In This Issue:

Editorial: Mr. Spender’s New Guinea Plans May Have Wide Back ground 5 MP Visits Norfolk Is 6 Fiji’s Attitude towards S. Pacific Conference “is Cynical” 6 Rarotongan Elections 6 No TEAL Service to Suva Yet .. 7 NG Shipping—No Early Improve ment 7 First South Pacific Conference— Delegates Assemble in Suva .. 7 Papua—New Guinea Under Review —Visiting Minister Promises Re forms 8 Indonesia —Increasing Signs of Confusion and Revolt 9 Fiji Has Three Near-Miss Hurri canes 9 Chalmers and Fiji’s Sugar—Hold Up in Cane Growing Contract .. 9 Copra Price Under Fire —Complications Caused by Depreciation of Sterling 11 Interesting Salvage at Manus ... 10 US Mission for Trust Territories is Heading Our Way 11 PAA to Use Stratocruisers Soon .. 11 Rabaul Roundabout 13 Mangola On (and Off) Reef 15 Mariposa To Return? 16 Jute Growing Experiment in NG .. 16 South Pacific Commission 17 Notes from Torres Straits 21 NZ Co-operates With Fiji in inter esting Cattle Experiment .. .. 22 Canned Paw-Paw Juice Gives You Vitamins and Zipp 23 Hawaii, too, Imports Trout 23 Papuan Constabulary Band for Aus tralia 24 Double Taxation Relief—Agreement between UK and Fiji 24 Ceremony at Suva’s New Cathedral Site 24

Solomon Islands News 25 Air France for Tahiti 27 Modern Beachcombers Tahiti’s Problem 28 Misima Shock—Mine Closes Up .. 32 Fatal Air Crash at Lae 32 The Month in Moresby 33 Egypt Visits the South Seas 37 Japs are at their Tricks Again .. 37 50 Years of US Rule in Eastern Samoa 38 No Mission Competition in NG .. 38 “Operation BCG”—Anti-TB work in NG Highlands 39 New Chinese Consulate in Papeete 40 Paul Gauguin Art Shrine for Tahiti 41 Sea Swallows Island off Papua ... 41 Norfolk Island Notes 42 Opening of New Samoan Boys’

School 45 Chinese Influence in New Guinea .. 46 What Shall We do With New Guinea Natives? 49 Talk-Talk 53 The Story of the Bounty Bible ... 54 Pearls —at a Price 55 Queen Salote Celebrates her Birth day 56 Tropicalities 57 It All has Changed Since the Old Sonoma Days 58 FIM Crossquiz 59 Fashion, Children’s Corner 60 In Defence of Tabiteuea 62 BSI too, Will Have Big Bang ... 65 Decoration for Soldier-Pioneer ... 65 New Oilfield in Dutch New Guinea 67 Madang Newsletter 70 High Infant Mortality Rate in Poly nesia 74 New Minister’s Statement on Aus tralian Pacific Territories 75 Child Specialist for Port Moresby .. 76 A War-time Story of the Sailing Ship Kaiulani 79

Fiji Seamen Object to Cartoon .. 81 Samo Plantation Sold for £24,000 .. 83 Fuzzy-Wuzzy on Boogie-Beat ... 84 Bougainville Notes 85 South Seas Supermarket 86 Mother Mary Agnes Retires from Makogai 87 Plane and Shipping Timetables .. 90 Leopold Blackman’s 50 years in Pacific 97 French Oceania Notes 98 Australia Says “No” to UN Flag .. 100 Fiji Legislative Council Meets .. .. 101 New Ireland Notes 103 50th Anniversary Celebrations in American Samoa 103 Conditions of NG Land Purchase 104 Lone Yachtsmen in South Seas .. 104 Migrants to New Caledonia Should Be Prepared to take Place of Asiatics ill OBITUARY: C. O. Andersen, 9; Hon.

Ata, 16; W. H. Miller, 47; R. F. Kruse, 66; Mrs. Florence Murray, 80; Mrs.

Gertrude Christian, 83; Robert Fouger ousse, 98; Guy Fougerousse, 98; Marcel Grand, 99; Oscar Dexter, 99.

INDUSTRIES: Copra, 6, 10, 25; Cocoa, 24, 39; Gold, 26; Bananas, 89; Oil, 98; Rubber, 101.

Mr. B. O. Rylander, one of the world’s leading authorities on oil drilling, flew from Venezuela and Sydney, and on to Port Moresby, in March, to give special attention to oil-boring sites there, where plastic mudstone formations at various depths are creating unexpected obstacles for the drills. Soon after his arrival it was announced that drilling at Upoia, which had been held up at 1,200 feet by mudstone formations, had been resumed.

Several engineering problems of com plexity and magnitude were solved to permit this new development, which re presents another important step in the search for oil in Papua.