In This Issue:

Editorial: “The Socialists and the Big Firms in the Pacific 5 No Inquiry on New Guinea Mr.

White’s Motion Killed by Party Vote 6 N, Guinea Timber Lease Case Four Men for Trial 7 NZ Police Sent to Rarotonga Red CIPA Bid to Control Shipping .. 7 Prom Cattle to Timber N. Hebrides Enterprise 7 Buloio’s Future —. Limited Life for Dredges 8 Separate BP Co. for New Hebrides .. 8 “John Williams VI” New Mission Ship Due at end of the Year .. 8 Copra Around £ABo—London Analysis 9 Copra Stabilisation “Out” in Fiji .. 9 Sugar Stabilisation Fund Proposed for Fiji 9 Conference of District Officers in Moresby 9 G & E Colony HQ Will Probably Re main on Tarawa 10 NG Goods Worth £240,000 Reported Stolen 10 W. Samoa’s Rising Living Costs .. 10 Mr. D. A. Butler Back in Fiji ... 10 Dodging the Wolf in BSI 11 Australian Mission to New Caledonia 11 Noumea-Tahiti Airmail 11 N. Hebrides Air Services 11 No Paris Representation for N Heb rides French 11 “Tiare Taporo” and Captain Andy Weather the Hurricane 13 Members of the NGVR Hold a Happy Re-union at Bulolo 15 Gaol for Two New Guinea Officials .. 16 Excessive Rain Damages Samoan Cocoa Crop 17 More Unexploded Bombs Found in Fiji 19 New Daily Newspaper for Fiji ... 20

Flour and Cotton Prices Australia Punishes Island Buyers 20 Concern for Cook Islanders’ Welfare CIPA and Union Bosses Battle On 21 How the First Rabaul was Sunk .. 22 Mixed Blood in Fiji Native Student Discusses Problem 23 French Airways Call at Cook Island —But Private Local Services Banned 25 N. Caledonia May Get Labour from

Nei 26

Australia Takes Over Manus 26 Fiji Copra Price Protest by Cham ber of Commerce 28 Grim Position of islands Pensioners 28 23 “Marching Rule” Leaders Sent to Gaol Extraordinary Movement in BSI Broken Up 29 New Hebrides Labour Problems Neither Natives nor Imported Labourers Want to Work 32 Birth-Pangs of Democracy in Western Samoa 33 Fiji’s Rare Lizard is Not so Rare .. 34 40 Fijians Charged With Rioting .. 34 End of Samoans’ Piracy Adventure .. 36 Three Men Missing in Fiji Storms .. 36 Territories Talk-Talk 37 Memories of Wakaya 38 Book Review: House on the Hill .. 38 Tropic Verse 39 A Trader’s Tale 39 “Operation Screwball” 40 Bun-Fight in BSI 41 Tropicalities 42 White Mother of a Brown Sister hood 44 W. Samoa Exports at Record High .. 46 Hurricane Circles Around Fiji 46 Reminiscences on a Journey 47 More Roads for Western Samoa ... 48 Rarotongan Entertainers in Fiji ... 48 Sandals for Fiji Police 49

Finschhafen News 50 Papain A New Product in Africa .. 51 Were There Pigmies in W. Samoa? .. 53 Madang Newsletter 54 Bad Weather in Blue Lagoon .. .. 58 Canadians in Trouble in Suva Fiji Police on Alert 58 Norfolk Island Has no Green Grass or Leafy Lanes 59 Position of Euronesians in Future of Samoa Broadcast Causes a Stir 63 Samoan Custom Versus the Law .. 66 European Members of W. Samoan Legislative Assembly Not Elected Yet 66 Life in Moresby 67 Too Many White Collar Aspirants in W. Samoa 68 Scarcity of Banana Cases in Fiji .. 69 Shipping and Plane Services and Timetables 72 Au Revoir to Norfolk Island 76 Gold Mines of Papua 77 Plea for Great Airport Near Lae .. 78 Commercial, Markets, etc 80 OBITUARY: S. Hopkins, 8; Mrs.

Maude Sabben, 19; Ratu Savenaca Veikoso, 49; Mrs. Jane Morrison, 56.

Organisations: Ngvr, 15; New

Guinea Club (Rabaul) 18; Kokopo Sports Club, 18; New Guinea Memorial Scholarship Fund, 20; Suva Yacht Club, 56, 76; Brisbane NG Assn., 60; Pacific Islands Society, 71.

Miss Alwyn Slack-Smith, of Pillaga, NSW, was married in Rabaul on Febru ary 18, to Mr. C. F. Evans, of Witu. Mr.

Evans was one of the lucky few who es caped in an open boat from New Ire land when the Japs invaded, and he was afterwards with the Commandos, in the Islands, during the attack upon the Japanese.