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NEW GUINEA-THE SECOND LARGEST ISLAND IN THE WORLD.

EARTHQUAKES THE DESPAIR OF PROSPECTORS AND GEOLOGISTS.

FORTY POUNDS FOR A DRINK OF "WHISKY: PIANOS

TRANSPORTED BY AEROPLANE.

"New Guinen" was the subject of the talk at the weekly meet-" ing of the Hong Kong Rotary Club' which was held in the lounge of Lane, Crawford's Restaurant yesterday. The speaker, Mr. E. F. Selk, who is the assistant secretary of the European Y.M.C.A.. Kowloon, delivered his speech in a very happy manner and at the conclusion, the Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington thanked him on behalf of the Rotary Club.

There was an unusually small gathering at yesterday's titling and the "only other guest beside the speaker was Mr. C.ER. Clara- butt of the University.

A notable absentee was the president of the Club, Sir William Hornell, the chair being ceeupied by the Hon Mr. W. E. L. Shen- ton, who, in introducing the apuaker, said that Mr. Selk had been a Lieutenant in the British Navy. He joined up in 1915 at the age of 13 and during the war saw notive service. Retiring in 1821, Mr. Selk was identified with the Air Force in Australia while he had alad been a pilot in the mandated territory of Now Guinen..

POTENTIAL FIELD FOR INVESTMENT.

There is no religion other than a cult of the "dond and' of ovil spirita, but misionaries are in- troducing Christianity with... · fair success. The natives have practic ally no folk-lore and traditions rarely go back beyond two genera. tious. They have no music other. than the drum and their soNKA. ATU very monotonous. Their dances re- present events happening in their daily lives and to the uninitiated are merely a meaningloss shuffle that continues for hours on end.

The Rossell Islanders have some: Chinese chants among their songs and these are explained by the fact that a ship carrying thren hundred coolies was wrecked on an island of the group towards the end of last century. The European mer bors of the crew took the few boats, and made for Samarai some hun- dreds of miles away. The local no tives soon isited the island on which tha, toolids were wreckode brought thom fond regularly and just as regularly took away several of the unfortunate Chinese, Theas lattor, thinking they were being takan away to safety, paed to sing Chinese wags which the quick-eared natives soon picked up and incor- porated in their own repertoirs. The coalies, however, wore taken, away to be eaten and when a rescue ship arrived a year later only two in Chinese were left alive on the is

Addressing the gathering, the speaker said:-New Guinee, the second largest island in the world, with area of 320,000 odd square miles-about six times the size of England is one of the few remain- ing countries the greater part of The country, has a brief and some- It was which is yet unexplored. The rea-what uneventful history.

for this isolation are its discovered in 1311 by Portuguess na- geographical position, its warlike inhabitants, the unhealthy climate and the inhospitable nature of the country with its swamps, its rug. ged mountains and its fast Howing

sent to Japan to be made into pearl 1.

shell buttons, and the ugly looking sea plug known as beche de mer is picked up from the shallow water to be sold for £200 per ton Europe and China where it goes land. towards making soup,

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The natives are naturally cruel and warlike and they usually ent' vigators and visited at intervals by some of the prisoners taxon during Spaniards, Hollanders and British tribal warfare. Wherever the na- adventurers. It was annexed in tires have come under police con- 1793 by the East India Company trol, cannibalism has been wiped but a benevolent British Governout. Natism never kill a pig out ment allowed the Dutch, to take it right but winst it alive and similar. in the same way as it undid Raily will usually pluck fowls alive The country was probably once, joined to Australia as its southern fles' good work by permitting the if left to their own methods, hills are geologically identical with Dutch to have Java. Then those of Northern Australia and nearly a century the island re the Port Moresby country is similar to that of Cape York. In the past it has been subjected to tremendous. earthquakes, the results of which ara the despair of prospectors anel, mining geologists. Coral reefs have been found in the northern moun tains at an elevation of 6,000 feet. The now line is supposed to De about 14,600 feet but just near where I whe stationed the 14.000 fous Finisterre mountains never had any snow deposited on them.

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mained untouched except by a few adventurous tradera and recruiters,

In 1883 Australia, becoming aways' of the strategic value of New Guinea, which island commands her Northern coast, annexed the eastern half of the island, but Britain re- padiated this no as Germany and Britain had agreed that the con- trol of New Guinea was a matter

Not- the pleasant custom of carrying aeroplane for forty pounds to take for diplomatic negotiation. withstanding, next year a German their husbanda' skulls around their him down to the coast for a drink warship took possession of the peaks. I should think it most of whisky! Men passed over 10- North-East portion of the island. unpleasant form of Purgatory for 20 oz of gold per day as too little The German New Guinea Co. was a man to be within sound of his and went looking for more paying The island is extraordinarily rich formed and was granted sovereigu Wife's tongue even after death claims, Foed was all of the tin

man has his

ned variety and very expensive and New Guinea has a great future ip minerals and there have been power over Kaiser Wilhelm's Land Still, the

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a necessity like beer was 6/- per before it, and even to-day is in an discovered Gold, silver, copper, the Bismarck Archipelago, and

A hotel keeper on the coast enviable position compared with Its budget is load, tin, osmiridium, sulphur and later on, part of the Solomon Is. Pig can be bought for a pound bottle. petroleum, although the latter nelands. In 1869 the Imperial Ger sterling and a wife can be pur had a rather good method of charg some countries. cessity has not yet been discovered man Government lock over control chased for a pound or a pig-anding his customers. At night when balanced, there is no income tax, most men prefer to buy piga. The serving drinks he would throw all and it is producing an increasing in payine quantities. The draw. of back to the exploitation of this and by 1914 had the Protec. average wage for a native is six the empty bottles on the sand out-quantity of that valuable commod- mineral wealth is the impracticabil ptorate in a fourishing condition. shillings per month and his keep side the bar and take the names ity, gold.

Huge Potential Market. ity of transport by land. The com- In September 1814 en Australian and there is not much difficulty of everybody in the bar. In the pany of Guinea Airways, however, force occupied New Guinen and in in recruiting labour. The labour morning the native boy would count

This large territory holding near- hns done wonderful work with 1920 the Commonwealth of Austra era are mostly required for work the number of empties and mine

lin was entrusted by the League of on plantations and in the mining hot would divide that number by ly half a million natives, is ad- aerial transport in helping to spen

Nations with a mandate for the arcu. Cold mining is an increns number of drinkers in the bar o miuistered and enjoyed by a hand- up rich gold-bearing country.

the previous night and charge each ful of about 3000 to 4000 white peo- The soil is very fertile and New government of New Guinea. Uninly important industry.

nan the same amount.

ple. The labouring classes do not Abundance of Gold. Guinea has great agricultural poten-der the Australian Mandate the

The alluvial gold on the field in suffer if unemployed as they can tialities and even now is rich in Territory has gone slowly ahead,

Gold in small quantities is to bel

as far as always live in comparative comfort now nearly worked out

on the produce of the land without coconuts, sugar-cane, "rubber, coffee, and although the natives have re- cocoa, and tropical fruits. There ceived every help and consideration found practically anywhere the individual miner is concerned are magnificent pine forests and it looks as if the country will never Mandated Territory but to date it and large companies are taking over working hard.

has only been found in one dis- the properties and mining in can cedar trees fifty miles from the coast be capable of self-government.

trict in suficient quantities to war- пеке. but the timber cannot be transport-

Still in the Stone Age. rant mining on a large scale. Gold There are no wild animals except¦ The native inhabitants, of whom had been found in small deposita by the Germans before the War pigs and crocodile and small, there are roughly half a million, but it was hot until 1526 that a harmless tree clirabing kangatoos are still in the Stone Age except

party of six Australian prospectors and kangaroo rats. There is pro- on the coastal fringe where they

after great hardshipe found the

The Chairman then called on the. bably a big future for a pastoral, have come into contact with the Eldorado of Edie Creek. In the industry in the country because the white man. Their weapons are vast valleys of the Markham and stone axes, stone clubs, spears and rush that followed, only men who

could deposit £600 were allowed to transported by the airplanes of Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington to Guinea Airways Ltd., a feat never Ramu rivers are grassy and wall bows and arrows and they know watered and eminently suitable for nothing of the use of metals other 80 into the fold This regulation before attempted in the history ofcating speech, and in complying. than what has been learned from kept out the riff-raff who are usual mining or aviation. One dredge is Dr. Wellington said he wished, to The famous Bird of Paradise is the European. The natives are of ly associated with gold rushes and already working and getting even thank Mr. Selk on behalf of bro- men than the miners in Newbetter aults than were anticipat-ther Rotarians for his very illumi indiginous to New Guinea but the three types, Negritos, Papuana and "export af its plumage is now pro Melanesians although there are Guinea. To reach the goldfields, ed. This company has gold enough nating address. He had met tas the am in the first days of ilu hibited. The country is a happy numerous grades of sub-tyres in field-had to walk a matter of to keep it working for more than doctory in Australia and both of bunting ground for naturalists and each of these main branches. Any eight days over very rugged countwenty years and if anybody wants them had told him quite a lot about be some 25 per cent. dividend paying the Mandated. Territory of New sure, however, entomologists and overy bug hunter European who has worked among try and all supplies had to

brought in by native carriera. Aj who visits the island gives to pos- the natives can tell the district of rodo keep a constant line shares, he is advised to try and Guinea. He was

of carriers in operation while werkget hold of some of the companys, that most of those present never terity his name coupled with some each span by his appearance..........---- hitherto unknown insect which bas Pidgin English-a different piding his claim on the field but the although I don't think any of the dreamt that they carried such

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Before M. Selk delivered his. and given a niche in this hustling the lingua franca of the country expense

There are approximately four În 1927 aeroplanes commenced to these dredges, the airplanes have tention of the members to the cards which were placed before them. hundred and fifty known dialects the guldfields and the eight day carried into the interior livestock. These called for subscriptions in There is a fertile source of wealth in New Guines and no one "talk" journey was thus reduced to a mat houses, pianos, mining machinery, connection with the Club's play bricks, mator cars, tractors and all ground scheme and the Hon. Mr. Shonton mentioned that he waS SUNG in the marine...products of the scan understands another sp it will beter of thirty or forty minutes

On well-known miner who was the miscellanens gear required ty every member would do his bit to. the Trobrands and in seen how necessary is a common getting from 2000 to 300 0.08uild a couple of modern townships wards such a worthy cause. surrounding the islands Pearls are Torres Straits; the Trochus shell is language..

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