In This Issue:

Editorial. “Don’t Hurry Back, Mr.

Ward!” 5 NG Mainland Transport Beyond Words” ••• •• 7 France Pays More for Pacific Copia 7 Fiji’s Heavy Food Subsidies .. ■• •• 7 Cook Islands Seamen Demand Better

Pay • • • • 7

Government Monopoly of Airlines — P. G. Taylor Refused Licence .. 7 Asbestos Deposits May be Developed in New Caledonia ; • • 7 “Research Section” and New Guinea Planners •• •• : • ° Plans for Developing New Caledonia 8 Tongan Floyal Wedding in June .. .. 9 Starving Natives, But their Own Fault 9 More Freighters for Pacific 9 “Malaita” back on New Guinea Run — 4i years in Dock 19 Round the World Yachtsmen Call at Suva 10 Future of 23 Atolls—Let USA Have them! 1° Easter Sport at Levuka 10 Huge Funds for Pacific—Annual Ac counts of the BP Companies ... 11 New Catalina for WRC 11 Trusteeship Council Will Investigate Self-Rule Claims in Western Samoa 13 Lists from Readers Notes 13 Papua-New Guinea Scene —Mr. Ward Says All is Well 14 CIPA Against Workers’ Union in Rarotonga 16 Cruel Treatment of BSI Planters .. 17 Phosphate Production on Ocean Island and Nauru 19 Samoans’ Dime F\md Finances Pur chase of Merchant Marine .. .. 21

Part-Retirement of Sir Maynard Hed strom 22 Death of Charles B. Nordhoff 23 World Shortage of Rice 24 Tragic Death of Clive Brewster ... 25 Tribute to Suva Medical School ... 29 Misima in Production in Early 1948 29 New Delhi Interference in Fiji— Alleged Grievances of Fiji- Indians 30 Fiji Arts and Crafts are Being For gotten 32 “Operation Sepik” Jungle War Against the Japs 33 New Mission Church for Mangaia .. 36 Dengue Outbreak in Fiji—Mosquitoes Breed Near Suva 36 Territories’ Talk-Talk 37 Spotlight on Emirau 38 Tropicalities 39 Polynesia in Melanesia 40 Short Story: A Scientist From South of the Border 42 Trader’s Tale: The Bread Season Opens 43 Lament of an Exile 43 In the Bad Old Days of Torres Strait 44 War and Aeroplanes Brought New Insects to Pacific 45 Early Cinchona and Coffee Seed in Papua 47 Robert Gibbings Now in New Zealand 47 Cook Islands Electors Vote by Radio 47 New “Pearl of Pacific” 47 LMS 150th Anniversary in French Oceania 49 Odd Angles in Fiji—Notes Made by “PlM’s” Editor 50 Rabaul Jottings 55 Back to the Koro—Fiji Clerks Cannot Afford to Live in Suva 56 New Guinea Germans Now Released

After Years in Australian Intern ment Camps 57 Polynesians are Threatened by Nakedness 58 Re-Establishing Oil Production in

Nei 59

Administrator Tells Brisbane Aud ience About Papua-NG 59 In Defence of “Backward Melan esians” 61 Shipping and Plane Services—Pacific Travellers 62—65 TNG Mining Reg. Amendment ... 65 W. Samoa’s High Cost of Living ... 67 ’Flu and Mumps in W. Samoa 68 New Guinea Scholarship Fund ... 70 The Polynesians and Peru 71 New Britain’s Generous Response to Sydney Women’s Appeal 73 Fijians and Europeans Both Play Football—But Fijians Draw the the Crowd 73 Lae and Madang in 1947 74 RC Missionaries Lost in New Guinea —56 Nursing Sisters in Appalling List 75 The Future of Rabaul—Old residents Optimistic 77 Site of Ancient Mangaia Marae Un covered 77 Here and There in Papua-New Guinea 78 Fiji’s TB Campaign Moving Slowly 79 Lutheran Mission Ship Sails for New Guinea 79 Commercial, Markets, etc 80 ORGANISATIONS: Brisbane NG Assn.. 8; Sydney NG Women’s Club, 8 and 73; Melbourne NG Women’s Assn., 70; Pacific Islands Society, 76.

OBITUARY: Charles B. Nordhoff. 23; Clive Brewster, 25; Ernest Till, 30; F. T. S. Lennon, 43; Mrs. J. M. C.

Forsayth, 48; Irving G. Smith, 50; A.

A. Chauncy, 65.