In This Issue:

An Heir To Tongan Prince 3 Editorial; “South Pacific Commission is Inaugurated” 5 New Medical Centre for Fi.ii—UK Grant Given 6 N. Caledonia’s Trade and Commerce for 1947 • • • • 6 Samoa’s New Assembly—Ofiicial Opening by NZ Prime Minister 7 Native NG Servicemen to Share Aus tralian Gratuity Benefits ... 7 Aust.-US Deal Over Manus ... 7 Australia’s Insult to Polynesians .. 7 Shipping Control Ends on Australia- NG Run—Fares Go Up .. .. 7 Trans-Oceanic Plane Forced Down in American Samoa 7 To Co-ordinate Administration in South Pacific—Commission Opens Sessions in Sydney 8 Another New Governor for N.

Caledonia 3 NG Gold-seekers Disappointed Wabag Field Described as Wash- Fiji °To Have Large Fish Cannery 9 Tourist Office At Nadi f All Quiet in Rarotonga . • • • • • iU The Fiji £—Business Men Want It Revalued • • V " i?

Dutch and Javanese Impasse In Java u The New Guinea Timber Cases — J. S. Garden On Trial .. • • •• British Scholarships for Fiji Students 11 37 Killed In New Guinea Air Crash 13 New RC Bishop for Pacific—The Most Rev J. D. Lehman of Cook Islands 13 Anzac Day In Moresby Rapid Recovery of Indonesian Trade 16 Sulphone Drugs for Treatment of Leprosy on Makogai lb A Plea for the Fiji-Indian ... •• 18 Western Pacific Airlines —Sydney- New Hebrides-Solomons 2U

Hotel for Lae —Some Movement at Last 21 ‘•Viti” Handed Over to New Owners 2i Second Scholarship for Brilliant Fijian 22 Soap from Petroleum—Snell Co’s Second Plant 22 Pro-Red Commentary From Port Moresby Radio Station 23 American Development of N. Caledonia Urged 23 High Cost of Living—and Resigna tions—ln New Guinea 2 4 Progress On Nauru and Ocean Island 25 Queen Salote’s Return To Tonga .. 25 i\ot Ready For Self-Government— Ratu Edward Says Native Peoples Should Wait .. .. • • 26 How Whites Abused Blacks In New Guinea In Pre-Ward Days— Lecture to Students by Anthro pologist lan Hogbin 23 “Matua” Incident In Suva—Crew “Explains” 32 Proposed Rise In Fiji Civil Service Pay • • • • • 33 Strangely Mixed—Natives of Papua and New Guinea •.•• •• 34 CIPA Lose Again—Orange Picking Boycott Fails • •• 3b “John Williams VI” Will Be Based On Suva •• •••; 33 End of Fiji’s Successful Cricket Season 33 Territories’ Talk-Talk 3 * Recruiting For a Living .. ... • • 40 One Night Of Horror In Santo .. 41 Where Are They Now?—Pacific Officials Are Scattered Far and Wide 43 The Blue Cave 43 Tropicalities • •• • Book Review—They Lived In Tahiti 45 Service Section 4b

Dr. Virrier Wants a Fijian School of Painting 48 W. Samoa’s New Assembly Taking Shape 49 Parachute Post Ends Mangaia s Isolation 54 Native Labour Inspection In New Guinea—What Planters Have To Put Up With 55 Notes From Madang 56 State Funeral for Mataafa —Thousands Pay Homage To High Chief .. 58 Infantile Antics In the Solomons — Bureaucracy On the Spree ... 59 Steamer Day—Then and Now .. .. 61 Mission Work In Malekula 63 Prices Up Again In Fiji • • • 64 Protest Against NG Cotton and Flour Prices ob Upsurge Of Enterprise Amongst Post- War Fijians • • • • 67 Bunnerong's Little Sister —The Lights Of Vila Come and Go 68 Plane and Shipping Tables .. .. 70 Colonel Allan Leases Lindenhafen .. 75 The Month In Moresby 76 Flour and Prisoners For Tonga ... 78 Gold Mines Of Papua 78 Suva’s April Shower ... .. • ■ • • 8U New Launch For Londoni-Levuka Run 82 N. Guinea Planters’ Troubles Con cerning Native Labour Recruits .. 82 Future of Dredges in NG • • 83 N. Guinea Offers Few Chances For Small Man 33 Burns Philp fSS) Co. Ltd 83 Commercial, Markets, etc 84

Organisations: New Gume A

Scholarship Fund, 64; NG Women s Assn, of Melbourne. 73; Pacific Islands Soc., 75.

OBITUARY: Gaston Jeanson, 6; Madame Veuve Rose. 8: H.

Dobritz, 19; Miss Hettie Kenndy. 53; Fr. Gonnet, 75; Miss M I.

Grayburn, 77; E. Jardonnet, 77; G. Garrick, 82.