In This Issue:

Editorial; “What is Happening in Relation to Pacific Trusteeships” 5 P.A.A. Staff Leaving Fiji 6 The Pacific Air-Age Now Becomes a Reality—New Agreement Smooths Out International Difficulties ... 7 “United States of Indonesia” Be trayal of Dutch by Democracies . 3 New Signs and Portents in S.W. Paci fic Politics 9 U.S.A. Reduces Pacific Air Mail Rate 9 Who Will Protect the Samoans? ... 10 Samoans Reject Trusteeship (N.Z.) Agreement 12 Better Outlook for Pacific Travellers in 1947 12 30 Per Cent. Increase in Fiji Popu lation 12 A Modern Sinbad Comes to Grief in Fiji—Wreck in the Lau Islands .. 13 Legislative Council for Cook Islands 14 Fiji Plans for Tourism 16 BSI Claims for War Damage .. .. 17 Cost of Running Australian Pacific Territories is £3 Million 17 Payments for Fiji Sugar Growers .. 19 Nadi Has a United Nations Flavour 20 Fiji’s 10-Year Development Plan ... 21 Remembrance Day 23, 64 Jeep Allocations Disappoint in N.G. 25 ' Solomons in the Doldrums—No Re habilitation 26 Award to Young W.P.H.C. Officer .. 27 Four B.G.D. Dredges Operating by Mid-1947 28 Giant Snails in New Guinea 30 Rehabilitation of Thursday Island .. 31 Vernon Memorial 32 S.D.A. Vessel for Solomons 32 Coast Watchers in New Guinea Jungles—Keeping Tabs on the Japs in 1942 33 Territorians’ Talk-Talk 37

Wau Road —There and Back by Weapon-Carrier, Ambulance and Jeep 38 South Pacific Airways Network ... 40 Tropicalities 42 Fiji’s Two Wartime Mysteries .. .. 44 Big Money for Torres Strait Islanders 47 Samoan Missionaries in Papua ... 49 Native Problems of Modern New Guinea 50 A.P.C. Plans for Papua 53 Heavy Programme for New Guinea

P.W.D 55

How a Missionary was Killed by Japs 56 Lae Forms a Citizens’ Assn 56 Territorian Preference in All C.D.C.

Sales—Statement by Minister .. 57 Chemical War on Fiji’s Weeds ... 60 Abuse of N.Z. Student-Permits ... 64 N.G. Scholarship Funds 66 When S. Pacific Trade Boomed ... 67 Fiji Peanuts for N.Z 67 Sugar Boiling in Mangaia 71 Rarotongans’ Escape from Plane Accident 72 “Rum Business” —Short Story 73 Madang is Battered but Still Beautiful 78 Commercial Markets, Etc 80 Obituary: W. Murcutt, 1; A. L. Braisby, 3; Miss M. Betham, 74; H. Syddall, 74; J. Bogan, 75; N. Engler, 79.

Mr, W. Murcutt, who held timber rights in the Lae district of New Guinea, was killed instantly in an accident in Lae on December 4. me vemcie wmcn ne was driving at night had a head-on collision with a truck.