In This Issue:

Editorial: “Copra Growers Choice- Socialist Bureaucrat or Inter national Monopoly” 3 New Caledonian Candidates for Pans

Assembly f

Samoans and UNO Report 5 Copra Price in French Oceania .. 5 Is there Any Oil in Fiji? 5 Two More Arrests Over Papeete In cident • • 5 Dislocation of Public Works in Rabaul 6 Fourth BGD Dredge Operating ... 6 Fiji Wheat —Interesting Experiments 6 Inflation in Cook Islands 6 £4 per ton! —Grudging Allowance to NG Copra Producers 7 No Freehold on Lord Howe Island .. 7 Fiji Election Results 7 N. Hebrides Land—Does Australia Still Own Large Areas? 8 N. Caledonia’s Casino .. 8 Commemoration Day at Bitapaka .. 8 Parent Carpenter Co. Transfers In terests • 9 Death of Paramount Ariki of Cook Is. 9 Another Breakdown in New Guinea Shipping 9 New Guinea Birds for Sydney Zoo .. 11 Mr. Ward is Back 11 Soap Shortage in Fiji 11 Death of Bishop Newton 11 Liquor for Indians—None for Fijians 13 Would Like to Be Free of Australia- New Guinea Residents 14 Samoan Youth in Search of Ad venture on the High Seas ... 15 Pan American’s Multiple Services Across the North Pacific 16 Australian Airlines to Norfolk and Lord Howe • 16 East and West Samoa—Np Sign that Powers will Permit Unity 18 Orgy of Government Spending in Papua—N. Guinea —£2 Million from Australian Taxpayers .. .. 19 Samoa Still Gathering Dollars—High

Prices Received for Copra and Cocoa 21 Soviet Delegates Take a Crack at Nauru 22 Giant Snails in Marshalls. Too ... 22 No Reprieve for Fiji’s Cession Obelisk 23 Arrowroot and Pineapples from Cook Islands 23 Massacred! —Fate of New Guinea Missionaries 24 Lever Bros. Still Growing 24 Manus will be Bottomless Sink for Australian Money 25 NG Returned Servicemen to Fight Canberra 25 Pineapple Cup Singles Bowling Champion of South Seas 26 Notes from Australian Territories .. 27 NG Medical Students—Administrator Thanks Suva 28 Thefts of Cocoa from Samoan Planters 28 NZ and UNO Plans for Government of Samoa 30 Re-establishing Citrus Industry in Cook Islands 31 Saw-Milling On the Sepik 31 New Native Labour Ordinance Comes Into Force in Papua—N. Guinea 33 Fiji Population Survey 36 Permits Necessary to Enter Fiji ... 37 Missing off Viti Levu Coast 38 Unrestricted Trade in French Pacific Possessions 38 Currency Restrictions in Fiji 38 Who Owns Christmas Island Copra? 40 Territories’ Talk-Talk 41 Romance in Commerce—The Story of Mr. Joseph Mitchell of Burns Philp 42 Lament for the Kava Saloons ... 43 Into Battle With the NGVR 44 We Call it Civilisation —Story in Rhyme 45 Tropicalities 46 Short Story: “Base Traders, Pty.” .. 47 Book Reviews 48

Moresby’s Luxury Hotel 49 New Guinea Volunteer Rifles—List of Members 50 No Relief for Cook Islands Shipping Problem 61 Cook Islands Population Shows an Increase 62 Niue Stamp Sales Soaring 62 New Britain Notes 63 Samoan Banana Figs 63 Fiji Harmony for NZ Audience ... 63 Court of Appeal for Fiji? 64 “Kon Tiki” Raft Men 67 Centenary of Translation of Bible into Fijian 68 Navy Showed The Flag in the Solo mons—No Participation in March ing Rule Arrests 71 Tahiti’s “Etat de Siege” 72 Papua 47 Years Ago 74 Samoa Seeks Supplies 76 Man Overboard! 77 Samoa Needs Medical Officers ... 78 “Weekly Guardian” and Electors’ As sociation 78 Pampered Natives and Muddled Economics in Fiji 80 More Capital for APC 82 News from Puka Puka 84 Patient Work of Dutch Beginning to Show Results in NEI 85 Shipping and Plane Services; Pacific Travellers 86-88 Growing Dry Rice in New Guinea .. 88 Bikini Natives Want to Return Home 89 Commercial Markets, etc 90 Organisations; New Guinea Women’s Club, 4; Africa Star Smoko. 30; NG Scholarship Funt, 62. PI Society, 71.

Obituary; Mde. L. Guichard, 6; Mrs.

E. T. Love, 9; Bishop Newton, 11; Cyril King, 12; D. Sale, 14; A. D.

Hedstrom, 16; Mrs. J. Legge, 35; W. Tate, 38; Miss D, B. Monaghan, 38; D. Cahill, 50; Mde. Le Riche, 66; E. D. D. Davis, 69; Mrs.

Morning Star, 75; J. H. Rawnsley, 82.