In This Issue:

EDITORIALS: Will There Be a War in 1951? :: Fiji’s Nadi Airport Needs Some Attention :: What Fiji Has to Suffer Because she is a British Colony :; The Sacred Saturday Afternoon in the Islands 5-6 MacArthur Is Sacked .. 6 Commissioner Lucchinelli Retires .. 7 UK Sugar Deal With Cuba 7 Shell Co. Rebuilds in Rabaul 8 New Fund for Fiji Native Develop ment 8 Successful Flight of Frigate Bird II 9 Administration of P-NG —Decisions Which Await Australian Election . 9 NZ Waterside Strike Causes Serious Loss and Inconvenience in Islands 9 New Life for Lepers—what Film Units Have Done .. .. .. .. .. .. 10 MAL Dragon Plane Crashes in NG Highlands 10 W. Samoa Elections in April 11 Aorangi Sails Again 11 TOA’s New Solent Reaches Australia 11 High Cost of Mt. Lamington Eruption 11 PCB Trickery Over the MOF Contract 13 Rabaul Advisory Council Appointed . 13 PCB Takes Over P-NG Shipping Control 15 P-NG PCB Has No “Statutory Authority” 17 Australia’s Copra Stabilisation Goes on Indefinitely 19 Case of the Missing Milk Can ... 21 NZ Wharf Troubles Cause Food Shortage in W. Samoa 22 Book Reviews: The Fiji Islands (Derrick), Energy for Australia (Rabling) 23 The Month in Moresby 27 P-NG Wharf Problems Now Almost Solved 32 Senibua Returns to Fiji from Suva— Future of Marine Products Un known 33

Mt. Lamington Still Erupting—More Victims Identified 35 Sugar Expedition to New Guinea .. 35 Fiji-Indian “Millionaires” Visit Mel bourne 36 Buka Passage News 36 Lae Hospital is a Disgrace to Australia RSSAILA President Condemns It 37 W & H Men in New Guinea —Why There is a Call for Circumspect Behaviour 39 P-NG Arts Council Presents Success ful Play 40 Pioneers of the New Guinea Gold fields 41 Mt. Lamington Fund 41 Memorial to Rev. A. Sadd 41 Kenef Fibre Gets a Start in Fapua- New Guinea —May Be Remedy for Jute Shortage 43 Santo Rocked by Quake 44 Relics of Cook’s Famous Voyage ... 45 New Tourist Enterprise in Yasawas, Fiji 45 Tourist Trade is Neglected in Fiji .. 47 Colour as Index to Social Value ... 49 Socking the Malayan Rubber Planters 1 Sets of PIM for Sale 52 Myths of the Gilbert Is 52 Anglicans Build Their Own Church at Suva Point 53 Territories Talk-Talk 55 The Eye of the Fire 56 PIM Crossquiz 56 Making Room for Fiji Industry ... 57 Kukukuku Patrol With Eric Feldt .. 58 Tropicalities 59 Where the Voice of the Mosquito is Heard O’er the Land 60 Childrens’ Section :: Fashion .. .. 62 Relapsing Malaria —New Dutch Drug 65 Mission in New Guinea Central High lands 66

Arbitration for P-NG Public Service Disputes .. .. 69 New Pitcairn Is. Stamps 69 Stamps for P-NG 69 Port Moresby Brewery 69 New Industry Penalised in F-NG by Waste and Loss 70 The Sisters’ Seaside Holiday 71 Edie Creek Memories 75 Re-organisation of Anderson’s In dustries in P-NG 77 Organisation of Supply of Films to Pacific 78 High Commissioner Reviews Year’s Activities in W. Samoa 79 Control of Pests—lmportant Inter national Conference in Fiji .. .. 82 Lae Notes 83 Effect of US Price Freeze on Pacific Industries 86 Plane and Shipping Tables 93 Timber—Large NG Stand Open for Lease 99 News Notes from the Goldfields . .. 101 Madang Newsletter 102 Hurricane Damage in New Caledonia 103 The Huks of the Philippines ... 105 Another Airway Co. for P-NG .. .. 106 Tea Possibilities in Lower Cooks . .. 106 No Encouragement to Plant Say Planters 107 After “AMP” What Next? 108 Productivity of Coral Atolls—lnterest ing SPC Survey 109 Tongan Fire Brigade of 50 Years Ago 110 Handling the NG Native .11l How the Americans Have Re habilitated Guam 113 Commercial, Markets 116 OBITUARY: T. O. U. Stockwell, 8; D. L.

Pullen, 10; Mrs. P. R. Osborne, 21; Mrs.

S. M. Muddle, 22; Capt. Dick White house, 22; Mrs. Emily Hore, 55.

INDUSTRIES: Copra, 13, 17, 19, 25, 73, 91, 107, 113; Oil, 10; Gold, 13, 99; Sugar, 7; Rubber, 51; Cocoa, 73.

ORGANISATIONS: NG Ex-Servicemen’s Club, Sydney, 74.