In This Issue:

Editorial: “The Ewes, the Samoans, and the Trusteeshin Council” .. 5 Early Visit of Mr. Ward to New Guinea Now Unlikely 7 New Governor Arrives in Fiji ... 7 Price Rise of Fiji Sugar 7 New French Airways in Pacific ... 8 Third Trans-Pacific Air Service? .. 8 All-Fiji "Cricket Team on New Zea land Tour 8 APC Bore Now Down Over Two Miles 8 Gold Co’s Troubles in New Guinea 8 January 23 Remembrance Services in Sydney and Rabaul 9 American Citizenship for Te Rangi Hiroa? •• 9 Fiji’s Perennial Airport Problem Relative Merits of Nadi and Nausori Considered 9 Jock Garden Goes to Trial on For gery and Fraud Charges Queer Mixture of Politics in NG Timber

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Less Quarantine and More Politics Polio Panic in W. Samoa Wanes 13 W. Samoa is Still Booming 13 Timber for Coal Aust. Trade Mis sion Goes to N. Caledonia 14 Mysterious Outbreak of Polio in BSI 15 No Tahiti-Australia Airmail 15 South Pacific Regional Commission- First Meeting in 1948 16 No Ship Yet for Sydney-Frisco Run— “Aorangi” May be Back in mid 1948 17 Neglected Wealth NG Timber In dustry 19 Cost of Running New Guinea Terri tories 20 Paper Pulp Co’s Interest in Papua .. 21 Mahogany in Fiji 21

Bishop Kempthorne’s 25th Anniver sary 21 Mr. Ward’s Report on NG to United Nations 22 Giant Snails 24 BSI “Wet” Begins with Floods ... 24 Anglo-French in New Hebrides Raise £6OO for Britain 24 Copra Values How New Guinea Copra Producers are being Robbed 25 BSI Buys Native Copra Trade Scheme Venture 26 Fiji Quarantine Relaxed 27 Popular BSI Officials Farewelled .. 27 Highlands Shooting Belated State ment About NG Shooting incident 29 “Frontier Forsaken” is Twaddle Communistic Mischief-Making in Cook Islands 30 BSI Administrative Division into Northern and Southern Districts 33 New Guinea’s “New Deal” Propa gandist Blurb gets World-Wide Circulation 34 Mother India Day Un-noticed in Fiji 36 Territories Talk-Talk 37 Producing Cocoa in W. Africa ... 38 Short Story: “You’ve got to be Subtle” 39 One-Horse Shay 40 Tropicalities 41 The Griegs of the Line Atolls ... 42 Book Review: “Tales from the South Pacific” 43 Short Story: “Reward for Valour.” .. 44 How Suva Tribe Got its Revenge— Pre-European Events 46 Hydro-Electric Experts Report on Fiji 52 Pastoral Farming for Fijians .. .. 52 Lae Has a Theatre Now 53 Improving Honiara Port Facilities .. 56

N. Caledonia is Feeling Currency Shortages 56 How You can Teach Children About South Pacific 57 Life in the Cocos Islands 58 Madang Newsletter 59 Restless Sepik Natives Adherents of Cargo Cult 62 Brave New World in Solomons Planter Sceptical of Results ... 64 Attempted Murder Charge in Moresby 65 Rehabilitation in New Britain Planters and Traders Association Sees Progress 67 Moresby Memorial to Queensland Flier 68 The Month in Moresby 70 Moresby RSL Discusses War Memorial 74 Shipping and Plane Services 76 Resurrecting Medical Equipment from New Guinea’s Jungles ... 78 Climate is unkind to Blue Lagoon Unit 79 Commercial, Markets, etc 80 OBITUARY: J. Nobbs, 8; Judge Ayson, 13; M. Colombel, 13; J, Scobie, 21; J. Sim, 24; J. Scott, 34; Madame Besnault, 64, ORGANISATIONS: New Guinea Scholarship Fund, 18; Lae Citi zens’ Association, 21; Planters’ and Traders’ Association (New Britain), 67; Retd. Officers (Papua) Association, 74.

Mr. Duncan Caldwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Caldwell, of Suva, was mar ried in Sydney on February 12 to Miss Ninette Gibson, member of a well known family at Forbes, NSW. Mr. Caldwell is a member of the British Colonial Ser vice, and the young couple will live in Malaya. They met during the war, when Mr. Caldwell was serving with the RAAF.