In This Issue:

Editorials: The Meaning of Cease Fire in Korea :: £B,OOO for Port Moresby Native Landowners :: Official Misjudgment in Western Samoa :: Australians Have “Pro tection” but No Butter or Mar garine 5-6 Fiji’s Coconut Oil—Raw Deal for Crushers 7 The New Minister’s Visit to Papua- New Guinea 7 PIM is 21 Years Old 7 New Status of American Pacific Ter ritories 7 Internal Air Services for Fiji .. .. 7 The Increasing Cost of Copra Production 8 Cook Islands Jubilee —50 Years of NZ Administration 8 Bulolo Wages Agreement Reached 9 Lamington Erupts Again—but Harm lessly 9 Polynesians Barred in Australia and New Zealand 9 Electricity for the New Guinea High lands 9 Battle of the Markham —Site for Bridge Challenged 10 Thieme Family Returns to Samoa by Yacht 10 Australia Takes Over Cocos Islands 11 South Pacific Commission —Research Council’s Third Meeting 13 Brief Notes from Tahiti 14 Another Politician for Territory Administratorship 17 Fiji Trade Shows Favourable Balance 17 Future of the Solomon Islands ... 17 Convicts Run Amok —Three Days of Terrorism in Samoa 18 TEAL’S New Polynesian Service Not for Some Months Yet 21 Election of Deputy Startles New Caledonia 23 Fiji Birthday Honours 23

Registration of Cars in Papua ... 25 New Civil Administration in Ameri can Samoa 27 Jack Hides Was Not on Pullen Patrol 27 The Month in Papua-New Guinea 29 Hanuabadans Cannot Balance Their Budgets—Anthropologist’s Concern 33 Kikori’s Cutch Industry Gets a Start 35 Bank Will Open Soon in Honiara .. 35 Pacific Islanders in New Zealand .. 37 Food Shortage in BSI —Copra Piles Up 39 The Outlook for Copra—Factors Which Influence The Pacific’s Staple Product 41 Niueans Visit American Samoa ... 43 Madang Newsletter 45 Romney Marsh Sheep in New Guinea 46 Honiara Prepared for a Big Bang— But it Did Not Come Off ... 47 Islands Get New Zealand Ships at Last 49 Fijian Cricketers for UK? 49 Memory of Von Luckner —Was His Treasure Hidden on Mopelia ... 50 News from Santo .. 51 Rabaul Roundabout 53 Five Times Round the World With the Yankee 57 Book Review: One More Paradise .. 58 Dampier Passed This Way 59 Murdoch of the Gilbert Islands ... 60

Tropicalities 61

Territories Talk-Talk 62 Stevenson Did Not Die of TB in Samoa 63 Fashion :: Children’s Section ... 64 Origin of Polynesians 67 King’s Birthday at Honiara 69 Putters-Back of Clocks —Reader Thinks all Old-Timers Should be

Dumped 70

Give That Reporter a Wide Berth

—Reader Claims He was Mis reported 73 New Suva Medical School 73 Norfolk Island Notes 75 Matua Calls at Niue After Five Months 77 Rice Shortage in BSI 78 Capt. Henry Has Seaman Trouble .. 79 BSI Polio Outbreak Over 79 More About the Kukukukus 83 Notes from the Goldfields 86 Qantas Mishap in Vila 88 New Ship to Replace Laurabada .. 90 Amphibious Airways Services in New Britain 90 Over 6,000 NG Highlanders Work on Coast 91 Plane and Shipping Services 93 Lae’s Government Sawmill Cannot Supply Demand 99 News Notes from Lae 101 18 Japs Finally Accept End of War 104 Japs Seek Return of Northern Islands 104 Danger of Short Supplies to Islands 104 Head Tax off in Nauru 105 New Samoan Democratic Party .. 105 The Pacific Islands Monthly and Its Readers 107 More Tales from Old New Guinea 112 North Borneo —Conditions in Britain’s New Crown Colony .. 114 Life in the Remote Fead Islands .. 117 Commercial, Markets, etc 118 OBITUARY: James Norman Hall, 9; Lady Scott, 11; Aiden Gooding, 15; Ratu George Tonganivalu, 22; A. K.

M. Edwards, 34; H. J. Berryman, 43; Ukinga Rau, 71; Miss E. Hansen, 74; C. S. Evennett, 75; E. V. O’Brien, 115.

ORGANISATIONS: New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney, 13; New Guinea Ex- Servicemen’s Club, Sydney, 14; Poly nesian Association, 69; New Guinea Memorial Scholarship Fund, 115; Paci fic Island Society, 115.

INDUSTRIES: Copra, 7, 8. 41; Oil, 20, 50; Gold, 20, 51.