In This Issue:

Editorial: “An Imperial Headache— The Indian Situation in Fiji” ... 5 Another Airline in NG 6 He’s Been to Nauru! 7 Fiji Trade for 1948 —Sugar Again on Top 7 Norfolk Island Notes 7 General Recovery of World Copra Production Interesting Report From London _8 50 Years at Law in Fiji- 8 Honiara Club Lost in Fire 8 P-NG Copra Still Under Canberra Control 9 Fiji Morning Newspaper Ceases Pro duction 9 Apia Has a Flag Incident 9 Present Kavieng Club Will Fight .. 9 Third session of South Pacific Com mission—New Body Settles to Work in Noumea 10 No New Guinea Scholarship Award For 1949 11 Burns, Philp Dividend Raised .. .. 11 TOA’s Pacific Services 11 Failure to Salvage “John Williams V” 11 Fiji News Notes 13 End of Tulagi—Old BSI Landmarks Go 13 J. P. Nicoll Goes to Difficult Post in Hongkong 13 New Guinea Timber Lease Inquiry Resumes 15 Canada Wants More Fiji Bananas .. 15 Tongatabu Airfield Inspected By PAA 15 He Struck it Rich—But Not in Gold 16 Retirement of Mr. Bill Candler ... 16 Double Murder on Ocean Island ... 17 He’s a Myth—Robert Edwards and His American Millions 19 Encouraging Tourists to French Oceania 21 Prices Recession Felt in Western Samoa 23 Rebuilding New Britain—Survey of Chief Town 24

N. Guinea’s Experiment with Hall strom Sheep 25 Murderers of Mr. A. Robinson Sen tenced 27 Retirement of Mr. J. Judd from Fiji District Administration 27 The Roxburgh was a Full-Rigged Ship . 28 French Oceania Governor Arrives 29 British Award for Frenchman in Tahiti 29 Five Million left from Australian War Damage Fund 31 All Races Catered for in Rabaul Edu cation Scheme 32 QEA Catalina for New Guinea ... 33 And, What are We Here For?—SPC Research Council Gets Down to Business 35 Mission Boats for BSI 39 Peanut Politics—East African Scheme 42 Two Western Samoans Charged After Stabbing Affrays 42 Territories’ Talk-Talk 43 The Sad Handicap of the Plumber’s Mate 44 How a War Club became an Emblem of Peace 45 Installing a Bush Bishop 45 We Visit Tabiteuea 46 In a French Cathedral 47 Tropicalities 43 Pacific Nature Notes 49 Some Alcoholic Memories of Suva .. 50 Cook Islands Party Rescued at Sea 52 New Theatre for Nukualofa 52 Tahiti—Noumea—Air Pare—A Com parison 53 Road Accidents in Tonga 53 Dynamiting of Fish in Samoa .. .. 53 More Europeans Wanted in Fiji— Answer to Indian Menace 54 Education Progress in New Guinea .. 54 Another Makatea Contingent from Mangaia 54 Makeshift Wharf Repairs in Rabaul 56 No Racial Troubles in New Zealand .. 56

Peace-Time Biscuit-Bombing in NG 57 Local Air Transport Coys, in NG .. 57 Branch of Commonwealth Bank Now at Kokopo 57 “Jackals” of Indonesia 53 Bougainville—Cinderella of NG Ter ritory 59 Pioneer Work of TOA in Solomons Service 53 Personal Notes from Buka ’ arid Bougainville 34 Burglaries in Santo, New Hebrides !70 Two Japs Found in Manus ... 70 Inadequate Shipping Facilities in Papua-New Guinea 71 Tongan Chiefly Title in Dispute .. 73 Plane and Shipping Tables 74 BP (SS) Co, Has Another Good Year 79 New Caledoian Timber Country Opened Up 79 Fiji Claimed as Colony of “Free India” go Two Bishops Visit Rabaul 31 300 Tons of War Scrap Taken from BSI in April gl Notes from New Ireland ... 81 Western Papua Notes 33 Mosquito Control in Mangaia .. .. 83 The Fight Game in Fiji ... 34 Red Tape and Neglect Can Strangle New Guinea 37 BSI Mission Acquires Handsome Yacht 88 Girl Guide Movement in Mangaia 88 CIPA Resurgence in Mangaia 89 ANZAC Day in New Guinea ... 90, 91 NZ Shows Flag in Pacific ... 91 Commercial, Markets, etc 92 OBITUARY: E. E. Lloyd, 8; Mr. and Mrs.

W. Allen, 17; Mr. Charles Christian, 21; Richard Heape, 25; Mrs. Beryl Fox, 29; Joseph Quesnot, 29; Georges Spitz, 39; Stanley Vivian Griffiths, 55; Isidore Richmond, 63; G. E. Zuckschwert, 71; Madame Coulon, 84.

ORGANISATIONS: NG. Women’s Club of Sydney, 13; P. & T. Association, Rabaul, 28; N. Britain Ladies’ Club, 57.

INDUSTRIES: Gold, 10, 17, 21, 41; Oil: 11, 71; Copra, 8, 9.