In This Issue:

Editorial: “New Order Planners Bring Chaos to Exhausted World ’

Western Samoan Government —Inquiry Mission Receives Chiefs’

Plans Fiji Elections —Sir Hugh Ragg Retires Anti-Dutch —Australia, led by Wharf- Labourers, Wants Closer Relations with Asia New Pacific Airway from Hawaii to Samoa .., ANA Will be out of Trans-Pacific Service Next April— to Operate on own Account Meeting of Pacific Air Transport Council Classification of Native Workers, and Wages, in Papua-New Guinea ...

Kon-Tiki Raft Reaches French Oceania —Peruvian Influenc? on Early Polynesia Candlenut Oil Industry Now “Pro tected” in Fiji Cook Is. Reds—Challenge by Gov ernment Union Pacific Shipping Position Shows No Improvement Hydro-Electric Power for Viti Levu South Pacific Regional Commission — Some Fiji Public Men Critical . .

“Fiji Guardian” —New Newspaper for Colony Copra—Price Still Rising Another Dragon Plane Crash in New Guinea A Third Flag in the New Hebrides Future of Norfolk Island BGD Production Figures Papuan Medical Students Fail at Central Medical School Blasting Coral from Apia Harbour Paper Makers and Kurukuru Grass- Keen Interest in Papua Material

America in Micronesia—Four Gover -5 norships Under US Admiral ... 23 Count van Asten —Old Dutch title for Tongan Resident 25 7 More Japs discovered in New Guinea 26 7 Czar of the Oil Industries —Unilever is Prominent Again 29 Kokopo Smiles Again—Good Progress 8 in Rehabilitation 3D Increased Nauru Population 31 8 Hombu-Hombu, on New Georgia, is Now BSI Port of Entry 32 New Scheme of Salaries for Papua— -9 NG Officials are Unpopular ... 33 Search for Gold and Oil in Northern 9 New Guinea 36 Australian Shipping Board May be 9 Liable for Cargo Pillage 36 Dr. Agnes Hoeger, Lutheran Missionary, Returns to New Guinea 38 10 Australian Politicians Missed the Bus in Manus Negotiations 39 10 New Caledonia’s Minerals 40 Plea for Leonard Murray 40 10 Territories’ Talk-Talk 41 “That Sawn-off Mason Bay” 42 11 Near-Disaster off Pitcairn 43 11 “Father Push-Bike” 44 "[Topicalities 45 13 Tale of “Taipi” 46 C Can Fish 47 14 Book Review —Dutch Jungle-Watcher 15 in Netherlands New Guinea . . .. 48 Tirpitz Knows Now—New Guinea 16 Economics in Pidgin 50 18 Poverty for Cook Is. Maoris 52 19 Canberra is Killing Islands Trade .. 52 19 When “Boys” are Not to be “Boys”— A New Edict bv Moresby's Planners 55 19 Japs for New Caledonia? 55 20 New Guinea Rats —Tree-Climbing and Kunai Species 56 22 More Coconuts for Bougainville ... 59

Only Trouble in Permanent in New Guinea 61 No Takers for Lae Terrace 61 How NGVR Hung on near Mubo in 1942-Raids and Alarms in New Guinea Jungles 62 Fiji Indians Appeal to India for Better Status and Living Conditions ... 66 Naval Medicos Save Islanders’ Lives 66 “Masinga Rule” 66 New Hebrides has No Matches 67 No Tropic Nymph, No Pearls, No Oil— “Gippsland” founders off Papuan Coast 68 “Oiseau des Isles” Saved from Reef 68 New Guinea is Still a Mandate ... 69 Australian Minister to Visit Manus v. 69 News and Notes from Buka-Bougain ville 72 “Viti” May be laid up 73 The Month in Moresby 74 Sharp Disorder in Tahiti —Returned Servicemen Lead Demonstration 75 Trouble on Wallis Island 76 Official Tour of Buka-Bougainville .. 77 Ominous Noises from Hawaii’s Volcano 78 High Cost of Former Indian In dentured Labour 79 Museum for Cook Islands 79 Deserted Niuafo’ou 80 Weddings, Engagements of Islands’

Interest 82 Shipping and Plane Services; Pacific Travellers 84-86 Commercial Markets, etc 88

Obituary:

Mrs. C. Williams, 9; Dr. J. A.

Borg, 10; Dr. F. L, Pinching, 10; J. Taripo, 14; Mrs. Jessie Anderson, 31; Harold E. Nicholls, 80.

Organisations:

Pacific Islands Society, 7: NG- Brisbane Assn , 22; NG Scholarship Fund, 69; NG Women’s Club of Sydney, 70.