In This Issue;

Editorials: Mr. Stalin’s Plan is Going Well. “Luck” of the MOF Copra Contract 5 Catalina Lost and Crew Killed in Western Samoa 6 May Be Top Level Changes in P-NG Administration 7 1951 Copra Prices Up 10 Per Cent. .. 7 Alterations to QEA and French Air Services 8 They Sailed for Vatu Vara and Found Brisbane 8 Red Fire Eater Wants Australian New Guinea 9 Aorangi Out of Pacific Service 9 Intensive Cultivation and Fewer Babies —Tonga’s Plan 9 £450,000 Worth of Roads for Fiji .. 10 Air Executive Dies in P. Moresby Scuffle 10 Notes by the Wayside—Part II ... 11 Drought in the Gilberts 13 Sir Alan Burns Was Amazed at NG Living Conditions 17 More Artifacts—From the Baiyer River 18 Australia Provides Nearly £5 Million for P-NG 18 South Pacific Commission —What Has Been Done in 1950 21 New Guinea’s Enriched Chinese — Another Problem for Australian Administration 29 Hawaii Sneers at Tahiti’s Fussiness 31 The Month in Moresby 33

Hungry Natives in Fiji—Cost of Hospitality 36 Manus, NG, Has Been Called a Junk Heap 37 G & E Ship on Reef 38 Miss Rabaul, 1950—And Those Few Extra Inches 41 As the Isolated Trader Sees it ... 42 Noumea’s Modern Department Store 45 Tutuila Visitors to Niue for LMS Centenary 46 Old Records of Papua-New Guinea Wanted 47 Old Timers—A Dwindling Company .. 49 Territories Talk-Talk 53 The Secret Life of Professor Wilson .. 54 PIM Crossquiz 54 Modem Prince Will Use Modern Methods 55 Life Was Never Dull for the Leahy Brothers 56 Tropicalities 58 Tusitala—Teller of Tales—Was Born 100 Years Ago 59 Fashion :: Children’s Section 60 Month of Sport in Apia 64 NZ Reports on Her Island Territories —Drift of Native People to NZ Cities 65 Lonely Yanks on Torres Strait Island 67 Sandals and Pay Increases for P-NG Native Police 73 Third Term as Suva’s Mayor 75 News Notes From Vila 77

SDA Meeting at Kalombangara ... 80 News Notes from the Goldfields ... 83 Madang Newsletter 84 Plane and Shipping Timetables ... 89 Native Members of BSI Advisory Council 95 34 or 36 Hours? P-NG Public Service and the Working Week 98 Botanist Degener in Fiji on Anti- British Hate 99 Shooting Affray in Santo 99 Rabaul Roundabout 101 Shooting Affray in Santo 105 Highland Labour Not Always Right Answer 108 Weddings of Fiji Interest 109 Commercial, Markets, Etc 112 OBITUARY: C. H. G. Honson. Ill; H. W.

Freeman, 96; Father Bousquet, 100; G. Coles, 105.

INDUSTRIES: Copra, 5,7, 39; Sugar, 9; Cocoa, 39; Gold, 107, 109; Oil, 111.

ORGANISATIONS: New Guinea Women’s Club, Sydney, 13; Fiji Society, 68; New Guinea Memorial Scholarship Fund, 43, Pacific Islands Society, 97.

Mr. R. D. Blandy, OBE, who has just retired from the post of British Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides, arrived in Sydney on November 30.

Accompanied by Mrs. Blandy, he left al most immediately for Adelaide, where in future they will reside. Before settling down in South Australia, however, Mr. and Mrs. Blandy will pay a visit to Europe. It is understood he will receive the CMG from the King and that France will honour him with the Legion of Honour.