In This Issue:

Editorial: Is the Spender Policy Being Sabotaged 5 Governor of Dutch New Guinea to Visit P-NG 6 Nauru Memorial to Colonel Chalmers 6 South Pacific Commission—Sixth Session Opens in Noumea 7 Sir Hugh Ragg, of Fiji, Retires ... 7 Fiji Salary Plan Unpopular 7 New Trans-Tasman Service In augurated 8 Retiring Indian Commissioner in Fiji Gives Some Blunt Advice 8 More About the F’ei Banana 8 New Tarawa Memorial to Victims of Jap Sadism 9 Ambon Wants None of Djakarta .. 9 Government Wholesale Society Thrives in G & E Colony .. .. 10 Nauru Housing Scheme 10 Moresby Says Good-bye to Well known Residents 11 Another Unrealistic Attack on NG’s Native Labour Problems 13 NG Planters’ Demand for Higher Copra Price 15 Montevideo Maru Memorial .. .. 17 The Price Spiral in Fiji 17 Tonkinese Leaving New Caledonia .. 18 New Newspaper Published in Port Moresby 18 The Month in Moresby 21 Trans-Pacific Services to be Allowed to Fly Tasman 26 If Wana Fails 26 They’ll Brew Their Own in Moresby —35 Gallons of Beer per Person 27 Moisture Content in Fiji Copra ... 29 Heat Tolerance in Tropical Dairy Cattle 35 Rabaul Roundabout 37 Annual Meeting of BSI Advisory Council 38 Tahiti Prepares for Tourism —New Hotels being Built 41

Foreigners and New Arrivals “Screened” in P-NG 42 Famous Black Collection of Artifacts 42 Seven Seas II Heads for Bali 42 John Williams VI Calls at Mangaia 43 Golden Wedding of Well-Known Fiji Couple 45 No Crown for Nehru 45 Cost of Living in NZ’s Pacific Islands 46 New Light and Power Soon from Apia’s Hydro-Electricity Supply . 47 LDS Programme for Pacific Educa tion 49 Indian Independence Day was Quiet This Year 49 Dwindling Fish Supplies Cause Alarm in Suva 50 Earthquake in Santo, NH 50 Mariposa and Monterey May Be come Troop-Ships—No Subsidy for Aorangi 51 Indian Nominated M’sLC Appointed in Fiji 51 Fetu Fou —A New School 53 100 Years of ABM Effort 54 Fiji Fines for Watering Hospital Milk 54 Report for 1949—Fiji Statistics in Attractive Form 55 Territories Talk-Talk 57 The Royal and Ancient Game of Pua 58 Panic in the Place 59 PIM Crossquiz 59 The Fishing’s Better Further South 60 Tropicalities 61 Travail in Tahiti—A Short Story .. 62 Fashion :; Children’s Corner ... 64 Yachts Meet in Avarua 68 Even Prices at the Bung are Going Up and Up 69 News Notes from W. Samoa 71 Indian Tailor Shop Workers Want European Sympathy 72 NZ Film Unit in Cook Islands ... 73 Smithy Memorial Fund in Suva .. 73

French Help Build British School in Vila—Miss Vila Quest 75 Crime Wave Continues in West Samoa 70 Vila Welcomes the Dentist 79 Half-Rations for Vanikoro ... 79 Thousands of Bombs Await Disposal in BSI go Island Boats Delivered to Your Doorstep 81 BSI Needs More Overseas Ships .. 83 Fiji Anti TB Memorial Fund 84 Madang Newsletter 85 Notes from Tonga 87 UN Mission Not Satisfied with NG Health Plans 92 Plane and Shipping Timetables ... 93 An Impression of Harold Cooper .. 101 Polynesians Reached New Zealand 600 Years Ago 103 Eight Years of Security for Fiji .. 107 Near-Bankruptcy of Philippines Re public 10s High Cost of Keeping Native Ser vants log Margarine Should be an Alternative to Costly Butter m Deputy Administrators Wanted for Papua-New Guinea 112 Rabaul Comforts Fund—Distribution of Money n* More War Dumps for Sale in New Guinea m Crime Wave in W. Samoa ll£ OBITUARY: O. B. Hug, 19; D. H. Os borne, 25; C. I. H. Campbell, 31; Ottc Soltwedel, 33; Mrs. E. A. Fuller, 34; M. Jean Lods, 38; Mrs. Faamusami Mataafa, 89; Mrs. E. M. Youlden, 92; Gustav Johnson, 108; A. M. Rox burgh, 112.

INDUSTRIES: Sugar, 16; Oil, 26, 88, 100; Copra, 29; Rice, 39; Gold, 89, 92, 108 ORGANISATIONS: New Guinea Women’s Club, Sydney, 9; Pacific Islands Society, 31; NG Memorial Scholarship Fund (Brisbane) 119; New Guinea Ex- Servicemen’s Club, Sydney, 100.