In This Issue:

New Guinea Club Carries on in Sydney ii Editorial: -‘.Labour Supply for S. Paci fic Territories—What Regional Council Could Do 3 Remnant of Samoa’s Chinese Labour 4 Pacific Tourist Traffic —No Matson Liners This Year 5 Weekly Trans-Pacific Services Now Operated by Two Lines 5 Samoans’ Plea for Self-Government 6 “Montoro” Will go to Rabaul—When Strikes in Sydney Permit 7 Niuafo’ou Again in Eruption 7 BGD Begin Operations 7 Increasing Pnosphate from Nauru and Ocean Is 7 New Inland Roads for W. Samoa .. 7 South Pacific Regional Commission— Preparations for New Establish ment 8 Capt. Viggo Rasmussen is Dead ... 8 Tonga Joins South Pacific Health Service 9 Trade Booming in South Pacific ... 9 PICAO Conference Comes to Success ful End 9 I. E. Lucchinelli Now Fiji Police Chief 10 New Guinea News 10 Freighters for Pacific 10 Another New Guinea Plane Crash .. 10 Residents Work Their Passage to BSI 11 George Aumuller Dead 12 Suva’s Flourishing Yacht Club Opens 1947 Season 12 Central New Guinea Highlands— Plans for Quinine and Tea .. .. 14 Rabaul War Criminal Trials .. .. 15 Valuable Paintings of the Birds of Fiji 17

New Guinea Scholarship Fund ... 17 BSI War Compensation—lnquiry and Report Within 12 Months 19 Betrothal of Two Tongan Princes . 20 * Recovery in the Solomons High Commissioner’s Review 23 Oil Exploration in Papua 25 Suva’s Union Club 26 Fiji’s Candlenut Oil Industry .. .. 28 New Air Services Planned for French Pacific Colonies 29 Indonesians Walk Out on Signing of Pact 31 Out on the End of a Limb —Coast- Watcher McColl Tells How he Got Away from Maty Island 32 Territories’ Talk-Talk 35 A Pathan Pursued Him! 36 Tropicalities 37 South Seas Sugar Lands 38 This is Rotuma 40 Sydney Interludes of RLS 41 Vale Rabaul! 42 Further New Year Honours 43 Marriage and Divorce in the Cook Is. 43 Japs are Being Moved out of Micro nesia 46 N. Caledonia Considers Plans for Native Welfare 47 World’s Oil Market Still Short Sup plied—Review by a World Exnert 49 CDC Did Not Benefit Samarai Folk 51 Norfolk Island To-day 52 New Guinea Picture of Industrial Muddling 53 Broadcasts for Natives Planned in Western Samoa and New Guinea 58 Australian Anthropologist Pleads for Museum Collections from Melan esia 60 Baby Show in Nukualofa 62

Vicious Taxes on New Guinea Resi dents 63 Shipping and Plane Services :: Paci fic Travellers 64-66 The Haunted Tree of Rarotonga .. 66 Vernon Memorial Fund 66 Official Muddle Over Recruiting in New Guinea 68 Mr. Quentin Pope, of “Chicago Tri bune, in South Pacific 69 Amendments to Fiji Letters Patent 70 Increase in Cocoa Thefts 71 Weddings of Island Interest 73 Tribute to Late Harrison Smith, of Tahiti .. .. 74 Handy Hints from Islands Missionary 75 Polynesian Club of Sydney 76 Port Moresby or Suva as S.S. Com mission’s Home? 77 Commercial Markets, etc 78 OBITUARY: E. Auerbach, 4; V. Ras mussen, R. Jones, 11; G. Aumuller, 12; W. W. Savage. 15; H. I. Horton, 47; A. A. Markwell, 50; Dr. P. E. Swift, 70; W. B. Jones, 70; Miss E. H. Bunk ley, 70.

Fiji’s Government Printer, Mr. F. W.

Smith, with Mrs. Smith, left Fiji for NZ en route to England on leave in February.

It was officially announced by the French Government in March that M.

Thierry d’Argenlieu had been replaced in the position of High Commissioner of Indo-China. This is the gentleman who, as Rear-Admiral d’Argenlieu, was sent by General De Gaulle to the South Paci fic as High Commissioner; and whose principal achievement was to deport the South Pacific’s leading Fighting French man. Governor Henri Sautot, and send away his four principal supporters to a camp on isolated Walpole Island.