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THE Pacific Islands
Fix this textMonthly
Fix this textTHE ONLY JOURNAL CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE ISLAND TERRITORIES AND GROUPS
Fix this textOF THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH PACIFIC.
Fix this textVol. 1—No. 7
Fix this textRegistered at G.P.O., Sydney, for
Fix this texttransmission by Post as a Newspaper
Fix this textSYDNEY; FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1931
Fix this textPer Annum, posted, •/-.
Fix this textSingle Copy, Bd.
Fix this textSOLID FIJI
Fix this textExports Exceed Imports
Fix this textA FIJIAN’S WORD OF ADVICE
Fix this text“Fiji is absolutely solid. Our assets
Fix this textare above our liabilities and we practi
Fix this textcally have no debt. Our exports are
Fix this textfar ahead of our imports.”
Fix this textIN this brief but convincing manner,
Fix this textMr. Thomas Horne, managing direc
Fix this texttor of Messrs. W. Horne and Co. Ltd.,
Fix this textof Suva, and a vice-president of the
Fix this textSuva Chamber of Commerce, described
Fix this textthe present economic position of Fiji,
Fix this textin a recent interview. And, just to give
Fix this texta little more force to his remarks, he
Fix this textadded, “And don’t forget, the Fiji £1
Fix this textbanknote is worth the full 20 shillings.”
Fix this textMr. Horne arrived in Sydney last
Fix this textmonth, coming South for health rea
Fix this textsons. His many friends throughout the
Fix this textColony will be pleased to know that he
Fix this texthas recuperated and plans to return to
Fix this textSuva in March.
Fix this textFIJIANS ARE FORTUNATE
Fix this textMr. Horne related a most interesting
Fix this textstory to show how the Fijian native
Fix this textviews the present world-wide slump.
Fix this text“A Fijian asked a Government offi
Fix this textcial why the price of copra was so
Fix this textlow, and the official referred him to
Fix this textme for an explanation. I told the
Fix this textnative that there was over-production
Fix this textof nearly every commodity. There was
Fix this textmore sugar than the world required,
Fix this textmore copra, more coffee, more tea. The
Fix this textresult was that prices of produce were
Fix this textlow and this caused much unemploy
Fix this textment and poverty. There was no chance
Fix this textof copra going up for some time.
Fix this text“The old Fijian, who is 85 years of
Fix this textage—but who can still husk a coconut
Fix this textwith his teeth —thanked me for the in
Fix this textformation.
Fix this text“Addressing the assembled natives
Fix this textthis old man said:
Fix this text“ ‘This is an object lesson to all you
Fix this textyoung people here. The island is ours
Fix this textand no one can take it away from us.
Fix this textMy advice to you is to plant up and
Fix this textproduce yams, taros, bananas and coco
Fix this textnuts. If you have not enough food
Fix this textto keep you going while your planta
Fix this texttion is growing, you can live on the
Fix this textproducts of the bush. You have a sea
Fix this textall round you where you can catch
Fix this textfish. You can raise poultry and pigs.
Fix this textIf the worst comes to the worst and
Fix this textyou have no money, do as your fore
Fix this textfathers did and make your clothes
Fix this textout of bark. After what Mr. Horne
Fix this texthas told us, we are better off in Fiji
Fix this textthan anywhere else in the world.”
Fix this textFIJI MINING COMPANY
Fix this textMount Kasi Mining Co. (No Liability)
Fix this texthas been registered in Sydney with a
Fix this textcapital of £15,000 in 100,000 shares of
Fix this text3/- each.
Fix this textThe first place of intended operations
Fix this textis the island of Vanua Levu, Fiji.
Fix this textIntending subscribers are: E. J.
Fix this textWhitehead, A. E. Brown, W. Mitchell.
Fix this textC. T. Griffiths, T. L. Stark, I. B. Brown
Fix this textand T. G. Peek.
Fix this textSearch For Oil
Fix this textProspects in New Guinea
Fix this textDr. Woolnough’s Report
Fix this textFrom Our Canberra Correspondent
Fix this textCANBERRA, February 14.
Fix this textTHE Minister for Home Affairs, Mr.
Fix this textBlakeley, has received a voluminous
Fix this textreport from Dr. W. G. Woolnough,
Fix this textCommonwealth Geologist, who recently
Fix this textreturned from a trip abroad.
Fix this textDr. Woolnough’s mission was to in
Fix this textquire into the most up-to-date methods
Fix this textof prospecting for oil, and most of his
Fix this texttime was spent in America. He has
Fix this textreturned hopeful that oil will be found
Fix this textin Australia.
Fix this textSo far as Papua and the Mandated
Fix this textTerritory of New Guinea are concern
Fix this texted, Dr. Woolnough has never enter
Fix this texttained any doubts about the existence
Fix this textof oil there, but one trouble has been
Fix this textthat the mud-stone formation of the
Fix this textcountry, where bores have been put
Fix this textdown, has militated against successful
Fix this textwork. Possibly better results will be
Fix this textobtained in future.
Fix this textFor a considerable time the Common
Fix this textwealth Government was financing op
Fix this texterations in Papua, which were being
Fix this textjointly conducted by Commonwealth
Fix this textand Anglo-Persian Oil officials, but,
Fix this textowing to the financial stringency, it
Fix this textwas compelled some time ago to restrict
Fix this textits operations, and at present they are
Fix this textpractically at a standstill.
Fix this textGenerally speaking, it seems more
Fix this textlikely that oil will be discovered in pay
Fix this textable quantities in Papua or the Manda
Fix this textted Territory before such a discovery
Fix this textis made in Australia. It is said that
Fix this textthe Anglo-Persian Company holds this
Fix this textview, and it will be interesting to see
Fix this textwhat Dr. Woolnough has to say about
Fix this textit in his report.
Fix this textChinese Commissioner To Visit
Fix this textPacific Islands
Fix this textMr. Yu Chuen Hsien, special com
Fix this textmissioner from the National Govern
Fix this textment of China, arrived in Sydney on
Fix this textJanuary 30.
Fix this textHe has been sent to investigate the
Fix this textaffairs of overseas Chinese and to
Fix this textsupervise and direct the Fourth Con
Fix this textference of the Australasia and South
Fix this textPacific Kuo Min Tang (Chinese Nation
Fix this textalist Party) branches.
Fix this textIf time permits, he intends visiting
Fix this textthe South Sea Islands.
Fix this textThe number of vessels which entered
Fix this textand cleared Papuan ports during 1928-
Fix this text29 was 171. Of that number, 162 were
Fix this textBritish owned. The total tonnage was
Fix this text184,946.
Fix this textACTING-ADMINISTRATOR
Fix this textOF NAURU
Fix this textMr. Gabels’ Appointment
Fix this textFrom Our Canberra Correspondent
Fix this textMR. CARL GABEL, who has been
Fix this textappointed Acting-Administrator of
Fix this textNauru, left for the islands by the S.S.
Fix this textClydebank.
Fix this textHe will remain at Nauru for three
Fix this textmonths during the absence on leave
Fix this textof the Administrator, Mr. W. A. New
Fix this textman, who is spending a holiday in
Fix this textAustralia.
Fix this textMr. Gabel has acted as private sec
Fix this textretary to Mr. Beasley ever since the
Fix this textlatter assumed office as an Assistant
Fix this textMinister in the Scullin Government.
Fix this textDuring Mr. Gabel’s absence, Mr. J.
Fix this textL. Mulrooney will act as private sec
Fix this textretary to Mr. Beasley.
Fix this textBEE CULTURE
Fix this textIn and Ellice Groups
Fix this textAS the Mexican bee has been found
Fix this textto thrive in the Gilbert and Ellice
Fix this textIslands, steps are being taken there to
Fix this textcarry out experiments in apiculture on
Fix this texta large scale.
Fix this textThe last annual report of the Colony,
Fix this textfor the year ended June, 1929, states
Fix this textthat the expenditure of a few hundred
Fix this textpounds each year in this direction
Fix this textwould be justified by the great possi
Fix this textbilities which might lie in the establish
Fix this textment of a beeswax industry.
Fix this textMINING IN N. GUINEA
Fix this textInquiry Into Conditions
Fix this textFrom Our Canberra Correspondent
Fix this textCANBERRA, February 14.
Fix this textTHE Commonwealth Government re
Fix this textcently appointed Mr. H. S. King,
Fix this textformerly Under Secretary for Mines in
Fix this textWestern Australia, to visit New Guinea
Fix this textand report on the mining conditions
Fix this textthere.
Fix this textMr. King was expected to arrive at
Fix this textRabaul on February 5. His inquiries
Fix this textwill probably occupy a couple of
Fix this textmonths.
Fix this textCopra exported from the Gilbert and
Fix this textEllice Islands during 1928-29 totalled
Fix this text4,122 tons and was valued at £55,657.
Fix this textFor the previous twelve months 4,698
Fix this texttons were exported and the value was
Fix this text£64,833.
Fix this textTROPICAL MANKIND’S GREAT FOE
Fix this textThe History of Malaria Fever
Fix this textSome Hints for its Prevention and Treatment
Fix this textSpecially written for The Pacific Islands Monthly by two tropical practitioners
Fix this textis such a common, homely sort of an occurrence in
Fix this textthe routine of tropical life that very little notice is taken of it.
Fix this textSo frequently does it obtrude that we come to regard an attack
Fix this text—especially in the other fellow—as a "touch of fever,” and many
Fix this texta conscientious planter or official struggles on with his work simply
Fix this textbecause it is not considered playing the game to give way to it
Fix this texttoo easily.
Fix this textThis is an error which is paid for rather dearly, for malaria
Fix this textis one of tropical mankind’s greatest foes.
Fix this textLOOK at malaria’s record; delve into
Fix this texthistory and you will find that it
Fix this texthas been blamed as one cause of the
Fix this textdownfall of the Roman Empire, and it
Fix this textalways in the past has been a deter
Fix this textrent to the work of civilisation in the
Fix this texttropics. The ambition of the French to
Fix this textcut the Panama Canal was frustrated
Fix this textby malaria; early efforts at mining in
Fix this textPapua were held back by its malign
Fix this textinfluence; one might even say that the
Fix this textBritish lost Sumatra largely on ac
Fix this textcount of its heavy toll on officials at
Fix this textBencoolen.
Fix this textIf that’s not making, or rather mis
Fix this textmaking, history, well, what is?
Fix this textEven at the present day the position
Fix this textis not much better.
Fix this textDr. Torrance, in his interesting book.
Fix this text“Tracking down the Enemies of Man,”
Fix this textstates that:
Fix this text“Female mosquitoes cause a greater
Fix this textnumber of deaths every year than the
Fix this textnumber of citizens brought into the
Fix this textworld by the mothers of any of the
Fix this textgreat nations. This is a startling
Fix this textstatement, but facts bear it out. Actual
Fix this textrecords show that these insects kill
Fix this texttwo million people a year, . . .”
Fix this textAnybody with experience of the dis
Fix this textease could believe such figures.
Fix this textFor instance, about two years ago the
Fix this textnatives in a little village in Torres
Fix this textStraits, where malaria is by no means
Fix this textcommon, were attacked almost to a
Fix this textman and many deaths resulted. Law
Fix this textrence Hope knew what she was talk
Fix this texting about when she described malaria’s
Fix this text“Gifts: Death and Delirium.”
Fix this textINVESTIGATIONS BY
Fix this textHERODOTUS.
Fix this textThe story of the investigations into
Fix this textmalaria fever, which have now brought
Fix this textus to a very complete understanding
Fix this textof the disease, reads like a romance.
Fix this textIt started in a very early stage of the
Fix this textworld’s history with a remarkably ac
Fix this textcurate description of the disease by
Fix this textHerodotus in the fifth century B.C.
Fix this textIn the Middle Ages our knowledge
Fix this textdid not advance, in fact, that was a
Fix this textperiod of the world’s history when no
Fix this textthing advanced, but in 1640 we read of
Fix this texttwo doctors, Morton and Torti, first
Fix this textusing Cinchona (quinine) in the treat
Fix this textment of ague. That was a step for
Fix this textward, a discovery worthy of being em
Fix this textblazoned on the records of the world’s
Fix this textprogress, and yet, outside of academi
Fix this textcal circles, who has ever heard of the
Fix this textnames of these benefactors of human
Fix this textity?
Fix this textIn 1880 the French doctor, Laveran,
Fix this textdiscovered the parasitic nature of mal
Fix this textaria and demonstrated the various
Fix this textforms of the parasite found within the
Fix this textblood corpuscles of the victims of the
Fix this textdisease. But these forms only consti
Fix this texttute one stage in the life history of
Fix this textthe parasite, and the germ requires an
Fix this textother host than Man for the comple
Fix this texttion of its cycle.
Fix this textIt is to two great Englishmen that
Fix this textwe owe the final solution of how we
Fix this textcatch malaria Sir Patrick Manson
Fix this textand Sir Ronald Ross. The great Man
Fix this textson, working patiently in his laboratory
Fix this textin Amoy, China, conceived the idea
Fix this textthat the mosquito would be found to
Fix this textbe the causative agent in malaria, and
Fix this texthe handed on his theory to his young
Fix this textcolleague, who finally solved the prob
Fix this textlem of mosquito transmission. His ex
Fix this textperiments were confirmed by Samborn
Fix this textand Low at the London School of
Fix this textTropical Medicine. We believe that Dr.
Fix this textLow practised in the Pacific, and some
Fix this textof those who read this little article
Fix this textmay have made his acquaintance.
Fix this textHOW INFECTION TAKES PLACE.
Fix this textLet us briefly summarise the process
Fix this textmosquito infection, remembering
Fix this textthat it is the female that causes the
Fix this textdisease, the male being a poor, harm
Fix this textless sort of crank who lives upon fruit
Fix this textjuices only:
Fix this text“In 1900 the tropical colonies of Eng
Fix this textland, Holland, France, Germany, Italy
Fix this textand America were danger zones for
Fix this textwhite men. The mosquito had ab
Fix this textsolute right of way and worked as they
Fix this textstill do whenever the opportunity is
Fix this textgiven them. The female blood-suckers
Fix this textgorge themselves with human blood, at
Fix this textthe same time sucking into their bod
Fix this texties young germs that patiently swim in
Fix this textthe blood, waiting for transference to
Fix this texttheir new home.
Fix this textThen, after a few days, these same
Fix this textfemales hunt up a new victim, suck
Fix this textout a meal of blood, and for payment
Fix this textpump into the blood stream mature
Fix this textand dangerously developed malaria
Fix this textgerms, each of which at once takes
Fix this textpossession of a red blood cell. In this
Fix this textcell the parasite lives and multiplies
Fix this textinto a family, in the process destroying
Fix this textthe blood cell thousands and thous
Fix this textands of parasites develop and destroy
Fix this textenormous numbers of blood cells. The
Fix this texteffect of this on the human victim is
Fix this textsoon strikingly shown. After a num
Fix this textber of days, approximately twelve, this
Fix this textcauses periodic fevers, anaemia, a large
Fix this textspleen and numerous other conditions,
Fix this textproducing less of vitality and weaken
Fix this texting the body, leading to prostration
Fix this textand possibly death.”—Torrance.
Fix this textIn all respects but one the identifi
Fix this textcation of the offending Anopheles mos
Fix this text(CONTINUED ON PAGE 2)
Fix this textDR. W. G. WOOLNOUGH
Fix this textA mangrove swamp in New Guinea. As told in the accompanying article, places like this
Fix this textare the favourite homes of the Anopheles mosquito.
Fix this textSPECIAL ARTICLES ON
Fix this textCOPRA
Fix this textA careful investigation of the Copra
Fix this textMarket was made by the editor of The
Fix this textPacific Islands Monthly (Mr. R. W. Rob
Fix this textson) during his visit to London in Janu
Fix this textary. He obtained a great deal of valuable
Fix this textdata from men in England, Germany, Hol
Fix this textland and Ceylon, who have made a life-
Fix this textlong study of the production and treat
Fix this textment of Oil Seeds of all kinds, more par
Fix this textticularly in relation to the Copra Industry.
Fix this textThe result of this inquiry which, it is
Fix this texthoped, will be of assistance to South Seas
Fix this textplanters in their present difficult situation,
Fix this textwill be published in a series of articles in
Fix this textthis journal, commencing in the March
Fix this textissue.
Fix this textThe articles will explain some of the
Fix this textcauses of the present depression and will
Fix this textgive particular attention to the the prob
Fix this textable future of the Copra Industry.
Fix this textThose who are not regular subscribers to
Fix this textthis journal should make certain of ob
Fix this texttaining this useful information by imme
Fix this textdiately sending in their order for the
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