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Editorial: How Canberra is Grabbing £8 per Ton from NG Copra Growers 5 Has Giant Snail a Food Value? ... 6 SPC Research Officers Tour of Pacific South Pacific Commission Settles in at Noumea • • • A Australian Mills Seeking Cheap Copra 7 Australia’s Acting Minister is off to Nauru • • • • • A Pole to Pole Weather Stations ... 7 Fiji Population Increases —So do Poly nesians ° Tuna Fishing in French Oceania ... 8 Old Glory Flies Again in Papeete .. 8 Talkies Mean a Lot to Savu Savu .. 8 Ward Inquiry Drags On —Nothing New In Evidence .. • 9 Successful Goodwill Tour of Australia by “John Williams VI” 9 W. Samoans Welcome New High Commissioner 9 Santo Wants More Air Passages to Sydney 10 Guam Congress Wants Civil, not Naval, Rule 10 British Agent and Consul for Tonga 10 Fiji Land Crisis —How it was Saved 11 Deplorable Conditions in Wardist Territories as seen by Visitor ... 11 Career of Ronald Garvey 15 New Plan for Teaching New Guinea Natives 10 Fiji Sugar Export Tax Voted Out by Indian and European MLCs ... 18 Price of Bananas Increased in Fiji .. 19 Resurrection of Kavieng Club—Speedy Action follows Court Petition ... 19 Death of Mangaian Native *‘King” .. 20 Information Wanted About “Ship Post Offices” 20 Kwato’s Plans —Rice Growing for New Guinea Natives 21 Anti Filaria Campaign 21

Another Immigration Mix-up 23 New Bishop of Central New Guinea is Installed 24 Savu Savu Notes 24 Eight Scholarships for Fiji 25 Change in Constitution of Pearce & Co., Fiji 25 BCPA Reduces Through Fare To London 25 Pastor Jupeli’s Long Service to LMS 25 Fiji’s Press Bill Has Easy Passage .. 26 More Flour, Sharps and Meat For Fiji 26 Overhaul of Fiji Defences—Full-Time Officers and Instructors from NZ .. 27 Fijians Object to Misuse of Term Fijian 27 Why New Guinea Administration Escaped Hostile Criticism —Papua- NG Bill Debate 29 A Backward Glance at the New Guinea of 1813 33 France Honours Pioneer Bishop de Boismenu 37 Hydro-Electricity for Noumea .. .. 39 “Muliama” gets Scratch Crew in Santo 39 Dr. Lucy Mair Now Writes a Book .. 40 No One Wants New Caledonian Cheese Factory 40 Territories’ Talk-talk 41 Goni Mixed Medicine and Seacraft to Save Our Allies 42 Tropic Thunderstorm 42 At The Club 43 Wallis Is. (French) is Pleasant and Unspoiled 44 Tropicalities 45 Pacific Nature Notes 46 Lord Howe Island’s Lost Treasure .. 47 Another Viewpoint in Relation to New Guinea 50 The Sorry Story of Manus 52 The King and the Circus Horse—A Memory of 60 years Ago in Tonga 53

French Film Brings Criticism 54 Wild Pig Menace in Fiji 55 Dwarf Coconuts In Fiji 62 BSI Has “Sewing Machine Culture” .. 63 Notes from New Ireland 65 NZ Petroleum Firm Enters Fiji Trade 65 Sir Brian Freeston in SW Pacific .. 65 Sea Snakes Killed by Reef Temper ature 66 Anti TB Campaign Urged for Fiji .. 66 Guinea Air Traders Not to be Prose cuted 67 Rabaul Prepares for Eruptions 69 Norfolk Island Notes 72 Leprosarium for Solomons 73 Tonga Catches the Fight Craze ... 73 Native Seamen Charged with Murder in Sydney 74 NZ Marketing Expert Looks Over Banana Producing Territories ... 74 Tea Could be Grown in NG—But Labour Problems seem Insuperable 75 Western Papua Notes 76 Plane and Shipping Services 79 Fiji Nurse for Training in NZ .. .. 85 New Flying-Boat in NZ-Suva Service 85 Markets, Commercial, Etc 88 OBITUARY: G. Spitz, 7; Capt. A. Donald son, 13; Mrs. Mollie Carter, 26; J. T.

Johnson, 62; T. P. K. Nicholson, 63; E. R. Oldham, 85.

ORGANISATIONS: N. Ireland Planter’s Assn., 19; N. Ireland Sporting Assn., 71; Polynesian Club of Sydney, 55; Fiji Amateur Athletic Assn., 66; Pacific Islands Society, 87.

INDUSTRIES: Copra, 5, 22; Cocoa, 16; Gold, 77.

A new Administrative Officer. Mr. K. P.

Bain, and the newly-appointed Crown Counsel, Mr. W. G. Bryce, have arrived in Fiji. Mr. Bain will be posted to the Western District as a District Officer.