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Editorial: Australia’s New Policy in New Guinea 9 Wau Secondary School Open Next Year 10 Lae’s Red Tape—Slow Payment of W & H Accounts 10 Copra Planters are Restless —That UK Contract Price 11 Fingerprints Hung Tai Shek .. .. 11 Airport in Tonga—Unexplained Re port in Australia 11 Floods and Landslides in Samoa .. 11 Danish Expedition to Probe Pacific’s Depth 11 Tax Collector’s Share of Burns Philp Profits 12 Dutch New Guinea —Australian Posi tion is Defined 12 New Zealand Minister in Western Samoa and Cook Islands 12 UN Trusteeship Delegation Visits New Guinea ... .. 13 Angry Misima Miners Arrive in Sydney 13 Fiji Population Figures—4,ooo More Indians 14 Prom Notes Made in Fiji 14 Future of the Pacific Franc—Colonies Fear Decisions Made in Paris .. 17 Fijian Chief Now New York Radio Technician 17 Do We Wish to Forgive this Enemy? 20 Unexpected Glimpses of Hubert Mur ray—Book Review 21 Javanese Labour in New Caledonia— Sending Home Francs and Dollars 24 South Pacific Conference —Closing Scenes in Fiji 25 Papua Rubber Co. Closes Up 27 Last American Troops Leave Solo mons .. 28 South Pacific Commission —Conference Report Considered .. .. 29
TEAL Takes Over Auckland-Suva Route .. ; 32 Taxpayers Turn Critical Eye on Fiji’s Civil Service 33 NZ ; Warships Sail for Cruises in Pacific 35 The Background of Marching Rule 37 Island Kerosene—Home of New Madang Industry 39 Territories’ Talk-Talk 41 Malevolent Malabar 42 Tropicalities 43 They Are Leaving Midway to the Gooney Birds 46 1.000 Miles of Seasickness 47 Children’s Section :: Fashion .. .. 48 Some Tea is Already Coming From New Guinea Highlands 51 Trichopoda versus Amblypelta—Nut fall Problem in BSI 53 New Caledonian Mining—BHP In terest in Manganese and Iron .. 55 Fijians and Indians to Serve on Juries 55 Suva Slums Are a TB Breeding Ground .. 56 Madang Newsletter 59 New Policy In Papua-New Guinea .. 61 Tahiti Wants An Air Service —TOA And Air France Interested .. .. 70 Introducing Delana —WRC Suva Fac tory Produces Margarine .. .. 71 Rabaul Roundabout 73 New Members of Fiji Copra Board .. 74 10.000 War Dead in NG Cemeteries .. 75 Notes from French Oceania 75 NG Planters’ Assn. Asks for Better Wharf Facilities, Higher Copra Price 76 Kavieng Notes 80 No Sensations in Fiji’s Canefields Situation 84 American Samoans Will Lose Fairy Godfather Next Year 85
Croix de Guerre for Pacific Towns 86 Commercial, Markets, etc 88 OBITUARY: Lady Hedstrom, 10; Mrs.
Amy Nicol, 11; H. Jolly, 11; P.
McConnell, 13; Mdme. Mille, 28: Mrs.
Mary Lynch, 52; M. Juventin, 60; E.
J. Kuhl, 77; H. G. Murray, 84.
ASSOCIATIONS: NG Women’s Club of Sydney, 15; Fiji Amateur Sports Assn., 38; New Guinea Planters’
Assn., 76.
INDUSTRIES; Copra, 11, 86; Copper, 14; Gold, 20; Timber, 23; Oil, 77.
Mr. J. C. Hammett, well-known to New Guinea residents before the war, is doing an excellent job in the Shortlands in re habilitation of his plantations there.
Laumono has been in production for some time. Re-opening of Komaliae was be gun in March under the direction of Mr.
Hammett’s son-in-law, Mr. Ruglin, and is making good progress. Mr. Hammett has two sons-in-law to assist him, and hopes that his son, a qualified geologist, will be able to join him before the end of the year. In addition to the regular family circle of Mr. and Mrs. Hammett, their two daughters and two sons-in-law, a younger daughter, Miss Anice Hammett, recently stayed at Laumono for a holi day.
Miss Mary Eggleston, Bachelor of Ag riculture of Melbourne University, has been with the Papua-New Guinea Ad ministration for the past 21 months and is now in Australia on leave. Her job was with native women who, of course, take a large part in village gardening.
It was announced in May by the Royal Society of New Zealand that the 1950 Hector Medal and £5O prize has been awarded to Dr. Ernest Beaglehole, of Wel lington, for his published researches into Polynesian ethnology.