Contents

Shortage of Food in Rabaul 2 WRC Directors’ Cautious Policy ... 3 Editorial: “Socialism and Its Planners In South Pacific Territories” . . 5 Australian Pacific Research Council 7 « “Masingo Lo”—Anti-British Move ment in BSI 7 Fiji’s Indians May Be Repatriated .. 7 New Pacific Air Services 7 New WRC Shipping Routes 8 Moresby’s Housing Shortage Causes Trouble 9 The New New Guinea—A Survey by Judy Tudor 9 Qantas Passengers to N. Guinea .. 10 “Matua” Passengers 11 USA Control of Pacific Territories — Challenge by Mr. Ickes 12 Lae Goes on a Meat Bender 13 Harold Cooper for Nigeria ... 13

Ragtime Stevedoring in Madang ... 16 Bad Eruption at Niuafo’ou 17 South Seas Regional Commission Inaugural Meeting in 1947 .. .. 19 STC Shows Record Profit 21 Coveted Manus —How Sea and Air Base Was Seized and Built ... 22 W. Samoa Under the Microscope .. 25 Abemama, New Administrative Centre in G and E Colony 28 Fate of NG Missing Men 31 Coast Watching in N. Guinea .. .. 32 Territories’ Talk-Talk 37 A Planter’s Return to His Shattered Home 38 On the Edge of Civil War—Drama of New Caledonia in 1942 40 Costly Shipping in N. Guinea 45 G’ Air Hope to Fly Again in N. Guinea 48 Memorial for Late Dr. G. H. Vernon 49 New Treatment of Malaria 52 Machines to Replace Native Labour .. 53 Fiji’s Famous Pineapple Cup 54 Prosperity in W. Samoa 56 Cook Is. Politics 57 "Criticism of British Policy in BSI .. 58 When the Japs Looked Down on Moresby 60 Shipping and Plane Services :: Pacific Travellers 61-63 New Union Ships for Pacific Trade 64 Papuans in Boots 64 NG Scholarship Fund —More Dona tions 65 US Dead in Pacific 66 Fono Tackles Samoa’s Problems with Vigour 67 Marsters Clan —Death of William Marsters II 71 Free Labour in New Caledonia ... 73 US Anti-Malaria Control in Solomons 76 Markets. Commercial, e f c 80