In This Issue:

Editorial: “The Real Issue Before This Tortured World” 5 Copra Price When Milled in Fiji.. .. 7 Taro Disease in Fiji, Too 7 Aotearoa II Soon on Tasman Run .. 7 NG’s Giant Snails Are Not So Giant 7 Trusteeship Council Speaks its Piece on NG Administration 8 Rabaul King’s Birthday Choir Com

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Papuan Rubber Industry at Point of Collapse 9 Pearl Shell Down £l4O per Ton ... 9 Planting Co. Selling BSI Properties .. 9 Fiji Cession Day Celebrations ... .. 9 Some Aspects of the Rehabilitation of Mr. E. J. Ward 10 More Pacific Airlines 10 Rabaul Has a Drought 10 Two Papuans Sentenced to Death for Murder of European 11 Tourists Now Wanted in Tahiti ... 11 Sir Maynard Hedstrom to Remain Chairman of MH Ltd 13 Visit of Australian G-G to Papua- New Guinea 15 Bank of Indo-China 16 New Holiday Hotel on Kokoda Trail, Papua 18 White “Matua” to Become Bronze Green 18 Territories Plantations for Sale ... 20 Papua-New Guinea Permanent Ad ministration from July 1 21 Cost of Air Travel 23 Vanikoro Logs Reach Australia After Many Mishaps 25 Malaria Danger in Fiji 25 Farmers for New Caledonia 26 Western Samoa en Fete for King’s Birthday 26 Qantas Complete S-W Pacific Air ways Circuit with Lae-Honiara Service 27 Noumea’s Airport 27

Ward Exonerated —Garden and Farrell Were the Crooks 29 American Consumption of Copra .. 32 Old Jap Ammunition Still Causing Damage 32 Keen Rivalry Between NG’s Pidgin Newspapers 35 No More European Settlers Wanted in Tonga 35 Norfolk Island’s New Newspaper ... 36 Papua-New Guinea’s Price Spiral— Native Rations Cost 22/- per Week 36 SPC Health Expert to Tour S-E Pacific 36 Fiji, in 1948, Broke all Trade Records 37 Sensational Newspaper Story Follows Geologists’ Visit to BSI 39 Mass Transport of Stock in LST .. 40 Official’s Roundabout in Fiji 41 Minerals from the Solomons 41 Million-dollar Publicity for Pastor Salau in the United States ... 42 Cook Island Curio Trade in Doldrums 43 Marching Rule is Now Nearly Dead 43 Communists and Germans—Austra lian Discrimination 44 Fiji Imports Day-Old Chicks 44 Malaita Labour Now Coming Forward 45 Another Talkie Show for Mangaia .. 45 Fiji’s Tourist Season Begins 45 Running a Maternity Hospital in BSI 47 Norfolk Island Notes 48 “Maui Pomare” Cargo Pillaged ... 50 Taking Civilisation to the Natives of NG Highlands 51 Melanesian Mission Now Settled in NZ Headquarters 52 Cl Stamp Oddity Fetches £7O 52 Invaluable Ex-Army Equipment Lost in New Guinea 53 No Ships for Cook Islands’ Record Orange Crop—Bush Beer in Raro tonga 56 Inquiry into Death of Captain Lang dale at Canton Island 56

The Last of the South Pacific Convict System 57 Planning Methodist Mission Rebuild ing in New Guinea 58 Australia’s Ban on Polynesians ... 59 Handy Ship for Cook Islands—MV “Kinabatangan” 59 Red Tape Ties Up Export of Norfolk Island Fruit to NZ 59 Territories’ Talk-Talk 61 Papua-New Guinea Posts and Tele graphs 63 Another War-Time Bomb Washed Up in Fiji 64 Australian or New Zealand Future for Norfolk Island? 65 How a Lost US Plane was Located in New Guinea 67 The Reds Annoy Australia on Nauru Conditions 67 Sales and Costs Both Increase — Review by MH Ltd 69 Dearer Cars for Fiji 69 Crime in Samoa —Charge of Murder 71 Fiji May Take Part in Empire Games 71 Radiophone Between Noumea and Vila 71 Samoan Exports 72 The Month in Moresby 73 Plane and Shipping Services and Timetables 77 Tahiti Notes 85 Service Section 86 Minister Not Helpful Over Lae Build ing Muddle 87 OBITUARY: Sister Cecilia, 27; S. O.

Martin, 35; Mrs. Charles Fysh, 33; Miss Mcßoy, 41; W. H. Jefferson, 44; Mrs.

E. Smith, 51; Mrs. W. S. Cooper, 64; Max Roberts, 72; Mrs. Iris Tebb, 76.

INDUSTRIES: Rubber, 9; Pearl Shell, 9; Gold, 63.

ORGANISATIONS: Bougainville Planters’

Association, 10; Rabaul RSSAILA, 13; Rabaul Chess Club, 18; NG Baseball Association, 33; Suva Scouts’ Associa tion, 50.