Contents

Pacific News Review i Editorial: “Private Enterprise Flourishing in Central Pacific But Murdered in the West 3 Airways in the Pacific—Big Develop ments Afoot 5 Awards to Territorians —Lieuts. Stokie and Gilmour 6 Latest Cabinet Decision on New Guinea Set-up—Control Board to Continue Stranglehold 6 Death of R. H. Brown—Samoa’s Lead ing Citizen 7 Pacific Shipping Lines—Plan for New Services by NZ Company 7 New Deal or Mis-deal?—Papua-New Guinea Bill Passed by Both Houses 8 Papua-New Guinea Bill Puts Terri torians on the Spot 10 New Guinea RSSAILA Demands Apology for Bryson’s Slander of New Guinea Men 12 CSR Not a Robber in Fiji—Shep hard Report Clarifies 1943 Trouble With Indians 14 Cat’s-eye Gold for Fiji Indian Traders Clean Up Many Fortunes 15 Fiji Indians’ Staple Foods in Short Supply—Drastic Order to Conserve Rice 17 One Hundred Years of Service—W.

Samoa Celebrates Centenary and Bishop Darnand’s Jubilee 19 Broadcasts for Papuans—Good Work Through 9PA 21 “Orange Island" Bloc Urged—Raro tongan Leaders Visit Mangaia .. 23

A Dutchman's One-man War on Guadalcanal 2< In Defence of Pidgin-English—Why It Was Adopted by Catholic Mis sion in NG .. . 2( “PIM" Short Story: “The Shoot Lamp" 2J Four Years as a POW—Experiences of Former Fiji Resident 3J Francis Drake of Bougainville Straits —King Gorai and the First Inva sion of the Shortlands 3J Entering the Fourth (Perhaps Last) Evacuee Year —NG Women’s Club Annual Report 45 Candle-nut Oil—lnteresting Enter prise in Fiji 4j New Policy for French Colonies— Announced by Governor of New Caledonia 4f Rehabilitation Fund—Latest Contri butions 5] Fiji Pineapples—CSß Getting Ready to Restore Pre-war Industry ... 55 Timber Concessions in Papua and New Guinea 55 Death of Mrs. Aileen Taylor 5E Commercial. Markets 56 Cook Islands Have a Housing Prob lem cov. iii