In This Issue:

Editorial; “Socialist Regime May Be Nearing End in New Guinea” .. 5 Bulolo’s First Posi-War Trip To New Guinea 6 Government Aid Sought For Blind Tongan 6 Copra Costs —Comparative Production Tables 7 Trusteeship Council Approves Papua- New Guinea Amalgamation ... 8 Flag Raising On Manus ..' 8 Winding Up Of PCB .. 8 Copra’s High Value —Malayan Was Over £lOO Per Ton In July ... 9 Nauru Riots —Clash With Chinese Workers 9 NG Timber Case Postponed 9 New “Tofua” For Islands Service .. 9 BGD Progress 9 Investigation Into Cost Of Living— Papua-N. Guinea PS Gains Point 10 Marshall Aid For New Caledonia .. 10 “New Statesman” Rubbish For Papua 11 Port Moresby Public Servants Review Progress Of Struggle for Better Deal 11 New Fiji Copra Bill—Opposition By Some Planters 13 France Will Foot Bill For Colonial Governors 13 New Procedure In Fiji Executive Council Appointment 13 Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing Ltd. — Operations Now Normal 14 W. Samoan Assembly Begins New Task 14 American Subsequential War Damage

Payments 16

Javanese Labour For New Caledonia 16 End of CIPA In Cook Islands Is Predicted 18 Fiji Copra Control —Extraordinary Powers Of Board 22 Calwell’s Ban —Bitterness In Central Pacific 23

Cost Of Australian Wheat In N.

Caledonia 23 Fiji Governor To Tour Group .. .. 26 Future Of Samarai Awaits Canberra Decisions 27 Trade Boom Continues In Western Samoa 28 Prevention Of Blackwater Fever ... 30 Vila’s Depot Barge Goes Stubborn On Voyage 31 Copra Crushing Planned For New Guinea 32 European Samoan Barred From Australia 34 Isle Of Pines For Tourists 37 No Room For Tourists—Acute Shortage of Hotel Accommodation In Suva 39 Price Control For Suva’s Vegetables 40 Plaques For NG War Graves 41 Territories’ Talk-Talk 41 Something Always Turns Up! .. .. 42 The Story of the Ba Rebellion ... 43 Bride From the South 43 Out of the Past —Photographs of Aneityum, New Hebrides 44 The Soliloquy Of a Fed-Up Trader .. 44 Tropicalities 45 Pacific Nature Notes 46 Book Review —Johnny Frisbie’s Story 47 Service Section 48 Report On the Solomon Islands —Dr.

Rutter Sums Up 50 When They Got Their Sunday’s Mixed —Rarotonga In 1897 53 How We Fixed a Leak 55 Madang News 57 Intermarriage In the Islands 58 Origin Of Tin Can Mail 59 Plane and Shipping Services 66 Mental Patient At Large In Moresby 70 Tokelau Stamps—First Day Issue ... 76 Bravery Awards For New Guinea Natives 76

Pilariasis Campaign In French Oceania 751 In Search of South Seas Glamour .! 78 1 Increased Expenditure On Health In W. Samoa 81 Golden Wedding Of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Bentley Of Suva 82 W. Samoa Comes Of Age 83 Education In BSl—School Materials Duty Free 85 New Director Of New Caledonia Native Affairs 86 Commercial, Markets, etc 88 OBITUARY; Mrs. C. Hutchings, 7; H.

Milliard, 16; H. C. Reed, 26; R. A.

Vivian, 30; F. W. Blencowe, 31; Mrs.

Maria Devonshire, 59; C. Flinders Proctor, 60.

ORGANISATIONS: Papua-NG Public Service Assns., 11; New Guinea Scholarship Fund, 31; New Guinea Women’s Club Of Sydney, 74; Planters’

Assn. Of Papua, 80.

Miss Patricia C. Whitehouse, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Whitehouse, now of Adelaide, SA, recently passed with credit in all subjects of the Nurses’ exam inations. She thereby won a gold medal.

Until the evacuation, Miss Whitehouse lived in Papua where her father was for 28 years with the Administration in the Trobriands, Samafai and Misima.

After 40 years’ residence in Papua, Mr.

James Driver has retired from his interests in the Territory, and has gone to live in Melbourne. Following three years’ evacuation, he returned to Milne Bay— only to experience, under the conditions created by the Australian Socialist Gov ernment, two years of the frustration and discouragement which have broken the hearts of so many elderly planters and traders in the Territories.