In This Issue:

Editorial: “No ‘Little India’ Will Be Tolerated In Pacific” ... 5 Red Activity In Cook Islands ... 6 New Regulations Cover Fijian Affairs 6 Marshall Aid For New Caledonia— Australia Loses Coal Trade ... 7 New Guinea Timber Lease Trial On November 8 7 South Pacific Commission Meets This Month 9 New War Against Filariasis—French Oceania Starts Campaign 8 External Territories Secretary Visits New Guinea 8 Interesting Change-over In New Guinea Copra Control 9 No Place In NG For Guinea Airways 9 Minor Official Revolt Reported In BSI —Tulagi-Honiara Argument May Come To Head 10 Papua-New Guinea Costs Australian Taxpayers £3 Million 10 Papain Under Examination in NG .. 10 Remarkable Use Of Ant To Combat Nutfall In Solomons 11 How To Deal With War Damage Claims 11 Indian Insolence Angers Fijians ... 11 New High Commissioner For W.

Samoa —Retirement Of Colonel Voelcker 13 Two Men Charged With 1942 Papuan Killing 13 New Director Of Fiji Medical Services 13 Spectacular Indian Welcome To Commissioner To Fiji.

Why Are Australian Canned Goods Restricted In Fiji 13 Rarotongan Temporary Makeaship .. 15 US Pacific Medical School Transferred 16 Exchange Uncertainty—Affect Of Appreciation On Fiji Gold Mining 16 Fiji Governor’s Forthright Reply To Suggestion of “Dictatorship” .. .. 22

Tokelau Islands To Be Part Of New Zealand 24 The Americans Leave Christmas Island 26 BSI Rehabilitation Falls Short of Ex pectations—WPHC Tells of Post- War Difficulties 27 Christmas Island Phosphate Bought By Australia and New Zealand .. 29 Australian Judge For Nauru 29 100 Years Of Mission Work By Presbyterians In N. Hebrides ... 31 New Rabaul-Manus Plane Service .. 32 Last Chinese Go From Samoa .. .. 34 Establishment Of Mormon Church In Tahiti 36 Mechanical Fault Was the Cause Of Lae Air-Crash 37 Cairns As Port Of Call For NG Shipping 38 African Groundnut Scheme Under Fire 39 Unhappy Conditions In New Guinea — Writer Outlines Practical Policy As Solution 41 Territories’ Talk-Talk 43 Incident On Malden 44 Tropicalities 45 The Plane Gives Us Norfolk, Super Holiday Isle 46 Pacific Nature Notes 48 “Elaine”—A Short Story 49 Concerning Snails 49 Service Section 50 Committtee To Revise Fiji’s Ten- Year Plan 54 Mr. Ward Describes Trusteeship Council’s Views On New Guinea .. 55 Tributes To Late “Tibby” Hagen .. 62 Concerning Mr. H. A. Ward of Cook Islands 64 Hugh Mac, A Hero Without Show manship— Tiibute To H. A.

Mackenzie 66 Burns Philp Take Over Stores At

Forbes and Young 67 Presentation Of Messiah By Tongan Choir 68 New Hotel At Nadi, Fiji 70 W. R. Carpenter Pay 9 Per Cent and Return Capital 70 Ashes Of Late Judge Ayson Go Back To Rarotonga 72 The Racial Problem In Fiji .. 73 A 1941 Interview With Mr! Banno, Of Tonga 76 Plane and Shipping Services 81 Protection Of Fijian Lands Extended 86 Papua-NG Pensions Proposals Under Fire 89 New Drug For Makogai Patients .. 89 Easter Islanders’ Long Sea Voyage .. 90 He Caught An Alligator On a Gut Line 91 Commercial Markets, etc 92 OBITUARY: R. Speight, 7; H. A.

Mackenzie, 18; W. R. B. Thomas, 30; Mrs. K. Darley, 34; A. Witherow, 38; P.

Foster, 69; R. A. Robinson, 87.

Organisations: P.I. Society, 11.

INDUSTRIES; Papain, 10; Rubber, 24; Cocoa, 32; Copra, 9, 32; Oil, 29; Phosphate, 72; Gold, 16, 90.

Mr. R. G. Looker, who was seconded from the New Zealand public service in September, 1946, to become Assistant Postmaster-General of Fiji, is to remain in the Colony for a further 12 months.

He will then return to the Dominion to take up his duties as Inspector of Post Offices.

Mr. Pat Costello, of Suva, Fiji, is at present a visitor to Sydney and Mel bourne. It is mere coincidence that his visit should occur at the same time as the Spring Racing Carnival in Sydney, and the Melbourne Cup.