In This Issue:

Editorial: The Tragedy of the Fixed- Income Man in Tropical Islands 5 No Word of NZ Timber Lease Case 7 Aorangi Fares Up 25 Per Cent 7 Melanesian Mission May Leave Sydney HQ 7 Ragnar Hyne a Supreme Court Judge 7 From Notes Made In Fiji and Norfolk Island by R. W. Robson 8 KPM Ship Will Now Call At Moresby 9 Waste Of South Pacific Commission Funds Alleged 9 “Bulolo” Delayed In Island Ports .. 9 BGD Production 9 NZ’s New Exchange Causes Stir In South Pacific —Variations In £s and Francs Provide Plenty Of Headaches 10 Hongkong May Leave Sterling Area 11 “John Williams VI” Due In November 11 Who Will Direct the South Pacific Commission 13 Decision On Fiji’s International Air port Likely This Month 13 Correction —Incident In W. Samoa .. 15 Noumea-N. Hebrides Air Service Resumed 15 Air Services For N. Hebrides- Solomons 16 N. Guinea Copra—Australian Racket Against Planters 18 Papua-New Guinea Union —Bill Before Australian Parliament This Month 21 N. Guinea Plantation For Sale .. .. 21 Winners of Competition For Fiji Stamps 21 Goodbye, “Montoro!” —Old Steamer Sold 22 “Bulolo” Welcomed In the Territories 23 High US Official Tours South Pacific 24 Independent Presbyterian Church Formed in N. Hebrides 24

New RC Bishop Of Central New Guinea 26 Why Pacific Islanders Are Barred From Australia —I mmig ration Officer Presents Old History ... 27 Labour Delegation Fails To Settle Cook Island Dispute 29 Third Judge for Papua-New Guinea 34 “Aorangi” and “Bulolo” Resume Schedules After Seven Years ... 35 Headquarters of SP Commission ... 36 Ramie Process May Be Lost To New Guinea 36 Polio Farce In W. Samoa 37 Little Left Of American Installations At Manus 40 How Japs Cultivated the Paw-Paw .. 40 Territories’ Talk-Talk 41 Fiji’s First Governor Dealt With Fiji’s Last Cannibal 42 Manawai Lagoon 42

Tropicalities 43

When King Met King..A 57-Year- Old Memory Of An Incident In Frisco 44 Alcoholic Pranks In New Guinea .. 44 Pacific Nature Notes 45 “Bully” Proctor —Blackbirder Who Tried To Be King Of Futuna .. 46 Short Story—“A Nunu-Penni and a Tralala” 46 Service Section 48 Dollars For Torres Island Pearl Shell 48 Lae’s New Wharf 48 Phosphate Little-known Deposits On NG Islands 50 Quarter Million Indians By 1967 ... 52 How Australia Helped de Gaullists To Hold New Caledonia 53 When Cakobau Was King Of Fiji .. 58 Big Day For Mangaia—Vice-Regal Visit To Outpost 63

Emergency Landing On Atoll By BCPA Plane 63 Can a Sea Captain Perform Marriages? 66 New Guinea Timber —and the Aus tralian Plywood Board 68 Rev. Fr. Deihl Retires 68 Shipping and Plane Services 69 Madang Newsletter 77 New Government Station In N.

Guinea 87 Markham Bridge—Will Cost Quarter Million 87 Commercial, Markets, Etc 88 Organisations: NG Women’s Club of Sydney, 6; NG Scholarship Fund, 16, 80; Pacific Islands Society, 76; Morobe Citizens’ Association, 76; New Guinea Women’s Association of Melbourne.

Obituary: Mrs. Maria Whippy, 9; Mrs.

R. C. Ott, 22; Mrs. G. Klunkmueller, 22; Malietoa Infant, 22; L. L. F. Rex, 31; Major R. Duncan, 31; Sydney Young, 34; L. S. Lazarus, 63.

The Rev. Harold Thompson, Anglican Mission, New Britain, is at present in Western Australia on leave.

A new Financial Secretary for the Western Pacific High Commission has recently been appointed. He is Mr. H. J.

Hinchey, an Australian who* has been at tached to the Secretariat in Suva since 1943. He was formerly a member of the staff of the Bank of New South Wales and a lecturer in Economics at the Uni versity of Queensland. At the outbreak of war he was seconded, at the request of the Fiji Government, to organise the Colony’s exchange control. Subsequently he was Controller of Imports, Exports and Foreign Exchange and a member of the Supply and Production Board.