In This Issue:

Editorial: Dutch New Guinea: A Vital Issue 3 Gilbert & Ellice Islands’ Head quarters 4 Moturiki Development Project ... 4 Near Hurricane in Fiji—Five Mis sing, Four Rescued 5 Minister’s Visit to Papua-New Guinea 5 High Commissioner Visits Honiara 5 Eight Huge Bomb Blasts in New Guinea 6 Expedition Will Examine New Guinea Cane 6 Subsidy for Aorangi? 7 Guadalcanal’s Lost Tribe is Just Another Story 7 New Guinea Memorial Scholarships Awarded 8 Rabaul Roundabout 8 TEAL To Operate NZ-Suva Service 9 Birthday Celebrations for Queen Salote of Tonga 9 Hydro Electricity for Port Moresby 9 First Oil From Dutch New Guinea 9 Plain Talk About Papua-New Guinea by Senator Kendall 11 How Dynamite Mac Missed Tahiti— Adventures on Stolen Cutter .. 14 South Pacific Commission 17 Coconut Husking Machine 19 Nauru’s New Administrator on Duty 20 Migrant Doctors Leave for Papua- New Guinea 21 Australian Exchange Rate and Gold mining Uncertainty 22 Cocos Island Likes its Isolation .. 23 Colonial Development and Welfare Scholarships 23 Australia’s Air-Beef Plan Originated by Former NG Pilot 26 Future of Solomon and Gilbert Islands—BSl Called Tragic Mess 30

School of Pacific Studies in Can berra 31 Praise for AMP’s—Product of Suva Medical School 35 Plant Cocoa Now —West African Troubles and Pacific Planters .. 37 Fiji Anti-TB Trust in Action ... 37 Few Rennellese Leave Home ... 38 Attack on Price Control System in Fiji 39 Planter Versus Soldier 41 To Refine Oil in NG 42 New Hebrides New Volcano 43 What is Wrong with New Cale donia —Journalist Names Nickle Co 45 Public Servants Strike in Noumea .. 47 Territories’ Talk-Talk 49 Cool Thatch or Hot Tin? 50 Artist Dobell Finds New Guinea .. 51 Tropicalities 52 PIM Crossquiz 53 Norfolk Island Landfalls 54 Pidgin as She is Wrote 55 Children’s Corner . . . Fashion .. 56 Land Bought for Land-Poo Fijians 59 When George II of Tonga Was Married 61 Life on a Sepik Backwater 63 Fair Deal Urged for Fijian Education 66 New Servicemen’s Club for Rabaul .. 69 Air Service to Vella Lavella Suggested 70 Post-War Problems and Rice Produc tion 71 Dollar Shortage Hits W. Samoa .. 72 Old and New in South Pacific—Book Review 75 No Decoration —Australian Bureau crats Have Last Word 77 Rabaul Revisited 79 Micronesia Under American Rule .. 83 New Guinea’s Native Delegates to SP Conference 85 Plane and Shipping Services ... 87

Alarming Series of Fires in NG .. 93 The Month in Moresby 99 Misima is Six Months Behind Schedule 102 Slavery in New Guinea 102 Versatile Samoan Tries Law, De tection, Journalism, Etc 103 New Club for Honiara 103 Te Rapunga in Hobart 104 Vegetable Supply for Port Moresby .. 104 Nutfall Problem in BSI—B. E. V.

Parham’s Talk on BBC 105 Commercial, Markets, etc 106 OBITUARY: H. C. Hills, 4; E. G. Theo dore, 19; C. L. B. Wilde, 23; L. Fullard Leo, 34; Sgt. Maj. Vilisi, 84.

ORGANISATIONS: Pacific Islands Society, 8; Memorial Scholarship Fund, 8; New Guinea Comforts Fund (Grants), 13; BSI Planters’ Associa tion, 26.

INDUSTRIES: Copra, 5; Sugar, 5,6; Oil, 9; Gold, 19, 22, 102; Pearl Shell, 73; Trocas, 20.

Miss Zillah Brock who has been a nursing sister at the Methodist Mission hospital at Ba, Fiji, for the past five years arrived in Sydney in February for leave before going on to a mission sta tion in New Guinea. Part of the lug gage which she brought off the PAA Clipper at Mascot consisted of some jars of chutney made from Fijian fruits and vegetables, a bag of green chillies and a bottle of spices which had been com pounded by Indian friends in the Ba district. These items of baggage were of considerable interest to Sydney re porters who met the plane.

The Rev. and Mrs. R. Rankin, LMS, Papua were in Melbourne recently en route to the UK on leave.