In This Issue:

Editorial: There are 1,720 Millions of People in Asia E. G. Theodore was Half a Mil lionaire Editor of PIM to Visit S-W Pacific Territories Sydney Newspaper Comments Re sented by French Officials ..

Lae Opposes Removal of OTC ..

Australian Income Tax to be Chal lenged by Territorians Fighting in Indonesia —Fate of Wes tern New Guinea Arthur Brander of Tahiti Murdered Taxation Uncertainty in Papua-New Guinea Virulent Polio in East Papua— American Journalist Dies in Pe culiar Circumstances Easter Island Air Route —P. G.

Taylor to Survey Fiji Governor 111 Mr. Gatty Retires from Tuna Fishing QEA Survey Flights in Fiji The Month in Moresby Salaries Fixed—Public Service Re classification in P-NG Australian Army Did Not Forget— Surprise for Borneo Natives ..

New Native Labour Ordinance for

P-Ng

Pacific Islanders in Water Colours ..

Air Fares Cut—New Rates for Hebrides, Solomons Sydney Jurist for SP Commission New Guinea’s Timbers 75 Years Old —History of Union

Ss Co

August 26 is Fiji Election Day ..

South Tasman Air Service Goes to

Tea

South Pacific Commission—Research Council Meets Militia Battalion for New Guinea ..

Lae’s Anglican Church Will be 5 Memorial to Fallen Not Finished Yet—Circumstances of 6 Misima Close-Down Mystery of Lae Tunnel 6 Hebridean News Lawlessness in W. Samoa O 4,600 Mile Flight to Aid Penrhyn n Woman 0 NG Men Talk of Defence UN Mission Looks at W. Samoa .. 7 New Stamps for Fiji Fiji’s Cost of Living 7 Carpenters’ Extend their Fiji Ship -8 ping Services BSI Labourers Fined for Breach 8 of Contract Tofua for Pacific Next Year ..

Paludrine and Its Effect on Malaria 9 Aralen is the New Malaria Drug ..

Exploiting New Britain’s Sulphur .. 9 Marching Rule Leaders Are Out of 9 Gaol 9 The Making of a Bishop in New 9 Guinea 10 BSI Copra Board Has £29,000 on its Hands 11 Pacific Science Organisational Plan Giant Snails in New Guinea .. 11 Niue’s New Stamps High Cost of Living in Fiji 11 When the Tree Fell 11 Some Notes on Papain Production ..

Territories Talk Talk 13 20 Years in the Necktie Business .. 13 PIM Crossquiz 13 Tropicalities To the Fabled Island of Rapa .. 15 How Alphonse Met a Wicked Serpent 1( - All-Round Tourists 0 Picnic on Savo Ifi Fashion :: Children’s Section .. ..

NG Natives for RAN Service ..

Headstones for NG War Graves .. 17 It is the Rich River Flats that Pro -20 duce Good Jute

Two Universities to Specialise iii Pacific Studies LMS Secondary School at Niue .. 01 Melanesian Mission Staff Join RC Church 25 Madang Newsletter ] 25 Samoan Trader Goes to Gaol .. 27 Retirement of Major S. G. Master -28 man from ESI The Marching Rule Delusion .. 29 Scaring the Thunder 30 Gift to Chinese Traders in Solo -31 mons—Abolition of Copra Zoning 31 Fijian Swimmers Have No Place to 33 Swim Norfolk Is. gives to NSW Flood 34 Relief Opportunities for Tea Planters in 35 New Guinea 38 New Government for Eastern Samoa 39 Fijian Members of Fiji Legislative 39 Council 41 Now They Move AND Talk! i Small Australian Ships for Islands 41 Work NG Popular With Federal Parlia -42 mentarians Plane and Shipping Timetables 43 Statement on P-NG Policy .. 45 New Ireland Notes ah Rabaul Roundabout ±n Tahiti En Fete for July 14 .. .. 47 Western Samoa’s Primary Industries 49 in Flourishing Condition 50 Commercial, Markets 53 OBITUARY: Arthur Brander, 8; C; 54 Lambert, 16; Frank Price Jepson, 55 Harry Bentley, 68; Sir Apirana Nge 55 75; P. K. T. Richmond, 79; Mrs. 56 Snell, 89; Major W. Morrison, 107. 58 INDUSTRIES: Copra, 7, 34, 79, 1 59 Cocoa, 111; Papain, 50; Jute, go Gold, 8. 63 ORGANISATIONS: New Guinea Me 64 orial Scholarship Fund, 33; N Guinea Women’s Club, Sydney, 65 Pacific Islands Society, 103.