In This Issue:

Editorial: Political Fun and Games in the New State of Indonesia .. 3 Pacific Franc is a Thorny Problem .. 4 Copra Price—New Guinea Planters Await Information 5 Inferior Copra Shipped from NG .. 5 Fiji Tuna Won’t Co-operate 5 Newspaper for Port Moresby ... 5 Sabotage Alleged in Catalina Ex plosion Case 6 Report that Jap War Criminals Freed 6 Dispute holds up Bulolo 7 Fourth Judge for P-NG 7 Important Discussions in New Guinea Soon 7 Tea From Nondugl—Hallstrom Plan 8 Is there an Undiscovered People in Guadalcanal? 8 Fires in Bougainville Copra Driers .. 8 Fiji Sugar Agreement 9 Native Labour from NG Highlands 9 UN Will Investigate NG and Nauru 9 Who Controls Shipping in Terri tories? 10 Fiji Empire Games Team in Auckland 10 New Hotels in New Guinea 10 Fiji Missed by Hurricane 10 The Month in Moresby 11 Fall of Rabaul—Anniversary Services 13 New RC Arrives in Honiara 13 French Airways in Pacific 15 New Zealand Government’s Air Plans 15 New Secretary for Melanesian Mission 15 Senator Kendall Visits Rabaul .. .. 16 Mr. Tom Lowney Retires 16 South Pacific Commission—Suva Conference 17 New Buildings in Apia, W. Samoa .. 21 Northern Hotels Ltd. Buy New Hotel 21 More Fijian Cane Farmers 22 Mangaians Expect Fruit War Soon .. 22 Dr. Vernon Remembered at the Mission in the Mud 23

No Mariposa Yet 25 Mother and Daughter Have them Worried 26 Where Do Manihiki Panamas Go? .. 27 Western Samoa Newsletter 29 New Fiji Government Posts Created 30 Apia Motor Cutter Stolen 31 Civil Administration for Eastern Samoa? 33 ‘Operation Bang’ at Aitape, NG ... 34 New Guinea Natives for RAN ... 35 Bounty Bible Goes Back to Pitcairn Is 35 NZ Medical Reseach Team in Raro tonga 39 Smashed on a Coral Reef—Wreck in Tonga 41 Cook Is. Natives Have New Plans for Co-operative Association 48 Mr. Borron and the New Zealanders 47 Territories’ Talk Talk 49 Cat, Crab or Cabbage—What’s in a Name? 50 Bird’s Eye View of New Guinea’s Atolls 51 They are Digging Up Strange Arti facts in New Guinea Now .. .. 52 Tropicalities 54 PIM Crossquiz 55 Children’s Corner :: Fashion .. .. 56 “Jonfrum” is New Hebridean “Cargo Cult” —Part II 59 Shipwrecks in French Oceania—Grim Record of 75 years 65 Pacific Folklore and Mythology ... 68 Ceremony and Beauty; A Wedding in Samoan Style 71 Norfolk Island Notes 73 Notes from Talasea 77 How our Films Can Influence Native Communities 79 The Japanese Wife Wartime Memory of Dr. Vernon 82 Tropical Medicine Specialist in Fiji .. 84

Plane and Shipping Tables 87 Notes from French Oceania 98 Buka-Bougainville Has Radio and Other Troubles 101 Kieta News 102 Rabaul Roundabout 103 Kavieng News 104 OBITUARY: J. Dunne, 6; Henry Kuper. 6: S. D. Mastapha, 7; Mrs. A.

Goedicke, 9; Edmund Stehlin, 76; Rev.

Pr. Cavalier, 75; C. Jacobson, 82; W.

Bambridge, 104; Mrs. D. Messenger, 105; E. G. Theodore, 105.

INDUSTRIES: Copra, 5, 34; Oil, 7, 94; Sugar, 9: Rubber, 15; Gold, 95, 104.

ASSOCIATIONS: NG Scholarship Fund, 8; Polynesian Club, 76; Rabaul Cricket Club, 95; Pacific Islands Society, 104.

The new manager of the Suva Branch of the Bank of New Zealand, Mr. C. D.

Barford, arrived from the United King dom in early February. He has been on the staff of the London Branch of the Bank. In Suva, he will replace Mr. B. C.

Carpenter, who will leave shortly for New Zealand on transfer.

Bishop Foley left Suva in the Aorangi on February 4 for Canada, on his way to Rome by way of the United Kingdom and Ireland. He is making the Holy Year Pilgrimage to Rome and on his way will visit his parents in Kent. He expects to return to Fiji from the United Kingdom by plane towards the end of April.

Major and Mrs. T. Upson, of Manus Island, NG, have been in Brisbane for many months where Major Upson has spent a lot of time in hospital as a re sult of a motor accident on Manus. Both expect to return to New Guinea shortly.

Their son, T. W. J. Upson, usually known as Tommy, has joined the Australian Army for a term of 9 years. He will spend the first three at the Army Ap prentice School at Balcombe, Vic.