Pacific islands monthly : PIM

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N 919 PAC
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[Sydney : Pacific Publications, 1931-2000
Issue
Vol. 2 No. 3 (Oct. 23, 1931)
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Contents

THE Pacific lslands Monthly 1
SWEET POTATOES Tonga Invades N.Z. Market 1
Advertising 1
£4 PER TON! On Australian Rice NEW CALEDONIA’S RETALIATION 1
ANOTHER 'PITCAIRNER’ PASSES Death of Aunt Naomi Quintal PICTURESQUE 93 YEARS 1
THE SLUMP IN CENTRAL PACIFIC Shore Depots Being Abandoned 1
SUVA SEES MANY YACHTS 1
TONGAN TRADE 1
RICH METALS IN THE LOUISLADES 1
UNDISCIPLINED NATIVES A Growing Menace In New Guinea Planter’s Protest Against Official Mollycoddling of Plantation Labour 1 , 2 , 3
Advertising 2 , 3
Placer and Bulolo Annual Reports Issued Satisfactory Progress 3
Rain at Port Moresby Six Months’ Drought Broken 3
Advertising 3 , 4
New Guinea Flying Weather Conditions Improving 4
PAPUAN SUGAR Big Scheme Afoot Half Million for Enterprise Near Buna 4
Salamaua Wedding Celebrated At Logui Church 4
THE MONGOOSE IN FIJI 4
Advertising 4
NEWS FROM WESTERN SAMOA Cocoa Crop Unsatisfactory Fine New Post Office Minor Industries Quiet 5
Advertising 5
Papuan Patrol To Heart of Gold Country Tiveri Watershed Visited 5
Advertising 5 , 6
News From Norfolk Island Chamber of Commerce Formed—More Settlers Arrive 6
TONGAN PARLIAMENT Session Closes No Salary Reductions 6
COOK ISLANDS EVENTS OF THE MONTH 6
Advertising 6
THE TROCHUS Is It Migratory? SCIENTISTS AND DIVERS DIFFER 7
Advertising 7
CONDITIONS IN TONGA Need For Constructive Policy 7
NORFOLK ISLAND TRADE 7
Advertising 7
THE BREMERHAVEN 8
TROPICALITIES 8
Papuan Civil Servants Salary Cuts Expected 8
CAPT. HILLMAN Death In Sydney Well-known B.P. Commander 8
Samoan Bananas Big Shipment for N.Z. 8
SALAMAUA’S FIRST CHURCH 8
SEVERE ’QUAKE In Solomon Islands HOUSES AND WHARF DESTROYED AT SU’U. 8
Tidal Wave Sweeps San Christoval 18 Villages Wiped Out 8
CRUEL TREATMENT U.S.A. Yacht Deserters In Samoa EUROPEANS’ INDIGNATION 8
PAPUAN GOLD Tauri Field’s Prospects MR. DUNSTAN IMPRESSED 9
"Axe” Is Missing But B.S.I. Are In Line With G.M.T.! 9
FIJI GOLD Crushing To Start Next Year 9
LADY ANGLER TAKES HUGE FISH 9
Copra, Exchange and Sterling How It Works In Fiji Australian Planters Are Envied 9
NATIVES AND COPRA SLUMP Position In New Guinea 9
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF PAPUA 9
M. GUYON Popular Governor’s Retirement Opposed 9
A ROYAL TORTOISE 9
’FLU IN SAMOA IN VERY MILD FORM 9
WHALING IN 1932 Effect On Copra 9
N. Guinea—Papua Steamer Services Linked Marsina to be Withdrawn 9
TUNG OIL PLANTS IN SOLOMONS 9
Advertising 10
AITUTAKI NEWS Island Recovering From Hurricane 10
THIS FASCINATING “PIDGIN” Its Origin, and How It Works 10
"LASSETER’S LAST RIDE” Gold Quest Epic 10
Advertising 10
RICE FOR TAHITI A Chinese Syndicate’s Plans ANTIMAONO’S INTERESTING HISTORY 11
Advertising 11
PACIFIC ISLANDS ASSOCIATION Draft Constitution IMPORTANT MEETING IN MARCH 11
"COFFIN SHIP” Taiping’s Unique Cargo 11
Advertising 11 , 12
Ariki Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Coronation 12
FINANCES OF NEW GUINEA Residents Enjoy Tax Remission 12
The Bremerhaven Planters Defend N.D.L. Service Suggested Penalty Strongly Opposed. 12
Share In Plantation Wanted 12
Advertising 12
PAPUAN NEWS Conditions In Territory Local Firm’s Fight for Trade 13
Advertising 13
THE UNILEVER COMBINE 13
N. Guinea’s Depleted Revenue Looking for New Tax Sources 13
The Choice of Refinement Ashes of Roses Perfume and Face Powder 13
Advertising 13 , 14
ARA CREEK GOLD Engineer’s Unfavourable Report 14
SAMOAN AFFAIRS Mr. Nelson’s Comments 14
THE SOLOMONS 14
Dressed Bamboo for Hat-Making Tahiti Seeking New Industry 14
Advertising 14
Tip for the Tropics How To Preserve Clothes 15
Advertising 15
N.G. Native Affairs Policy Another Demand For Revision 15
BEANS Demand for N.I. Seeds Big Crops Being Planted 15
MISIMA GOLD New Company to Operate HISTORY OF FIELD 15
Advertising 15 , 16
WEDDING IN BRITISH SOLOMONS 16
Retrenchments Proposed by Fiji Government Salary Cuts Thought Wiser 16
NUKUALOFA BALL "Most Successful” 16
CHINESE IN SAMOA Government Policy Is Permanent Settlement Permitted? 16
VALUE OF GOLD EXPORTED FROM NEW GUINEA. 16
Thursday Island Notes House Accommodation Scarce 16
Advertising 16
PRODUCTS OF THE SOUTH SEAS Copra Prices React to Sterling Readjustment 17
Exchange Quotations 17
Advertising 17
Market Quotations Range of Prices 17
OTHER ISLANDS PRODUCE 17
New Guinea Goldfields Report for September 17
Advertising 17
Shipping Services in The Pacific 18
Advertising 18

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THE Pacific lslands  

Monthly  

THE ONLY JOURNAL CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE ISLAND TERRITORIES AND GROUPS  

OF THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH PACIFIC  

Vol. 2— No. 3.  

Registered at G.P.O., Sydney, for  

transmission by Post as Newspaper  

SYDNEY: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.  

Subscription: Per Annum, posted, 6/-.  

SWEET POTATOES  

Tonga Invades N.Z. Market  

From Our Own Correspondent  

NUKUALOFA, Sept. 1.  

SMALL parcel of sweet potatoes  

shipped to New Zealand by the  

last steamer has brought forth orders  

from the Dominion.  

By this month’s vessel, the Tongan  

Government has arranged to ship, on  

behalf of the natives, some 40 tons,  

in cases. As there has been prolific  

crop this year in Tongatabu, the small  

consignment will undoubtedly be over  

subscribed without any apparent dim  

inution of the whole, and certainly  

without effecting the quantum re  

quired by the people towards their  

own sustenance.  

Altogether, it is pleasing start  

towards the export of continuous  

small monthly consignments during  

the season here, and it may be hoped  

that growers will also go little fur  

ther and consider the possibility of  

such produce as pumpkins, cucum  

bers, tomatoes, etc.  

£4 PER TON!  

On Australian Rice  

NEW CALEDONIA’S  

RETALIATION  

PRIVATE advices received in Syd  

ney state that duty of 500  

francs (about £4) ton has been  

imposed on Australian rice imported  

into New Caledonia.  

Sydney exporters declare the im  

post to be prohibitive.  

Trade between New Caledonia and  

Australia had been increasing recently  

and evidently this has stirred the  

French authorities to action. They  

are not to be blamed, considering the  

enormous tariff which Australia has  

built up against the importation of  

all French goods.  

It is only another example of the  

effect of Australia’s fiscal asininity.  

She put on an absurd tariff, and  

promptly lost the valuable New Cal  

edonia trade, which was at one time  

worth half million per annum to  

Australia. For time it looked as  

if Australia might recover this trade  

with rice. But now rice goes into  

the discard, in New Caledonia, along  

with Australia’s other primary pro  

ducts.  

ANOTHER 'PITCAIRNER’  

PASSES  

Death of Aunt Naomi Quintal  

PICTURESQUE 93 YEARS  

From Our Own Correspondent  

NORFOLK ISLAND, Oct. 2.  

AT half past four on Sunday morn  

ing, September 27, there died,  

in the house of her only surviving  

son, Captain Fletcher Quintal, old  

Aunt Naomi Quintal, oldest of the  

five last Pitcairners—aged 93 pictur  

esque years.  

She was the daughter of George  

Hunn Nobbs, an Irishman and ex  

officer of the Chilean Navy, who threw  

in his lot hundred years ago, with  

the then recently discovered refugees  

from the stolen King’s ship, Bounty—  

which they had sunk off the little  

lost isle of Pitcairn, marooning them  

selves with their Tahitian wives, pris  

oners of the sea for ever.  

Nobbs, whose own name was an  

assumed one, and his birth romantic  

mystery, married Sarah Christian,  

daughter of Fletcher Christian, first  

lieutenant of the Bounty—who led the  

mutiny against his overbearing com  

mander, and who paid the price of  

his rebellion in long years of grief  

and despair within his island paradise  

and died and was buried there.  

With their family, Mr. and Mrs.  

Nobbs (how odd and prosaic that  

sounds) made the great migration to  

Norfolk Island in 1856, and Naomi,  

then handsome, well-grown girl of  

19, never set foot upon another shore.  

She married Caleb Quintal, grand  

son of Ordinary Seaman Quintal,  

sometime of the Bounty, and had five  

children, of whom only two —Captain  

Fletcher Quintal, who fought for Bri  

tain both in the Boar War and the  

Great War, and daughter, Mrs. Mal  

lett, who lives in Sydney—survive her.  

But there is still sister, “Aunt  

Alice” Hebblethwaite, now resident in  

Auckland; and there are many, many  

relatives and descendants of varying  

degrees of kinship. In fact it might  

be said that the whole island com  

munity is one big family. For so  

many easy, dreamy generations they  

lived apart from all the world that  

inter-marriage was imposed upon  

them, and they are related, and re  

lated again, beyond hope of disen  

tanglement.  

Exports from the British Solomon  

Islands for 1929-30 were valued at  

£353,441, as compared with £480,831  

for the previous 12 months.  

THE SLUMP IN CENTRAL  

PACIFIC  

Shore Depots Being Abandoned  

From Our Own Correspondent  

TAHITI, September 20.  

The schooner “Tiare Taporo,” one  

of Messrs. A. B. Donald’s trading fleet,  

is in port from the Cook Islands.  

Captain Viggo Rasmussen, an old  

timer who has been knocking around  

the Eastern Pacific for 40 years, re  

ports deplorable state of affairs in  

the remoter parts of the Cook Islands.  

There, he says, copra is being sold at  

one farthing pound, and yields no  

profit to the buyer at that. The firms  

who have done business there for  

generations are in process of closing  

up their depots and removing their  

agents, and, if there is to be any  

trading done at all in the future,  

which seems doubtful, it is proposed  

to conduct it from the ship’s trade  

room, as in the days of Bully Hayes.  

SUVA SEES MANY YACHTS  

From Our Own Correspondent  

SUVA, October 2.  

IT seems to have been an open sea  

son for yachts.  

The list is headed by the imposing  

Motor Yacht Alva, commanded by  

“Willie K,” otherwise Commodore W.  

K. Vanderbilt, U.S.N.R. She is re  

puted to be the largest yacht afloat  

and has normal cruising speed of 15  

knots, equal to that of the “Aorangi.”  

Her owner is also her Master, no  

sinecure, though he carries crew of  

somewhere over 50, as witnessed by  

the fact that when she was brought  

alongside the wharf at Suva to take  

in water, he did the actual bringing  

alongside himself. Aboard the yacht  

everything was of the best, but there  

was an entire absence of ostentation,  

and the Commodore himself was very  

pleasant and unaffected.  

The little 30-tonner, “Southern  

Cross,” arrived from Tahiti with three  

young men from the Old Country,  

who are making their leisurely way  

round the world.  

Another arrival was the “Viheele,”  

yawl with total complement of 7,  

also on her way round the world, and  

the “Arethusa,” tiny craft, which  

man in the Civil Service sailed  

down from Auckland.  

TONGAN TRADE  

THE following is resume of the  

total value of imports and ex  

ports for the past five years (i.e.,  

1926-1930) as gleaned from the statis  

tics published by the Government of  

Tonga;  

RICH METALS IN THE LOUISIADES  

UNDISCIPLINED NATIVES  

Growing Menace In New Guinea  

Planter’s Protest Against Official Mollycoddling of  

Plantation Labour  

PERSONS interested in the future of New Guinea are asking, with  

increasing frequency, whether the present policy of the Admin  

istration, in regard to the treatment of native labourers and of  

natives generally, is working out in the best interests of all concerned.  

The Commonwealth of Australia ever  

since it accepted from the League of  

Nations the Mandate for the govern  

ment of the Territory of New Guinea,  

has interpreted in the strictest form  

the provisions in Articles and of  

the Mandate, providing for the treat  

ment of natives. The Articles referred  

to are:  

‘“The mandatory shall promote  

to the utmost the material and  

moral well-being and social pro  

gress of the Inhabitants of the  

Territory.”  

“The mandatory shall see ....  

that no forced labour is permitted  

except for essential public works  

and services, and then only for  

adequate remuneration.”  

In the opinion of many people, the  

time has arrived when the Adminis  

tration’s interpretation of those art  

icles, as expressed in the policy it fol  

lows when controlling the relation  

ship between European employers  

and native labourers, should be re  

vised. It is held that the Adminis  

tration’s policy is wrong in concep  

tion and application and that, unless  

it is seriously challenged and altered,  

the effect upon the future of New  

Guinea is likely to be very serious.  

PROTECTION OF NATIVES  

Apparently, the Commonwealth, in  

framing its policy of administration,  

decided to take the utmost precau  

tions against ill-treatment of the  

natives in the direction of any sug  

gestion of forced labour. This was  

wise. There is, unfortunately, class  

of white man who will go to the limit  

in forcing manual labour upon native  

populations, and who, if he is per  

mitted, will impose what is virtually  

condition of slavery.  

The Commonwealth officials, in  

planning the government of New  

Guinea, quite rightly decided to re  

main deaf to blandishments and blind  

to bribes —both of which might be  

readily forthcoming—in preventing  

any improper exploitation of native  

labour.  

But, after ten years of Australian  

administration in New Guinea, the  

question must be seriously asked  

whether the officials have not mis  

construed their own policy and  

unfairly expanded their authority, so  

that, in avoiding one possible evil,  

they have created others of an even  

more serious character.  

MOLLYYCODDLING LABOURERS  

Again and again, since this journal  

was established, 18 months ago, we  

have been asked to give publicity to  

the difficulties which have been cre  

ated owing to the interference of  

Administration officials in the rela  

tionship between planters and their  

native labour. We have hesitated to  

publish the statements supplied to us,  

because it is not our wish to embar  

rass the New Guinea Administration  

in the discharge of the very difficult  

and delicate responsibilities laid upon  

it by the League of Nations. Further,  

the gentlemen who supplied us with  

information did not wish to disclose  

their identity. This meant that this  

journal was obliged to carry full res  

ponsibility for the statements which  

it published. We were not prepared  

to do this until such time as we were  

able personally to investigate condi  

tions on the spot. The following  

information, however, has been sup  

plied to us by well-known New  

Guinea planter, Captain N. A. Milton,  

of Kavieng, New Ireland, who stands  

by what he says.  

CAPTAIN MILTON’S STATEMENT  

Captain Milton is Sandhurst man,  

who held commission in the British  

Army before and during the War. He  

has had lengthy experience in New  

Guinea, and is staunch believer in  

the future of that rich Territory. He  

has not asked us to publish anything  

anonymously. If we will publish his  

allegations against the Administration,  

he says, he will publicly vouch for  

their accuracy. On that understand  

ing, we are quite prepared to assist  

in having these matters publicly con  

sidered.  

Captain Milton’s attack is not made  

against the Administration officials  

personally, nor is it based on personal  

animosities —although he appears to  

have had somewhat rough treatment  

at the hands of individual officials.  

His criticism is submitted because he  

believes that the policy and system  

(CONTINUED ON PACK 2)  

This unique photograph is part of group, taken  

on Christmas Day, 1929, on Koli Plantation, New  

Ireland, N.G. The white man. Mr. Don Edmonds,  

was brutally murdered shortly afterwards by the  

native who was his cook-boy and who was standing  

behind him when photographed. The crime is  

referred to in the accompanying article.  

scene at the new Misima mine, Papua, showing the zinc precipitating boxes. The mine is  

worked by Misima Gold Mines Ltd., of Sydney. Last month this company reported having  

10,979 tons of ore for gold recovery of 4,704 ounces and 761 ounces of silver.  

The company’s leases adjoin those of Mt. Sisa N.L., Misima Island is in the Louisiade  

Archipelago, to the south-east of the New Guinea mainland. The goldfields in the Archipelago  

have produced nearly £300,000 worth of grold.  

New Zealand  

Other Countries  

Australia.  

Imports  

from  

£253,600  

£336,323  

£354,036  

Exports  

to  

£5,011  

£8,728 £1,214,815  

IMPERIAL  

RESIDENTIAL HOTEL  

(No License)  

221 DARLINGHURST RD KING’S CROSS  

SYDNEY. N.S.W.  

FULL BOARD AND RESIDENCE  

Weekly, from 45 to 63/-. Daily, 10/-.  

Management Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Edwards  

MISS MURIEL STARR  

The eminent Canadian actress  

writes “I have been user of  

mercolized wax for many years and  

have always found it excellent for  

preserving the skin.”  

They have to use the best, the  

notable stage stars. Always must  

their skin show (lawless, clear and  

lovely, on or oft the stage. You too  

should use mercolized wax, to  

beautify, protect. It does iot grow  

hair. 2/6 and 5/6, chemists and  

stores. Invaluable for freckles, sun  

burn, windchap, etc. Don’t hesitate;  

it is really good  

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