In This Issue:

Editorial: “How Socialist Weakness Threatens Disaster in Islands” .. 5 Crew Wanted for Island Ketch ... 6 Mr. Ward's Visit to Territories Post poned 7 Quarantine-Conscious Samoans in Polio Panic 7 Dutch Plan White Colony in Nether lands New Guinea 7 Young German-Samoans Lost in Germany During World War II 7 Javanese Now Isolated Good Pros pects of Settlement in NEI ... 8 Foreigners are Not Wanted in W.

Samoa 8 New Shipping Services in Eastern Pacific 9 Fiji Copra Price Rises 26/6 per ton 9 Fiji’s New Year Honours 9 Survey of Air-Route to Nauru by Qantas 9 Earthquake in Tanna, NH 9 New Guinea Native Orgy on Jap Jungle - Juice Causes Death, Blindness 9 ANA May Fight BCPA for Pacific Air Route 9 Sensational £50,000 NG Timber Deal Alleged “Jock” Garden before Court 10 Seeking Oil in Papua Extent of Operations H Cocoa Bean Production in New Guinea Case Put to Minister .. H Death of Sir Walter McNicoll .. .. 13 No Copra Sacks for NG Planters .. 13 Polio Epidemic Feared in BSI ... 14 New Governor of Fiji Arrival from London 14 Fiji’s Cost of Living Rises Steeply .. 15 Plan to Quick-Freeze Fish 15 More Strikes in Fiji Result of High Cost of Living 16 Native Ship-Workers Squabble in Cook Islands 18

New RA for Mangaia 16 NZ Reds Howl at Government Over Cook Islands Events 21 Mr. Ward and the Fijian Seamen .. 25 Melanesian Bishop Will Arrive in February 26 Weather Station at Vila New Aus tralian Installation 26 Nauru’s Administrator Back after Visiting USA 26 Islands Penalised Over Wheat Prices 28 900 Fijian Miners go on Strike ... 28 Bishop Darnand of Samoa, Decorated 28 Facing the New Year in Port Moresby . .. .. 30 Suva’s Christmas Heat, Mosquitoes and Colds 31 Strict Quarantine for Young Travellers to Islands 32 W. Samoan Cocoa-price Reaches all time High 34 Slow and Wearisome Process of Re covery in BSI 34 Suva Medical School Graduates for 1947 36 Vegetable Oils Market News from London 38 Casualties Among Territorians— Their Contribution to AIF 39 “Matua’s” Record Voyage 39 Future Status of American Samoa .. 40 Territories’ Talk-Talk 41 Catching a Swordfish 42 Tropicalities 43 Ladies Don’t Like It! 44 Lament From Levuka A Visitor Writes of the Changes She Sees After 25 Years 46 “Bully Proctor” The Story of the Notorious Blackbirder 47 Short Story: “The Factual Fuddle” 48 How Suva was Burned in 1843 ... 50 The Month in Moresby 54 Nutmegs from Papua Maybe New Native Industry 58

Progress of APC Bore in Papua .. 56 Story of the “Tagua” Forgotten Incident of World War I 61 Fijian Student’s Success 62 Wages of Fijian Seamen Why Union was Formed 63 First Issue of Tokelau Postage Stamps 64 They Can’t Keep Their Prisoners In, In Tonga! 65 NZ’s Pacific Airfleet is Now Scrap .. 65 Hotel Licence Issued for Wau, NG .. 66 Nauru Memorial to Priest 66 Solomons and New Hebrides Ques tions in the House of Commons .. 67 Eradication of Malarial Mosquitoes 69 No Dividends from Theodore Mines in Fiji 70 Giant Snails Task of Getting Them Out of New Guinea .. .. 71 On Again Off Again! Meat Embargo for New Guinea 72 Fiji and Australian Bananas 72 “Incident” in New Guinea Highlands Reported 74 Australia’s Unsuspected Island Em pire 100,000 Acres Available in New Hebrides 75 Finschhafen’s Christmas 80 Notes From Norfolk Island 81 Tahiti’s Rebels found “Not Guilty” .. 81 Shipping and Plane Services:: Pacific Travellers 82-86 NG Natives Do Not Like Canberra Rules 87 Commercial, Markets, etc 88 OBITUARY: Sir Walter McNicoll, 13; Mrs. F. Carr, 26; C. H. Poulter, 26; Miss Elizabeth Wilson, 26; Mrs. J. C. Coggins, 26; Robert Cocks, 26; Mrs. G. Harness, 26; Mrs. H. B. R. Parham, 31; C.

Carter, 56; Mrs. J. Thompson, 80.

ORGANISATIONS: NG Scholarship Fund, 11; NG Women’s Club of Sydney, 24; NG Women’s Associa tion of Melbourne, 24.