In This Issue:

Editorial: “Can We hope to See the End of Wardism in New Guinea?” 1 Chinese Lose Nauru and Manus Cases 3 Seventh Pacific Science Congress in NZ 3 SPC Moves to Noumea 3 Price Fixing in New Guinea 3 How NG Planter is Robbed —Aust.

Govt. Still Takes All Copra ... 4 BGD Working Seven Dredges ... 4 Indian Ocean Air Route —Alternative to Crossing India 5 NG Natives Killed With Jap Rifles 5 5,000 Javanese for French Colonies 5 New Secretary for New Guinea Plan ters Union 5 O. Soltwedel Deported by Australia 5 Suggested Pacific Union Against Asiatics and Red Russia 6 The Case of Tunica Y. Casas ... 6 Acting External Territories Minister Visits Papua-New Guinea .. .. 6 Native Labour System in New Guinea 7 New Year Honours List 7 Copra Tax Out—Fiji Faces Deficit .. 7 New Town Council for Suva 7 Fish Cannery for Tahiti 8 Mr. Osborne Sees Improved Con ditions in Cooks 8 New Resident Commissioner for G. & E. Islands Colony 9 NZ Welcomes NG Scrap Metal ... 9 Fall of Rabaul—7th Anniversary of Jap Invasion 9 Loss of “John Williams V,” 9 Effect of New Guinea Timber Lease Trial on Mr. E. J. Ward’s Career 10 Fiji Hurricane—Serious Loss of 1949 Copra 13 Attacks on Trans-Pacific Aviation Companies by Australian Govern ment 18

Pedigreed Cattle for Morobe 19 Fiji’s New Airport will “Make” Suva and Help Tourist Trade 21 Alfred Robinson and Eight Natives Murdered by Natives in New Guinea 25 Fiji’s Copra Contract 26 New Book on Islands 26 Australian Canned Foods Under Open Licence in Fiji 28 Tonga Provides for an Extensive Public Works Programme 29 “John Frum” Origin of New Hebrides Movement 31 Charge of Alcoholic Excess in Tonga 31 The Wreck of the “Tahitienne”— “Taipi” Also Rumoured Lost ... 33 Fiji’s New Copra Board Set-up ... 34 Increased Allocations for Fijian Schools 34 Honiara versus Tulagi—Wordy Battle Goes On 35 Official Decisions About Cook Islands Requests 37 Americans Find Two More Crashed Planes in New Guinea 39 Conditions at Another Fijian School Attacked 39 “Morinda’s” Return —How She Took 146 Out of BSI in 1942 40 Territories’ Talk-Talk 39 Two Days in the Toils of a Biscuit Forcer 40 Abemama, Land of Moonlight .. .. 41 High Chief’s Stick Comes Home ... 42 All in Their Little Woolly Drawers 42 Rarotonga Was Like That in the Nineties 43 My Old Suva Flame 44 Tropicalities 45 Pacific Nature Notes 46 Sweet Chaos —Poem By A. P. Herbert 46 Santo Becomes a Cinema Town ... 50

“Merciless Fecundity” of Fiji Indians 53 Control of Insects in Micronesia .. 55 Weather Station for Banks Islands 56 Where to go for 3,000,000 Beer Bottles 59 Fiji’s War Debt to New Zealand .. 59 Deportation of Indians—Or Extinc tion of Fijians 61 Closer Relations with the US—Aus tralia-American Assn 62 Glass Eyes from Nauruans 63 New Manager for Burns Philp, Santo 64 Christmas Tree for Christmas Island 68 Clunies-Ross V Is Now Located— Future of Cocos Keeling 70 Yandina Docking Area Cleared for Copra Ship 75 Triplets for Fijian Couple 76 Reviewed Optimism in New Cale donia 78 Plane & Shipping Services 78 Boat Building in New Guinea 84 Mutton-Bird Survey 85 George Dibbern and Crew Resume Pacific Wandering 86 NG Administrator Visits Sepik ... 87 New Guinea’s War Cemeteries .. .. 87 Prince Von Bismarck’s Interest in New Guinea 60 Years Ago 89 US Closes Pacific Consulates 91 Commercial Markets, Etc 92 OBITUARY: A. H. Gauld, 2; Thomas Horne, 3; A. Robinson, 25; P. Burns, 38; Fr. J. Glover, 57; Robert Dean Frisbie, 66; Richard Gore, 82.

INDUSTRIES: Gold, 4,5, 24; Oil, 67, 71; Copra, 4, 26, 63.

ORGANISATIONS: New Guinea Women’s Club, Sydney, 2; NG Women’s Assn.

Melb., 7; Pacific Islands Society, 6; Port Moresby, RSSAILA, 24; Aus tralian-American Assn., 62; Polynesian Club, 63.