In This Issue:

Editorials: Willing or Unwilling, Aus tralia Must Lead in the South Pacific :: The Missionaries and the Returned Soldiers and New Guinea 5-6 New Administrative Set-Up for Papua-New Guinea 7 Sir Brian Freeston to be Secretary- General of South Pacific Com mission 7 No Air Service for Tonga .. •• •• 7 Tongan Crown Prince Will Visit Britain 7 New Guinea’s Lost Land Registers . 8 Tofua Should be on Job This Year . 8 Canada Wants to Buy Copra Direct from NG, Fiji .. . 8 Solomons and New Hebrides New Minister Knows Nothing of Reported Transfer 9 Red Raggers Delay Aorangi De parture 9 French Mail Plane Sent Away from Cook Is 9 Flying-boat Hits Reef • • • 9 More Complaints About P-NG Little Ships 10 New Cargo Vessel for Islands 11 TOA's New Service H Death of Sir Maynard Hedstrom .. 13 Why Fijian Student Was Expelled from NZ 15 Boom in New Caledonia's Metals 17 Giant Snails Still a Pest 18 Hebrides “No Asset to Australia’’ .. 19 Preparing P-NG Defences GOC’s Visit to P-NG 23 Tahiti’s Isolation is Ended TEAL Establishes Fortnightly Service .. 25 Livestock for Papua-New Guinea .. 25 American Viewpoint on Pacific Islands 26

Rehabilitation of Lamington Evacuees —llimo Camp Closed 27 New Sugar Cane Varieties from NG Highlands 27 French Ships for Pacific 27 Dismal Outlook for Service Pen sioners 28 Fapua-New Guinea’s Economic Headaches 29 Navy Crew for Matua Essential Goods to be Taken to Island Ports 34 Rabaul to Kokopo Europeans Reconciled but Chinese Not Happy 35 MV Gona on NG Reef 35 New Samoan Political Party 37 Cook Islanders Offer to Work on NZ Wharves, Ships 38 The Month in Papua-New Guinea . 41 South Pacific Commission—Seventh Session in Noumea 43 Polio Outbreak in BSI 49 Anzac Day in Vila 49 Allocation of Mt. Lamington Relief Fund 50 PAA Interested in Tahiti 51 We Too Have Our Nutteries 53 Madang Newsletter 54 Territories' Talk-Talk 57 Tonga’s 92-year-old Poet 58 PIM Crosscmiz 58 Namatjira Dinkum Aussi, Real Artist 59 Moresby Goes from Air Warfare to Air-Fare War Tropicalities bl There is Treasure on Tupai and Many Coconuts Fashion ;; Children’s Section ... 64 It was a Quiet Election in Samoa .. 66 P-NG Postage Rates Up 66 Laurabada for Scrap-Heap 6<

New Hebrides Get Increased Air Service 69 New Name for Suva Point 70 Ex-Missionaries in Methodist Posts in Australia 70 Buy Western New Guinea! 71 Fiji’s Official Festival Visitors ... 74 Some Ideas for the New State .. .. 74 Pitcairn Relic Returned 75 Western Samoa Trade, 1950 75 Rabaul Roundabout 81 That Iniquitous MOF Copra Contract 83 Review: Helping the Natives to Get Along With Us . 85 Making New Guinea Natives Fish Conscious 89 Spoiling the Papuans—Old Timer’s Protest 91 Plane and Shipping Timetables ... 93 Notes from Lae 103 The Month in Fiji 104 Pitcairners Watched for Plane That Did Not Come 107 Review: In Defence of the Plough . 108 The Problem of the Half-Caste .. 11l Treaty With Tonga Event of 50 Years Ago 112 French Oceania News 113 Plantations Do Not Pay 115 News Notes from NG Goldfields .. lib Uncle Sam’s Guam Yankees 117 Commerce, Markets 120 OBITUARY: J. Graham-Taylor, il; Sir M. Hedstrom, 13; James Morgan. 15; P, G. Rogerson, 28; Mrs. B. Stowers, 38; Nils Bowman, 50; Harold Thompson, 51; K. J. Angel, 69; J. B. Mawson, 87; E. E. Dunwoodie, 100.

INDUSTRIES: Rubber, 6; Gold, 11, 31, 50; Pearling, 31; Copra, 51, 79; Rice, 99.

ORGANISATIONS: New Guinea Women’s Club, Sydney, 10; P. I. Society, 10; P-NG Public Service Assn,, 37; NG Ex- Servicemen’s Club, 101.