In This Issue:
Editorial: “Fijianisation Now Would Be Only Indianisation” 5 Hull Adrift In Pacific 6 “Blue Lagoon” Party On Way To Fiji 6 and 13 Death of Thomas Griffiths 7 Samoa’s New Status 7 Queen Salote Visits New Zealand 7 and 14 How New Guinea Women Were Robbed By Australian Government ... 8 Still No Liquor For Fiji Indians ... 8 Food Ship For Rabaul —By Private Enterprise 8 New Bishop of Melanesia Appointed 9 War Damage In BSl—Were Americans Asked To Pay Compensation? ... 9 Ward On Defensive —Australian MP’s and Press Support Colonel Allan In Giving Publicity To NG Grievances 10 Central Pacific Air Service Will Be Run Soon By QEA 13 The Biters, Bit —There Is a Difference Between Chinese and Yankee Dollars 13 Waste and Communism In Australian Pacific Territories 15 Mrs. Wilde’s Grave On Emirau Island 16 Government’s Plans In New Guinea — Statement To Planters’ Association 17 BSI Coat Of Arms 19 Secret Pacific Base For Atom Tests On Eniwetok 20 Copra Production In BSI 20 NZ Socialists and Cook Islands ... 20 Amalgamation Of Papua and Former Mandated Territory of New Guinea —Australian Government’s Plan . 21 Non-British Nations Shy Over South Seas Commission Unpublicised Meeting In Sydney 22 Marooned In BSl—Plight of Residents Who Are Without Shipping Com munication With Australia .. .. 25 Nelson Memorial Hall Opened In Apia 26
Timber Leases In NG—Government Survey Now Completed 28 Investigations On Public Service Conditions In W, Samoa 28 Spectacular Whaleboat Accident At Mangaia 29 Cold-Blooded Murder of N. Ireland Internees in 1944 29 Levuka As a Tourist Centre 30 First Session Of Legislative Council In Rarotonga—Elected Members Would Like Fewer Official Members 31 New Guinea As a Cocoa-Producing Country—Australian Confectioners’
Eyes Turn North 35 Cocoa Boom Continues in W. Samoa 36 New Hotel For Wau, NG 36 Apia’s New Radio Station 36 New Control of NZ Islands Air Services 38 No “Matua” Berths For Samoa Residents 38 Rattan Cane From Papua —Could Be a New Industry 40 Outstanding Service of Samoan Official 41 Port Moresby’s £30,000 War Memorial 41 Court Of Appeal Suggested For Fiji 41 No Coconut Cream from W. Samoa 42 Sandy Creek Progress Small 42 Territories’ Talk Talk 43 The Craig Twins 44 It’s Flame-Tree Time In Merauke .. 45 Makogai—Pacific Paradise For the Afflicted 46 Rougier: Missionary Who Became King of the Atolls 48 Tropicalities 49 Arise, Balolo! 50 This Made Me Laugh 50 Quinine Production In NEI 52 Dodging Nips Behind Bogia in 1943 52 Oil Production In NEI 55 On Wakaya Island, Fiji 59 Less Frequent Airservice To Samoa 60
Easy Money For Natives —War Damage Distribution In N. Guinea 62 University Degrees For Patrol Officers? 62 Report To the Council —N Caledonia’s Representative In Paris Tells Of France’s Attitude To Colony ... 63 Chinese Indentured Labourers For BSI —Serious Labour Problem In Whole South Seas 64 Giving Bible To South Pacific ... 65 Bomb-Happy Yanks How Apia Officials Fell Victim To Irre sponsibles in 1942 66 News From Finschhafen 68 Tahiti Unrest —Governor Reproaches Residents 69 Remembrance Day In Fiji 70 Fijians Fear Indianisation—Outspoken Speech by Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna 71 Filariasis —Hope For Sufferers In New Drug 74 The Month In Moresby 75 How Hokitika’s Rainfall Weighs Upon Fijian Youth 77 Rare Lizard Caught In Fiji 78 Short Story; “The Dream” 79 Beef less Days For Fiji 80 Tasman Islander For Medical In struction In Port Moresby 82 Reburial of Servicemen At Honiara,
Bsi 82
Mahogany Grows Well In Fiji ... 84 Hombu Hombu —Why BSI Port Was Chosen 84 Plane and Shipping Tables: Pacific Travellers 85-91 Commercial, Markets, etc 92 ORGANISATIONS: New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney, 6; New Guinea Scholarship Fund, 9; Pacific Islands Society, 76.
OBITUARY: Brigadier-G e n e r a 1 Griffiths, 7; Tangaianau Havana, 30; S. S. Boye, 34.