countries now had a quota m under which they supplied British market. Some such [might be possible in the field •pra production and supply—no [ in exploring the possibilities, at were the wish of the South ic people concerned, pggested that Unilever might in important factor in the 5h official outlook over the [ industry after 1957. t Sir Edwin would not discuss .angle. He, like everyone else, f the British Department >od has been closely associated [the international Lever In 'S in handling the copra which arrived in Europe since 1948 ’ the MOF contract; and Levers •ally will have some influential in any official arrangements after 1957. But it is delicate id, and the wary (and Aus - House is wary) will not tread

HOWEVER, if there is to be any thing done to create machinery for official copra-handling after 1957, the opinions of Australia House will count for much. As I pointed out in a previous article, the Australian Trade Commissioner and his lieutenants are thoroughly conversant with the European copra market and its peculiarities—they were largely responsible for limit ing the 1955 MOF contract reduc tion to 7! per cent., when practic ally everyone else was prepared to concede 10 per cent.

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WHEN the Acting High Commis sioner for the Western Pacific (Mr. R. J. Minnitt) visited re mote little Tikopia on September 1, he found that there had recently been 124 deaths from sickness and that many of the people were still ill.

Tikopia, one of Melanesia’s “Poly nesian islands,” is south-east of the Santa Cruz Group. The population in 1952 totalled about 1,750.

The British Solomon Islands Pro tectorate News Sheet states that during the outbreak the principal chief of Tikopia, Te Ariki Kafika, who is believed to have been about 90 years old, had died and been succeeded by his grandson. Another chief who had died had been suc ceeded by his son.

The News Sheet states that im mediate steps were taken by AMP David Dawea, who accompanied the Acting High Commissioner, to treat the casualties, and arrange ments were made for the Acting Senior Medical Officer (Dr. R. F.

Payne) to go to the island with further medical and relief supplies and assistance.

The outbreak was thought to be either malaria or influenza, but it was stated at Honiara in mid-Sep tember that a final diagnosis and full reports from Dr. Payne had not yet been received.

The Acting High Commissioner, who was touring the Eastern Dis trict of the British Solomons with the District Commissioner, visited the Tikopia villages and discussed with the chiefs what should be done.

The resettlement of part of the island’s people in order to reduce population pressure was one of the subjects discussed.

Resettlement had been proposed previously, but it was not favoured by the Tikopia people, who are re luctant to leave their remote home permanently, although they gladly go away for short periods.

There are indications, however, that the islanders are gradually be coming used to the idea of starting a new settlement in the Protector ate, and the possibilities are again being studied at Honiara.

Sogeri S[?]

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Papua, wit[?]

runners-up aft[?] race. —Photo by Prints.

Big Profit for Steamships

p. 26

Steamships Trading Co. of Port Moresby increased their net profit by £20,587 in opera tions last financial year as com pared with the previous year.

The annual report, published in October, shows a net profit of £154,727 after charging £41,495 for depreciation.

Ordinary dividend remains un changed at per cent., absorbing £86,250. General reserve is increased by £40,000 to £740,000, and now ex ceeds paid capital by £40,000.

Cryptically stop-presse

p. 26

Inter-Village Bra[?] In Fiji’s Lau Gr[?]

Sydney Sunday newspape rioting in a “remote” but specified Fijian island, an village brawl in Vanua Balavui on September 30 resulted in cases of serious injury as w\ minor cases which were treat the local hospital.

Cause of the trouble is bel: according to a Suva report ceived on October 6, to have U set-to between youths of tw\ lages, Mavana and Mualevu. injuries, however, occurred second fight in which olden took part.

An RNZAF flying-boat c: police and a doctor from Suj Vanua Balavu on October I returned with the most sen injured man, who had a badly* tured skull.

The police found everything at Mavana. Mualevu was des; except for an old, blind mau villagers having taken to the?

Later the women and childrr turned, but not the men im in the fight.

Meanwhile the District • Maritime (Ratu K. K. T. I went to Vanua Balavu with more policemen to make a fv vestigation. r[E badly injured man, Sole Tavaqa, aged 40, died att on October 7, and on C 11 Uraia Waqa was charged: murder.

The District Officer Ms and the police party have res to Suva after making s investigation. fl A son was born to Mr. anti John Springford, of Rarotonr August 23. Several days latt family left for Auckland. A£ short furlough, Mr. Springforn is Senior Clerk, Department otc culture, Cook Islands, was too Niue to relieve Mr. Jack V Treasurer of Niue, duringa latter’s furlough. Mr.

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Surt action on these lines will bpported by the chief probation er (the Rev. N. H. Wright) and kcting Commissioner of Police, [only will the terms of proba [orders be strictly enforced, but peck will be kept so that nders sent away from Suva [be prevented from returning. [OTHER aspect of Fiji’s youth problem illustrates the need for a Borstal institution or (thing of the kind to train ig delinquents. equently stressed by magistrates probation officers, this point I up again when a youth of was convicted, at the Suva ‘t, of breaking and entering

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[. Wright said that because of lack of parental control, proba ;would be dangerous.

L Light, who has repeatedly tssed his dislike of sending g men to gaol to associate [hardened criminals, had no native but to impose a gaol ince. [said that at least the youth d have a year’s corrective ment under discipline and i be given a chance of ling a trade. He recommended the lad, who had an aptitude mechanical work, might be what limited opportunities 1 were in the gaol to engage aat work. fa has a reformatory school oung boys at Nasinu, but there Dthing to take care of the , but still young, offenders.

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lie addition of a couple of els is all that Jock Campbell Is for his new address. Word pm came to hand the other paying that he is headmaster of fTonga High School at Nuku a, where he has some 120 Is of many nationalities.

E-war Rabaul residents will pnber Jock, who was well pn in athletic circles and a hpion sprinter when not ;ed in teaching. [married Margaret Hay, whose er met a tragic death when his er lighters sank off the Ings some years before the ck and Margaret, with their [ children, appear to be well Ihappy in the Friendly Islands.

pnal Appearance and

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I more than one occasion I have \ reference here to the manner iich the Germans in their time Id white prestige in NG, and

f personal appearance counted

d much, a practice that seems, days, to have gone into the rd. is is a fact commented upon by Barrett, MLC, in recent times.

I other day I received from m Younger, up in Bundaberg but an old Solomons pioneer has been mentioned in the tain Keller” argument, some )graphs of the old Siar irded to him by Captain Haug ermany (the cove who started

the Keller debate) who was skipper of Siar as far back as 1908.

One photograph shows the officers and crew of this old Neu Guinea Kompagnie’s vessel and the snappy uniforms, worn by crew members of 47 years ago, give an indication of dress consciousness shown by the Germans to maintain prestige.

Although not approving of the idea of squeezing dark forms into European clothing, I certainly agree with the idea of making ship’s crews distinctive —something which our own companies, and often Government ships, seldom worry about.

Incidentally the old Siar, which was taken over by the Australian Administration in War I, eventually became a hulk in Rabaul Harbour, and in 1925 was purchased by Captain Jimmy Duncan as a house boat and was also used as a store ship.

It was sold to WRC later and became a coal hulk, and again later was purchased by Captain Duncan, who beached it alongside the jetty of his Rapopo plantation. Siar was often used by him as a sleep-out when he suffered attacks of asthma.

Well dive-bombed during War II by our aircraft, there remains now little of this Islands vessel, once the pride of the NGC fleet.

Native Clothing

While on this topic of putting natives into European clothing, take a glance at the more advanced non- European races of the world and the pride they show in wearing their own national dress. In their natural state, and often on ceremonial occasions, you will find Asians and Africans appearing proudly in their picturesque costumes, which adds to rather than detracts from a cosmopolitan gathering.

Why then do we give such encouragement to our own charges in P-NG to don trousers, shirts, ties and so forth?

At a meeting of the Legislative Council at Moresby. I was impressed with the dignified appearance and bearing of Simogun, MLC. He wore a white shirt and lavalava. It was also pleasing to note that the Police favour the lavalava as worn by the pre-war Papuan police, and not the khaki shorts adopted by the TNG Constabulary in the ‘3o’s.

A Nolle Prosequi It was a beau geste on the part of the Administration to record a nolle prosequi in the case where ADO Allen was committed for trial following the Bainings inquiry or,

Moresby Engagement

p. 29

[?]engagement has been announced of Miss [?]r Brown, eldest daughter of Mr. and [?] H. Brown, Melbourne, and Major Bruce [?] of the PIR, Port Moresby. Miss Brown [?]present with the Agriculture Department, [?]oresby. —Photo by Papuan Prints.

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as some of the Sydney papers it “the Bainings Islands inquii It is a good thing for two res It will save the washing of of soiled linen and it creai precedent that, when a Govern official is out on a job to qr disturbance, his actions doc necessarily place him with onu in the boob if he or his parti forced to take direct action.

In the past only too freqij incidents of a somewhat s< nature have resulted in ruinr young man’s carreer for the s reason that he was made a offering for the gods of the LJ of Nations and/or UN Trust© Such an attitude, forced oc Administration by higher autlf has created considerable disse; in the ranks of young DS od and, together with the incrr] power of the Public Service Ass tion, undoubtedly has aft recruitment of new officers.

In these days of orgj? employees’ associations it doe* require much imagination visualised a sudden “stop wok “rolling strike” which seriously affect the functions ■ Native Affairs Department thn out the Territory.

The days of class distinctio fading and a victimised servant has not the same prejj; for taking direct action as i past.

Be Prepared!

The old Boy Scout mottt Prepared, is well worthr thoughtful consideration in days of cold wars, interna, tensions and aggressiveness < our Near North.

Such thoughts must have im Minister Hasluck when at El at the opening of the Legii; Council Chambers he (according to the official Facv Figures No. 45) relative tf bombing of Darwin in 1942,

Miss Dorothy Enid Monahan and Mr[?] Edward Schellenberger were married Methodist Mission, Rabaul, on Septem[?] —Photo by C. H[?]

>re were 243 killed and 350 unded: “It is not much use re nting history unless we attempt Craw from the account some iful lessons.

Amongst the lessons of the raid Barwin was that the situation ich made the raids so damaging I been created in the months lediately before the raid took •e. The comparative defenceless- I of the whole nation, in which Imorft than 20 years political aes had argued against each & as to whether any defence at ■ was necessary, and every losal for defence had been bsed. We have had one warning it what happened on past [ires. What happens next fends on us all.”

Guineaites can read paul” where “Darwin” is lioned and they have a true are of the set-up in January, [ id what would be the picture 155 if a northern invasion came? iless the Services have their aces well camouflaged, I would that the position is worse than as in 1941. inay be wrong. I hope I am, bne must remember that the b mind is more complex than is in pre-war days.

Administration Accounts

Once again the Auditor-General has a tilt at the apparent slap happy system by which the P-NG Administration controls its account ing of public moneys and, despite scathing criticism in the past by Auditor-General Brophy, continues to carry on blithely in the same carefree manner.

If all Mr. Brophy says is correct— and he is not a man who goes off half-cocked where official statements are concerned—it would seem the Audit Department itself is due for some criticism for not forcing a tighter control and better admini stration in P-NG.

Or is it that checkers of. public funds have lost their power and are slapped down or ignored by money-drunk officials who defy the fundamental rules of accountancy?

Criticism of the laxity of Admini stration accounting methods has even been voiced by the Judiciary in P-NG and for “Treasury subsidiary accounts” to be so “incomplete and inaccurate” from 1946 to 1953 “that no reliance could be placed upon them” is certainly alarming.

Says the report in part; “Economic development and demand for Administrative facilities have outstripped the potential of the Administration both in money and man-power.” (Oven

Government bodies do not take adverse criticism kindly, and despots resent it. Nevertheless we still are officially classed as a democratic country, and as such the people are entitled to a voice in the way in which their money is spent and collected.

During my recent visit to P-NG I heard considerable comment from officials and others on the Admini stration’s extravagant expenditures, and it appeared to me that much of this extravagance was due to the generous grant from Australia which P-NG did not earn but acquired, for more or less senti mental reasons, to bring enlighten ment to an undeveloped people.

This duty appeared to have, at times, a very broad interpretation and in one instance particularly I was somewhat puzzled to appreciate the justification in this category of the construction of an elaborate archway at the gates approaching Government House at Konedobu.

Certainly a Parliamentary Party was due in the near future, but I couldn’t help speculating as to what the late Sir Hubert Murray would have thought and said of such a structural extravagance.

Religious Competition

There has been a gathering of the Church of England clans in

Sydney at the General Synod, including a lay representative from New Guinea in the person of Sgt.-Major John Guise, of the Royal Papuan Constabulary, whose presence was well publicised by the newspapers.

Bishop Strong, of Papua, made a plea for the Church to become

“South-east Asia minded” even went so far as to sug that Australia might become Trustee under the UN for much-discussed West New Guii He envisaged the Muslim f being introduced there in event of Indonesia taking control. And, of course, thas

ust what would happen, as I [guested some time ago.

If this did occur, then one could lualise a greater unity, perhaps, hongst the 20-odd Christian tominations now vying for the mis of the heathen in P-NG. hinatown No. 2 see that a Rabaul medico is ing to market (and quite jus iably, too) over the sub-standard editions prevailing at Rabaul’s linatown No. 2, situated in Matupi rm. without doubt the buildings and I living conditions are the worst have seen in the Territory, and »y reflect no credit on the [horities for allowing them to re lin so.

Lny collection of second-hand h hovels is an eyesore, but China to No. 2 in South Rabaul reaches

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Samoa’s Economy

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[?]na Alters East Samoa’s Economy

MEASURE of the importance of the new tuna canning industry to Eastern Samoa is i in figures recently given at 0 Pago. etween July 1 and September 1,000,000 dollars’ worth of tuna by-products was exported, pared with $983,000 for the le of last year, Jt that is only one aspect. As fishery develops, its import and >rt requirements are bringing in e shipping—and each ship is mg a good deal of money in ness and Government coffers. : mid-September the American :er The Cabins called to barge 3,250,000 gallons of diesel 175,000 gallons of petrol, 500 ns of lubricating oil, and 100 ns of aviation fuel. About half petroleum products were for the of the 30 Japanese fishing els now working on contract. 1 the same day Sonoma cleared with 30,000 cases of tuna and I sacks of fishmeal aboard.

t Recent shipments of cocoa beans from Western Samoa include 135 tons for the United Kingdom; 115 tons for the USA, with a further October despatch of 100 to 150 tons to the USA expected. Prices have varied from £Stg.24s to £Stg.26o a ton, f.o.b. Apia.

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lARLIER hurricane warnings are

I possible, says Mr. J. C. Grover, lior Geologist, BSIP, in a paper n before the July meeting of the psh Solomon Islands Society at

piara.

n July, 1952, (p. 95) PIM re tted the existing meteorological brting and forecasting organisa i in the South Pacific, discussed le of the difficulties, financial [ technical, associated with lier hurricane forecasting, and e details of a system which ted like becoming of great im kance to this region, his system depended upon feroseisms” or faint shock-waves ismitted through sea and land the result of the violent dis tances caused by the spiralling ricanes. ist as the epicentre of an earth- Ite can be accurately determined group of widely spaced seismic

stations, so can a hurricane’s centre be determined, though by more sensitive equipment.

Those associated with the microseismic hurricane locating system were convinced three years ago that it was the answer to the

problem of a reasonably inexpensive, accurate, tracking system. However, as PIM said in the 1952 article, South Pacific meteorologists were less enthusiastic.

DR. GABITES, head of the Re search Section of the New Zea land Meteorological Service, which mans most of the South Pacific “met” stations, said that after making world-wide on-the spot investigations, he was satis fied that the microseismologists could not do all they claimed.

Some intense storms could be accurately “fixed,” but calculations were often far from correct with milder hurricanes or for other un explained reasons.

Dr. Gabites agreed that the system could be a useful adjunct to existing methods in the South Pacific, but considered it would be disproportionately expensive in equipment, manpower, and main tenance.

Mr. Grover seems to show that what was true three years ago is no longer true.

Much further research has been done, explanations of former in accuracies discovered, and new techniques worked out which place the microseismic system of early and accurate hurricane location in

Mr. A. L. Burrows, director of the Apia observatory, peers into a theodolite as he tracks a balloon to determine upper air movements— one of the operations in present Pacific hurri cane forecasting techniques. Expensive radar stations have replaced some theodolites—but inexpensive microseismic stations may supersede radar, as this article explains. —Photo by Jack Thornton.

advance of all others with the sible exception of actual locatioc aircraft —an extremely expei; alternative.

All will agree that any sy* which can accurately locate keep constant track of a hurri' from a point not less than 60 700 miles away is a system w seriously examining.

Hurricanes in the islands < rarely move forward at sh greater than 25 knots, often at about 15 knots.

The direction of movement hurricane cannot yet be predfc by any system, but the cee knowledge of a hurricane’s exist* at a point 600 miles away w give 24 to 48 hours’ warning of' sible danger.

If the microseismologists can with complete confidence the tion of a hurricane at 600 miles* ance —and Dr. Grover implies they can—it is certainly a good! more than can be done in South Pacific areas under the e ing techniques.

Though a fair degree of adv is at present possible in mosi* habited areas, damage may result from public lack of confio. in predictions and failure to < action where action is possible— as in the fastening down of : preparation of safe refugee time, etc.

Mr. Grover’s paper is too lox cover in detail, but there is a s sibility that it may be publishw the South Pacific Commissions HE suggests that a minimut five stations might be callee at Townsville, Samarai, Hon Vila, Noumea, and Nadi (andt ferably two more at, say, Apis; Rarotonga, to cover the d:f area).

The equipment could be insg at the existing meteoroid stations at these places. Any a meteorological observer coull trained in its operation, bur ordination of reports would cas one central skilled geophysii; possibly at Nadi weather centi The US Navy already has sts; in existence at Guam, Manilas in Japan.

Mr. Grover suggests a five microseismic research project sponsored by the South H Commission.

The equipment would cost o few thousand pounds. Gn expense in the initial stage wovt in calibrating the respective irj ments in the light of passing I cane effects. Once calibrate©; stations would be accurate fd time. This task would call fo co-operation of shipping, aiii existing meteorological obses stations, and perhaps a fern 1 observing stations.

In the light of Mr. Grover’sr ence from many quoted source;

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[?]rrent News Items From Our Correspondents

pp. 39-49

In Papua-New Guinea

Ghts Of People Of Mixed

Race Discussed

lie Bougainville District Advisory incil has suggested that people nixed race (“half-castes”) should [given full citizenship rights if y desire them. [embers pointed out that this ye would give half-castes the National advantages recently an mced. but the council stipulated t it should be made clear to se who accepted full citizenship its that they would automatic- I lose various rights of pro tec- I under existing Ordinances, he position of half-castes in wa-New Guinea remains a vexed Btion. It seems too often that r are snubbed by many Euro ns and natives and merely rated by others. he situation should be sorted up the authorities as soon as pos a

Dr. Gunther’S Tour

he Territory Director of Public Ith (Dr. J. Gunther) has gone tepresent Australia at a World Ith Organisation regional meet at Singapore. fter the conference Dr. Gunther

will begin a three months’ tour of Asia under a World Health Organ isation scholarship.

Before leaving, Dr. Gunther said he would pay particular attention to the methods used in Asia to control malaria, yaws and tuber culosis, and at the same time would study maternal and child health.

Rabaul Turf Club

Rabaul’s amateur turf club was re-formed in September, when 62 people attended an inaugural meet ing.

The officers are: President, Mr.

Matthew Foley; vice-president, Mr.

N. Lee; secretary, Mr. Harold Brown; treasurer, Mr. Nicholson; assistant secretary, Mrs. M. Foley.

A financial committee of three and a working committee of seven were formed.

Port Moresby’S Water

The chairman of the Port Moresby Town Advisory Council (Mr. E.

James), at a September meeting, charged the P-NG Administration with “gross neglect in failing to provide Port Moresby with an adequate water supply.”

Mr. James said the Administra tion was to be censured for allow

ing the town’s water supply to reach the stage where there was a danger to health. He said the trouble was that the Administra tion was, and had been for years, trying to make the present supply go round rather than provide more water.

Mr. James added that too often the European population of Port Moresby was blamed for using huge quantities of water. The Adminis tration, he said, seemed to forget that there were 15,000 natives in the town, and they also need and use water.

The Administrator (Brigadier D. M. Cleland) has said that he was upset to learn, on his return to Port Moresby from Manus, that the water situation was still bad.

In a statement he outlined measures taken to rectify the matter.

The Advisory Council has recom mended that a commission take over the town’s water, electricity and sewerage services. Voting was 8 to 2.

Lae’S Water Supply

At a recent meeting, the Lae Town Advisory Council was told that the provision of an adequate water supply was not only import ant, but imperative.

A grave fire danger existed, and it was essential that the provision of fire-hydrants should accompany

the provision of an adequate water supply. This was particularly so in the newer business and residential areas of Lae.

Mr. J. Birrell said that at present there was a chance that if one building in the new Town area caught fire, the lot would go up in flames.

Native Affairs Office

A re-shuffle of senior officer the Department of Native Aj in P-NG has been made.

Mr. H. L. Niall is now bao District Commissioner at Lae, sick leave, and Mr. H. L. Willi who relieved Mr. Niall, has posted at Madang as District 0

ssioner. Mr. Williams took, over m Mr. Bensted, who is now at pendetta as District Commissioner, tfr. J. P. White has been posted Mount Hagen to relieve the sstern District Commissioner, Mr. slum, who is to go on leave.

Gospel In Pidgin

Another translation of the Gospel the British and Foreign Bible Jiety will soon be distributed in pua and New Guinea. [he first edition of the Gospel Pidgin English has been printed Sydney, and will make its debut Port Moresby at the opening of ‘ Society’s Bible House on tober 15.

Territorial Forest

A 46,000-acres forest near Port Moresby has been proclaimed the first Territorial forest in Papua and New Guinea It extends from Mount Little Lawes Divide to the Brown River crossing, about 30 miles from Port Moresby.

The Territory Director of Forests, Mr. McAdam, said it was planned to replant the forest as timber was taken out. At present, two millers were obtaining logs in the area, but until now, no system of reafforestation had been undertaken.

Mr. McAdam said a start had been made in felling 30-acres of the forest for trial plantings of various species of tree, including teak.

Kindergarten Work

a world authority on pre-school centres, Miss Christine Heinig, has been visiting Papua and New Guinea to advise the Administration and parents on the latest develon ments in kindergarten and pre school education.

Miss Heinig pioneered the pre school centre organisation in America and assisted with the initial work on centres in Australia, At present, she holds the position of Associate in Childhood and Secondary Education on the National Headquarters staff of the American Association of University Women.

Miss Heinig’s rich and varied experience in childhood education

tides the establishment of the [ nursery school in the United :es to operate as part of a public K)1 system. er work was extended to fcralia in 1935, when her services ; made available by the lumbia University to the iergarten Training College at bourne.

! Wewak Hospital

ipport for the Sepik District isory Council’s request for a er hospital for Wewak than the losed eight-bed building has I given by the Wewak Town Isory Council. le District Council suggested

that any new hospital to be built at Wewak should have at least 14 beds, with a babies’ nursery and an isolation ward as well.

Mr. S. Rose said that the Town Council considered that the block at present allocated to the Hospital site was suitable for the larger hospital.

The resolution was carried unanimously.

Public Service Conditions

The Territory Public Service Association in mid-September filed an application with the Registrar of the Arbitration Court to amend its Memorial.

The association asked the Arbitrator fully to implement the recommendations of the Concilia tion Committee’s report last Decem ber, which provided a Territorial allowance in addition to a living allowance.

The President of the Association (Mr. R. Brennan) has explained

Wedding at

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Miss Eva Lillian Mitchell and Mr.

Bruno P e g a n i n were married at Rabaul on September TO with a civil ceremony per formed by the Acting Commissioner of New Britain (Mr. J. J.

Murphy). The bride and bridegroom are in the middle of this picture, and Mr. and Mrs.

Murphy are on the ex treme left. —Photo by C. H.

Meen.

that the association considered that a living wage in the Territory of £1,045 for a family unit of husband and wife, plus the Territorial al lowance of £250 a year, represented the minimum salary to be paid to an adult male officer of the P-NG Administration.

Mr. Brennan said this would en tail an increase in total salary of £377 a year for all adult male officers, with corresponding increases in female and junior officers’ salaries.

Other approaches that would be made to the court concerned the cost of living corresponding to the rise and fall of prices, and a five day week in the three main centres of the Territory.

The Registrar of the Arbitration Court later served the association’s application on the Administrator and the Public Service Com missioner.

It is understood that the Arbitra tion Court hearing will start soon.

The Arbitrator, Mr. Wood, is now touring the Territory to get first hand knowledge of conditions under which P-NG public servants work and live.

Curfew Regulations

The recently amended Curfew

Regulations for P-NG natives have been discussed at meetings of the Milne Bay and Lae Advisory Coun cils.

At Samarai, members agreed that no abuse had been made of the new curfew hours in that area.

However, a different story told at the Lae meeting. Two mi bers in particular, Mr. G. Whitti and Mrs. Stewart, complained the 11 p.m. curfew was not im best interests of anyone, nativ\ European.

r. Whittaker said he would like Je the curfew revert to 9 p.m. rs. Stewart claimed that many ves were not getting enough p. Therefore they were doing e than their usual amount of ping in the daytime, le Lac Council, however, did not r, any specific resolution on the ter. lere seems to have been little c of the 11 p.m. curfew at Port esby, according to a PIM corres ient.

[Ydrographic Division

le Minister for Territories (Mr. i Hasluck) told the Federal Par ent in September that a Hydro ►hie Division was to be

established soon within the P-NG Administration. It would be under the control of the Public Service Commissioner.

Mr. Hasluck was replying to Mr.

Osborne (Liberal, NSW) who drew attention to the need for plotting uncharted waters and marking channels in the Territory.

Earlier, Mr. Osborne had said at Sydney that the Territory was still in the pioneering stage and a big factor holding up development was

that the waters of many parts of the Territory still remained un charted.

Escapees Recaptured

Four Goilala natives who escaped from Bomana Gaol, near Port Moresby, were recaptured after a fortnight’s freedom.

They had led searchers a merry chase over the Owen Stanley Range, but walked into a patrol in the

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Kairuku Sub-district led by PO Sharp.

They were serving life sentences for murder at the time of their escape.

Costly Celebration

The landing of an RAAF Dakota at Finintegu instead of Goroka on a cloudy morning in 1952 indirectly cost two men £l5 at Goroka.

To celebrate the third anniversary of the landing, the two men climbed to the top of the Goroka hangar and painted the word Finintegu across the roof.

The joke rebounded, however, when they were fined £l5 to cover the cost of erasing the lettering.

The 1952 incident made headline news in Australia as the plane was carrying a Federal Cabinet Minister, Mr. Kent Hughes. It was three months before Air Force personnel could get the Dakota out of Finin tegu. Soon after landing, it had sunk into deep mud.

Markham Valley Roads

Since March a considerable amount of road work has been done

by native communities in the Mark ham Valley along the 60 miles stretch from the Erap River to the boundaries of the Morobe and Eastern Highlands Districts.

In the Kaiapit area village com munities, under the supervision of

Patrol Officer D. G. Calder, worked on the section fromr west bank of the Leron River td Eastern Highlands boundary, as tance of 45 miles.

In addition to work on the road the local population has

oximately 100 miles of sub ry roads in the Kaiapit area, lother portion of the Markham !y road has been constructed by ?e groups on a voluntary basis \ the section from the new Erap r ,e to the Irumu River, road team of 450 started work lis section on July 25, and com d the task by August 5.

R Co-Operative Building

five co-operative groups along :oastal region east of Abau have )leted erection of a new store ling at the island of Lopomu.

It was officially opened by the Acting Director of Native Affairs, Mr. J. K. McCarthy, on behalf of the Administrator. The ceremony was attended by the District Com missioner for the Central District, Mr. A. T. Timperley.

The ceremonies were also associ ated with celebrations to mark the delivery of the new co-operative vessel, the Magi, which was built to the specifications of the Abau Native Societies Association in Australia at a cost of £8,500.

This particular area of the Central District is marketing about £15,000 worth of native copra a year, and has a total retail store turnover of about £22,000 a year.

The guests at the celebrations in

eluded the mother of Mr. F. G.

Driver, who lived in the Territory for about 50 years before making her home in Australia. She was on a visit to her son. tl Dr. Dorothy Shaw, of Sydney, left for New Guinea in mid-October to run a plant pathology laboratory for the Department of Territories. t When the Secretary of the Lepers’

Trust Board of New Zealand recently appealed for a sewing machine for a boy patient at Makogai Leprosy Hospital, Fiji, he received 25 machines from people in Christ church, NZ, alone, and had to re fuse further offers due to freight difficulties.

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p. 41

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Northbound in "Shansi"

p. 45

[?]sengers bound for New Guinea in the Line's "Shansi" included, top to bottom: [?]r. and Mrs. J. G. Sneddon, who returned [?]baul, where Mr. Sneddon is Senior Clerk, of District Services. (2) Mr. and Mrs. M. [?]itt, bound for Wabag, where Mr. Meggitt, [?]y University anthropologist, will carry out [?]r's research work. (3) Mr. R. Lorimer, [?]ealth Department, Rabaul, with Mrs. [?]er and the children, returned from [?]gh.

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p. 47

Noi Dika, daughter of Dika Maiago and Igua Boge, of Hanuabada, born in August, was the [?]th baby to arrive at the St. Marie Therese Maternity Hospital at Koki, Papua. The mother, here with the baby and two Sisters, was presented with a silver cup by Mrs. D. M. Cleland, of the Administrator of Papua-New Guinea. —Photo by Papuan Prints.

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Current News Notes from Papua-New Guinea (Continued from Page 43)

Returning to the Islands

p. 49

[?]nd for New Guinea in the "Bulolo" in [?]ber were, top to bottom: (1) Pastor and [?] H. A. Dickens, with Lynnette and Don, [?]of Fiji and Western Samoa, to join the [?] staff of the Bismarck-Solomons Union [?] Seventh Day Adventist Mission. (2) Mrs. [?] er Richards and Mrs. C. B. Greaves, visit- Mrs. Richards' son, Mr. Ron Richards of Port Moresby. (3) Mr. K. M. Chambers, [?]nt Chief Collector of Customs, P-NG, and Chambers, and Mr. H. A. Triggs, Engineer [?]or, Customs Department, were returning furlough in Sydney.

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[?]Estored

pp. 51-53

[?]ama of "Solace"

[?]Recked Yacht

[?]T Palmerston

ROM about March to June each ■ year a fleet of little ships slips I by one through the Panama nal to head south and west. Some nplete the voyage; some do not, f some have temporary setbacks. ace was one of the latter, he movements of these craft are i erned by the seasons, bmmander Victor Clark, RN, ltd.), and his West Indies com lion, Stanley Mathurin, were run g a little late last year, he Cook Islands, with their lack sheltered harbours, are an un- Jthy place for yachtsmen from [y November to, early April. Fail [ actual hurricanes, there are in northerly gales—and such a [ caught the 30 ft ketch lying off berston Island on November 14, jng her on to the encircling reef, lalmerston is a bad place for Iter —but it is a good place for bg he Ipe r s and skilled Centers.

IE task of hauling the badly [damaged yacht across the

broad, shallow reef waters to the inner lagoon beach, with the aid of log rollers and oil drums, was a considerable undertaking, but it was achieved by early December, Solace finally being chocked up on an even keel and a shelter built over her.

Then the major surgery began.

The original stranding and the

subsequent hauling across the reef resulted in almost all timbers and ribs on the starboard side having to be replaced. But this was noth ing to the Palmerston men, headed by Ned Marsters.

Two huge tamanu trees were felled, pit-sawn by hand, and all ribs actually cut to shape, as there was no means of steaming and

"Solace" at

Palmerston

Commander Victor Clark (on right) sur veying "Solace", with repairs almost com pleted, as she sat in her shelter on Palmer ston's lagoon beach in August. With him is Mr. Ned Marsters, head man of Palmerston, who was in charge of the brilliant repair work on the yacht. —Photo by Gordon W.

Brereton.

bending in the ordinary way.

Then there was the question of fastenings—rivets, bolts, etc.

No ship was expected to call at Palmerston for many months, but there was valuable co-operation from another source.

The Cook Islands Administration found that it would be necessary to

drop medical supplies from the M Zealand Civil Aviation Departme:j DC3, which passes over the atolll its routine quarterly flig between Faleolo (Western Samr and Aitutaki. The fastenings w ordered from Rarotonga by mes of the Palmerston radio, and March 25, thanks to official

"Solace" moored off the end of Avarua jetty, Rarotonga, a few days before she was stranded at Palmerston Island last November. —Photo by W. H. Percival.

operation, a successful air-drop was made. When the Cook Islands trading vessel Charlotte Donald paid the atoll a visit on August 25, the job (vas nearing completion. Planking aras finished and caulking was well mder way. there is the delicate task of [i relaunching, and of working the little ship through the intricate, hallow reef passage, with the aid if flotation drums. [All hands will be working against Ime, with another hurricane season list ahead (and Palmerston is often he target of the most destructive lows in this area), but if all goes rell the ketch will be rebuilt, re fcunched, and heading towards a afe haven by late October.

Advertisements & other items, pp. 51-52 (3 items)

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Under Way

p. 53

Grimble Film Is

[ULMING of Sir Arthur Grimble’s [ A Pattern of Islands, which started in Western Samoa in bptember, is expected to take tout three months, reports PlM’s pia correspondent.

Lawrie Productions, the British knpany concerned, has engaged any people in Samoa as extras id local advisers.

Most of the overseas players, in liding Michael Hordern, Gordon ickson, Denholm Elliott and Susan lephen, had arrived at Apia by the id of September, and the famous aori singer, Inia Te Wiata, was Ipected to arrive from London in e middle of October,

Tongan Rugby

p. 53

W Hy Mm Liners Cannot

Make Olympiad Voyage

NOUMEA report indicated in L August that Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes Ltd. had tnewhat summarily rejected a sug stion that one of its two new icific passenger liners might be ed to take New Caledonia people the Olympic Games at Melbourne xt year. rhe reason given in the report is that sailing schedules would t permit such rearrangement.

A.t Sydney the company had an ler explanatoin.

Ihe suggestion was that the ship ould remain at Melbourne as a ating hotel. The cost of operat l a big liner is very considerable d the fee that would have to be arged to cover costs would be out all proportion to the number of rsons who could be accommodated card. rhe proposal had been given orough examination. Had it been acticable, the company would rtainly have accepted the sugges m.

t “Granny,” in Sydney Morning Herald on September 28, had an observation on a timber man well known in the Solomons and New Guinea —Mr. Norman K. Wallis.

Under the heading One Track Mind? “Granny” observed: “His

home ... is Trees, his caretaker’s house ... is Saplings, his Great Dane’s kennel is Twigs, whilst Chum, the cattle dog, lives in a kennel with the nameplate Seedlings. A new dog kennel . . . will be named Bark.”

Huni, Sitaram Marmanrav (manager and coach); middle row, K. Fine, L. Moala, S. Latu Kefu, S. Motu (vice-captain), M. Fakauho (captain), F. Moala, S. Rani, L. Mo'unga; front row, M.

Sione Manu, N. Pau'u. —Photo by Hettig.

Tongan Rugby

Winners

The Hihifo Rugby team, Tonga, played 20 matches this season, won 19 and drew one.

The team has won the Hellaby Shield for the third time and the annual cup trophy for the second time. In this group are (left to right): Back row, S.

Kaifilo, E. Lupina, Pou Ma'afu, T. Pani, Pauli Ma'afu, M. Valu, M.

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Possible Plan to Develop

pp. 55-56

[?]Opes Of The Waria

Syndicate

Possible Plan to Develop [?]rge Area in N. Guinea

I From R. W. Robson

London, Sept. 4.

) long as Heinrich Rudolphe RVahlen retains his extraordinary [energy—and it shows no sign of linution, although he is 82—the up of German, Swedish and jerican financial men with which is connected will push on with [Waria Syndicate’s claim to cer i privileges in a large area of Imainland of what formerly was pan New Guinea. [ spent a half-day with Mr. plen. in Hamburg, last week, and told me the history of the [dicate, and showed me the maps Ich delineate the area granted fWahlen and his associates by arm agreement signed by the man Government in Berlin btly four weeks before World r I broke out on August 4, 1914. [you draw a line from the coast Huon Gulf just southwards of Imaua, and follow roughly the ncesco river line right through the New Guinea-Papua border

(on top of the Owen Stanley Range) but keeping definitely southwards of the Wau and Edie Creek dis tricts, you will have a large area of triangular shape. It has the coast on one side, the Papua-New Guinea border on the second side, and the line described above on the third side.

That is the area that was granted to the Waria Syndicate in 1914.

The Waria River runs through the middle of it. There is some good coastal plain; a lot of rough valleys leading up into higher and rougher country; and many high, precipitous mountains. There are one or two good harbours—notably, Morobe port.

But this area, south and south east of the Morobe goldfield, has enjoyed less development than almost any other part of the Terri tory. Gold fossickers went through the valleys in the ’Twenties, and found some appreciable gold—but soon were attracted by the richer finds over in the Bulolo Valley; and tw T o or three plantations have been established near the coast; but generally the whole of this corner of the Trust Territory is untouched, and as it was in 1914.

THAT is what makes the plans of the Waria Syndicate interesting.

Although its claim over this area has been knocked back by the Titles Court of New Guinea, it has

been taking the highest legal advice, and it proposes now to proceed by way of an appeal to the High Court of Australia, and probably with a simultaneous approach to Australia, at Government level.

I gathered that the Syndicate has high hopes of the latter move. Aus tralia wants to see New Guinea de veloped; the German, Swedish and American financiers behind the Syndicate, if given some recognition by Australia, would be prepared to engage in mining and agricultural activities in that Waria area on a large scale. They might even be prepared to work in some kind of partnership with the Australian Government.

As this area presumably has been well examined by Australian mining and other interests since World War I, and ignored, I was curious to know why the Waria Syndicate is so eager to revive its rights there; but I did not get far. I gathered, however, that some of these people are confident that (a) certain valleys, while of no use to small men, could be profitably worked by big-scale gold dredging or sluicing; (b) there are interesting deposits of uranium somewhere in the area; (c) the coastal areas are capable of agricultural development.

I was told something of the legal argument which convinces the Waria Syndicate that it still has rights in New Guinea, despite all the expropriation laws and

machinery of the Post-World War I period; but I could not understand it.

But I can see something more promising, perhaps, in the Syndicate’s belief that it might be

encouraged and assisted by; Australian Government to § and profitably develop a large which now is practically untou and likely under present condt to remain so.

Advertisements & other items, pp. 55-56 (3 items)

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[?]Using Shortage

p. 57

[?]Rastic Action To

[?]Eet Suva’S

VA’S worsening housing situa tion came before the Legislative jpouncil in September, when, on motion of an elected member, J. N. Falvey, the setting up of pusing Authority to survey the le question of housing wage lers and low-income groups in [a n areas was unanimously

bved.

jvernment support for the e was expressed by the Acting bial Secretary (Mr. H. W.

Idson). fien the new Housing jiority produces a plan, it will, \e terms of Mr. Falvey’s motion, mpowered to acquire land com prily for the purposes of the me, to borrow capital for land pase and housebuilding, to t houses available on either a lie tenancy or a rental purchase I and to relax, in appropriate 5, requirements of the Sub ion of Land Ordinance and a Planning Ordinance except in lers relating to public health. [. Falvey told the Council that iproblem had been acute for s and was steadily growing e. The great increase of Sient population at Suva and City Council’s unavoidable slition programme (which the ic at large rightly supported) avated the situation, E 1954 Fair Rents Ordinance included a provision which enabled a houseowner to secure ;ssion for his own occupation ■ giving the tenant six months’ !e to quit, and, said Mr. Falvey, ;ain classes of the community ir endowed with money than rs” had been buying Suva es and promptly giving the ats notice to get out. i pointed out that in the next ears, 995 Suva buildings, hous -8,032 persons, are scheduled demolition. The city health orities estimated that another persons were living in over ded conditions. w officers of the Papua and Guinea Division of the Red s Society were elected at the Sion’s annual meeting at Port Jsby in September. They are: dents, Dr. J. Gunther and Mr. iV. Watkins; chairman, Mr. C. tioyle; deputy chairmen, Mrs. ox and Mr. Stubbs; Treasurer, R. J. Henning. . J. Sparks has been appointed ral manager for Levers Pacific tations Pty. Ltd. in the British mons.

More Helicopters for Islands Work

p. 57

Islands Work

THE advantages of the helicopter for specific duties in rugged terrain has been demonstrated in Papua, where helicopters have been in use for several years.

In September there were reports that more helicopters will soon be employed in Netherlands New Guinea and New Caledonia.

Royal Dutch Shell has been using Bell-47 helicopters for oil-search work in Netherlands New Guinea for several years, and now plans to bring in two large machines to transport a complete oil drilling rig

to the interior of Salawati Island.

In New Caledonia, the Nickel Company intends to import a Bell for the transport of personnel be tween coastal road and the Yate River hydro-electric scheme, where the big new dam is being erected.

A pilot and engineer are reported to have been engaged in France. t If the number of violent hurri canes in the Northern Hemisphere during the season now ending is any indication of what might be expected in the Southern Hemis phere in the season ahead—and some meteorologists believe that there is a relationship—the South Pacific may be in for a breezy time.

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Quoted as Example for NG

pp. 59-60

[?]Raws In The Wind?

New Tolai Cocoa Enterprise Quoted as Example for NG

HE Tolai people of New Britain I have set an example for their npatriots throughout Papua-New linea with their remarkable agri lural schemes in the area near haul, said Dr. John Andrews, of [ney University, in a paper read [the recent Science Congress at Ibourne. >r. Andrews said that the com rcial growing of cocoa by the in enous people on their own lands frlls out new hope that this rich [fertile country can be developed [the benefit of a world hungry its many products, and at the b time secure independence and fsing standard of living for its ibitants.” iarious factors tend to inhibit the b-scale expansion of old-style, bpean-managed plantations, said 'Andrews, pointing out that the tent apparent prosperity of the ritory was largely due to such pliable causes as the high price popra, the large sums (from fcralian taxation) which the ernment is spending, and heavy kling from the wages of Euro

pean employees of the oil and other companies (September PIM, page 54).

ON the other hand, he said, the Tolai people have demonstrated in a most positive and concrete fashion that the indigenous people of New Guinea have the ability to develop and exploit their own country on a sound economic basis.

They have shown that, given the chance, native intelligence is equal to the task of coping with the problems of the modern world which only recently impinged on them.

These people have already planted about 1,500,000 cocoa trees in the Gazelle Peninsula, this total repre sening nearly half the total plant ing in the area.

Dr. Andrews said that although the planters had had encourage ment and assistance from the Ad ministration, a second remarkable fact was that the control and man agement of the scheme was in the hands of the village councils, a new political instrumentality set up since the war.

These councils administer revenues

of up to £6,000 per annum, and from these funds they have set up medical aid posts and other facilities, as well as schools which have trained

clerks and artisans to run the ventures.

Investment of capital has been necessary on a substantial scale to construct the fermentaries and other plant required for processing the cacao pods before marketing.

DR. ANDREWS pointed out that about £BO,OOO will be needed for 20 new fermentaries to cope with the produce of the hundreds of thousands of trees which have not yet come to bearing.

Referring to special factors in volved in the Gazelle Peninsula enterprise, Dr. Andrew said that the soil neaf Rabaul was fabulously pro ductive, and in no other part of the world do cocoa trees bear so heavily.

Further, the Tolai are the most sophisticated of the New Guinea people, and have the longest history of association with Europeans.

He suggested that the Govern ment should undertake the testing of various areas to find their suit ability for various crops and enter prises.

It should also provide European managers and technical people to start such schemes and train selected natives to extend and de velop the projects.

Such a scheme would not be a charge on the Australian taxpayer; the managerial staff salaries would be paid out of profits on a strictly commercial basis.

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SEVENTH Day Adventist leaders arrived from Aitutaki by local schooner on September 17 to attend the biennial conference held at the SDA Training School, Titikaveka, Rarotonga.

Among the arrivals were Senior Pastor G. Branster, president of the Central Pacific Union Mission, based in Fiji.

Pastor Aveling also tra£ from Fiji and was accompanii Dr. G. G. McDowell, educaf secretary for the Australian sion. The conference lasted a* night. tT h e Titikaveka Co-opes Society, Rarotonga, establish© cently, had a membership of September 1. Following the ap]< ment of a Co-operative’s S organiser, co-operatives are encouraged in the Cook Islau

Bound for the Islands per "Tulagi" from Sydney in September were, left to right: (1) Miss E. Richardson of Western Australia, visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. Angeloni, of Tanna Island. (2) Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Mitchell, accompanied by Nurse M. C. Miller (with baby June Mitchell), bound for Honiara where Mr. Mitchell takes up an appointment with the BSIP Government. (3) Mr. G. O'Brien, re turning to Vila, was farewelled in Sydney by sons Lyall and Noel. (4) Mr. J. A. Tayler, returning to Norfolk Island after a Sydney visit.

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[?]ss Trochus, But [?]gher [?]turns for Fiji

lOUGH exports of trochus from ►Fiji last year fell by 115 tons to a total of 267 tons, the value Iby £14,564 to a post-war peak 552,763. [ 1953, the average export value Fiji trochus was £lOO a ton. t year the average was up to 110/-. hough actual production fell [year, it did not fall as much as [figures suggest, as a quantity shell went to the local button pry and was exported as finished ions, no exact details of which ear in the latest Trade Report, lirprisingly, France was the my’s best trochus customer last , taking over £20,000 worth. The led States took the smallest order 745 worth. iiough Japan took only £6,000 th, it is believed that much of industry’s present prosperity be attributed to high Japanese

[?]rfeit of Tuna

p. 61

In South Pacific

E 1955 winter seems to have been extraordinarily prolific for tuna fishermen in the South fic—at least in the waters east Mi. le Pago Pago tuna fleet has been ?ing in big hauls from these irs, and almost every island in Cooks, from Penrhyn and Puka i in the north to Mangaia in south, has reported huge catches una, some of them of record lere have been long periods of clear weather in this area, and two events are probably related.

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[?]ack of Ships Causes

p. 63

Tomato [?]risis in Cook Is.

IHTH the regular 1,200-ton supply V vessel Maui Pomare laid up at I Auckland, New Zealand’s De triment of Island Territories was ced with a first-class headache len the small stand-in, Viti, suf red a serious engine breakdown [ July, at the beginning of the toks’ tomato season.

This crop is valuable and in pasingly important to the lUthem Group islands, and the oblem of getting the ripening lit to the New Zealand market d to be overcome. [n addition to the regular Union earn Ship Co. trans-Pacific lighters, two Matson-Oceanic Line lighters were called to lift deck fgoes on their southbound runs, rhe problem was to find vessels dch would be passing Rarotonga [ suitable intervals as the fruit atinued to ripen, and every pos ile vessel was investigated. [he Matson vessels saved the

situation in August, though some fruit was lost at Atiu.

Early in September it was pos sible to arrange a call by a brand new coaster, the Maunganui, on her maiden voyage from Holland to New Zealand. The small ship had called at Papeete en route from Panama.

From there she was diverted and loaded a deck cargo of over 8,000 cases at a critical time.

In mid-September, after investi gating possible calls by Otaki, Lossiebank, and Waitomo without success, a shipment of 6,000 cases could not be cleared from Rarotonga before it ripened.

It was hoped that Viti would be despatched from Auckland early in September, but repairs took longer and it was not until September 24 that she finally sailed for Niue and Rarotonga.

Fortunately the Meadowbank saved the situation by loading a cargo on September 22. Viti was to follow her, then Matua early Nov ember, on a special trip, should see the season ended. t A small whirlwind damaged two houses in Kimiangatau village, Mauke, Cook Group, early in Sep tember.

Seeking Air Links

p. 63

W allis and Futuna Seeking Air Links

VISITORS to Wallis and Futuna Islands have reported that upwards of 3,000 local men were engaged at each island in recon ditioning the wartime airstrips.

The people are apparently hopeful that New Caledonia’s TRANSPAC air company, recently formed, may operate flights to the islands if the airfields are put into order.

Advertisements & other items, p. 63 (3 items)

Sydney Pacific Islands Society

THE guest speaker at the Sep tember gathering of the Sydney Pacific Islands Society was Major Basil Croft, RL.

Major Croft gave a talk entitled “A Ramble Through Japan”.

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Wedding at Rabaul

p. 64

t In the first half of 1955, New Caledonia registered 857 new motor cars, of which 575 came from France and the remainder from Britain, Germany and the United States. Also registered were 55 new motor-cycles and 137 motor-scooters.

U Mr. C. D. Brownhill has bea appointed to the Board of Directo; of W. R. Carpenter & Co., Sydntx in succession to the late Sir Hem Braddon. Mr. Brownhiirs fatli was a director of the company its early days.

Mr. Paul Seeto and Miss Alice Seeto were married by the Rev. John Su at the Rabaul Methodist Church. In this group are (left to right): Mr. Dennis Seeto, the Rev. J. Su, bride groom and bride, Mr. Dick Seeto (behind bride), Miss Jane Wong and (in front) Seeto Lin-oi. —Photo by C. H. Meen.

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p. 65

Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Came and leir children were on holiday in iji in September. Mr. Came, who District Agricultural Officer at oroka, New Guinea, is a son of ie Rev. T. C. Came and Mrs. arne, of Suva.

Mr. Glassie Strickland, who for most ten years has been the arotonga manager for dagger and arvey, Ltd., Auckland, resigned on agust 31. Mr. Strickland joined ie firm in 1918, and during his years’ service has been sales an traveller, bookkeeper, and anager.

Passengers bound north from Sydney in A.N.G. Line Ships in September included (top to bottom): (1) Assistant District Officer D. J Parrish, with Mrs. Parrish, Craig, and Chris returned to New Guinea after a course at the School of Pacific Administration . (2) Farewelling Mr. Parrish (second from left) were Patrol Officers Ron Beville, Neil Desailly, and Brian McBride of New Guinea, all at present at the School of Pacific Administration in Sydney. (3) Mrs. E. Harper was seen off by her husband when she left Sydney to visit her son, Lieutenant Brian Harper, stationed at Vainmo. (4) The Rev. Canon H. M Arrowsmith, General Secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society at Sydney, farewelled Miss E. P. Matthews, the society's secretary at Port Moresby, when she returned from leave.

Reviewed in Report

pp. 65-67

Conduct of Islanders in NZ Reviewed in Report

General conduct of the 5,000odd Pacific Island migrants living in New Zealand is good, although lack of familiarity with New Zealand customs regarding al cohol and gambling causes occa

sional problems, states the annual report of the Department of Island Territories, Wellington.

The report points out that there is some reluctance to give accom modation to Islanders. Lack of knowledge of European standards and their traditional hospitality, which often results in overcrowded conditions, aggravate the problem.

EAL is reported to be consider- Fthe new Douglas DC7C Seven b propeller-driven aircraft as a [acement for their present DC6’s. it of the type will be delivered PAA and is capable of direct its from Sydney to Honolulu with [ pay-load. Cost is $2,217,000 3. TEAL’S only alternative is

said to be the English Bristol Britannia.

II A 60-year-old Baptist minister, the Rev. Victor J. White, of Sydney, plans to leave in November with five other missionaries to open Baptist mission stations in Nether lands New Guinea.

Papua-New Guinea people and their friends caught by the camera at Sydney in September [?]ded (left) Mr. Philip Pring, director of Koitaki Para Rubber Estates, Ltd., and Eriama Estates [?]dings), Ltd , and Mrs. Winsome Tansey, who were seeing friends off for New Guinea aboard Middle: Mr. Charles Julios, Government anthropologist, returned to Port Moresby in "Shansi” [?] furlough in England.

Right: Miss E. S. Bourke and Miss R. Freeman, of the Port Moresby Post Office staff, also [?]llied north in "Shansi” from Sydney.

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p. 68

Educational Scheme

AFTER negotiations which have lasted for three years, the Gov ernments of New Zealand and Tonga have completed an educa tional scheme of co-operation.

The agreement, long overdue, is designed to facilitate the appoint ment of New Zealand teachers for service in Tonga. It outlines the machinery for their recruitment, terms of service, salaries and allow ances, housing, transport to and from Tonga, superannuation pay ments, medical attention, and in spection of schools.

The agreement was signed by Mr.

C. E. Beeby, Director of Education in New Zealand, and Prince Tungi, OBE, Premier and Minister of Education in Tonga.

Help Sugar Industry

p. 68

Gamma Rays Used To

GAMMA rays, a product of atomic fission, are being used as an aid to the Hawaiian sugar industry, according to the report of an Ameri can scientist, speaking before an in ternational gathering of atomic scientists.

A gamma ray beam, directed

through a stream of falling sugar, registers the weight of sugar-flow ing past. Like ordinary light rays passing through water, the gamma ray beam is deflected according to the density of the sugar stream. A machine registers the deflection in pounds weight a minute.

BOAC plans to open a new N/ Pacific round-the-world air i soon. The route would be 1 London via Canada to the Aleutn and Japan, thence via the exisj India-Pakistan-Middle East-Sco ern Europe route. The pro trans-Pacific route will also b© tained.

Advertisements & other items, p. 68 (1 item)

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Thorny Problem

p. 69

New Hebrides Query

Santo Airfields Present Thorny Problem

■ANY people in Espiritu Santo, '1 in the New Hebrides, are at [ a loss to understand why Hitas cannot immediately operate DC4 air service to that island, ing the existing wartime airfields.

Their appraisal of the situation set out in a letter from Mr. L. r right, President du Groupement :onomique et Social des Nouvelles strides, an organisation apparently plivalent to a Chamber of Com- Brce.

Mr. Wright says, inter alia: “Santo has already a perfectly rviceable aerodrome with a tar ac-airstrip in operational condi »n, Known as Bomber-111, it was ed three years ago by Air France P!4’s and could be used again by and Constellations.

Tt is true that the lateral bands t not up to the required standard,

"Soochow" Travellers

pp. 69-71

and that extensions would cost a lot of money. But, as they are, safety looks pretty good.

“It has also been stated that the meteorological conditions over this ’drome are sometimes bad. Yet it was closed only once when used by the USAF, and in the last three years the longest meteorological close-down observed was over in less than half an hour. A radio beacon is available.

“An Australian Civil Aviation ex pert has recommended on these grounds to develop Pallicolo, another aerodrome quite remote from the town (of Luganville), where it will cost big money to lay a tarmac-airstrip.

‘Lately, the British pilot who ferried a DH Rapide aircraft from London to Noumea said that Bomber-111 was one of the best Pacific airstrips he had used.” (He used Port Moresby, Lae, Kukum (Honiara), en route).

“It is thought here that if Qantas had been willing to do so, air ser vices by land planes could have been resumed at once (when the flying-boat service was halted), at least while awaiting Pallicolo. This would have seemed fair to the air minded Santo people, who have already paid Qantas a good deal in £ Australian.”

ON the basis of this letter from Mr. Wright, PIM made inquiries

[?]ound for New Guinea from Sydney in Sep [?]ber aboard "Soochow" were (upper picture) [?]and Mrs. J. C. Cox, Ross and Loris, re [?]ing to Port Moresby after six months' [?]tion. Mr. Cox is with the Department Education. In the lower picture are Mrs. [?]Gilmore and David, en route to join Mr. [?]ore, who is with E. S. Clementson Pty., [?], building the new Port Moresby hospital.

several quarters and obtained the [lowing replies: In 1946, Mr. Fricker, of the Aus- Sfan Department of Civil Aviation, spected the potential civil air ids at Santo and decided that ose worthy of consideration for velopment were Pallicolo and

ganville.

Between June 15 and June 23, 1954, th airfields were again inspected Mr. D. V. Davies, Senior Airport Rneer of the department of iril Aviation, with the assistance Captain J. L. Grey, of Qantas.

Neither airstrip, at the present le, meets the recommended mini im standards laid down by the ternational Civil Aviation Organ tion for use by DC4 aircraft.

Hr. Davies, in his report, said he isidered it essential that in re bilitating either of the airfields, ;y should be raised to minimum AO standards for DC4 aircraft ore commencing scheduled opera ns and his estimate of the cost Fdeveloping Pallicolo to this ndard was approximately £15,000 \ than developing Luganville to similar standard. furthermore, Pallicolo was roured because it is at sea level opposed to Luvanville, which is vated at approximately 500 feet, d the meteorological records, ich were examined at the jiritu Santo Meteorological Office,

showed that Pallicolo would enjoy approximately 25 per cent, more days per annum of weather suitable for DC4 operations than Luganville.

WHILE both airstrips were suit able for wartime operations and are still suitable for charter operators or non-scheduled carriers, the Department of Civil Aviation subscribes strictly to the standards laid down by the Inter national Civil Aviation Organisation and as neither of these airfields meets the minimum standards set by this international body, they are not prepared to authorise their use by a scheduled Australian carrier until certain rehabilitation work is carried out.

Operations from Bomber-111 might be uneventful, but if by any chance an accident did occur, the accusing finger would certainly be pointed at Qantas and the Aus tralian Civil Aviation authorities for

permitting flights into an airport which did not meet the minimum safety standards laid down by the ICAO on the basis of world-wide experience.

In the face of this, it seems that there is nothing for it but for the Santo airfield rejuvenators to get busy. t Reputed to be the world’s largest and most beautiful butterfly, a Vic toria Regina, collected in the Solomon Islands by Mr. R. G.

Bartlett, retired Queensland school teacher, was displayed at a Too woomba festival in September. t Twenty-three students from New Zealand’s Island Territories were attending the Central Medical School, Suva, last financial year. Of these 10 were medical students, five dental, five public health, two X ray, and one laboratory.

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PUKA PUKA is still one of the most isolated inhabited islands in Polynesia.

When the Cook Islands trader Charlotte Donald arrived there on August 23 she was the first outside connection since December 3.

Some days were spent loading the island’s copra and a party of copra makers and their families was taken aboard to relieve those stationed at Nassau Island. The latter group had been on the island for over a year, Nassau belongs to the Puka Puka people, but, rather than settle there permanently, they prefer to go in parties of 80 to 100, including families, for about a year, and then “change the guard.”

About 75 tons of copra was cleared from the two islands by the Charlotte Donald, 261 tons of it from Nassau. t The Port Moresby Provisional Committee of the Australian Asso ciation of the United Nations is vigorously pressing its campaign on behalf of the UN appeal fund foi children. The Administrator of Papua-New Guinea has asked for the support of all Territory people.

U After visiting the Fijian troops in Malaya, the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. A. Lennox-Boyd) wrote to the commanding officer: “Your Fijians have won all hearts in this country, and they have cer tainly won mine. . . I congratulate you most warmly on a splendid battalion who have shown them selves, whether in the jungle or on

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Mr. Fung Kuei, trader and photographer of [?]a, New Hebrides, and his bride, Lueng, left [?]ney on September 16 in the "Polynesie" [?]Vila. They were married recently at Hong [?]g, where the bridegroom was spending an [?]ended holiday.

Reef at Erromango

p. 73

American Yacht on Reef at Erromango

HE American yacht Korrigan was I wrecked at Elizabeth Bay, west I coast of Erromango, New Heb les. on June 6. Owner Bob Grant ided safely and was at Santo rly in October.

Mr. Grant had been a member of t crew of the American yacht mdalay, which was sold in the w Hebrides late last year. He re rned to Papeete and purchased nrigan from a retired French val officer there.

With an Australian companion, •ant cleared Papeete with the 32- )ter last February 21. A call was ide at Suwarrow and then at Pago go, where the Australian left the cht.

Phe disaster occurred through fer-fatigue.

Increased NZ Bonus for Ex-Prisoners

p. 73

Ex-Prisoners

JLANDS people who became Japanese prisoners of war while serving with any New Zealand litary force are to have a further ) bonus.

Phis was announced by the NZ mister of Defence in September, [n June. 1954, a grant of £25 was nounced. There was considerable otest at that time due to the tnparatively small sum allocated.

The bonus now becomes £75 —as mpared with £46 received by lited Kingdom servicemen.

Big Clothing Factory

pp. 73-75

Planned at Suva

(From Our Own Correspondent) SOON after the opening of the new cigarette factory at Walu Bay, Suva, the Indian firm of G. B. Hari and Co. announced plans for a clothing factory in the same industrial area.

The three-storeyed building will have a total floor space of 12,250 square feet, and the factory will employ 135 operatives, apart from administrative and warehouse staff.

It is hoped that the building will

be completed in August.

The clothing output will be for local consumption and for export to other Island groups. tl Mr. T. A. Handford, formerly Assistant Superintendent of Police, Gold Coast, is now Superintendent of Police and Prisons, British Solomons, in succession to Mr.

E. J. H. Colchester-Wemyss, who has been transferred to the Bahamas. tl Mr. D’Arcy Ryan, working under the auspices of Sydney University, has returned to Mendi, Central Highlands of New Guinea, for a further year of research.

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BYEING the increase of Cook U Islands citrus exports to New I Zealand with some concern, a bminion grower has suggested that £ Government should establish a nnery in the Cooks to “help obtain ferseas markets for orange juice.”

But, as Fiji’s Agriculture Depart ed has already reported, there is lot more to it than merely find g a juice market overseas.

It may be that the two kinds of Binges grown in the Cooks are iite unsuited to canning, and the issibility of a lucrative market,

even given suitable juice, appears to be poor in the face of competition from South Africa, the West Indies, and elsewhere.

Probably no one is more aware of this than the New Zealand growers, who are concentrated mainly round Tauranga, Bay of Plenty. t After 43 hours in a rubber dinghy, two survivors of a crew of five of a four-motored American aircraft which made a forced landing in the sea 1,000 miles west of Honolulu, were picked up by a ship late in September. The aircraft was carry ing a military cargo to Japan via Wake Island, when three motors failed.

' Mr. Karlo Andersen, manager of the privately owned Manuae Island coconut plantation in the Cook Islands, reported at the end of August that no rain had fallen at the island for three months. Good drinking water, however, is avail able from a well.

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THERE is no danger of denudation of the reefs of Vanikoro, British Solomons, by trochus-divers of any description, writes Mr. H.

Chaperlin, of Vanikoro, comment ing on a correspondent’s views on the subject (June PIM, page 153).

Last April, says Mr. Chaperlin, a court of inquiry was held concern ing the ownership of certain reef areas round Vanikoro, and the Dis tri c t Commissioner apportioned some of these areas to natives who produced reasonable evidence of ownership. Other areas were left open to anybody who cared to use them.

During the inquiry a witness said that in the course of his 30 years’ residence at Vanikoro nobody had ever objected to his working the reefs for shell.

MOST of the indigenous people live at Buma, in the adjacent island of Tevai, which is also enclosed in the Vanikoro reefs and

is presided over by the hereditary chief. There are not more than four nominal villages at Vanikoro, none of which is permanently in habited by more than three or four people.

“The labour employed at Vanikoro in timber-getting is recruited solely from the Santa Cruz Group,” Mr.

Chaperlin continues. "These people are almost as much at home in the

water as out of it; consequents is not surprising that some of tt find recreation at the week by taking their canoes out toe reefs for fishing and diving. T employers do not permit the usj launches for this purpose.”

Any possessor of a store or trading licence (issued annuall;! the Government for a fee, at'd discretion of the District Comr

Dner) is entitled to trade for shell ■ any other island product which ay be brought to him, and is not any way interfering with native terests when doing so, says Mr. laperlin, adding that he has no lancial or personal interest in the atter other than as a lover of fair ay.

Things are the other way about,” [ continues. “With the present gh prices for shell, the native, jether employee or local resident, [receiving more than twice the ice he received a year ago, as the suit of competition.”

HE timber-getting concessionaries f certainly did subscribe to the I policy of not working the reefs I shell or searching the forests gum, but that means that they reed not to employ labour specific y for either purpose, and this Ucy has been strictly adhered to, ys the writer.

'The suggestion that trading in p Santa Cruz Group generally has r bearing on the original agree »nt is, of course, absurd.

The bulk of the islands of this Dup lie within a radius of 150 les or so west and north-east of inikoro. Since it is necessary to ike six or seven trips a year to jse islands in search of labour, it iuld be foolish not to take advant b of trading opportunities.

The BSIP Government enjoys a asiderable revenue from the ex rt of shell, the rate of export duty lying with the upward and down ,rd movement of the market. It b issues licences to export kauri m. ‘So far as the denudation of the sfs is concerned, the limited lount of diving done either by the tive labour or the local native lidents is totally insufficient to ng about this condition. Vanikoro s a coastline of some 35 miles and [entirely surrounded by reefs dch, in places, are three to five les offshore.

“Diving time is limited by tides d weather, and the inclination, [ lack of it, of the not-too ergetic native.”

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Snail Licks Snail

INAILS are locked in mortal com ) bat at Saipan, according to a f recent United Nations report on ie United States Trust Territory

{Micronesia.

Mr. Elias P. Sablan, reporting on gricultural developments, says he Sieves that an answer has been Kind to the problem of the de ductive giant snails which were Produced to the Territory—and, aring World War 11, to other South acific territories—by the Japanese.

The answer? Another snail, nailer, tougher, and a lover of iant-snail meat.

Tests carried out at a small islet ear Saipan have resulted in almost 11 the giants falling victims to the toarfs. [The dwarfs will now be introduced rogressively to other islands.

[Special Correspondence

bfOST people who move to chillier FI parts of the globe after years [ in the Islands are bound to con ;act homesickness sooner or later, id a Sydney contributor says that B suffers acutely with the arrival I Fijian or Polynesian letters.

On the other hand, the same com lentator points out that Islands Jrrespondence can sometimes be >me a trifle one-sided unless pre mtions are taken. A useful step 1 to bring away from the Islands supply of stamped aerogrammes hich, addressed by the exile to imself, are duly sent in otherwise npty envelopes to defaulters.

In Fijian cases, this system of )gging of consciences is reported )be 99 pc effective. In fact, if le returned aerogramme (filled to ie last quarter-inch) is not an gered promptly, there comes a jrsely-worded further communica on indicating that the boot is now n the other foot.

The system has minor complica ons, of course. For instance, a ijian soldier (territorial) wrote: Just before parade was dismissed imebody passed the word to me lat there was a letter at the djutant’s office. My sergeant was little annoyed when I showed igns of leaving ahead of the word, fe was muttering where did I think was going and I was muttering fiat my inside was upset and I mst leave very urgently. . . When opened the letter and found the irmail form with nothing on any

side whatever I asked the corporal; Has the date of April Fool been changed? He said he didn’t think it had, and so I realised that I must nil the form without more excuse, Here it is.”

The 1 pc failure, it appears, had every reason for being so. A relative reported that the cause of silence was an addition to the family arriving simultaneously with the contracting of chicken-pox by the proud father.

Malden Windjammers

MANY old windjammers ended their days on the shores of the now abandoned guano island of Malden, in the central Pacific.

It is doubtful, however, whether any of them were as curious as the “windjammers” which actually sailed across Malden’s sun-parched surface—and still sit rusting there to-day Perhaps unique in Malden’s heyday was the system of transporting the dug guano from the rich eastern end of the island to the ship loading-point eight miles away on the leeward side.

The empty tramway trucks were manhandled across to the excava-

tion area by the Cook Islands labourers, but when loaded, sails were hoisted and the trucks, quickly gaining speed under pressure of the fresh trade wind, were soon speed ing westward at up to 20 miles an hour.

Men riding the trucks were occasionally hurt when the “skipper” failed to give the order to take in sail in time, and the loaded trucks lept the rails at the western terminus.

According to a Tahiti schooner skipper who called at Malden dur ing World War 11, en route from Christmas Island, the old railway trucks were still standing there at that time. Few calls are made at Malden now.

Papuans As Divers

WITH training, Papuan divers could rival the famous divers of the Torres Strait region and Papuan trochus would become a potential goldmine for the Terri tory, says Mr. Noel Maloney, a Port Moresby trader.

Suggesting that Papuan divers should be sent to Torres Strait for training, Mr. Maloney said that there were excellent divers in the Papuan coastal villages, but they recovered only the shells lying on the reefs.

It was essential, he added, that the industry should be fully organised among the Papuans. At present, divers who made a good haul often stopped diving until the money they received for the shell had been spent.

Mr. Maloney said that Papuan trochus was gaining a high reputa tion overseas, and he had had in-

Unchanging

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A charming Gilbert Islands girl with a contemplative air illus trates how the sturdy Gilbertese atoll-dwallers remain fundamentally unchanged despite the impact of the 20th century. In the Gilberts the years of misery under Japanese occupa tion in the Pacific War are now a fading memory, but post-war economic conditions and modern communications have brought many changes. War-scarred Tarawa has become “mechanised", and much of the Group south of Tarawa is “more European" than is was in 1939. —Photo by Nancy Phelan.

quiries from as far afield as Italy, Japan, Hongkong and Holland.

Scientific New Look

MANY hands were figuratively raised in horror when a Sydney University lecturer in anthro poligy (Dr. Ronald M. Berndt) told the British Association for the Ad vancement of Science, at Bristol, in

September, that, in his opinion, can nibalism was “a nourishing and hygienic means of disposing of the dead.”

The subject is unlikely to cause any noticeable commotion in those parts of the Island world where the custom has long been eliminated.

Incidentally, in Anatomy of Para dise, J. C. Furnas points out with dispassionate calm that although “Polynesianophiles” imply that can nibalism was “missing all over Polynesia” when Europeans arrived, it was extremely lively in New Zealand and the Marquesas, known in the Tuamotu, and sporadic in Tonga and Samoa.

After emphasising that Fiji probably excelled any other island group in technical progress, he adds: ‘“Cannibalism in so advanced a set ting is a striking example of the strange things that people insist on doing. It was specially striking in the Fijian, who is one of the toughest and most intelligent of Islanders, and certainly the most likeable as well.”

To-day, says Furnas, cannibalism sometimes sounds comic to people reared on jokes about boiled missionary, and to others it is shocking. But in its own time and place it was neither, being “merely a pressure -releasing institution as intimately bound up with the com munity as saloons were with old time Sierra mining camps.”

The Teka Game

THE throwing of the teka jave is an ancient Island gai known throughout Melanej and Polynesia, but it has died m re cent years in the Cook Islan The teka is a type of reed ti grows in some islands, and there a Mangaian ute, or song of prat which tells of a champion telf thrower named Turi, who is si< posed to have thrown a teka a diJ ance of half a mile.

The teka javelins were fitted m round hardwood heads, and wv 8 ft long. They wv thrown underarm, either sing handed, double-handed, or with! sennit cord attachment which creased the power of the throw champion had to be adept at’ three types of throw.

By 1926 the teka had died outd Rarotonga and the imported gam of cricket, football and basketld had taken a firm hold.

In Mangaia the game was bannr as the children used to play it the roads, sometimes with disastro resu 1 ts to pedestrians or t windows of nearby houses. . In Mangaia to-day the teka re' is used as a material for maki' the low-crowned, broad-brimro hats that the women wear to churn The reeds are cut and the pith 1 moved. They are then dried ■ three days and a further three da. of fine, painstaking plaiting pi< duces a hat that is light, cheap, a£ very attractive.

Two Names Sound Like

p. 80

One Word

CHARLIE BIRD of the Solomons, where his name is generally pronounced as one word, was born in London in 1893. He has done so many jobs in the Islands that his life story would fill a book. Although he looks like an ascetic old monk, the impression is quite wrong.

After four years in the First War, at Gallipoli and in France, Charlie-Bird reached the Pacific Islands in January, 1921, and took a job at Toimanapu Plantation, Bougainville. A year later he was in the British Solomons, at Lilihina Plantation on the Marovo Lagoon. In 1927 he was serving in Carpenters' old "Duranbah", and then he went off prospecting with Dick Laycock.

In 1932 he was back with Carpenters, this time in the "Balus", where he spent five years. Then came two years at Gold Ridge, where the main lode has recently been dis covered, and back to the "Balus" because war had broken out.

When the Japs arrived, Charlie-Bird and his "Balus" helped evacuate the RAAF from Gavutu, and took them to Vila.

It was a coincidence that "balus" is a New Guinea word for a bird, though it is mainly used in Pidgin for an aircraft or pigeon. In 1945 the progress of the war took the "Balus" and her birdlike captain back to the Solomons.

After a spell at Maru Plantation in San Cristobal, Charlie joined the Government Trade Scheme as skipper of the "Biliki". Later he became their stevedore, and is now the merchandise manager at Honiara.

Not even Charlie knows what he may do next, and he may even retire some day, in spite of his restless activity, and settle down on his Guadalcanal property.—BRETT HILDER.

Fijian Houses: Tradition Meets Utilit

p. 80

Economic pressure [?] threatening the Fiji villagers' traditi [?] style of housebuild [?] because housebuild [?] and repairing [?] a communal task—is by Government a [?] other authorities to quire too much ti when Fijian econo [?] survival is bound with increased ag [?] cultural output.

The upper pict [?] illustrates the type [?] traditional house s[?] in Nadroga, on [?] southern coast of [?] Levu. (In many nev [?] houses there are lar[?] windows and more them).

Below is an exam [?] of how the utilita [?] may displace picturesque by way [?] "permanent" material [?] This cottage at Welas [?] Taveuni, has the typi [?] Fijian stone foundati [?] and the reed wa [?] shutters and frames [?] more or less con [?] tional. The roof, ho [?] ever, is of galvani [?] iron and the framew [?] of the building is "modern" sawn timb [?]

—Photos by Pub [?]

Relations Office, Su [?]

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OCTOBER, 1 9 5 5 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Tongans Were 'Ruled' by

pp. 81-97

Study In Contrasts

Tongans Were 'Ruled' by The Surprising Mr. Baker

By Glenn Macgregor

I It was not likely, when the Rev. Shirley Baker set out in the late eventies under a Wesleyan appointment to the Tongan Islands, that the Ittle man had any ambition to rule a kingdom for its own good and his special benefit. But give such a man the opportunity—and then watch him.

OAKEH was a commonplace little K man in his fifties, florid, f confident and alert, but he oon had the king of the coconut jlands twisted round his little inger.

When King George, Queen lalote’s great-grandfather, became big in 1845, his people were in tie white heat of conversion to

liristianity. .

fronga had long been a cockpit >r religious factions —first Catholic gainst Wesleyan; then Wesleyan lainst Wesleyan, actually resleyan against the Free Church f Tonga. [The early missionaries had taught le people to read and write and i pass a simple code of law. They Iso had imbued them with envy [ the dignity of civilised States.

Law courts, police, uniforms, and ) on, all the trappings of authority lat appealed so greatly to the blynesian mind, were all to be had [only they knew where to begin, .For years there was no one to irect their nascent aspirations, but fc last, with the necessity, came le man.

Baker was a genius in his way.

None was so jealous of the honour and independence of Tonga, warning her when any of the great Powers cast envious eyes on her emerald shores. He designed the national ensign, and the royal standard with three club knives, and a dove carrying a branch in its beak, and the Great Seal, and many other things that make a nation respected. r.E meaning of these foreign things was quite unknown to the Tongans, but they were the emblems of civilisation.

Baker it was who persuaded a German Consul-General to come to Tonga in a man-of-war to make a treaty, so that Tonga was recog nised as a nation. For this honour a small island in the group was given to Germany as a coaling station, and, as was only right and proper, Mr. Shirley Waldemar Baker was awarded the order of the Red Eagle of Prussia.

Baker ordered timber for large churches, royal palaces and public buildings, all of which cost a great deal of money. He had invented a method of his own for collecting money. By playing on vanity, he raised his congregations to a frenzy of enthusiasm by inviting them to throw their con tributions into a basin —for m Tonga, the left hand is always intended to know what the right hand doeth.

Few of the people had enough coin to ring in the basin, so Baker opened a money-lending office m the vestry, and as fast as the basin filled with florins, he returned the coins to the donors against a note of hand, in order that they might re-enact their public charity.

When the Tongans were sold up to recover their debts, the abuse became so flagrant that at last the Australian Conference sent out-a. committee to inquire into the whole thing.

It reported that Mr. Baker should be removed.

AT this time, Unga, the Premier and the King’s son, died at Auckland, and Baker, out of his love for the King, arranged with

the Germans to bring the body back to Tonga in a man-of-war, and to land it with full naval honours.

All this so affected the King that he offered Baker the vacant post of Prime Minister.

Now Shirley Baker was in a position to snap his fingers at the Methodist Conference.

The King also had a grievance: he did not approve of funds donated by the Tongans being diverted to other missions; he wanted Tonga to be made a separate conference with control over its own funds.

That suited Baker. He prevailed on the King to establish an independent Wesleyan Church of Tonga, to be known as the Free Church.

Watkins, a fellow minister, joined him; and within a few weeks a majority of the Tongans had joined. Only a minority of about 200, headed by the King’s daughter, remained true to the old faith.

Baker, now in the zenith of his power, treasurer, auditor, and controller of the law courts, became —as men of his stamp always do — a petty tyrant, without the tact or the temper to control the disaffec tion he created.

In 1887, some escaped prisoners lay in wait for him as he drove home in the dusk with his son and daughter. They fired an old shot gun. The bullet missed Baker but wounded his son and daughter, and the horse bolted home with the Prime Minister, leaving his children on the ground.

To the end of their days, the Baker family referred to that incident as “the assassination.

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Mrs. Shirley Baker.

The Rev. Shirley Baker.

3E immediate result was whole bale arrests, and several men trere summarily shot. Others ild have followed had not the r o p e a n s intervened and •atened Baker personally, hen Baker lost his head and imoned the men of Haapai and au to come and restore order. \ they did by plundering the ses of the Wesleyans and ting all who refused to join the t Church, while a remnant who [ out were huddled aboard two joners and shipped off to Fiji, heir sudden arrival brought High Commissioner (Sir Charles shell) on board HMS Diamond Isit Tonga. ie exhaustive judicial inquiry lished ample grounds for the oval of Baker, under the Order Council which empowers the a Commissioner to remove any ish subject who is dangerous he peace and good order of the id in which he is living, it since Baker constituted in pelf the Government of Tonga, ras not clear that his removal kt not be followed by anarchy, i the King’s undertaking to a stop to the persecution of (eyans, and to adopt certain

other reforms, the High Com missioner sailed for Fiji, the ship of war taking with her the rest of the prisoners under sentence of death.

Then Baker recovered —and the devil a saint was he! As long as he restrained himself within certain limits, he might continue his former policy without let or hindrance, making the King his scapegoat to bear the whole blame for breaking promises made to Sir Charles Mitchell. (Over)

After the showdown, he lived mostly at Auckland, making flying visits to Tonga at the King’s •expense. fTIHINGS political apparently X settled down, but in 1890 the High Commissioner had again to return and (by Order dated July 17, 1890) expel Baker from the island, and institute a British Protectorate over Tonga, if only to save the kingdom from annexation by Germany.

The Premier’s office was found to be in a state of the greatest confusion, and one of the Customs clerks was endeavouring to set the papers in order when Baker arrived, anxious to remove some of his account books. They passed through the outer office to Baker’s elegantly furnished sanctum.

Behind this was a “holy of holies” into which no Tongan had ever penetrated. The Customs clerk had succeeded in opening it, and there the mystery lay disclosed. ‘‘There were empty cases, and cases yet unemptied, and a terrible array of ‘dead marines’, square-shouldered, round shouldered, and sloping-shouldered, shocked the eye as they lay in unblushing and uncompromising evidence in every corner. The cases were marked ‘T.G.’, which stood for Tongan Government.”

“But they’re my private property:

I paid for them,” said Baker angrily.

“In that case,” said the clerk, “they must have evaded customs duty—private goods imported as Government property.”

The Europeans living in Tonga were preparing to make Baker run the gauntlet of a shower of rotten

eggs as he went along the to embark, but the High missioner put a stop to thas the sake of European prestifi announcing that the ord© prohibition would not be serw Baker until he embarked, s any European insulted hiii would not be served at all.

, n the Tongans were dis jointed. r e t ten years later, Baker was jk. He was now a broken-down cleric.

ING GEORGE I died in 1894, and the Free Church pursued its erratic way through the ■ reign of the next King, and 1 into the reign of Queen Salote.

Egion and politics remained ch the same thing, and other sions arrived to confuse the lean mind, until it was a unonplace to see such an rnaly as Catholic, Free Church, sleyan, Mormon, and Seventh [ Adventist all in the same lily. yery conflicting road to Heaven f headed by a full-blast brass d and Sunday observance was fied to ridiculous extremes, he Free Church Ton g a n asters, fantastic in formal black idcloth, walking barefoot to rch, were at the mercy of crapulous traders. They left a ifinancial record.

I was a relief when at last, in L Queen Salote wound up the Ive administration and Qgamated the con si c^ aches, and the Free Church f no longer Tonga’s official h. he Queen has her private oel, her personal chaplain, and (whole happy little kingdom is

1 predominantly Methodist in

L under the jurisdiction of the hodist Conference directed from tralia.

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ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1955

Cook Islands' Nerve Centre

pp. 82-100

When Ships and Planes are Few...

To-Day Is Radio Rarotonga

By J. Edward Brown

"OAROTONGA is ill-served at " present by shipping and aircraft, and so mail deliveries are few and far between. Radio provides the only regular communications link with New Zealand and with the scattered outer islands of the Cook Group.

“Nerve centre” of the Cook Islands communication network is the radio receiving station a mils and a half from the main village, Avarua.

Under the control of a European superintendent, Mr. Cunnold—who is also a well-known amateur’ radio operator, a supervisor, and with a dozen Rarotongan operators, this station is the channel through which all telegrams to and from the Cook Islands circulate.

Want to know the correct time on the island? Ring the radio station. Want to know the weather forecast Ring the radio station.

The radio station can answer almost any query along the lines of what’s happening outside the orbit of the 22-miles-round island.

THE radio station was opened on September 25, 1918, but it was not possible to keep in contact with New Zealand direct in those far-off days, so traffic for New Zea land was relayed via Apia, in Samoa, which had a more powerful trans mitter.

Now Rarotonga is in contact with New Zealand almost continuously throughout the day and evening seven days a week. Specially sited aerials for transmitting and re ceiving are beamed on Wellington, where the New Zealand circuit term inates.

Approximately 500 messages a month are exchanged each way be tween Rarotonga and New Zealand, and before the departure of a ship for Rarotonga the volume of traffic

for Wellington steps up as firms and people order goods for ship ment.

Regular contact is maintained with Suva, Niue and Apia, and the civil aviation station ai Nadi, Fiji to which weather reports are sent every three hours.

Many of the 12 outer islands of the Cook Group which have radio installations prepare weather re ports every three hours, and these are received in coded form at Raro tonga, and transmitted to Nadi, to gether with reports from any ships in the area.

RADIO stations in the Pacific are fairly few and far between, and Rarotonga is not very far off the New Zealand and Australia to Panama shipping lanes, so Raro-

tonga Radio receives a number these reports from ships.

Rarotonga Radio is the « station in regular contact y Pitcairn Island, the lonely specl; land some 1800 miles to the sou east of Rarotonga—and a tenu contact it is too.

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The Rarotonga receiving station, nea [?] aerodrome, is the control centre of all Islands communications. The modern sta [?] has been erected since the war. The mitters, controlled from here, are ab [?] mile away.

Mr. Douglas Cun nold, who is in charge of the Cook Islands communica tions system, with headquarters at Raro tonga Radio.

|#irn Island uses a low »red battery-operated trans gr and signals from there are anely weak and at times im ble to copy. icairn Island has extreme dif ty in coyping Rarotonga’s ils. too. Sometimes contact is for days, but the daily search he whisper of Pitcairn’s trans fer never ceases. {e cost of sending a telegram to iim Island from New Zealand Jy 1/6 a word, and it is cheap

fe price.

taught take half an hour or [to send a ten-word telegram is station, as each word is re (d many times and the message nt over and over again until Pitcairn operator says exult [that he’s got it. fER island stations are manned y Cook Islands operators, who h the circumstances do a re lably good job, as they have jchnical knowledge of radio, but |y know how to switch the sets nd on, and how to manipulate

Irse key.

;h island has two complete

transmitting and receiving sets so that if one breaks down they have a spare. Repairs are carried out at Rarotonga by European tech nicians, faulty sets being sent back when shipping offers.

Cook Islanders make good morse operators, but at times they suffer from an inability to think for them selves. They carry out unvarying routine duties, but if anything out of the usual routine occurs they usually have to be told what to do.

Naturally enough, \they lack a perfect command of written Eng lish (like many English-speakers), and when receiving telegrams in English, some queer combinations of letters get written down as static or bad reception breaks up the morse and the operators guess the letters or words.

Until May there were three Euro pean radio operators on the staff, one on each of the three shifts.

In May, two European operators completed their contracts to the Cook Islands Administration and they were not replaced. As an ex periment, two Rarotongans were promoted to senior operator duties formerly done by the Europeans.

They will have to think for them selves in carrying out the work of the station when no Europeans are present.

It is the policy of the Government to endeavour to let the Rarotongans run things for themselves, but whether the Rarotongans are suf ficiently educated to do so remains to be seen, and the experiment in the radio station will be closely watched.

ALTHOUGH Rarotonga is part of New Zealand, it might well be a far overseas country.

News from New Zealand is very sketchy. Every evening a morsed

news bulletin, broadcast from Well ington, is copied by the radio station, but it is of necessity very brief. A copy is posted on the board at the post office daily, and copies are distributed through the administration offices.

People in the outer islands receive even less news, Rarotonga Radio sends out a morse broadcast to the outer islands every morning, giving shipping news and items of local interest and a few paragraphs of the New Zealand news copied the night before.

On a Wednesday, at 6 pm, the store room at the radio station be comes a broadcasting studio when Radio Rarotonga, under the call sign ZKIZA, takes the air, broad casting a programme of music with an occasional talk on some useful subject, such as agriculture or health. The programme only lasts about 30 minutes, and concludes with information on shipping move ments within the group and a few news items.

The programmes are compiled by the Further Education Office, a set up which, among other things, keeps the older people interested in their community affairs.

The music is locally recorded by local people on the Further Educa tion Department’s tape recorder.

The whole programme is completely taped and then brought to the station for broadcasting.

t The price of cocoa beans should not fluctuate greatly in coming months, in the opinion of Mr.

Raymond Moore, chairman of James Stedman Henderson’s Sweets Ltd Sydney. Mr. Moore gave this opinion at the company’s annual meeting on September 22.

t A new LMS meeting known as the Rua-Au-Nui house, was opened at A/ Rarotonga, early in SeptemU opening was attended lx Resident Commissioner, Mr: and Mrs. Nevill. Mrs. Nev formed the official opening.

Pim Crossquiz No. 68

p. 82

Solution Page

Across

1- —Who was the missionary who took charge of the lepers' colony at the island of Molokai and eventually died of the disease? 7. Where did Stanley find Livingstone? 8. —What was the surname of the famous

financier who established the American Steel Corporation and Atlantic Shipping Trust? 9. —What conflict was brought about by the abduction of Helen of Troy by Paris? 10. —What was the surname of the actor who starred in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"? 14. What was the name of Captain Nemo's submarine in "Forty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea"? 15. —What is the term for stiff earth or clay rammed down to form walls or floors? 18. —What is the surname of the leading American tennis player who won the Australian Women's Singles in 1950? 19. —What sign of the zodiac is represented by a crab? 20. —What is the term for the condition in which the sub ject screams or resorts to fits of violent weeping or laughing? 21. —ln Greek mythology, who is the protector of goats and herds?

Down

1-—How many feet does the Leaning Tower of Pisa vary from the perpendicular? 2. —What is the name of the flag of the French Republic? 3. —Which Jewish prophet "went up like a whirlwind into heaven"? 4. —How would you say farewell in Hawaii? 5. —Who persuaded Othello of Desdemona's unfaithfulness?

6. —How many degrees in a right an 10. —Who wrote the famous poem "R£ sional"? 11. —What is the name for one of the mir particles that revolve round the nucleun an atom? 12. —Which Prussian general allied

Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo gave 9 name to a strong leather half-boot? 13.—What is the name of the echo-soumn instrument used for detecting submarines uni water? 16. —Who is famous for his "Elegy Wri i in a Country Churchyard"? 17. —Who was the leader of the 1953 Brin Mount Everest Expedition?

Saram's Kill-or-Cure Hair

pp. 83-84

Charley Story

Saram's Kill-or-Cure Hair Restorer Did Neither

By Bill Gill

\HE sun slid one eye over the ■ horizon and sent a beam [ straight through the wonderful ts&ifire which separates the two Wring islands. Round the head id. at that moment, swept the l all steamer “Trepang,” to go Hoping and bucking along the Iden beam. By the time the sun d hauled himself clear of the ter she was standing off Sebulu kinsula, which juts boldly from I northern island half-way across I Passage.

Dn the bridge of the Trepang s Captain Ohlsson with a hand I the engineroom telegraph. He ld him stood the boy at the eel. At the starboard end Charley tiged, his elbows resting on the Ivas dodger. kren’t you going in to the wharf, bpy?” asked Charley. l Not me,” replied Captain Ohlsson, prison ships his copra by special irter —besides, he’s too hard to get ay from.” The Old Man chuckled

piniscently.

Tn that case,” said Charley, “I’ll ig my swag aboard the dinghy igo ashore. Morrison would cut throat if I passed without call on him. He’s waiting at the Iding now.”

ERCHED, with his luggage, atop [ a stack of yams from Kitava, [ which left the dinghy with )ut an inch and a half of free ird, Charley was rowed ashore 1 greeted by Ernie Morrison. They re old cronies, these two, and ired countless happy memories.

What’s wrong with that old sllback that he didn’t step off and i me for a minute?” demanded rrison indignantly as they walked ’ough the coconuts towards his ise.

Well, you know the reputation ir parties have, Ernie,” answered arley, “and the Old Man has to his ship back to port sometime s week.” dorrison snorted wrathfully, but I not pursue the subject. >oon the couple were swapping ■ns over a glass of beer and wax ■ hilarious.

Suddenly the houseboy appeared, nibada and new Taubada ’e ne along Mission launch,” he an mced and, even as he spoke, a man’s voice hailed them from leath the front verandah.

Come in, come in!” cried Morri

son hospitably, springing to his feet.

“I’ve brought you a visitor,” said the young lady, entering the huge lounge. “I’m afraid he’s finding our Mission rather dull. I’ve got to cross the Passage, but I’ll call in for him on my way back. Mr. Morrison, meet Mr. Kane.”

Kane bowed. Then, “If Mr.

Morrison will have me for a day or two I won’t trouble you to call in for me,” he said, heavily.

“Why, surely, stay as long as you like,” said Morrison.

Sebula was well known through out the Group as “open house,” and so it was arranged.

As soon as the men were alone, Morrison turned to introduce Kane to Charley but the latter forestalled him. “Kane and I are old ship mates, aren’t we?” he said, meet ing Kane’s hostile glower with a sardonic grin.

“In that case,” said their host,

reaching for another bottle, “let’s waste no more time.’’ * * * SOME hours (and bottles of beer) later, the tension had eased.

Kane, the unaccustomed, was approaching the maudlin stage; the others showed no ill-effects and listened to him indulgently. ‘All my adult life,” Kane said, “I’ve been cursed with this infernal baldness.” He passed his hand rue fully over his white, naked head.

“Tush!” said Morrison, “Baldness is nothing—nearly everybody’s bald to some extent—men, anyhow. Why, plenty fellows like being bald!

Listen to this—”

He crossed to his desk and, after rummaging, produced a large scrap book. Opening it, he quoted: “ ‘For the third year in succession, Shunji Kida, a bean-curd seller, won the prize for the most handsome, naked and shining bald head at the ancient competition conducted during the honourable plum-blossom season at the Johoji Temple.

“ ‘He beat an impressive field of 40 billiard-ball-headed contestants.

“‘The modest Kida-san attributes his success to the polishing pro perties of bean curd with which he regularly anoints and massages his glistening scalp.’—You see?” con cluded Morrison. (Over)

"I've brought you a visitor.. ."

“Some Kida all right!” Charley commented.

Kane glanced up sharply, but de cided to let it pass.

“I’d gladly go to Japan and bury my head in a bucket of bean curd, whatever that is, for a month if it would make my head hairy, but only a fool would want to polish his head,” he said, and added: “I’ve noticed that the natives hereabouts don’t seem to go bald, and both you fellows are well thatched. I’ve been wondering if there’s any native remedy for the disease?”

“Can’t say I ever heard of any,” said Morrison, looking hard at Charley, “but I’ll ask my old cook.

He had a bit of a reputation as a witch-doctor before he took to con cocting lethal brews in my kitchen.

I’ll go ask him if you like.”

“Would you?” said Kane eagerly, “I’d be no end obliged if you would —l’ll pay him well.”

MORRISON went to the kitchen.

Returning, he said; “Yes, old Saram says he’ll try a magic brew when he goes home to his village to-night. The old fellow says he uses it himself and claims it will grow hair on a bird’s egg. He’ll bring it in the morning.”

Dawn found the three men sip ping tea on the verandah. Kane, despite a severe hangover, was im patiently awaiting the arrival of the old cook-boy.

“I wouldn’t bank too much on this remedy,” cautioned Morrison, feeling, perhaps, some twinge of re morse. “Most of these native con coctions are worse than useless.”

“I’ll try anything once,” said Kane, “anything."

But even he blanched when he saw the noisome mess that the grin ning houseboy presently brought in a large wooden bowl. It was a black, oleaginous, treacle-like mix ture from which a foetid, shimmer ing vapour arose.

“Is that the remedy?” he faltered, while Charley guffawed heartlessly.

Morrison spoke rapidly in the local dialect to the houseboy, who nodded, smiled and answered at some length and with great en thusiasm.

“That’s it,” said Morrison finally.

“Saram claims it is the stuff he uses on himself on his off-duty days. It takes from sun-up till sundown to work.”

“All right,” said Kane, “I’ll give it a go! How does one apply the stuff?”

“You’ve heard the old song?”

Charley interjected, and in a rusty bass he carolled: “Oh, the elephant is a peculiar bird, Buries his beak in the sand ”

He completed the bright little ditty. Then: “That’s what you’ve got to do: plunge your head into the bowl and keep it there till sun down.”

“Very well,” said Kane after some hesitation, “I’ll do it if it kills me.”

He took hold of the basin rim, bent over it and was about to dip his shining skull in the revolting mixture when a thought occurred to him.

“By the way,” he said, “where is this cookboy? Let’s have a look at him.”

“Certainly,” said Morrison briskly.

Then, raising his voice, “Saram,” he called, “come in here.”

SARAM must have been awaiting the summons, for he appeared in the doorway as if by magic, a smile splitting his head in two.

Kane glanced up and his eyes seemed to start from his head. With a shout of fury he sprang to his feet and hurled the bowl, remedy and all, at the cook’s head —but Saram wasn’t there.

Saram was as bald as a condor — the only bald native in the Passage! * ❖ * It took the best part of the day and a lot more beer to restore some semblance of tranquility to the scene but at last this was accom plished and the three white men sat watching the sunset over a whisky and water.

“It comes to me” said Charley presently “that last time I was in Sydney, I heard a man describe an infallible cure for baldness.”

Kane eyed him suspiciously but said nothing.

“I remember the fellah called it ‘the salt remedy,’ ” continued Charley.

“Ah!” said Kane, interested de spite himself, “the only remedy I haven’t tried.”

“It seems that all you’ve got to do is grab a handful of common salt and rub that into the hairless scalp for half an hour before re tiring at night.

“You’ve got to persevere, of course, and rub the salt in every night for three weeks during which you are on no account to wash the head or let any moisture near it.”

Kane was all ears now.

“At the end of three weeks,”

Charley resumed, “you take a dish of clean, cold water. Bend over it, hold your head as close to it as you can without actually touching it.

You must not dip your head in— just wait ”

“Wait?” said Kane; “wait for what?”

“Wait for the hairs to come out for a drink,” replied Charles, “on account of they’ll be thirsty after all that salt.”

Kane sat rigid.

“That’s ri g h t,” supplemented Morrison, “but you forgot to men tion that he must have a mat* handy so that, as each hair creeps out for a sip, the mate can tie a. knot in it to keep it from ducking back into the skull.”

Like a man possessed, Kane leaped across the room, plucked a leg from the dining table and turned to slay

his tormentors, but they, agility truly amazing in mes their age and girth, were disapp ing among the coconuts.

Saram wasn't there.

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i C I F I c ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 19 5 5

Flying-Fish

p. 84

Tomato Caught 4[?] Flying-Fish

A T Manihiki atoll, in the North Cooks, where flying-fish are bigger news than atom bo the annual flying-fish net tt championships were held in September.

The ‘go” signal was given pm, and for the next hour a:i half the contestants plied racquet-shaped hand nets canoes off the reef.

Sharp on 9.30 p.m. fishing ce: and the judges took tally as canoes were beached.

Winner was Tamata, with: fish —believed to be an all-J record for the island. Runn©. was Faireka, with 256 fish.

All hands then adjourned fore feast which the catch providedb t International Civil Aviation i ganisation (ICAO) will mees Manila on October 27 to diii improved meteorological serr radio navigational aids, and . proved airports in the menr countries.

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OCTOBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

This Month’S New Reading

pp. 85-86

Ien New South Wales

Vs Very Young

[OGRAPHY of the richest kind, as full of plums as the best of English Christmas puddings, tes between the covers of M. H. s’s John Macarthur, the story of \ man who was, among other igs, the “founder of Australian imercial enterprise and of Aus ian political agitation.” ne hundred and fifty years ago [year, John Macarthur convinced Privy Council in London that destiny of New South Wales was nd up with wool, and in the I year he brought the first pure inos to Australia. jio years earlier he had written: ne of the most eminent manu- Erers of woollen cloth in Eng fsaw by accident some speci is of wool I had raised in New th Wales. . . so fine that it in ;d them to find me out and b particular inquiries how and fhat manner it was raised.” id from 1803 this astonishing [persisted in growing his sheep [‘Spanish wool” while others [ theirs for mutton, it the story starts long before [ because “at some distant period istory there lived in Argyllshire the side of Loch Awe a clan m as Clann Artair, whose mem ; modestly claimed to derive I Smeivic Mhor, a son of King lur of the Round Table. . .” i this as background, John arthur was born in 1767. [1790, with a delicate wife and g baby son, he sailed from and for Port Jackson with the nd Fleet, in what was to be an t months’ voyage of almost un

dated horror.

f. Ellis gives a living picture of first two decades of Sydney’s while launching the main part he book, which is in effect a ipioning of Macarthur against letractors. it it all comes, including, of se, the Rum Rebellion and the sing of Governor ( ex-Bounty ) i in 1808. te arrest of Macarthur on i’s order sparked off the re in, and Mr. Ellis emphasises Macarthur “is held up by a section of historians as the ed antithesis of the virtuous i. . . as having caused the with al of every Governor between ip and Macquarie.” This at le, declares the biographer, is mstrably untrue, e (Macarthur) is accounted the rum trader of the early days ew South Wales, but there is evidence of his commerce in r than of that of any prominent Jn of his time. . . • no doubt earned him little

credit with his fellows that in a loose age his was the first stable home in Australia; that the roof of Elizabeth Farm sheltered a wife legally wedded and a family living the life of an ordinary English domestic menage in the midst of a community in which nearly the whole of the rest of the ruling class, civil and military, lived squalidly with concubines.”

At all events, when Macarthur died in 1834 at the age of 67, no tribute was paid to him in the Colony whose prosperity he had virtually founded.

But if he has waited long for a defender, he has it now in a biographer who has assembled the facts, both prosaic and stormy, and has woven them into a gorgeous tapestry. (Published by Angus and Robertson, Sydney. Australian price, 50/-.)

The Gentle Art Of

Looking Back

PRECISELY how much of Ruth Park’s Pink Flannel is auto biographical is not made clear in the book, but, one way and another, it is obvious that if Jenny Hood was the early edition of Ruth Park she must have been a handful for four young and charming maiden aunts to adopt.

In the opening stages of the story, Jenny shows an alarming tendency to be very whimsical indeed, but by the time Aunt Louisa reprehensibly falls in love with the Pig Man (an enterprising young farmer), things have settled down to an entertain ing and wistfully reminiscent level.

The setting is a New Zealand country town called “Te Kano” (obviously Te Kuiti), in the King- Country. The time is the 1920’5, when skirts were above the knees, waists were round the hips and bosoms were practically non-existent.

Miss Park makes no pretence of writing a really great novel of New Zealand life (nobody has yet achieved that feat), but she presents a diverting picture of the conven tions, antics and snobberies of a little colonial community living on what was once a Maori frontier.

Perhaps the strongest feature of the book is its remarkably fair and true handling of Maori characters.

The author takes a strong tilt at the too-common New Zealand de lusion that there is no fundamental race-discrimination in the Dominion, and once or twice, with every justi fication, she lets herself go on the stupid and perhaps unintentional cruelty that rises from ignorant prejudice.

The most moving episode in the book occurs when pretty, poised Aunt Ailie, aged only 17, and a 20-

years-old educated Maori, Do»ald Hana, decide on marriage.

Aunt Barbara, the eldest of the four sisters, appeals to the boy’s cultured father, who says: “I am as concerned as you are about this un

fortunate happening. . . You know

as well as I do the consequence of a marriage between Maori and pakeha. . . Your sister would be out cast by her own people, and not accepted by mine without hurtful comment. My son, for whom I have planned so much, would be ruined.”

Ruined? The word gives Aunt Barbara something to think about as she sits, shy and distressed, be fore the stately figure of the man whose son comes under the ban of “colour” or “caste” or something.

Ailie and Donald elope, get married and fade tantalisingly out of the story. The author gives no inkling about the outcome of the “mixed” marriage. It could have been a triumph (that does happen sometimes) or a disaster.

The title of the book comes from a pink flannel petticoat inflicted on the small Jenny at the start, which she outgrows at the end.

Admirable illustrations are con tributed by Phil Taylor. (Published by Angus and Robertson, Sydney. Australian price, 16/-.)

D Arcy Niland’S First

Published Novel

IN the same month as Ruth Park’s Pink Flannel, her husband’s first published novel, The Shiralee, appears, thereby illustrating what has been termed “an astonishing example of married genius.”

The shiralee (defined as a swag man’s bundle) in this case is Buster, the four-years-old daughter of the central character, the itinerant Macauley.

A consummate stylist, Mr. Niland has produced the best story about Australians that has come to light for many years. His character drawing is superb, and his crafts manship takes some of his prose close to the borderline of poetry.

What is more, in an age of slovenly writing, D’Arcy Niland provides an object lesson in the choice and correct use of words.

Of Macauley and Buster it is said: “They’ll tell you that he took that child from the city when it was only three and a half, and went into the backblocks, and carried it on his shoulder, under his arm in a sugar bag.” The story of the two is told with subtle conciseness against a background of small towns and their inhabitants—storekeepers, stock and station agents, publicans, butchers and so on—stations, shearing-sheds, work-camps, gaols and endless, dusty roads.

Such a theme and such a back ground might slither with fatal ease into sentimentality and bathos, but

at no point does the author’s grip relax.

The Shiralee is an example of what happens when a brilliant writer deals with subjects he under stands intensively. • Published by Angus and Robertson, Sydney. Australian price, 16/-.)

Inside View Of The

Palace

TWENTY years ago, in the reign of King George V, Queen Mary often went on what might be called rummaging tours of London shops. At once stately, gracious and reserved, the Queen was revered as a symbol of all that was best in the vanished Victorian age, yet she moved among the people of Britain •with an astonishing lack of pomp and-circumstance.

To-day Queen Elizabeth II can do nothing of the kind. Nor can the Queen Mother or Princess Margaret. The artificial barriers between the Royal Family and the people have all but disappeared, which is a good thing; but at the same time a feverish public interest in every act, every expression and every gesture of Royalty has become an overwhelming obsession which, at times, must be rather a terrible thing for Royalty.

This is one of the incidental im plications made by Phyl Hopkins in Village Royal, a charmingly written survey of her 30 years in the Buckingham Palace “com munity.”

Mrs. Hopkins starts her record in 1920, when she was a pig -tailed schoolgirl. She became the wife of Major George Hopkins, CBE, MVO, MC, who, for 24 years, was Super intendent of the Royal Mews. Major Hopkins retired recently, after achieving his greatest professional triumph by his stern attention to the countless details essential to the unrivalled pageantry of'the Corona tion on June 2, 1953.

Mrs. Hopkins uses no fairy-tale devices. Her sense of humour pre vents her from falling into the traps that beset most writers concerned with living Royalty. She is no fulsome flatterer, and she does not write about Royal children with coy fatuity.

The climax of her record comes towards the end, when she tells how, for a solid hour, while virtually the whole world was looking to London on Coronation morning, the fabul ous procession moved literally with in inches of disaster.

Twenty minutes before the Gold Coach was due at the Palace to re ceive the Queen and her husband, it was discovered that two large harness buckles had come back from the cleaners fastened to the leather back to front. And through those buckles passed the trace which linked all the eight horses.

Only a handful of men knew of

the crisis, and to them the Abbey seemed a thousand miles away. At any moment the worst could have happened. Even if the horses had started prancing when the continu ous roar of cheering rose to deafen ing peaks of sound, it might have caused the gorgeous Gold Coach to come to a standstill.

But the buckles held. Everything was put right during the Corona tion ceremony, and if Major Hopkins’s sigh of relief wasn’t broadcast and televised it should have been. (Published by Angus and Robertson, Sydney. Australian price, 17/6.)

The Fisherman’S

Story

POET, novelist, dramatist and lawyer, Dr. Kurt Frieberger has achieved the feat of telling the story of Simon Peter, the fisherman who became a key figure in the drama of the early years of the Christian faith, as a narrative in the form of a novel.

The book was first published at Vienna last year with the distinc tion of being the first novel ever dedicated by permission to a Pope.

There is little basis for a com parison with romances which have touched on the same subject in one form or another, notably Quo Vadis? (the Sienkiewicz novel, not the Hollywood travesty). Where other tales have been built largely on a glittering reconstruction —of varying degrees of accuracy—of the spectacle of pagan Rome under the first impact of Christian beliefs and teachings, Simon Peter the Fisher man holds rigidly to a lofty ideal of presentation.

For all that, the book has ample colour and movement to attract the interest of more than the scholarly and the strictly devout. (Published by William Heinemann, London. Australian price, 18/9.)

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TO quote from the fore wok Alexander Spoehr, Direct'd Bishop Museum, Honolulu; : publication of Insects of Micro is the culmination of one oc most ambitious projects yet ui taken in the zoology of the P= area. The project involves the; of many specialists, and the. operation of numerous institu and agencies, both private andE ernmental.”

We have received the first; volumes of this work. Cleau will run to a good many volumn the time it is completed. The which includes the American Territory, Guam, the Bon Volcano, Marcus. Wake, N!

Ocean, and the Gilbert Islands] been covered by many differen vestigators, whose reports wi published as received.

Volume I is an introductioc J. Linsley Gressitt which in is a 257-page up-to-date refes book on the area. It contains : detailed maps, photographs, as discussion of the geology, climate, flora, and fauna.

There is a useful gazetee islands and places, giving alternative names and spellings the spellings which are now standardised in new maps o;c area, with exact geographical tions of every place listed, ini tude and longitude. There is a good general bibliography of; lished works on these islands..

Volume 2 is simply a bibliogn of technical data dealing witH area, and is not of general inti Subsequent volumes will pre ably be of scientific interest in. main, but Volume I is a refee work for every Pacific bookslh No price is shown. The BS Museum, Honolulu, is the publi t The Norwegian expedition v is to make scientific studie Easter Island sailed from Osk September 15. The leader, (Kon-Tiki) Heyerdahl, was too the expedition at Panama making arrangements in ChileJ t A Hawaiian “village,” corrr with “Polynesian flavour” and swimming pools, was opener Waikiki Beach in late Sept© with accommodation for 180 gj One of the swimming pools ca; covered with transparent floo for dancing, t Tenders for the Suva and Lari wharf schemes will be called : March, and the combined prc should be completed in four from the placing of the conr said a Fiji Government states on September 20.

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Thirty years after the Mau unrest in We[?] Samoa, this trading store in Vaimoso vi[?] near Apia, still serves as a reminder o[?] movement.

The Nelson and Tamasese families have [?] been linked by marriage, and the p[?] Tamasese is one of the two "fautua" — Chiefs with authority recognised by the Govern ment —recommended by the Constitutional [?] vention to be Joint Heads of State Western Samoa eventually achieves government.

Formerly the headquarters of the Mau [?] ment, this building still bears the [?] rallying-cry "Samoa mo Samoa" (Samoans the Samoans) on the freshly-painted sign [?] the door. —Photo by Jack Thon[?]

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EVERY year a French nsi vessel on the South Pao station makes a pilgrimage the scene of the massacre of h men of the 1787 La Perouse expc tion at Asu (or Massacre) Bay/ the north coast of Tutuila, East?

Samoa.

This year an interesting tradii was brought to light when C»( mandant Servent and men of sloop Tiare made the visit in S tember.

The massacre was due to a n understanding, and ever since people of Asu village have carefl tended the graves and monurrr erected there. This time, in acco; ance with a tradition that French Navy shall find him in Eu[ pean clothing, the chief of made a request that his tattea French naval officer’s coat and . be replaced.

Commandant Servent gave assurance that this would J arranged.

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IHE San Francisco firm of Atkins, I Kroll and Co., which has for iyears handled the marketing of stern Samoan copra, has been isen to perform the same function • the American Trust Territory of cronesia, according to the Micro win Monthly, Guam.

Jntil the end of 1954, a Govern nt organisation similar to the HC Trade Scheme, and known as and Trading Co., provided all ipping and marketing facilities, eir assets—shipping and stores inly—were apparently taken over local co-operative societies in the ind groups of Micronesia, and tins, Kroll and Co. was selected m five United States firms which idered to provide copra market

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’he company has been in business Guam since the early 1900’s. l icronesian Monthly says that I Copra Stabilisation Fund will ain the same functions as in the it. Atkins, Kroll and Co. will re te a percentage of the gross pro \ The amount left after deduct [the selling expenses will be re led in the Stabilisation Fund.

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Matson-oceanic Lines of san Francisco has announced that its two new trans-Pacific liners, expected to be in service by late 1956, will take the names of the pre war liners, Mariposa and Monterey.

Like the post-war British Orient Line vessels, they will be fitted with retractible stabilising fins to reduce rolling. t Due to heavy accumulations of airmail and passengers on the route, Air France is increasing its Paris- Brisbane-Noumea service to two flights a month from October.

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Tropical Climate

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[?]Ultry In The Islands

[?]ecial Problems of [?]ick-Raising Tropical Climate

By R. F. Rankin

yr anyone interested, in poultry vonld he hard to find a more \fying or profitable hobby I breeding one's own stock. If moultry-keeper in the tropics is void the annual expense of im ing chickens it is essential that hould understand enough of the ciples of breeding to ensure that I chickens he raises will be of the Ward he desires. is much easier to ruin a strain ban to improve it, and if the rould-be breeder relaxes and es nature to work unguided he iviting disaster. fture has no place for the high being, pure-bred hen, and F a few generations of haphazard fling, the once well-formed [producer will more nearly re )le her scraggy ancestors from Bungles of Malaya, lere are two sets of influences :h counteract the law that like bees like and which cause dif ices to appear in each succeed generation.

The first of these is atavism, or throwing back. Offspring sometimes show characteristics which appear in neither of the parents but which perhaps reflect back to remote ancestors. The only thing to do to prevent a recurrence of this is never to use birds for breeding if they show any undesirable traits which are alien to that breed as it is to day.

THE second factor counteracting like-produces-like is “prepot ency.” Some fowls have the power of transmitting to their off

spring in a marked degree certain of their own qualities. This power is known as prepotency and it is only consistently found after long years of careful breeding.

It is this sustaining and passing on of desirable traits that makes the pure-bred bird so superior. For in the pure-bred fowl offspring will more nearly resemble parents if mated wdth care.

It is obvious that the quality of prepotency is especially important in the male, for he can pass it on through ten or a dozen breeding

Bedraggled appear ante does not detract from a hen's value as a breeder. It must have a good shape and be vigorous and healthy. —Photo by R. F.

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hens in the one pen. But apart from his sexual vigour a more fundamental reason makes the rooster more important than the hen in matters of breeding.

Differences in egg laying ability are inherited. However, whereas a high producing hen will not neces sarily have high producing daughters, mediocre and poor laying ability will be passed on. High pro duction is passed on from a hen through her sons. In other words, if you wish to breed for high pro duction you must use a rooster bred from a high producing hen.

ONE more factor affects the hen between chicken and laying stage and that is environment.

You may have chickens of the best possible strain and yet they may turn out to be profitless layers.

This sad state of affairs might be solely the result of mismanagement —improper care, housing and feed ing.

A jungle fowl in a few generations of good management and feeding will show a remarkable increase in egg production. A pure-bred fowl will degenerate just as remarkably if not given the right treatment.

The first necessity in breeding is to establish a standard. Decide upon what breed you will concentrate and determine what qualities you will aim for.

Hens are divided into light and

heavy breeds. The heavy breeds such as Orpingtons, Australorps and Rhode Island Reds are generally dual purpose—they are reasonably good layers and make good eating.

The light breeds such as leghorns are kept mainly for their high egg production. Naturally they are just

as edible, but there is not so n of them.

Personally, I favour white horns but in the tropics they to have a breeding drawback w I shall mention later.

Having decided on the be study it thoroughly so that youj

tect all the good qualities and nits in any bird of that breed. [HERE is one drawback as re- Fgards breeding which hens, I especially leghorns, seem to ler from in the tropics. [ii colder climates most hens have annual summer moult, when they e old feathers and have a spell ,m laying. This spell enables jm to build up their constitution tnext season’s laying. Without i spell egg size and shape is in led to deteriorate, t has been my experience, mainly ,h leghorns, that in the tropics is keep on laying without rest, in acquaintance of mine had aewhat the same experience with s in the tropics. t is essential that breeding eggs [of a good uniform size and ipe. f egg quality has deteriorated be ise of this sustained laying, the rious solution is to get eggs for eding before deterioration sets in e., in the first season of laying, you start breeding at 12 months I approximate weights of white torn pullets should be 4 lb. and jsters 5 lb. Australorps and Rhode md Reds should be a pound or

[ heavier.

here are three methods of breed i pure-bred fowls. They are »wn as in-breeding, line-breeding I out-crossing. [-BREEDING means the mating |of birds that are closely related over a number of generations. ► objects or in-breeding are to ire the best qualities and formity as quickly as possible, bust not be carried too far or it [ result in loss of vigour and eral deterioration. However, if wish to perfect a strain of your i you must start with in-breed and then proceed with line- Jding. ine-breeding is also the mating birds of close relationship, but y are mated with the definite . of emphasising the qualities of ancestor. ! you have a particularly good ster, you will mate sire and ghter to increase the proportion the rooster’s blood or qualities the subsequent generation, lilarly, you can mate mother and or any other mixture calculated ncrease the blood of a particular estor. he longer line-breeding is carried and the greater the proportion the blood of the original estor in the flock, then the >nger will be the tendency to duce the ancestor’s qualities, onsistent line-breeding brings us er to “like produces like,” and vided we have established good lities this achieves the aim of breeder of pure-bred poultry, ►ut -crossing means mating your

hens with a rooster of the same breed but no relation whatever. The addition of outside blood often greatly improves the flock but, of course, there is always the posi sibility of the reverse happening.

The new rooster should be tried out on a few hens to see that his progeny are what you desire. If so he should be kept as long as he is useful.

THERE remain only two more terms with which the breeder or purchaser of poultry may come into contact. They are single mating and double mating.

Single mating is the ordinary mating of a pen of hens and roosters in an effort to produce chickens with the most desirable qualities.

Both hens and roosters are selected with the utmost care, the weak nesses of one being counterbalanced

by the strong points of the other.

Double mating consists of mat ing one pen to produce desired male qualities and another to produce de sired female qualities. This will not attract the backyard farmer, but it provides an absorbing hobby for those who have the time and money to explore the intricacies of breed ing.

The main idea behind double mating is to achieve standards de manded of show birds. It is un fortunately true that even in poultry beauty and utility do not go always hand in hand. f Mr. A. M. Wilkie, Assistant Financial Secretary, Kenya, who has been seconded as Development Secretary, Western Pacific High Commission, assumed duty at Honiara in September.

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(CLANESIA’S “Sailor Bishop" [(the Rt. Rev. A. T. Hill) I arrived at Sydney from London 1 in September with plans to tenders for the construction of 100-tons Southern Cross VIII. le bishop’s visit to Britain was ie mainly to raise funds for the ship, which, complete with the ury-old Anglican Mission name, replace Southern Cross VII, ; at Sydney and at the end of days. 15-tons schooner will also be jht to carry schoolchildren be ar islands and to transport *s. shop Hill told newspaper inter rers that between 30,000 and )0 of Melanesia’s 100,000 people Anglicans, and their church is g raised towards independence, mesians now occupy many im ant positions in the Church as as in other walks of life, le Melanesian Mission has tys been strongly linked with £he lican Church of New Zealand.

t New British-made luxury buses are appearing in the Suva streets.

Two of the newcomers are used mainly for tourist transport round Viti Levu. Two others —not quite so luxurious —are on Suva suburban runs. t The Fiji Agriculture Department, in co-operation with Cadbury of England, is striving to produce the type of cocoa most suitable for milk

chocolate. With samples of chocolate made from Fiji-grown cocoa, Cad burys send to Suva reports on flavour qualities.

H Mr. R. H. Lester has retired from the Government service in Fiji after 27 years. An authority on the Fijian language and customs, Mr.

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Island - bound travellers from Sydney in September included: (1) Mr. and Mrs. J. Raphard, who were married at Sydney and re [?]o Vila by the "Polynesie". (2) Mme. H. Harbulot, after holidaying with friends at Sydney, returned to Noumea. (3) Mr. and Mrs.

Stephens and Catherine, aboard homew ard-bound for Maewo Island, prides, after a lucky Sydney vacation, Stephens won second prize in a lottery. [?]L. Wright passed through Sydney to BPC vessel at Melbourne, bound for where he was to take up an appoint- Officer in Charge, Nauru Radio.

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P Happened In This Month:

fctober, 1804, ushered in the E tragic incident of the first re led sandalwood expedition ever ail from Australia. ie brig Union, Captain Pendle i arrived off Tongatabu on jember 30 from Sydney, having ed up eleven sandalwood cutters Jorfolk Island. Next morning, >ber 1, a man described as a iy came off to the ship in a ie. From hi m the captain aed that there was plenty of [alwood on the island, so cap [ supercargo, and six men ed. Large numbers of Tongans e out to the ship displaying $ friendliness and seeking to d but the mate, Mr. Daniel [ht, left in charge, was cautious.

Ie were dangerous days in the ids. He would not permit jlers. His suspicions were ler heightened when the shore y failed to return at night ixt morning the Malay again rned with a verbal message [ the captain to send a large j ashore to join him. As the kge was verbal the mate would accept it. lat afternoon, to the astonish \ of all, a European woman was

brought out in a canoe. She, too from a distance, urged the crew to come ashore, but refused to answer questions in regard to herself and the wherefore of her being on the island. Again the following day the woman was brought out by a party of Tongans, but this time it was clear that she was acting under duress, and the worst fears were confirmed when she suddenly screamed that the shore party had all been murdered, as she plunged from the canoe. To prevent her recapture the crew opened fire on the Tongan canoes, which withdrew.

The woman proved to be Eliza beth Morey, who with a negro servant had been spared in an at tack on the Duke of Portland two years earlier. She had since lived as the “guest” of a Tongan chief.

The Union sailed immediately for Sydney, arriving back with the tragic news on October 25. Little then did all hands realise that the ill-luck which October had ushered in, was to be something far worse before the end of November.

The brig sailed again a week or so later, in late November she was wrecked on Koro Island, Fiji, and every man aboard was slaughtered by the local people. So ended the first tragic sandalwood expedition.

Report for 1954, recently published, shows a slight decline in the total number and tonnage of vessels registered with the Fiji Marine Board last year. The number fell f rom 96 to 91 vessels, and the ton nage f rom 3,712 to 3,382. The fleet wa s made up of 49 motor vessels, 28 auxiliaries, 9 barges, 3 sailing craft, and 2 steamers. Of these, 49 were owned by European organisa tions, 13 by the Fiji Government, 7 b y Fijians, and 22 by others-mainly Indians. Largest vessel was Burns Philp & Co.’s MV Yanawai, 434-GT.

The foregoing refers only to vessels trading within the Fijis. There are other vessels registered in Suva, such as the 3,875-GT Suva operat ing on the trans-Paciflc service for Pacific Shipowners Ltd. (subsidiary of W. R. Carpenter & Co.),

For Eastern Samoa:—Mr.

‘Bill ’ Steffany, owner of the well known small vessel Samoa, which has operated a cargo and passenger

service between Pago Pago and Apia for many years, is adding to his fleet. He has purchased a con verted US Army APC fishing vessel named Isabel Rose, in California.

Captain Bob Payes and engineer Jim Sword, of the E. Samoa Gov ernment vessel Manu’a Tele were to fly north in September to deliver the ship. It is understood that Isabel Rose will take over the Pago Pago-Apia service, after she has been prepared for the passenger trade, and Samoa will operate on the Pago Pago-Manu’a Islands run.

WRECK SOLD:—The 300-tonner Rannah, high and almost dry on the shore reef off Avarua, Rarotonga, since last November 16, has been sold to Wells Brothers, of Pelorus Sound, New Zealand. It was in tended that a salvage party would leave for Rarotonga in September, but arrangements for the salvage launch failed and Mr. F. A. Wells was expected by air. It is not known whether the purchasers hope to refloat the vessel or will dis mantle her. Rannah, built in Tas mania in 1944, is a wooden, standard type vessel similar to a number in the New Guinea trade. She has a refrigerated hold. She was pur chased from New Zealand owners by Mr. D. C. Brown, of Rarotonga, in mid-1953, and registered in Suva.

Following the wreck she became the property of the insurance company, who advertised her for sale on the reef early this year.

REDEPLOYMENT: —Three vessels on the Fiji Register were trans ferred elsewhere in September, one

towing the others. The towing craft was BP’s 126-GT wooden auxiliary single-screw ketch Moala, built by Whippy’s, of Suva, in 1947.

Measuring 835 ft x 22 ft x 75 ft and powered by a 120-hp Crossley diesel, she was one of a number of almost identical craft built by Whippys at about that time. Moala and Adi Gaetane, 11 -GT auxiliary cutter, were being transferred to BP’s New Hebrides Branch, Moala no doubt being freed by the recent purchase

of Vasu for the Fiji trade.

Gaetane was built by Sakhr Levuka, in 1948, measures 36 i 12 ft x 3.7 ft and has a Sin petrol motor.

Also in the tow was the Vavf Oil Co.’s powered oil lighter Fraser, 102-GT. This barge shipped to Suva from Sydne several pieces in mid-1953. W\ together there she entered se as the F-16, operating between the new Vunda Pt. oil terminal

idi Airport. She measures 68 ft j ft x 10 ft, has a capacity of X) gallons in four tanks, and is ered with a pair of 118-hp cules petrol motors. She is now erve on the New Caledonia coast he result of expanding business e. A land pipeline has taken * her Fiji duties. oala, partly aided by the engines ;he lighter, completed the de yto Noumea in 82 days. Adi tane dropped out of the con in the New Hebrides 5 days of Suva.

Oniu In Trouble:—With A

of copra from Niuafoou for ualofa aboard, Tonga Copra ketch A’oniu turned up at 1 early October, ten days from 1 Can Island”. igine bearings had seized, and r setting sail for Nukualofa, rary winds forced Captain Te- Fifita to lay a new course—for pair shop.

A. L V A G E.:— Henrietta, New idonia coaster mentioned last th as wrecked, has yielded up a j percentage of her cargo of

Dleum products, though the

?1 is unlikely to be salvaged, rding to a Noumea corre dent.

IJUVENATED; — Havannah, 205- Noumea vessel which has been Auckland on survey for some 1, cleared there again for her e port on September 9. She cargo for Norfolk Island en e.

)R Lord Howe;—Mr. Ces

Ison, of Auckland, lately skipper the Lord Howe vessel Flying d, is reported to have purchased Sydney fishing vessel Kingfish ugh the agency of Captain aedy for use in Lord Howe irs, mainly by tourists visiting popular resort.

BELL:—It is not often that lip’s bell falls to Davy Jones’ :er without the ship, and even common for it to be recovered, in this case it was only the Locker. It appears that at it one bell in the forenoon :h recently, as the NZGS Maui are's major refit proceeded at tern Viaduct wharf, Auckland,

Left "Henriette", Le Dinh Cao's 48-ton coaster, lost on a New Caledonia reef in August. (Photo by Robert Laubreaux). Right: "Rannah", old as she lies on the reef off Avarua, Rarotonga. (Photo by Ronald Powell).

hip’s bell, being passed ashore easons unknown, slipped from jer’s hands and plunged to the lur bottom. But not for long, iding Auckland frogman, Mr. r. Subritzky (of an old NZ ing family, incidentally) was ht to the scene and located the in quick time, thus ending ly another interesting chapter mi Pomare’s chequered history.

LIVERED: The handsome sturdy two-masted schooner line, 66 *ft x 151 ft x 81 ft., ioned elsewhere in September was delivered to Mr. Jack ston, of Rabaul, in September. line was built in 1936 by W. L.

Holmes & Co., of Sydney. She is planked with 2-inch Kauri and powered with a 120-hp Atlas diesel.

The sale was arranged by Sydney ship-broker Captain Kennedy.

Unknown Vlsltors:—Re

ferring to a call made by the Ger man raider Atlantis at Vanavana atoll, Tuamotus, during World War 11, as mentioned last month, Cap tain Nicholas, owner of the atoll, has comment. The local natives, he says, told him that they had seen a lifeboat pulling back to a ship but had not made contact with the Germans. The people were making copra on another islet across the lagoon at the time of the raider’s

visit, and it was not known that the ship had been a German raider.

Noumea Slipway:—The New

Public Works Department slipway at He Nou, Noumea, is now nearing completion and will be in service before the end of the year. It will accommodate vessels of up to 1,000

Left: Captain J. C. Radley, Marine Superintendent for the Seventh Day Adventist's fleet all craft stationed in the Western Pacific, on leave in Sydney in August. Right: The men slivered Mr. Oscar Newman's "Lakeleo" from Sydney to the New Hebrides late in August. from right is Captain Max Stanton, in command.

tons deadweight and will be a valuable addition to that port’s facilities.

Nautical School:—In The

matter of nautical training for local boys, Netherlands New Guinea is apparently ahead of most Pacific Territories. A nautical school at Hollandia is operating courses in navigation, nautical knowledge, and engineering and turning out boys at the rate of 60 per annum.

Practical instruction is given aboard an old pilot vessel.

MISSION FLEET:—Recently on leave in Sydney was Captain J. C.

Radley, of Rugen Harbour (Put Put), New Britain, Captain Radley is in charge of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission’s Western Pacific fleet of small craft. This fleet now consists of 45-ft launches stationed at Kavieng, Madang, Wewak, Buka, Kolombangara and Honiara, and 28-footers at Rugen Harbour, Manus, Malaita and Marovo Lagoon.

Captain R.adley was very well known as skipper of Ambon (since sold) at the time of the Japanese invasion of New Guinea.

HONIARA PORT;—Following re commendations made by two ex perts last year, the British Secretary of State has now given approval to the development of new port facilities at Honiara, British Solo mons. The work will be in three

stages. This first stage includes building a 270-ft wharf on the east side of Point Cruz to accommodate local craft and lighters. Depths alongside will slope from 10 ft up to 4 ft at the inner end. Steel sheet piles will be used. At the NE end a stub-jetty 25 ft wide will be extended to the 5-fathom line

to provide some shelter in thr season. There will be a las landing stage for passen Customs and cargo sheds wii erected just off the wharf, equipment to be provided wilt elude some 30 ft x 9 ft lighten 80-hp towing launch, two nr cranes, two tow-motors witl

ers. Stage-2 of the plan, not approved, will include moorings large vessels. Stage-3 depends flow important the mineral dis hes on Guadalcanal prove to Ls major port development would called for if the field proves [ The first stage is estimated jst £158,000 and will be financed »ly by the Protectorate’s share Japanese war assets. Work [ld start by mid-1956. tfG SLIPWAY:—The Nether s New Guinea Government has jnenced construction of a marine lay at Manokwari. Vessels of ;o 2,500 registered tons will be mmodated.

[Ng George Vi Memorial

HT; —A valuable new naviga il aid came into operation in British Solomons in August, need by public collection, as a lorial to the late King George the light is located near Cape ranee at the western end of ilalcanal. Mounted on a 30-ft ;e tower it has a visibility of dies at sea level. Characteristics three one-second white flashes, one second between flashes, wed by 15 seconds eclipse—the i thus completed three times minute.

Ustger To Navigation:

e Mr. R. Dethbridge, of the sh Solomons, was chugging I in his 40-ft launch Kusima itly between the islands of seul and Vella Lavella, six ; whales suddenly surfaced 25 way. A head-on collision was owly avoided as the whales laid orth-westerly course at about tots, throwing substantial bow is as they “steamed” away on surface.

Jrricane Warnings:

n this appears another hurri season will be in the offing a summary of the existing radio ling service voice broadcasts be topical. ,ndi Aeradio provides the most )rehensive service. Normally, station makes only one voice dcast per day, at 0915 GMT on kc/s, but once a hurricane has ed in the area from the mons east to the Cooks, and the equator south to Norfolk id and shows signs of moving > any island group, Nadi comes with the latest information ly GMT (e.g. 0030/0130 GMT, This station is best heard de the Fiji Group, there being rea of skip, especially at night, le Fiji Group is threatened the , broadcast station on 840/930/kc/s gives bulletins on each r hour until the danger has 3d. Suva Post Office on 4445 also gives bulletins to the local , and will provide the latest •mation on request. Ships call 073.9 kc/s.

For the New Hebrides area Vila gives routine broadcasts at 2115 GMT on 3450 kc/s, but when danger threatens, hourly bulletins are given on the hour or half-hour.

In the Cook Islands there are no routine weather broadcasts, but when a hurricane has formed local craft are kept advised at the regular shipping communications times of 0030, 1930, and if necessary 0730 GMT on 2012 kc/s. Ships calling an 2182 kc/s can obtain information on request. This year the Rarotonga broadcasting station on 5050 kc/s is also likely to be used for hourly bulletins when danger threatens. Nandi on 7530 kc/s is

usually readable in this area also, Samoa is rarely troubled by hurricanes. There is no routine voice shipping service from Apia, but the broadcasting station on 1420 kc/s gives a weather broadcast during the local news session at 0600 GMT and would, no doubt, be used for warning if required. Pago Pago keeps ship watch on 2182 kc/s, replying to calls on 2845 kc/s.

Weather available on request in hurricane conditions. Local low powered broadcasting station on 1120 kc/s would, no doubt, be used for local warnings if required, Tonga is occasionally hit by hurricanes. There is no broadcast

jation. Nandi serves this area on 7530 kc/s and Nukualofa ains ship watch on 2182 kc/s 1740-0940 GMT, with weather nation on request, answering 6 same frequency. ;he Solomons the broadcasting a on 1030 kc/s gives routine er broadcasts at 0745 GMT, o doubt more frequently when F threatens. On the shipping ncy of 5826 kc/s there are e broadcasts at 0400/2300 Monday to Friday, 2300 GMT turday. Hurricane warnings ;iven on every GMT hour ing an alert. Ships calling on )r 6280 kc/s weekdays 2100and 0300-0530 GMT (Sat. 100, Sun. 2100-2330 GMT) )btain weather on request— ra Radio on 5286 kc/s. Nadi 0 kc/s also serves this area.

Ng The Rounds:—The

1 naval patrol vessel Tiare re returned to Noumea from a nile Island cruise. As naval \ vessel based on Noumea for I years past, Tiare, an ex ric a n Yard Minesweeper I is now well known in most Pacific Island ports east of :a. The present cruise began iy, when Governor Hoffherr aken on an official visit to Next port was Suva, from the Governor flew back to

Noumea. Tiare had her annual sur vey at the Suva PWD Yard, then departed again for Futuna and Wallis and from there to Apia where a stay of four days was made.

Next port ( Was Pago Pago from whence the annual pilgrimage to the tomb of the La Perouse Expedi tion victims in Massacre Bay, Tutuila, took place. The ship again touched at Suva on the run back to Noumea, where she arrived on

September 4.

ELSIE-B LOSS:—After three weeks’ invesigations into the loss of the Port Moresby vessel Elsie-B, a marine court found that the probable cause of her foundering in the Gulf of Papua was through the vessel having been overwhelmed by following seas in heavy weather, due to excessive loading by the stern. It also found that three of the five native vrew were lacking in experience. The court censured a radio operator who had inter cepted the first distress call but had taken no action until a second dis tress call was made 16 minutes later.

The court found that the master was a competent seaman and that there was no proof of overloading.

Captain James I. Carlton and his crew of five natives were lost with the ship.

VITI RESUMES: —MV Viti, which suffered a major engine breakdown

in July, at the height of the Cook Islands tomato season when she was most needed in transporting the fruit to the New Zealand market, cleared Auckland again on Sep tember 24 to resume her stand-in duties until Maui Pomare is recom missioned.

French Visitors:—The 3,000-

ton French sloop Francis Gamier, formerly of the Italian Navy, was a visitor to Noumea in September.

With 9 officers and 160 men aboard the sloop arrived from Indo China on September 17, and was to leave with Governor Hoffherr on an official visit to New Zealand later in the month. From there she would sail for Papeete for further orders.

Also expected in South Pacific waters later this year is the 9,000ton training cruiser Jeanne d’Arc, accompanied by the sloop Grandiere.

Both have previously visited Island ports some years ago. Jeanne d’Arc has a complement of 27 officers and 550 men and can accommodate 120 student officers.

PERSONAL; —Captain A. R.

Peckham, recently in command of the new GEIC Te Matapula, has re signed. In September, he brought the Tuvalu south from Tarawa to Suva for refit. Also aboard was Captain G. Douglas, skipper of

Maureen prior to his recent fur lough, who will assume command of Tuvalu.

Station Commissioned:

Fiji Royal Naval Vounteers Re serve’s new station at Bay of Islands, Suva, was to be officially commissioned on October 21. On October 13, a 72-ft SDML was to leave Auckland manned by some of the reservists. North of Auckland she was to rendezvous with HMNZS Kaniere, which will sail from Bluff and escort the launch on the 1,140mile, 6-day passage to Suva. The SDML will be the flagship of the Unit, on loan from the RNZN. The name to be given to the Suva station was not known early Oc tober, but the commissioning would be attended by the NZ Chief of Naval Staff, Rear-Admiral J. E H Mcßeath, DSO, DSC, RN.

NEAR MlSSES:—French Oceania reports two recent near disasters.

On August 24 the 205-ton schooner Tagua, under Captain Salmon, was anchored and loading at Takoto atoll, Tuamotu, when a sudden squall caused her to drag, smashing her steering gear and stern post.

She made Papeete under jury rig.

On September 15 the new 83-ton Vaitaporo, manoeuvring while she loaded at Takapoto, Tuamotu, went onto the reef when her engine room telegraph failed to respond through mechanical trouble. The

false keel was lost and a hole punched in the hull below the en gmeroom before a radioed SOS brought the "52-ton Suzanne to drag her clear. Captain Henri Vemau don was cleared of blame at a marine inquiry later. Temporary repairs permitted Vaitaporo to reach Papeete slipway.

News of Cruising Ys

• GLORIA MARIS heads the roll this month. This staysail schoones x 21 ft. x 12 ft., registered in P<l has ust completed a scientific colleoi in Micronesia and is now refittingg Palau islands, in readiness foo expedition to Netherlands New Guin In an advertisement elsewhere in

ew are being sought. Our information indicate who the actual owners of uoner now are, but she was acquired ir at Newport Beach, Cal., and fitted her present duties by the well-known in Ernest Chamberlain and Bill Crea id chartered in February this year by jral Science Foundation of Philadelphia, ith a special winch for deep-sea dredg -1 sailed for Micronesia on Cruise No. 1. f passage was made to Honolulu, and ay passage from there on to Koror, rich the collection of marine molluscs :ed. This work was directed by Mr. fr Abbott, curator of molluscs at the I and Mr. A. J. Ostheimer 3rd, presi- F the Natural Science Foundation of ihia. Collection proved fruitful, some cies being obtained.

In expeditions the schooner is avail [any special charter work offering, r Chamberlain and Bill Crealock, illy, were foundation members of the Ocean Cruising Club.

PALOMA, on the reef at Maiao Island, Tahiti, was sold by owner William m in September to M. Henri Lambert Je for a reported sum of 30,000 Pacific EA2I4 approx.). Details appeared last ie French yacht MOANA and the i NORDLYS both cleared Papeete west- I mid-September, MOANA in continua a world under-sea-photography cruise. [ intended calling at Rarotonga, a port, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva, thence [Papeete by February.

IOENIX, the husky Japanese-built 50i which Dr. Earle Reynolds, his wife (children, and a crew of three Japanese (sing the world, cleared Rarotonga >r 1 for Samoa, Fiji, and New Zealand.

Holds is an American anthropologist [ Japanese crewmen are university I of Hiroshima. A stay of a week le at Rarotonga and the yacht arrived go September 8.

IKAYA, originally heading for the US ickland, has changed plans. Owner ayes cleared Suva in mid-August for ia Levuka. He then planned to head ■, the New Hebrides and make Cairns hurricane season. Hayes had two com on clearing Suva.

TILE BEAR, with "Buzz" and June i of San Francisco, called at Pago te August, and entered Suva mid ir. Next port would be Auckland, irhich no definite plans had been made.

HITI, "Tahiti"-type ketch, with Lorrin id Phillip Schroeder of Honolulu, was Pago September 5-23, then clearing and Suva.

PPY RETURN, converted ocean lifeboat, for New Zealand, reached Cristobal 7 and cleared the canal a few days Ikipper Tom Acland hopes to reach by early December.

IL ISOBEL, 50 ft. fishing launch, was Kilkeel, Ireland, for Russell, NZ, via in September. Owner George McDonell, ill, hopes to complete the cruise in ths.

CHARD & JOHN, another fishing boat d by a New Zealander, L. J. Highan orne, cleared Newlyn, Cornwall, in for New Zealand, touched Bermuda, ptember, and was to call at Kingston, Tahiti, Suva. With skipper Highan ie other New Zealanders, three Aus and a Dane. und for New Zealand, a 40 ft. cutter, jnknown, turned turtle in Tangier some time ago. The yacht had cleared fish port in May. With 64-year-old rter, of New Zealand, was an English f two girls. In August they were try hitch-hike back to England by first opportunity.

• BISSY GIRL, which cruised the Pacific in the mid-1930'5, cleared Sydney August 23 under new ownership, bound Barrier Reef, New Caledonia, and thence Auckland next year in time for the planned Auckland-Suva yacht race. • HORIZON, 40 ft. double-ender ketch of Sydney, sailed early August for Barrier Reef waters. Owners AAerv. and Barbara Cannon plan to head for New Zealand and probably the islands from there early next year. • DAYDREAM, another Sydney cruising yacht, is preparing to sail for New Zealand and per haps further afield soon. f • MARCO POLO, owned by New Zealander Tony Armit, now on a world cruise, was re ported recently at Rodriguez, Indian Ocean. • SARONG, Auckland-built ketch which sailed the Tasman some years ago, recently changed hands in Sydney and returned to Auckland.

The new owners may head her Islandwards at the end of the hurricane season.

• A 40 ft. ketch, name unKnown as yet, cleared the Hamble River, England, in July for Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Perth, Auckland, San Francisco and Panama. Aboard are English men Harry Erskine, Dick Denning, and Alex.

Mac Kay. She will no doubt show up in the Islands in due course, if all goes well. • Yachtsman-writer Edward Allcard, on his present world cruise, will sail via the Horn to New Zealand, Australia, and the Cape—so apparently will not be seen in the Islands. t The Cook Islands export of

mother-of-pearl shell, almost all

from Manihiki atoll, fell consider ably in the last financial year.

The quantity was 244 tons, com pared with 309, 301, 459, 313, and 288 tons in the respective preceding: years.

Advertisements & other items, pp. 103-115 (13 items)

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Warringah Marine Service

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We construct timber craft of all sizes from 16 feet to 120 feet.

Our 40 feet army-type workboats, are particularly popular and are ideal copra scows.

All enquiries promptly attended to. Ask your Sydney agent to call and inspect our work.

WRITE TO

Pictured above is the largest fibreglass launch yet constructed in Australia. Measuring 18 ft. 6 ins. she is shown in our photo on her trials in Sydney Harbour, where she gave an impressive performance before a large gathering of experienced smallships men.

Fibreglass launches are both sturdy and dependable but are above all MAINTENANCE-FREE. They are not affected by shell growth and can be left out of the water for long periods without any ill-effects. The craft above was specially constructed for the Catholic Mission, Madang, New Guinea. For further information please write to the manufacturers, Warringah Marine Service.

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THERE IS AN ELAC ECHO SOUNDER TO SUIT YOUR BOAT AND TYPE OF FISHING. Contact the National Instrument Company in your State for further information.

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M.V. “OLIVE J"

30 ft. raised deck fishing or cargo vessel. Built Sydney 1955, Gardener 3LW Engine, large cockpit, auxiliary sails "Marconi" rig. Fitted with 2-way radio and sailing dinghy. Particularly well built vessel and one of the best we have had on our books.

Both vessels are in first class order and carry our recommendation.

Photographs and Further Information on request.

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Speed 8 h Knots. 770 cu. ft. in Hold. 350 cu. ft. i:i Aft, Cabini This and othr types of vesse always undE construction.

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Petrole "Ampol"

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Confiserie Mclntosh, chocolat "Caley"

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Motocyclettes '"Royal Enfield"

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MARINE ENGINES

/e introduce the new RJD2 16

.P. MARINE DIESEL ENGINE

ssigned to replace the "Handy illy" which has been so successj| in the Pacific Islands for the 3st 25 years. Of exact dimenons as the "Handy Billy" the 2w diesel retains its famous naracteristics, also it includes eshwater cooling and all the ;atures desirable in an efficient 'opulsion unit for use in the □cific Islands.

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Accepted by Lloyds and M.O.T. ull specifications available on application to: w HORNYCROFT (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. »■>« ““ = p o Telephone: FF4224. Cables “Thornmotor,” Sydney. Sydney

CAPTAIN W. L. KENNEDY

(Established 1931.)

SHIPBROKERS, BUSINESS Cr REAL ESTATE

63 Pitt Street, Sydney.

’Phone: BU 3797. Cables: “CAPKEN,” Sydney.

LISTING:

MODERN S TEE L CARGO VESSEL.-Class 8.C.. Machinery aft, 660 tons dv l„ r ® e hatches > good lifting gear. £30,000 sterling.

TWIN DIESEL CARGO VESSEL.—About 380 tons dwt. on 8 ft 6 in Commonwealth Class. £15,000 Australian. ' NEW.—79 ft. x2O ft. 6 in. x 6 ft. twin diesel cargo vessel, ready pc launching and delivery. £17,500. y v NEW.-50 ft. x 16 ft. 6 in. x 4 ft. 6 in. cargo hull, accommodation aft, derrick etc., ready for installation of engine. £6,500, or builders will to finish to clients’ requirements.

NEW WORKBOAT. 50 ft. x 15 ft. x 5 ft., 4 cyl. G.M. Marine diesel 9 knots. Launched ready delivery. £9,500.

WORKBOAT.—About 38 ft. x 11 ft. 6 in., Gardner SLW Marine engines — n , engine aft, copper sheathed, in first class condition, good b?< X 11 ft- ’ 30 Hp - Lister diesel, 2/1 reduction, professioi DuiiL iyoj. x, WORKBOAT.—26 ft. x 9 ft. 6 in. x 3 ft. 6 in., 60 H.P. diesel, 4V 2 /1 redui professionally built 1953. £1,850.

We shall be pleased to obtain independent Surveys of any craft we offen subsequently arrange delivery either on ship’s deck or sea as desired.

/ffO/i/£L shafts g/ve/anger seme

Monel* shafts are renowned for their rugged strength, stiffness and freedom from whip. These characteristics are very important since a good, stiff shaft reduces vibration, transmits more power to propeller and thereby increases speed and efficiency. Of still greater importance is the fact that Monel retains these properties indefinitely, because Monel cannot rust and is not corroded by fresh or salt water. That is why a Monel shaft, stronger than others when new, is still in perfect condition after years of continuous service.

Further information on Monel propeller shafting will gladly he forwarded by: WRIGHT & COMPANY PTY. LTD., 81 Clarence St., Sydne: Sole Australian Distributors of Monel :: :: Phone: BXI2II (Six Lines •Monel Is a registered trade-mark covering a rich nickel alloy, mined in Canada and rolled in Great Britain.'

THE IDEAL REFRIGERATOR

MODEL 225

FOR SMALL SHIPS!

“Hardie & Spear” refrigerators are ideal for smallships, caravan or any type of mobile use.

The specially designed Mobile Kerosene Tank eliminates all danger of spilled kerosene or of fluctuation or instability of flame.

AVAILABLE IN THREE

SIZES

There is a “Hardie & Spear” refrigerator for your home too.

Write for full particulars to the Sole Pacific Agents:—

KERR BROS. PTY. LTD.

Box 3838, G.P.0., Sydney.

BLAXLAND - CHAPMAN

MARINE ENGINES

WONDER LAUNCHES • PUMPING UNITS

• ENGINEERING PRODUCTS

Engineered for heavy with minimum upkeep, ideal for Island service.

For Marine Engines, sustained operation “8.R.” products are open or Va cabin launches, pumping units, engineering products, contact the Sole Pacific Distributors. 1

KERR BROS. PTY. LTD.

4 O’CONNELL ST.. SYDNEY.

Box 3838, G.P.O. Cables: "Carefulness”, Sydney

BURNS PHHf (SOUTH SEA) CO. LTD.

GENERAL

Registered Office: SUVA, Fiji.

Code Address: “BURNSOUTH.”

MERCHANTS AND SHIPOWNERS

BRANCHES:

F* • • ■ji: — Suva.

Levuka.

Lautoka.

Labasa.

Ba.

Sigatoka.

Tavua.

Rotuma Island.

Norfolk Island.

Samoa

Apia.

Pago Pago.

Niue Island.

Tonga:-

Nukualofa.

Haapai.

Vavau.

Agents for;— Queensland Insurance Co. Ltd. • Burns Philp Trust Go. Ltd

• Shell Company (P. 1.) Ltd,

ALSO AGENTS AND REPRESENTATIVES FOR:

Ardath Tobacco Co.

Associated British Oil Engines (Exp.) Ltd.

Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd.

Ferguson Tractors (Exp.) Ltd.

Hercules Cycle Gr Motor Co. Ltd.

A. J. Caley Gr Sons (Confectionery) , Charles Hope Ltd.-Cold Flame Refrigerators.

Huntley Gr Palmers Ltd. (Biscuits) .

International Harvester Co.

Jantzen (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

Joseph Lucas (Exp.) Ltd.

McAlpine Refrigeration Ltd.

McLeay Duff Gr Co. (Whisky).

S. Maw Son Gr Sons (Surgica Dressings).

Mullard (Overseas) Ltd. (Radios).

O'Cedar Ltd. (Oils Gr Mops).

Reckitt Gr Colman Ltd.

S.F. Appliances Ltd.

Slazengers (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

Standard Motor Co.

Stewarts Gr Lloyds (Aust.) Pty Ltd.

Shipping, Customs and Forwarding Agents

Shipping Agents for

THE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CO.

LTD.

(Regular First Class, One Class and Tourist Class Passenger Services from NEW ZEALAND

PORTS to UNITED KINGDOM, via PANAMA.)

SHAW SAVILL & ALBION CO. LTD.

(Regular First Class, One Class and Tourist Class Passenger Services from NEW ZEALAND PORTS to the UNITED KINGDOM, via PANAMA; and

via AUSTRALIAN PORTS and SOUTH AFRICA.)

PORT LINE LTD.

(One Class Passenger Services from NEW ZEA-

LAND PORTS TO UNITED KINGDOM, via

PANAMA.)

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES

MARITIMES

(Regular First Class and Tourist Class Passenger Services from FRENCH OCEANIA to MAR-

SEILLES, via PANAMA.)

BANK LINE LIMITED

BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION

CO. LTD.

Also INTERNATIONA!, AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION REPRESENTATIVES for

QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS LTD.

TASMAN EMPIRE AIRWAYS LTD.

Agents Throughout the World.

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French Sloop "Francis Gamier" in South Pacific

The 3,000-ton French sloop "Francis Gamier" is at present in South Pacific waters. The was formerly a unit of the Italian navy. —Photo by Information Service, Noumea.

Useful New Book

p. 115

115

On Cocoa Culture

VALUABLE reference book on [cocoa culture, written by Mr. D. t Urquhart, has been published Longmans Green and Co. (price i sterling.) he 230-page book deals with my, climate, soils, establishment [ maintenance of plantations, Native propagation, planting and ir-care, preparation of the crop [marketing, pests and diseases, les and grading, cocoa research, Id production and consumption.

It contains ten colour and 97 black and white plates.

Mr. Urquhart has made cocoa and coffee surveys of South Pacific areas under the auspices of the South Pacific Commission in recent years.

Reports on these surveys have been published by the Commission. t A new Mormon chapel is being built at Avatiu, Rarotonga. Mem bers of the LMS have helped to erect the building, in return for as sistance received last year from the Mormon community when the LMS restored their meeting house at Muri.

tl Miss Nancy Kemp, of Sydney, has gone to Port Moresby to take up her appointment as first Australian Girl Guides’ trainer to Papua-New Guinea.

H Mr. C. B. Mead, Agricultural Officer, BSIP, after leave in New Zealand, will attend a course at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad before re turning to Honiara.

Advertisements & other items, pp. 115-116 (2 items)

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CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1955

Skin Itch

MIMk

Don’t let ugly, disfiguring Pimples, Eczema, Acne, Ringworm, Psoriasis, Blackheads or Itching, Cracking, Peeling, Burning Skin Troubles make life miserable and spoil your fun.

Don’t be embarrassed and feel inferior because of a bad skin.

Now every chemist has a new American Hospital Discovery called Nixoderm that stops the Itch in 7 minutes, kills germs and fungus and in 24 hours begins to heal the skin clear, soft and smooth. No matter how long you have suffered or what you have tried, get Nixoderm from your chemist to-day under positive guarantee to return your money if not entirely satisfied

56 FEET COPRA SCOWS

lA Photo shows 56 ft. Gardner Diesel powered K class Copra Scow built by us for Steamships Trading Co. Ltd. of Port

Moresby. Hold capacity is

2,000 cubic feet—2s tons of copra below decks on approx. 5 ft. 6 ins. draft.

These vessels and also 40 ft. Army Workboats are in regular production in our Yards with choice of engine.

We also build pearling luggers.

For further particulars please write to:

BJARNE HALVORSEN LTD.

John Street, Berry's Bay, North Sydney, N.S.W.

No. 1 IN THE SERIES

Y) {/ ANOTHER REASON WHY YOU NEED A

mxxxm

’"ACCESSIBILITY

& COMPACTNESS

Large doors on either side of the stiff webbed crankcase permit rapid removal and replacement of pistons and connecting rods without removing engine from craft.

Scavenge and pressure lubricating systems are above bearer level.

FEATURES THAT MAKE

LISTER FAMOUS:

fa Durability and Economy. fa Rigidity and Silence. fa Corrosion-Resistant Sea Water and Bilge Pumps. fa Enclosed Fuel System. fa Built-in Reverse Gears. fa Optional Reduction Ratios.

Bu"-1 The Lister "Freedom" range of Marine Diesel Engines comprises single, twin, three, four and six cylinder models, all cold starting and developing 9 h.p. per cylinder at 1,800 r.p.m. e M A I N

DIESELS

Distributors for N.S.W. and the Islands:

DANGAR, GEDYE &

MALLOCH LIMITED

Malloch House, 10-14 Young Street, Sydney.

P.O. Box 509, G.P.O. BU 5095.

Cables: "Dangers," Sydney.

Please send me details of the Lister Marine Diesel Range.

NAME

ADDRESS

DMV15.84

September Travellers t[?]

p. 116

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New Guinea

Among the passengers travelling to [?] Guinea by ANG Line vessel "Shansi" in S[?] ber were, top to bottom: (1) Mrs. M. of Lae, farewelled by daughters Derrie[?] Shirley in Sydney. (2) Mr. J. Willii[?] Kairuku, farewelled by his mother (right[?] Miss Jacqueline Young. (3) Miss M. McGi[?] of the Administration staff. Port Moresby away by Miss J. Nichols.

Filaria Question

p. 116

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Niue Island

A MEDICAL team from New land which visited Niue fo: that although not uncomn filaria “does not at present apq to constitute a problem of irr medical or economic importance The team was led by Dr. Ej McCarthy, permanent Tropical J search Officer for the Pacific Territories, and included) M. J. Marples and Mr. D. Baoj The wording of the report se< to suggest that it is possible quix to eradicate this disease from i island—or, alternatively, that ; medical team anticipates though not at present seriouu may soon become so.

Advertisements & other items, p. 116 (1 item)

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[?]Oughts Of

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117

[?]ok at Fiji!”

New Caledonia Has

[?]Irying Industry

fcOPLE in New Caledonia who believe that the French Colony, with its extensive cattle indus , should have a flourishing ying industry as well, say, re s a Noumea correspondent; >k at Fiji”. is pointed out that “if Fiji can iuce butter not only for inter teonsumption, but also for ex- [ surely New Caledonia can do same”. lis argument is hardly valid, [the immediate post-war years >r was commonly unprocurable nany would-be buyers in Fiji.

Bocal product was reinforced by tantial imports from New ind, but the Dominion imposed act quota allocation because of more urgent claims of butter ay Britain. fs shortage, plus high, prices for [local and imported butter, was reason why the appearance of [ quality Suva-manufactured farine was welcomed by people I races in 1950.

18 commo 1 n knowle dge A man y people in Fiji, tourists and permanents alike, often eat local margarine when they think they are eating butter.

The dairying mdustiy cames on profitably however, with good marke f f° r what it produces—-including ghee for Indian consumption.

But it is a long time since Fiji ha d anything that could be called a solid export trade in butter.- In Fiji pipped away only 14,318 lb, of which 12,880 lb went to New Caledonia, 1,028 lb to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands and 410 lb m ship stores. The total value was only £2,701.

PlM’s Noumea correspondent

points out that New Caledonia has never produced much in the way of dairy products, and a Government subsidised cheese factory has closed down. in 1952 New Caledonia imported 474 tons of milk (condensed, pow dered and evaporated). In 1954 the total was 826 tons, in addition of course, to imports of butter and cheese. This cost more than 23,000,000 francs (about £160,000).

New Caledonia is a goood cus tomer for Australian butter and cheese. In 1954 some 79 tons were imported (46 tons also came from France). In 1954 imports of butter totalled 196 tons, representing £84,000.

Suva Tobacco

Factory

The Fiji Tobacco Company's new factory at Walu Bay, Suva, was opened by the Acting Governor of Fiji (Mr.

A. F. R. Stoddart) in September. At present only imported leaf is used for cigarettes, but the company hopes in the future to use locally-grown leaf. —Photo by Stinsons Studio.

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p. 119

119

Members of the crew of the German freighter "Walkure" (captured by the French and then sunk by the German cruisers during the [?]apeete bombardment in 1914) were interned at Motu Uta, an islet on the Papeete Harbour reef, where this photograph was taken. The [?]wo whiskery gentlemen, minus shirts, in the front row, resemble somewhat the Nature Men, rugged individualists who lurked in the [?]nterior of Tahiti in pre-World War I days.

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120

[?]R Drama In Tahiti

[?]Rench Gave

Air Warning

'RTHER sidelights on the story of the German bombardment of Papeete in 1914 (told in Sep )er PIM) are contained in news »r cuttings and a letter from a ed American captain. They p mainly to the German \hter “Walkure,” which had been ured at Makatea by the French )oat “Zelee” and was anchored iete Harbour at the time of the ember bombardment. [ days before the Papeete aombardment the Maitai had irrived at San Francisco with German Consul and his family i Tahiti, under safe conduct un ity; and two days before the bardment the barquentine SN le had arrived at Honolulu a party of German business and some of the crew of the cure. icy had, very sportingly, been red to get away by the Governor r rench Oceania, who, on un al receipt of word that war had en out, advised them to depart he opportunity then offering, :e official advice of the outbreak ar was received. Some of the nan business men had left their ch or Tahitian wives at Tahiti, use of the limited accommoda in the SN Castle. ptain Fred. K. Klebingat, of Pedro, California, writing to a d in Tahiti, has added a foot to the story. already stated, some of the nans in Tahiti had departed for >lulu as passengers in the tntine SN Castle a few days sr. In command of the brigan was Captain von Dahlern. was he who bought the wrecks xe Trenton and Vandalia after

the great Apia hurricane,” writes Captain Klebingat. “He also transported the coffins of all the dead to San Francisco in the brigantine Sea Waif, of which he was then (1888) part-owner.”

Captain Klebingat, now associated with the San Francisco Maritime Museum, was Second Mate in the SN Castle.

Captain von Dahlern undertook to deliver the German merchants and seamen to a neutral port at a fare of $2OO each, but the fares were later refunded by the shipowners.

“We had Algoewer, Rambke,

Kurka, Gustav Meule, Sanders, and several minor clerks of the SCO— all of whom will be remembered by Tahiti old-timers.

“Then there was Captain Westphal, two mates, and three engineers, and the cook of the captured Walkure, and a man named Seefeldt, who had been down in Papeete installing the engine in the schooner Moana.

“I never saw any of them again after we landed them at Honolulu, but in 1940 I met one of Algoewer’s sons, who was in the fur business in Post Street, San Francisco.”

German Admiral Count von

Spec’s task force defeated British Admiral Craddock’s small force at the Battle of Coronel, eight days after leaving Tahiti, but the end came for the Germans on De cember 8 in the great Battle of the Falkland Islands.

Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Sturdee’s squadron sent von Spec’s flagship Schamhorst to the bottom with all hands, and also sank the Gneisenau, Nurriberg, and Leipsig.

Another, Dresden, escaped, but was scuttled when intercepted off Juan Fernandez Island in March.

Thus was the bombardment of Papeete, the loss of HMS Monmouth and HMS Good Hope at Coronel, and the attack on Fannng Island cable station, avenged by the Royal Navy.

Papeete still wears at least one scar. If the host of the old Yacht Club Restaurant (as it now is) is asked, he will lift a framed picture on the wall to show where an un exploded shell passed right through the building, felling a coconut palm on its w r ay out. t British interest in the develop ment of New Guinea has been stressed by Mr. G. R. B. Patterson, senior Australian Government Trade Commissioner in London, who is making a three months’ visit to Australia and New Guinea to discuss marketing of goods in Britain.

t Wealth from the Coconut, a valu able little book on the selection and handling of seed coconuts, written by Mr. W. V. D. Pieris, has just been published by the South Pacific Com mission and is available from the SPC Literature Bureau, GPO Box 5254, Sydney, for 2/6 Sterling (3/2 Aust.). The book is available in

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If Te Karibanang, a Gilbert Is assistant administrative off; supervised the arrangements fo first party of Gilbertese settle Gizo, British Solomons, in tember.

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121

Exports Increase

GURES recently published in Fiji show a steady development of manganese mining, innages exported in each of the is 1950-54 and approximate ex values a ton, have been as fol i: 1950, 240 (£121); 1951, 631 3); 1952, 2,010 (£180) ; 1953, ! (£153); 1954, 5,707 (£138). gures show that in August, 209 ile took out prospecting rights. [ of them were issued to Indians have been making expeditions lome time in the hinterland of main islands of the Fiji group. )st mining applications have from Lautoka and the north ern district of Viti Levu.

Barren Aspect

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121

[?]hind Canton’s Barren Aspect

the air traveller between Fiji md Hawaii, Canton atoll gives he impression of being as in and inhospitable an island as on this earth. hind that unimpressive mask, ver, life is not so dull. \ company, air company, and aviation men who return to isation” from time to time are rom unhappy at the “rock.” : last report there were three I clubs—the Tower Club on the i side, the Canton Island Club, t of the Civil Aeronautics Ad itration bachelors, and the Clipper Club for (mainly) Pan ican Airways’ employees. Here bottles of New Zealand beer it the same price as the small ican cans—2o cents.

By Shellfire

p. 121

121

[?]I-Tetanus Serum

Flown To Christmas

i the second time in a year erial assistance was called to le aid of the Line Islands in September. the earlier occasion it was to ing Island. This time it was tiristmas Island, 150 miles to mth-east. ii-tetanus serum, secured from lulu, was flown to Canton i by regular Qantas airliner.

J it was picked up by RNZAF erland flying-boat from Fiji flown 900 miles to Christmas, details are available as to was ill. The population of tmas consists of a European ct Officer, several Gilbertese mment servants, and a party lilbertese plantation copra irs employed by the Western c High Commission.

u Miss Edith Gold, of Mangaia, was married to Mr. Ta Vainerere, of Atiu, at the LMS Church, Nikao, Rarotonga, on August 13. A reception was held at the home of Mr. Charlie Carlson.

t A new house for the Puka Puka medical practitioner is being built on land known as Rongorongo, in Yato village. The site was donated to the Administration by Patia Arumaki and family.

Gunboat Sunk

By Shellfire

The little French gun boat "Zelee" was sunk by the German cruisers "Scharnhorst" and "Gneisenau" during the bombardment of virtu ally defenceless Papeete in September, 1914.

Further details of the story told in September PIM are given on page 117.

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[?]He Arabs Had A

pp. 123-124

123

124

[?]ffee Round the World

Word For It

EW GUINEA now has followed [other Pacific Islands into the ranks of coffee-growers. But jr many Islanders know the hi nting history of coffee? rabica coffee is a native of rssinia, and from there spread [Arabia, where it was called hweh.” It is interesting to note t while it flourished abroad, its ivation languished at home, and f in the last few years, coffee [ been imported by Abyssinia q Brazil, and new plantations set in its original home land, obusta, a stronger, coarser ee, is a native of the Congo, aldi, an Arabian goat herds i of the 9th century, is credited 1 having discovered its use as feverage. Others claim that a yish named Hadji Omer, driven of Mocha in 1285 AD, lived for 5 by eating berries from a coffee and that he was the first to k hot water in which he had ped some of these berries after , browning them over his fire, le credit for popularising coffee i beverage belongs to Arabia as ras a Mohammedan priest who Dduced the custom of coffee king to his countrymen. Its y popularity, however, did not linue without opposition, and use of its exhilarating effect it i became the object of religious iidice. Nevertheless, coffee drink spread throughout Syria and lascus and by 1554 AD it had me so popular in Constantinople Turkish coffee houses flourished st mosques were deserted. Again antagonism of the Mohammedan sts followed and they brought pleasures of coffee drinking jr the ban of the Koran. ■om the City of the Sultan the tice swept westward as Italian, ich, Dutch and German mer its and scholars brought back i the East strange tales of the jhtful new beverage made from les of the coffee tree. By 1615 people of Venice, and by 1644 e in Marseilles, were drinking it; land, Holland and Germany , followed.

I its popularity spread it was natural that the cultivation the coffee trees should also ad to the tropical colonies of e countries which had come to .rd this delicious beverage as of their daily lives. By 1696 :e culture had spread from 3ia to Java. Ten years later imens of some trees were taken le Botanical Gardens at Amster . 1714, the gift of some of these 5 from the Amsterdam Botanical dens by the Magistrate of that to Louis XIV of France—in-

auspicious as it was at the time — was to become significant later. For in 1720 Louis XIV directed his friend, Captain des Clieux, to take a seedling across the Atlantic to

Martinique, one of the French possessions in the West Indies, How des Clieux was forced to share his own reduced ration of drinking water with his much-beloved plant

The berries that started it all... Coffee originated in Africa before being developed in Arabia. —South Pacific Commission Photo.

is told as the outstanding ini lon S voyage. And soc 1720 the map of the coffee-gn world began to witness a chs a change that in the future v see the New World countries plying practically all the v coffee requirements.

In Spaniards intro the coffee plant to their posse on the mainland of South Air To-day both Colombia and I as well as most other countn Latin America, produce coffe= these, Brazil is the largest P r od- ucer i Colombia ranks seccr ar . e many schooc thought as to how coffee shof brewed—and as many gadge £ brewing it. s 8 Britishers— who are tradition drinkers—are reputed to be anr the greatest despoilers of coff© m recent years, probably as suit of American influence, we improved somewhat.

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Many Japs Sti[?] in Hiding

THE United States Goverr has information that at les Japanese soldiers are still I in New Guinea, Guam ano.

Philippines.

Thirty-two other stragglers? emerged from island jungles i last few years.

Late last year a group oc naval ratings was captured J Hollandia, Netherlands New Gt A much larger group of Js known still to be in hiding •< small island in the Philipphr Latest evidence comes from F= Palau Group of Micronesia, a Korean, Keiki Tukugawa, w\ cently captured by the local j while he was uprooting ts; plants.

The American authorities 1© that Tukugawa had been one party of labourers brought td Japs to work at the Anguar I phosphate diggings in 1942. he was recruited into a mr labour battalion and tak© Peleliu.

When the American Forces ae he escaped and fled to the hilLI nine others, none of whom hr seen again after losing contacts them.

Warned by the Japs thas Americans would cut off his H feet, and ears if they captureo; he had decided to avoid captid all costs, and for ten years had by raiding native gardens, < wild yams, taro, and coconut t The Tonga TB Control CD A. M. P. Ma’afu Tupou, ha. cently been carrying out a Tl' vey and preparatory work BCG vaccination programme o outlying island of Keppel (NX butabu).

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Generally Satisfactory Condition

pp. 125-127

125

126

Pacific Produce Markets Are in Generally Satisfactory Condition

SURVEY of Pacific -produce narkets in early October shows i generally satisfactory situa for British Pacific producers, i PRA: This commodity seemed ive taken at least a temporary for the better by early ber. London free-market prices down to about £Stg.63/10/- for ts and $l6B for Philippines i early in September. One io n given was increasing ppines production since late In comparison with the sh MOF price of £Stg.6s f.o.b.

Pacific ports, South Pacific icers have been “sitting pretty” lany months now.

CO A: This product continued lecline, partly for seasonal ns and probably partly because timates of a substantial Gold , crop and a satisfactory out for the coming Bahia main d Coast and Nigeria exporters

atlranged a sale of 30,000 tons to British manufacturers in August, for October-December shipment at £Stg.2so a ton, c.i.f. A further 30,000 tons in smaller lots had been sold by mid-September.

The Bank of New Zealand re ported in mid-September that there had been little recent Western Samoa business, and that sales were being complicated by a question of shipping charges where buyers designate ports of discharge other than destination of the copra

cargoes which are exported by the same vessels.

COFFEE : The question of possible exchange reform in Brazil, principal world producer, and the effect that it will have on coffee export prices, appears to be the dominating factor with this commodity. American buyers were operating on a day to-day basis in the hope that a possible readadjustment might operate in their favour.

London’s “Public Ledger” reports that as a result of last year’s high American retail prices, the consumer market there has suffered some damage. In 1953 coffee consumption a head of population was 16.7 lb.

In 1954 it fell to 14.7, and this year it is expected to be about

f lb, according to a US Depart it of Agriculture survey. •ROCHUS: Keen and apparently ng offers are being made for ific trochus at the present time, I to a world shortage. June to ober is said to be the off-season trochus fishing in some Pacific is, but undoubtedly anyone able )ffer prompt delivery to Sydney ihe present time can command ood a price as has been available some years. This high price is f to stimulate fishing, improve supply position—and, of course, it in a price decline eventually, en snail and other shells are in Jar demand.

ÜBBER : After reaching 431 d pound on the London market ‘September 22, quotations for 1 ribbed smoked sheet slowly ined to October 5, though most ■ces do not anticipate any )us decline this wear. Available llies of natural rubber are feted barely to meet demand.

Bank of New Z e a 1 a n d iders that the outlook for pro !rs is good.

INILLA : Following a recent of 590 cases of processed 11a to France and New York, jrdney buyer reported early in >ber that there now appeared to i shortage of Tahiti vanilla — taps at the prices offering as

compared with Paris-New York prices. Sydney offers for White and Yellow Label grades were down to 32/- a pound, with Green Label 27lower —a decline of 4/- all round on the previous month.

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Visiting Tahiti

Pauline Scott and Miss Jean Macdonald, [?] tonga, snapped on a recent visit to —Photo by Oscar Nordman.

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Brisbane-Noumea Trade Increasing

MESSAGERIES Maritimes has established a new monthly link between Noumea and Brisbane, mainly as the result of the increasing export trade in primary produce which Queensland exporters have developed.

The service will be maintained by five new freighters which the company is putting on the Europe- Australia-Noumea services. The first vessel, Iraouaddy called at Brisbane in September.

These modern, comfortable ships cater for a limited number of passengers. t For the first time a Papuan has represented his people at a General Synod of the Church of England in Australia. This occurred in October at Sydney, the repre sentative being Lawrence Modulla, who for 18 years has been personal attendant to Bishop P. N. Strong, of New Guinea.

All A-quiver?

p. 127

PARTS of the Papua-New Guinea- Manus-Solomons area appear to have been in a more or less constant state of minor earth tremors, judging by the monthly reports of the official Vulcanologist.

In August the minor shakes were centred on Eastern Papua’s islands and the Sepik area.

In September they were centred on Bougainville, 12 small shakes being recorded by the seismograph at Rabaul during the second week of the month.

Heavier tremors were felt at Rabaul and Kokopo on October 10. Slight damage was done and there was a small seismic wave at Rabaul.

Wallis Islanders Will

p. 127

Go to New Caledonia

IT is reported at Noumea that Governor Rene Hoffherr, during his recent official visit to Wallis Island, negotiated a labour agreement whereby further groups of Wallis Islanders would go to work in New Caledonia on stipulated terms and conditions.

Under the new agreement a party of 200 labourers was expected to leave for Noumea in late September, many of them with their families.

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MR. Frederick Ashby’s men of men and ships in

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Vanikoro (June PIM) bring 5 many recollections of days oc venture, hardship, comedy drama.

There were only two Europes: the boat that reached Vanikoro the wreck of the Mascot, ini Walter Buckley, the old schoc skipper, was one and I waf other.

The boat’s crew were four oc of the Mascot’s hands and Ashby certainly will remembec of them, Kakana, a big, Malaita-man with only two to his right foot.

The previous night, Kakana neatly lifted a £5 bundle of: shilling pieces from a canvau as he held the Mascot’s boat to while the weary crew slept comfortably. The money bell to the Vanikoro Camp and was signed to the storekeeper, Sid < When Kakana was disco buying up big in the timber store, Wilson, the DO, proc collared him and the last!

Mascot’s men saw of Kakana as he began a two-year stretl Wilson’s calaboose.

Walter Buckley Later

to Grasciosa Bay as trades since then has been boatj in the Sydney pilot steamer Ccd Cook. He is now living in n ment in the Blue Mountains frequently calls on me at my at the Sydney Sun for a remim beer.

Other Mascot men who sav queer old ship’s death at Ul are going strong.

The mate, Dave Lazarus, now on the North Coast of NSW. his return to Tulagi, Lazarusg over the famous H. A. MarkL trading station at Leueneua Ontong Java.

Bill Russell, the lanky supero' went to the New Guinea golcfc and, I heard, died there.

Sim, the Mascot’s engineer! turned to Sydney and worke: the Duranbah, the ship Carpe< acquired to replace Mascot. Ho! have stayed in the Solomons? none of the old hands has 1 of him for 20 years.

A previous Mascot skipper, Gerrard, who took the ship tt

[onions, returned to Sydney, gre he became Chief Shipping In ctor. He recently retired, EFORE Gerrard, the well-known FSolomons identity, Martin Nielsen, skippered Mascot. rtin stayed in the Solomons and [ incredible adventures during Japanese invasion. He worked the US Navy and, on return to ney, met with a serious accident ch resulted in the loss of one lis legs. Nielsen is still a patient the State Hospital, Lidcombe, bey. He’d be glad to hear of [of his old Island pals, tie Houtu will be still re ibered by old-timers. I could [you to the spot in the anchor iwhere she burned and sank, you would probably find her lors and other gear on the om to-day. le was a New Zealand scow, oner-rigged and so shallow in Ight that the funnel of the tey boiler she was taking to |koro stuck up high above her L At first sight we all thought had an auxiliary steam engine, s evidently the boiler in the ire published in the June PIM. [was immediately named

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st before Houtu was burned at gi. her engineer came aboard lot and asked Sim and me for tance in repairing his ram kle Scandias. We were horrified is engineroom, which made the ',ot’s machinery department like a palace—and that was reat shakes. will never forget the amaze f of the Vanikoro men as they \ out in their old ketch Isis to the Mascot’s boat to the wharf m. ! had had a tough time in that boat and evidently showed it.

Leaving the wreck at daylight, lad rowed across from Utupua mikoro in a flat calm —and was ►t! The oily sea reflected the in sun, so we got it coming and I Even the Malaita-men were ked out and sat dejectedly iling for a breeze, e wind came when we didn’t it —about midnight, when we led Vanikoro’s outer reef with : surf pounding on it. As the sy boat would not work to ward, we squared away and lay tie lee of the island until day . Next day we had to pull the in the teeth of a fresh wind he timber camp which we led at dusk. e day after our arrival the koro men voted a holiday. We their mails, the first they had for months. They fed us well their doctor took charge of me was under the weather with few days later we started back ir own camp on the beach near

the wrecked Mascot at Utupua. Our boat was towed by Isis, and again we struck dirty weather, taking more than 24 hours for the voyage.

Then Ito (not Eto) arrived in his old shell boat, Arethusa, and Mascot's party immediately com mandeered her. Ito was a Korean, not a Jap, and was one of the best underwater swimmers I have ever seen. A sailor, too, he packed Sim, Lazarus, himself, some Mascot’s crew and his own boys into his tiny vessel, loaded with shell, and set sail for Tulagi.

They had a nightmare voyage, but got there safely while the rest of Mascot’s party camped under her awning on the Utupuan beach to

wait for whatever would turn up.

EVERY day for weeks we scanned the offing for sight of smoke or a sail —no dice. We had taken on the look of hopeless castaways when two vessels arrived within half an hour of each other —almost a miracle in those days, as Santa Cruz was visited only once yearly by the Government vessel and once by the London Mission schooner.

Lever’s old steamer Kobiloko, loaded to the gunwales with re cruits, let go off the beach and the Tulagi Government yacht, Tanna, followed suit.

Leaping form a canoe we piled aboard Tanna, the nearest, to be

greeted by Deputy Commiss Broadhurst Hill. It was goc get outside a civilised meal did beer ever taste more nificent?

Then on to Kobiloko, skipper, Dreever, offered us ps< back to Gavutu. We sailed! day at dawn with even mon cruits and Mascot’s boat’s o about 150 of us packed into a little steamer about 90 tons.

The old days had their bad but they were fun. Now contact with the Islands is Buck looks in or I occasional fishing with a mate whose b( planked with Vanikoro kauri j Thanks, Mr. Ashby, fo n memory!

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SUBSTANCE was given ean October to rumours Noumea that Air Franu seeking to extend its services to Auckland.

The NZ Herald reported Governor Rene Hoffherr, of Caledonia, visiting New Zealai the invitation of Prime MiJ Sydney Holland, said that he i discuss a direct air link bet; the two countries.

According to the Herald, Gow Hoifherr said: “I would like it tourists from New Zealand im Caledonia, and I would also li arrange for an exchange of s children.”

The Governor said that til New Caledonia was lacking tourist hotels, increasing nui of tourists were arriving Australia.

Speaking of the island’s ecor the Governor said that he t like to see more agricui development, and he felt that could be learned from New Zee in this respect. An air link bet the two countries could ha£ very good result in se directions.

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The report states that the low ro for the quarter was expected, but imo results are expected for the remainn the fiscal year. Plywood operations tinned normally and were made. t Rabaul had only 68 poinc rain in September the September for eight years. Av rainfall this year has been than 18 in. below normal.

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Finances Unhappy

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[?]ench Oceania's Finances Unhappy

)VERNOR Jean Francois Toby iof French Oceania arrived i at Papeete from Paris late in

(ember.

to a Paris despatch the ernor, in his consultations with F French Government, stated [ the economic situation of ich Oceania is “extremely e” as a result of the declining B of copra in recent months.

I counteract this loss of rev- I Governor Toby urged the en fegement of a tourist industry, rthe speedy establishment of an national airport at Papeete to ict the great airlines, le Governor said that such an jrt would cost at least 1,000,- 00 metropolitan francs, and he d that funds be made available the project, which would also ide employment in Tahiti.

Marelle, Inspector-General of bs in the French Empire, has [ on an inspection tour in New donia for the Colonial Depart t at Paris.

At Ducos Hospital, NC

"Maison de la Nouvelle Zelande" (New Zealand House), where these young patients are to undergo electro-therapy treatment, is at Ducos Leper Hospital, New Caledonia. The activity of the NZ Lepers Trust Board, generously supported by the public in the Dominion, extends throughout the tropical South Pacific. —Photo by F. Dunn.

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A Suva Hotel Mooted

AMERICAN capital would be in terested in investing in a large modern hotel in Fiji, and several Suva sites were admirably suited to the purpose, said a San Francisco businessman, Mr. Albert A. Rhine, in an interview with the Governor of Fiji (Sir Ronald Gar vey) .

The Governor replied that outside capital would be welcomed.

Mr. Rhine, who is sales represen tative of the Lerios Travel Service, has been touring the South Pacific and Far East. He said that if the hotel project should materialise, it would add 100 rooms to Suva’s ac commodation capacity.

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[?]An Boxer,

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133

[?]Mi Galoa, Noted

[?]S After Bout

iDEST boxing news of the month in ie Islands concerns the death of Semi i, contender for the Fijian heavy t title, on October 4. the previous night Semi, an ex ly popular boxer, was knocked out ie seventh round of a bout with the pion, Tom Hini, at Suva, li was leading on points when Hini I a solid left to his solar plexus, ing it with a heavy blow to the \ Semi’s hands dropped and he sed. He did not regain consciousness, force of the impact badly damaged ; hand. li Galoa was one of the few boxers lave floored Kitione Lave. In a Suva he had Lave down for a count of ; another tack, a Sydney reader i “In my opinion Islands boxers do well to concentrate on the New id field rather than on Australia There is a lesson for everybody con -1 in the deplorable state of pro tal boxing in some parts of Aus and this is heavily underlined by Krsistent scream for the setting up e NSW Government of a proper j commission in this State”, awhile New Zealand boxing folk are over the signing of the brilliant heavyweight Joveci Bau to meet the ion light - heavyweight champion, leith, in a 12-round bout at Hastings tober 27. decisively beating Ken Brady, ex lian champion (September PIM), Bau established himself as the best as heavyweight to appear in New id for many years. jan Johnny Halafihi will be among ars in an international boxing series held at Auckland, ifihi has started training for a bout Bruce Farthing, Australian light weight, at Auckland in November, ng won when the pair met at Strat ast summer.

[?]ers who recently returned to Samoa from Lilia: Johnny Ripley (lightweight) and Fosi [?] t (heavyweight).— Photo by D. E. Ross.

Fosi Schmidt Knocks Out Jenkin

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t The New Zealand Civil Aviation Department’s radio calibration DC3 aircraft, on a routine flight along the Coral Route, made four passenger flights between Rarotonga and Aitutaki under charter to TEAL in September. The aircraft, in its two-or-three monthly calls, provides Rarotonga with its only air connection. In the intervals the airfield reverts to a golf links.

Fosi Schmidt (Western Samoa) knocked out Ross Jenkin (Australia) in the sixth round of a bout at Apia. Here Schmidt misses with a right-hander. —Photo by D. E. Ross.

Amendments Made

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To Tongan Laws

rPORTANT amendments to Ton gan laws were enacted at the August session of the Legisla tive Council at Nukualofa. They came into effect on September 1.

Some of the more important are; Imposition of a 6d surcharge on all telegrams for despatch within the Kingdom.

Increases in the maximum rates payable to casual labourers.

An increase in passport fees, ve hicle registration (including bicycles), duty on liquor and cer tain other luxury imports.

An export duty of 10 per cent, in the value of coconuts exported (does not effect copra).

Jury and witness fees increased, in certain cases, from the previous 8/- a day.

A Land Act Amendment permit ting the Minister to grant a tax allotment of less than 8i acres, and varying lease rates .paid by religious bodies, charitable institutions and boards, on land held by them.

Increase of maximum payment that a magistrate may order for maintenance of an illegitimate child from 10/- to £2 a week.

An increase in the quantity of furniture exempt from import duty that may be brought in by a married seconded officer from over seas —and a decrease in the case of an unmarried officer.

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West New Guinea

Goes Before Un

rE United Nations General sembly decided on October put the dispute over N© lands New Guinea on its ageno The 31-18 vote was a rebuff ti Netherlands, whose delegate n tained that any debate would 1 “unwarranted interference”.

Britain and Australia against the motion, Sir I Spender (Australia) saying thji Assembly debate could only co bute to the spreading of dii and unnecessary friction.

The United States abstained J voting. American “neutrality the quarrel has drawn bitter cism from the Dutch.

AT Sydney on October 2„!

Bishop of New Guinea (tld Rev. P. N. Strong), speakii St. Andrew’s Cathedral, sugg§ that the United Nations make New Guinea a trustee territon “There is to-day a growing : mony and understanding bett the Dutch and Australian adrrr trations in New Guinea,” the Bf continued. “It might be hoped!: this co-operation will lead mately to unifying the island J whole. Such hopes would be daJ if the Indonesian claims weree ognised.

“Perhaps the solution migH to make West New Guinea liko part of New Guinea —a tn territory, ultimately under tralia.”

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Efficient Ceylon Coconut-Husking Implement

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ss Eleanor Manning, Australian ral Commissioner of the Girl les’ Association, is scheduled o to Port Moresby on October or a fortnight’s inspection of ing in Papua-New Guinea.

t Despite shipping difficulties, 64,000 20-lb cases of tomatoes had been exported from the Cook Islands to early October. A few thousand more might be cleared before the season ends in November.

[?] of a fully efficient husking implement of the reasons why Islands copra-making [?]wer than in Ceylon, says Mr. W. V. D. in "The Manufacture of Copra in the Islands" (South Pacific Commission). diagram of the Ceylon implement is re [?]ed by permission of the Commission. [?]ails are: (A) 2 ft. 4 in. by 4 in. hard stock, with groove 2 in. broad, ½ in. and 8 in. long at top to engage husking A hole, through which a bolt passes, [?]lled 1 in. above the lower end of this

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I Miss Pauline Hoeft

i German-Samoan by birth and rongan by adoption, Miss Pauline eft died recently at Auckland at f age of 51.

Hiss Hoeft, a noted swimmer 30 irs ago, narrowly missed New iland selection for the 1920 rmpic Games at Antwerp. She n many Dominion champion ship living at Niuafo’ou Island fin Can”), Tonga, in her teens, [ sometimes handled the famous -can mail.

Mrs. E. St. Aubyn

I resident of Levuka, Fiji, since 6, Mrs. Elizabeth St. Aubyn died September at the age of 81.

Irs. St. Aubyn was the widow of , Rev. Ernest Lyons St. Aubyn, Royal Navy chaplain and a mber of a family whose sestral home is St. Michael’s unt, Cornwall. Her maiden name l Garbell, and her grandfather i Sir Edwin Garbell, Attomey leral in Australia.

Irs. St. Aubyn bought a house Levuka and a plantation at tew a Bay, Vanua Levu. Her r children are living in Fiji— ssrs. Roger (Levuka) and ;hony (Natewa Bay) St. Aubyn I Mesdames Stevens and Bull. ;re are 15 grandchildren.

Bishop T. J. Feeney, S.J.

Ishop Thomas J. Feeney, S.J., ar-Apostolic of the Caroline and rshall Islands since May, 1951, 1 recently in Massachusetts, A ishop Feeney had been in these nds since 1947, and was editor i Marshallese grammar and four er books on the Marshall ?uage, of which he made a ticular study. He had earlier red in the Philippines.

Mr. A. R. Tarte

me of the Fiji’s best-known iters, Mr. A. R. Tarte, died at la Estate, Taveuni, on tember 19 and was buried in the lily burial ground. [r. Tarte was the younger son the late James Valentine Tarte, ) came to Australia from jland in 1870 to engage in gold ling operations at Ballarat, m there he moved to Fiji during cotton boom and took up land Taveuni. iter cotton failed and he turned coconuts and cattle, the massive le walls surrounding many of paddocks were built, miles of ch still remain. [is two sons —the late Mr. H. entine Tarte and Mr. “Rood” *te —helped on the estate and it his death took over. Both e noted athletes and horse ing enthusiasts. luring the 1914-18 War, Mr.

Tarte went to England and joined the Royal Flying Corps.

He married Miss Edyth Carr, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Carr, of Suva, who survives him. Two of their children, a daughter, Talei, and a son, Adrian, live at Taveuni and another son, Spencer, is serving with the Fiji Military Forces in Malaya.

Mr. W. A. Douglas

Widely known in the Wewak district, New Guinea, Mr. W. A.

Douglas died at Wewak in September.

Manager of Muschu Plantation, Mr. Douglas had lived in the Territory for 25 years.

Mr. W. H. Halford-Thompson

Mr. W. H. Halford-Thompson, a retired Resident Magistrate of Papua, died earlier this year in England.

In Papua before the First World War, he did important patrol work as PO assisting the late Henry Joseph Ryan, RM.

After the outbreak of war in 1914, he travelled to Britain to rejoin his regiment and served with distinction in the campaign against the German Cameroons in West Africa.

After an unsuccessful flower farming venture in England, Mr.

Halford-Thompson returned to Papua for a long programme of patrolling.

In the Second War he served in ANGAU at Yule Island.

Mrs. M. E. Cleary

The death of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Cleary, widow of James Cleary, a Suva businessman, occurred at Suva on September 17.

Mrs. Cleary was born at Suva 75 years ago, the third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hall Ragg.

Her father was one of Suva’s earliest settlers, having arrived in 1869.

Mr. Cleary was a sister of Mr.

A. A. Ragg and Sir Hugh Ragg.

She is survived by five children.

Patrick lives at Suva, James is in New Zealand and John, who entered the Roman Catholic priesthood, is now living at Christchurch, New Zealand. One boy, Leo, was killed in a motor accident. Of her two daughters, Sylvia entered the order of St.

Joseph de Cluny and is at Darjeeling, India, and Bridie lives at Suva. An adopted daughter, Jean, lives at Singleton, New South Wales.

Mrs. Cleary took a very active part in the wartime soldiers’ club and canteen established at the Sacred Heart Cathedral and during her years as a maternity nurse was closely associated with many of the old Suva families. The burial took place at Suva Cemetery after a short service at the Cathedral.

Mr. F. E. Wood

Mr. F. E. Wood, formerly of

Nadi, Fiji, died at Brisbane in May . after a short illness. iTr ßo l n . in En §!and in 1890, Mr Wood joined the CSR Company in 1912 and was attached to the Lautoka Mill. In the First World War he served continuously on the Western Front for 21 years, took part in many famous battles and was severely wounded during the final Allied advance.

After the war he returned to Fiji and was stationed first at Lomawai Sigatoka, and then at Nadi, where he and Mrs. Wood lived until Mr Wood’s retirement in 1949.

In recent years they lived at Burleigh Heads, Queensland.

Mrs. Myra Harrington

The death of Mrs. Myra Harring ton occurred at the Rarotonga Hos pital on September 26.

Mrs. Harrington was the wife of a well-known Aitutaki trader. She had been ill for a considerable period and had spent the last four months at Rarotonga.

Mr. G. Stoockicht

Mr. G. Stoockicht, an old resident of Apia, died on September 9. He was in his 82nd year.

He went to Samoa from Germany in 1905 to join his brother, who was Chief of Police in the German Administration. He engaged in trading for various concerns, and at the time of his death was trading at Tulaole for Burns, Philp.

He is survived by his wife, a son in Germany and two married daughters in New Zealand.

Mr. R. F. Warren

Mr. R. F. Warren, who had been an engineer in the Government service in Western Samoa for many years, died on September 11 at the age of 84.

Mrs. Sophie Tucker

Mrs. Sophie Tucker, who died at Suva on September 4, was in her 96th year.

A daughter of the late Joseph Storck, she married William Tucker, a Rewa planter, who died about 50

years ago. Their three childre 1 died before their mother, who,, mg part of her widowhood, with a nephew, Mr. Charles Tu at Sigatoka and Vatukoula.

Canon James Benson

Canon James Benson, who wa m New Guinea for many years < 1918, died in London on OctoU and on October 5 a special menr service was conducted at; Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney b( Primate of Australia, Archbc Mowll, the Bishop of New Gi (the Rt. Rev. P. N. Strong) prr ing the sermon.

Canon Benson’s adventures mg the Japanese invasion anc. cupation are part of the histoc war in New Guinea. For a tinr was hidden from the enem;j native villagers. Later he was? sumed to be dead, but emerged from a prisoner-oft camp at Rabaul.

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New Lms Church I[?]

ANEW London Missio Society church was opene Olosega Island in the Ms Group of Eastern Samoa on tember 15. Nearly 2,000 people present, including visitors Western Samoa and Tutuila.

The church, which cost $2iS measures 400 ft. by 150 ft. and: accommodate 500 persons. It is der the control of Pastor Tulid Note: Olosega, in the Ms Islands, should not be confused .

Olosega Island, more gene known as Swains.

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139

[?]Uminium Plan

[?] New Guinea

IE Australian Government hopes to develop a big hydro f electric smelter plant in New nea, and the Aluminium He roes Development Co., formed by at Britain and Australia, is ung investigations, his news was given at Canberra the Minister of Supply, Mr. le. on September 22.

Sr. Beale said that the company, ;h began operations in 1950 with 1,000 capital, was studying two [ Guinea river systems. It ted to find a river system that Id support a smelter generating [megawatts. le Government wanted the it to smelt bauxite from nor n Australia and so produce raw erial for aluminium industries, icularly in Australia, hen preliminary investigations the volume and flow of river »r are completed, the investiga f of specific power projects will I See also Travel Notes, page 18.)

[?]Estern Samoa’S

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[?]D Report

[?]Es To Assembly

[E Commission of Inquiry into Public Works Department activities in Western Samoa pleted its report at Apia in iember, and the New Zealand ibers of the commission had rned to the Dominion by the of the month. [M’s Apia correspondent reports i the commission’s voluminous iment is based on two large id volumes of evidence heard ng the three weeks’ stay of the Zealand members, i the main the report attributes lack of efficiency in the depart t to insufficient numbers of srvisory staff and to the lequacy of the control methods systems used. blames a number of Govern t officers for the over snditure on the Mafa Pass d. iparation of the Stores Depart t from the Public Works blishment, improvements in the inistrative and clerical iches of the PWD, and the loyment of nine senior ond e d officials, engineers, stants and overseers are recom ded. le report will be submitted to Legislative Assembly during November session.

Australian Margarine

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Production Increased

fTIHE Australian output of JL margarine for consumption within Australia, which is on a strict Government-controlled quota system, will be increased by 2,500 tons to 11,000 tons per annum.

Authorisation for this was granted in October.

The quota system does not affect export quantities, and only a percentage of Australian margarine consists of coconut oil —but every little helps.

The ratio of coconut oil to other vegetable oils, and to animal oils, varies with current comparative

market prices, and more parti cularly it is governed by the market destination of the margarine. The ratio of vegetable to animal fats is varied to suit the climate, so that the product will remain firm in hot climates, and not too firm in cooler climates. It is understood that a rather low percentage of coconut oil is used in Australia's main margarine production although Australian dairy farmers employ the “cheap, sweated-labour coconut oil” argument when opposing increased margarine production.

If Mr. George Hill, Treasurer in the Condominium Government of the New Hebrides, arrived at Sydney early in October on six months’ leave, with Mrs. Hill.

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[?]omplications of [?]ongan [?]stem

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[?]ongan [?]stem for Copra

HE official Tonga daily news- Esheet referred recently to an (impending settlement of jirred payments to copra pro ers, and, in response to an liiry, the manager of the Tonga ira Board, Mr. S. B. Brown, has lained how the commodity is [died. he Tonga Copra Board is laps unique in the south-western ific, as it operates quite jpendently of any outside rests. ach year when the price lived under the British MOF tract has been negotiated, the e to be paid to producers is i after making allowance for lagement, Salaries and Wages, irance, Storage, Transport, r-island Freights, Bagging, ropriations for Price Stabilisa- Fund and other Reserve ds, Export Duty, Wharfage, i Shrinkage Allowance of 5 per has also been the practice to v a margin of surplus of foximately £1 a ton to meet contingent liabilities which arise during the year, le board does not retain surplus, this being paid out jroducers at the end of each icial year, based on the iddual quantities sold to the d. though the estimated surplus is the actual surplus each year sually greater when interest i investments has been added, with shrinkage usually below r cent.

E recent price adjustment to producers was occasioned through the prolonged negotia -5 with the British MOF this , a price not being fixed until March. During this period board continued to pay out at year’s rates. Later an adjust t was made, together with the 1 deferred payment. is probable that all Pacific a boards operate in a similar regarding the initial price.

Fiji, to get of any surplus, price paid to producers is ;ased for a certain period to inate the surplus. This method introduced to Tonga in 1948, had a short life as the result strong representations from ucers. le Tonga system of deferred nents involves a considerable unt of clerical work, as a rd of each producer is kept.

Included in this international group recently snapped at Papeete are centre, Mayor Alfred Poroi, with Mme.

Poroi further to the right. On the left is a

Rarotonga businessman,

Mr. Johnny Webb, with Mrs. Webb. Between the Mayor and Mme.

Poroi is Dr. Bridgeman, of New Zealand. On the Mayor's other side is a Suva Indian businessman, Mr. Shankar Pratap, and second from the right end is a Japanese visitor, Mr. Yasoda.

Island Girl Stowaways

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Cause Excitement

SYDNEY’S daily press gave con siderable space in September to a couple of Island girls who arrived from Wellington as stowa ways aboard the Dutch freighter Zonnewijk.

Perhaps because Tahitians are thought to be more “glamorous,” the girls, both named Williams but unrelated, were described as Tahitians until later proceedings disclosed otherwise. The girls were from Samoa.

One girl, Anita, alias Sarah, aged 17, was said to have left a Dutch man waiting in the church at Wellington, when they were to have been married some days before her stowing away. She had meanwhile teamed up with another Dutch

seaman In the Zonnewijk who arranged the stowing-away of both girls.

On arrival at Sydney, the girls were locked in a ship’s cabin pending deportation. At night they escaped. One girl, Lili, also aged 17, was recaptured hiding elsewhere in the ship—and packed off to New Zealand aboard another ship.

Dutchman No. 2 and Anita were picked up some days later.

Meanwhile Dutchman No. 1 arrived on the scene as steward in another Dutch ship and, according to the Press, tried to re-establish relations with Anita without success.

Some days later Anita was shipped back to Auckland and the remainder of the sordid story was told in a court there. The girl had gone to New Zealand on a visitor’s permit in September, 1954.

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Airport Has

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Eastern Samoa’s Ta[?] Airport Has ‘Non-Scheduled’ Serv [?]

Pan American Airv

made its first regular scheduled” flight thr Eastern Samoa’s Tafuna Ai southbound and northbound, in October.

Some survey flights were several mpnths ago, but c«: airport facilities had to be insa before the American Aeronautics Administration ■ sanction Tafuna for a ' scheduled” service.

It is expected that PAA will approximately monthly calls, aircraft was booked out Tafuna for the first northtf flight.

To the man in the street never quite clear how an a:j can be classed as suitable occasional “non-scheduled” flf yet not be approved for re scheduled services.

In the case of Tafuna much . money has to be spent on the port before it will be classify suitable for this purpose—ano same situation applies withr Santo, New Hebrides, airfields.; The position was clarified b Australian Civil Aviation offlc: r[E state and dimensions oc actual airstrips are onljA, aspect. An airfield maf quite suitable for the operatioc a certain type of aircraft r suitable weather conditions, be comply with International Aviation Organisation standard a fully approved international port, it must have all the vs facilities—radio, special ligH etc. —to permit landings und© weather conditions and so maii the published schedule.

For “non-scheduled” operas the aircraft may have to del© flight until the approved wee conditions exist, and approvae such flights may be conditt upon extra fuel (and passengers) being carried to p*c continuing on to another alterm airport in the event of weathr wind conditions preventing laL on arrival.

Oil Search Shares Up[?]

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OIL SEARCH shares jumped 1/6 in Sydney in late September.

The company has a 10 per cent, im in oil drilling: in Papua with £1 Petroleum (formerly Anglo-Iranian)j Vacuum Oil jointly holding the 90 per cent.

The latest report, on September I£J that deepening had ceased at the AA No. 1 hole. Basement was reached atu feet and a series of formation testse being carried out.

Advertisements & other items, p. 142 (1 item)

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[?]rvey Criticises

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143

[?]landers’ are of Infants

Iss Sheila Malcolm’S

[survey of Diet and Nutrition in the Trust Territory of the ific Islands (meaning the Ameri [ Trust Territory of Micronesia) tters a few more fond South Sea lions. he survey has just been lished by the South Pacific Emission as Technical Paper 83 (2/- Stg.). iss Malcolm made this SPC rey between June and October, f to investigate the diet, rition, eating habits, and iw t h and development of Jonesian children from birth to [rears of age. le examined 1,007 children over ide area of this territory, which lists of 1,460 islands and reefs, of them permanently settled, l a total population of about X).

IR those who think of parts of Micronesia as probably some of the most “unspoiled” areas in Pacific, one of Miss Malcolm’s t surprising findings is in regard ifant feeding. le survey reports that only 24 cent of babies in the Marshall up are breast fed, in Yap 40 cent, in the Palaus 49 per cent, 'onape 58 per cent, and in Truk >er cent. le survey says that “early ease in breast milk secretion, lability of canned milk, and iging habits are probably the i causes.” lere is practically no fresh milk lable in the Territory, here breast feeding is still in le, Miss Malcolm reports that s almost invariably on the nand” system, and not by clock un. :cept near the main centres, re hygiene education is more meed there is litttle hygiene egard to botttle feeding, wertheless, though intestinal ns are common, the children lot seem to be much the worse, survey says that about 20 per of children seen were above, equivalent to, Australian dards as to weight, height, and ral development. Approximately >er cent, though weighing less ige than Australians, showed no s of retarded health. But 30 cent were far below Australian dards.

DGRESS seems to be retarded between the eighth and 14th months, when weaning takes e or milk is replaced by other s. iss Malcolm’s recommendations that breast feeding be en aged, and that efforts be made

to improve the availability of local foods by better means of distri bution, local food markets, etc., and that programmes of education on diet, nutrition, and hygiene be extended. t Heavy weather at Norfolk Island in September caused BP’s new Tulagi, on her first visit, to depart without discharging any of the freezer cargo—but after landing a “colossal amount” of beer, a corres

pondent reports.

t Bulolo Gold Dredging Limited has been awarded a £205,000 contract for the erection of 33 houses for the Administration at Port Moresby.

Samoan Legislators '

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Tour Ended

GENUINE friendship had been shown them in New Zealand, said the five Western Samoan legislators who returned to Apia on September 29 after a fortnight’s visit to the Dominion as guests of the Government.

The party spent a week observing parliamentary procedure at Welling ton and later inspected land development work. t To the beginning of September New Caledonia had this year ex ported mineral products worth £A5,600,000.

Advertisements & other items, pp. 143-144 (3 items)

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[?]Rliest Island

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145

146

[?]Amps Are

[?]Luable To-Day

By K. Norman.

)SE among us who collect or jisplay an interest in stamps Eanating from countries of the ic, find it difficult to secure all s of stamps issued over the tecially is this so, if we are raverage philatelists,” and can tfford to purchase the higher hination issues. nrever, there are many who some, and a number of col 's who would give a lot, to re the original issues brought when particular Pacific Gov jnts put their countries for the time on the philatelic map. first stamps, for example, of ew Guinea in 1897 were over rinted German issues, bearing inscription: “Deutsch-Neu >a,” and it was not until 1925, ■ Australian Mandate, that the definite series made their ranee. ise ranged in value from Id to I stamps in all, and gave a ■e of a typical street in a i village in the territory, ly Papuan stamps went under itle of “British New Guinea” they first went on issue in The peculiar lakatoi, familiar ilatelists the world over, was pictured, passing by the village nuabada. Values ranged from • 2/6. y in 1952 did stamps under the ned title of Papua and New Ja appear on the philatelic it. Still current, the fifteen >s, from Id to £1 gave interest spects of New Guinea life and ties.

SLVE stamps, all possessing le common design of Ball ay, with its “Whispering Pines” e background, was the motif he stamps first provided for Ik Island during 1947. ! of the longest-running stamp is was that in use on the “per nt” stamps from Nauru, first I in 1924. This was of a phos -carrying steamer offshore, tn 1916 to 1920 the stamps of Britain overprinted “Nauru” used at Nauru. very primitive drawing of eon 111 (1803-1873) figured on rst stamps circulated by New onia in 1860. The value was nts. • first issues made by New des were Fijian issues over sd, appearing in 1911. The same “definitive” labels were dis ed, being printed and en d by the English stamp-print rm of de la Rue and Co.

The centrepiece for the designs showed an array of weapons, native implements and idols, with the French Coat of Arms at the left and the British at the right.

Pitcairn Islands Came On

issue in 1940, and the designs related to personalities of the armed vessel Bounty. Portrayed were Lieutenant Bligh and the mutineers Fletcher Christian and John Adams.

There were eight denominations in the series, priced from Id to 2/6.

Clusters of oranges, and pictures of the Bounty were also featured.

France circulated stamps for use in its Oceanic Settlements, the scattered French-owned islands of the Pacific. Although overprinted Issues appeared in 1892, the first permanent stamps of 1913 pictured a woman, a group of men and a view of the Valley of Fautaua, in Tahiti.

Fijian stamps were employed by the postal authorities in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in 1911. Stamps under Gilbert and Ellice Islands control were printed the same year, and were four in number, id, Id, 2d and 2ld, when a fine pandanus was the illustrated topic.

The British Solomon Islands re leased its first stamps in 1907, and on that occasion the designs in use featured a huge, fully-manned war canoe. There were seven stamps in the series.

THE first stamps of Western Samoa were lithographed by S. T. Leigh and Co., of Sydney, in 1877, and were in value Id, 3d and 6d. The design included the words “Samoa Express” with the value be low.

King George Tupou I graced the original stamps of Tonga in 1886,

which were printed at the Stamp Printing Office, Wellington, New Zealand.

Similarly, in 1892, the first Cook Islands stamps were printed at Wellington. They included Id, lid, 2ld and lOd values. The words, “Cook Islands Federation,” with the value below, was the subject of the design.

Niue, until 1920, used New Zea land stamps overprinted, on the latter occasion using Cook Island issues specially titled, “Niue.”

Tokelau, the former Union Islands, did not enter the stamp world until 1948, when three stamps character ised maps and the villages of Nukunono, Atafu and Fakaofo.

The Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia) first circulated stamps in 1864, and these portrayed King William 111 of Orange.

THE Hawaiian Islands had their own stamps before using chose of the United States. The first issue appeared in 1851, and was printed locally in three values. The

design included an ornate fi work, the value and the “Hawaiian Postage.”

These stamps were know?

“Missionaries,” since they mostly used on letters sent hon missionaries. To-day a copy fetch good money.

The first stamps from Fiji in were printed at the office oc Pip Times , Levuka, and comp stamps for Id, 3d, 6d and 1/- ■ newspaper established its own vate post.

The design was a square witl words: “Fiji” and “Express” i the sides and the values in centre. A copy to-day is * over £2O.

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Resignation of District

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Commissioner lan D[?]

AT the Eastern Highlands D;( Advisory Council (New Gu meeting on September reply to a Question, District missioner lan F. G. Downs* that he had tendered his resign to the Administration.

He added, however, that he 1 not leave Goroka.

Mr. G. Greathead, one of Goroka members of the council he thought the time was oppoc to warn the administrating autK of the turn the Public Service: taking.

“The service is losing fan many experienced officers fo:( too many good reasons,”

Greathead said.

Mr. Downs has had a no career with District Services.

A good deal of it is graphically by Colin Simpsoc Adam in Plumes.

A Scot with a Naval C«( education, Mr. Downs was appco District Commissioner ini Eastern Highlands in 1952, afti years’ service with District Sen

Visit Fiji

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Auckland Footballers Visit Fiji

rE Auckland Suburbs K team returned to New Zes; at the end of September playing four matches durin successful visit to Fiji.

The team beat Northern Dise Europeans, 18-8, and Fiji Europe 17-8. It lost 6-8 to Lomaivii largely Fijian team), and 8-1- Suva Europeans. t The following are now the m bers of the Cook Islands I Advisory Committee as a resuu recent elections: European groc Mr. Ralph J. A. Ingram. M growers, Mr, Tita Anautoa ancb Teariki Tuavera. A third M vacancy was not filled.

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[?]Orfolk Island's

p. 147

147

[?]Z Air

[?]Nk To Return

ASMAN Empire Airways will [ start a fortnightly Auckland [ Norfolk Island air passenger 3 freight service on November [according to an announcement [early October. [he service will, for the present, operated under charter by bias Empire Airways in conjunc i with the existing Sydney rfolk service with Skymaster air ft. tom November 6, aircraft will ire Norfolk on alternate Sundays 7.30 a.m., arrive Auckland 11.15 i., depart at 1.15 p.m., and arrive k at Norfolk at 4.15 p.m. assenger fares will be £NZI9/15/jle, and £NZ3S/11/- return. The iraft can handle 40 first class sengers and a ton of cargo, ight rates are 2/3NZ per kilo, i lower rates for special com iities. Tourist passenger rates ' not at present apply on this te. d fit in with this new service, itas has altered its Sydney folk flights. Aircraft will now e Sydney fortnightly at 11.30 . Saturday, arrive Norfolk 6.15 . Sunday, make the Auckland it as above, then leave Norfolk >.30 p.m. Sunday, arriving back Sydney at 9.30 p.m. lie former weekly Thursday re ; flights are cancelled.

ITH the announcement of a new and better passenger air service between Auckland and folk Island, the Norfolk iders, according to a corres lent, are planning an all-out 5 to encourage a lucrative ist traffic from New Zealand, le correspondent says that all agreed that a licensed hotel is ted, and that the Administra and residents will do all they to help the establishment of a hotel. esumably a decision on licens would rest with Canberra.

Tongan Schoolboys

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Successful Rugby Tour by Tongan Schoolboys

E Tongan Schools Rugby team, during their visit to Fiji, were downed by Fijian teams rep iting Queen Victoria School, in Memorial School and Com i Fijian Schools. But the ;an boys scored good wins over Kadavulevu School, Navuso cultural School and Vatukoula n School.

Apia the tourists beat a ian Schools team.

Capuchin Monks

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fJX) establish a new Catholic X mission station in the Southern Highlands of New Guinea, six Capuchin plonks arrived in Sydney from Pittsburgh, USA, early in October and were to proceed to New Guinea later in the month.

The next mission, which will be under the jurisdiction of Bishoo Sorin, MSC, Vicar Apostolic of Port Moresby, is headed by the Rev.

Father Otmar Gallagher, OF vi Cap.

Of the remaining priests, Father Berard Tommassetti served with the US Marine Corps before his

ordination, and Father Henry Kusnerik was, some time ago, attached for a period to Leichhardt parish, Sydney. t The house of Mr. B. lorss, well known Tahiti resident, was de stroyed by fire, with all contents, in September.

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Aircraft Saved At Tokelau

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But Apia Ship Now Missing

lOMMUNICATIONS between [ Western Samoa and New aland’s Tokelau atolls to the rth* always a problem, have caused tra worry in recent months, first came a mishap to a RNZAF nderland flying-boat on August The hull was holed before take at Nukunono atoll, and in a sty beaching to prevent sinking i the lagoon, further serious inage occurred. (September PIM, re 145). first reports said that salvage med unlikely, as no facilities feted at the atoll for even elemen y repairs. lowever, the RNZAF flew in lipment and men from Laucala y, Fiji, and as the result of some id work, and co-operation by the al people, the damaged aircraft s patched up, refloated, and flew Suva on September 11. ’he aircraft had been making a tine quarterly flight with ad iistrative officials from Western noa when the accident occurred.

EXT incident was reported early in October. Captain T. F.

Miller’s 70 ton, 75 ft. tuna

clipper Joyita (photo August PIM, page 117) registered at Honolulu but lying idle at Apia for some time, was chartered to carry Trade Scheme officials and deck passen gers to the Tokelaus, and to bring back a copra cargo.

The vessel failed to arrive at Fakaofo, the southernmost atoll, 280 miles from Apia.

The RNZAF was again called in, and was still searching two weeks later, on October 17.

Joyita was well-found and has voyaged extensively on long Pacific passages in recent years.

Best guess was that the vessel was drifting with engine trouble, though that did not seem to explain the silence from her powerful radio, powered from independent aux iliary.

Joyita had 24 persons aboard, including nine passengers. Euro peans mentioned included Mr. R.

Pearless, who was appointed last March to the newly created post of Tokelau Officer, and Mr. H. T.

Hodgkinson, a pharmacist of the Western Samoa Health Department.

Nickel Industry

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[?]pan Aids NC Nickel Industry

because Japan is pre pared to take large quantities of low grade nickel ore —a ie which is unsaleable elsewhere ickel mining is flourishing in j Caledonia. A great many small les, formerly unprofitable, have aened, and new mines are ap ring. [M’s Noumea correspondent says t this not only permits the Her mines to operate, but it ps the richer ore for New Cale ia’s reserves, and, most impor ts helps the local smelters, by ig a richer ore, to compete on world market with Japanese Iters. ne of the most important of the ■grade mines, at Kouaou, has e 50 ten-ton trucks constantly 7 transporting the ore to the it. sTOTHER important mining re port states that the French Government has granted a ign company “personal author ion” for the first time to mine in r Caledonia. he company is the huge Fal bridge Nickel Co. of Ontario, iada. It plans to investigate lit, laterite, and limonite-ser tine mixtures, as the result of

an important processing discovery made recently by the company.

Falconbridge is reported to have solved the problem of processing low-grade complex ores by a roast ing and leaching process. Opera tions are planned in the Plane of Lakes area.

It is not yet known whether the company will establish a smelting plant locally or ship the ore to Canada.

Cook Islands Ship To

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Resume Soon

SINCE the New Zealand Depart ment of Island Territories de cided to carry out major re pairs on the Cook Islands supply vessel Maui Pomare, work has pro ceeded apace at Auckland, and it is hoped that the vessel will resume the service in mid-December.

Captain Hare, for many years chief officer of the vessel, will be in command following the retirement of Captain Boulton. t Qantas Empire Airways carried 118,495 passengers last year, com pared with 106,595 in 1953.

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Hope Abandoned [?]

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Mystery in Papua

New Zealander

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BY early October the Moresby police had virti; abandoned hope of finr alive the young New Zealan Peter Millar, who became loss the Brown River jungle on Am 21 (September PIM, page 157 X At one stage of the strange see more than 500 Papuans and Et peans, plus a Queensland trau were scouring the area for MJ By the first week in October ten Papuans were still searching Millar became separated froc shooting party. As the searchr veloped, it became apparent he was evading rescue.

He was seen by two natives, , talked with them, about ten after the search started, but them and again disappeared inr bush.

It is estimated that Papua’s i extensive search has cost a£

£Lo,Ooo.

Millar’s father, who travelled i New Zealand to Port Moresby September, said on October 4 he believed his son was dead.

Mr. Millar expressed the utic gratitude to the civil and 3. authorities and to the Papuan j European volunteer searchers..

The P-NG Administrator (Bn dier D. M. Cleland) has said those who took part in the see deserved the highest praise expressed his personal thanksc t To late September, 104,000 of nickel ore had been expo from New Caledonia to Japan 1955.

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Miss Heinig at Rabaul

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[?]iss Christine Heinig, an American expert [?]hild-education speaking at the opening of Rabaul Pre-School Centre on September She described the centre as worthy of [?] arison with any she had seen in her [?]ls round the world. —Photo by C. H. Meen.

Radio Off-Beam

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[?]apeete Coconut Radio Off-Beam

3ERE is never a lack of Island old-timers able to cite cases of the working of the mysterious onut radio. o-and-so’s aunt died at Hiva and Cousin Tere knew all about it Mangareva ten seconds later, ; is less frequent, however, that ;s are cited where the receiving ion has clearly been off [uency—such as a case in Tahiti September. ays before the 78-ton schooner aita was due from the Tuamotu, eete was abuzz with a coconut io news-flash that there were )ts of gold aboard—loot from Peru, which tradition states, buried at a Tuamotu atoll. r hen the schooner was sighted, svork on the waterfront came to lit, and a large crowd assembled ;he little ship came alongside— :h to the bewilderment of >per Charles Palmer, Jr. and crew. reasure? A full cargo of copra mother-of-pearl shell worth a let of money, certainly, but loot

i Lima—unfortunately, no,

t least, so the skipper insists, man with the off-tune coconut o, if he could be found, would oubtedly maintain that his iver was in order whatever body said to the contrary.

Fijian Ceremonial

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Move to Maintain Standard of Fijian Ceremonial

CONCERN over a deterioration in the standard of Fijian ceremonial, and particularly ceremonies of welcome, has pro duced a Government move to en courage the proper observance of these ceremonies.

Some Fijian and other minds have been exercised on this subject for years, and at times there has been bitter criticism of what has been termed the debasing of Fijian ceremonial for the purposes of tourist shows of one kind or an other.

Another point of criticism has been the increasing habit of accord ing tahua presentations to what a critic once called “every Tom, Dick and Harry—more or less.”

The main argument of the critics has been that Fijian ceremonies, fundamentally of high significance, are too often trotted out for the entertainment of stray people who legard them merely as “quaint Island (or ‘native’) customs,” and it would be difficult to prove that any form of ceremonial does not lose both dignity and significance when it is in effect relegated to the status of a sideshow, or something to flatter persons who have not a claim in the world to any mark of special Fijian regard.

THE Fiji Public Relations Office stated on September 21 that the District Officer Maritime has has been asked to record fully the correct ceremonial procedure of welcome in Lau so that it can be published as a guide, and District Commissioners have been asked for records of proper ceremonial in other areas.

It is believed that unless there are guides, and unless constructive criticism is made by responsible officers, mistakes will be made, per formers will become careless, and the ceremonies will deteriorate.

Traditional ceremonies vary from place to place in Fiji, but it is thought feasible to standardise them within certain areas.

t New Caledonia’s nickel ore pro duction for the first half of 1955 exceeded 400,000 tons. Total ton nage for 1954 was 500,000.

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Film-Player Moira Macdonald Married at Apia

[?]ss Moira Maria Macdonald, known to innumerable filmgoers for her part in the Gary Cooper "Return to Paradise", was married at Apia on September 14 to Mr. John Spencer Walker, [?]sborne New Zealand. Mrs. John Walker, who is the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alec [?]onald, of Vaiala, Apia, will take part in the British film "A Pattern of Islands", now under in Western Samoa. In this picture are (left to right): the bridegroom; Mr. E. E. Paul, who the bride away; the bride; Mrs. Alec Macdonald and Miss Vini Macdonald (bridesmaid). —Photo by G. Edwards.

[?] earlers May Move

To Trobriands

RUSH of pearling vessels from Thursday Island and elsewhere to the Trobriand Group is re ied as a possibility as a result ae repeal of the 1910 proclama excluding non-native pearling els from the Trobriands. le grounds are reported to be in pearl shell and trochus. le proclamation -was made 45 s ago to protect a native sea and to give the local people lance to cash in on a valuable stry. Apparently they have d to do so.

Territory businessman, who is to have played an important in the preliminaries to the al of the proclamation, is ex -3d to have a boat and a Euro i diver working in the Trob is very shortly.

[?] uan Police Included

In New Streamline Plan

E Papuan Police are included n an Australian Government Droposal to bring all Australian e and investigation forces t a single streamlined nisation. ie Federal Cabinet has been ile to reach a decision on the osal so far because of conflict een some of the organisations ved. e Territories Minister (Mr.

Hasluck) is reported to have ;ted to the transfer of the lan police force.

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