In This Issue

Editorials: 49 Nations to Deal With Japan—And Our Se curity :: Planters, Robbed of £3O per Ton, Are Given 55/- :; Rabaul Declines to Go to Kokopo 5, 6 Rise in New Guinea Freight 7 Death of Sir Albert Eliis ... 7 Filaria Conference in Papeete 7 The Woeful Solomons 8 Tongas Airfield May Grow Peanuts 8 Jap Thieves in NG Waters — Australians Seize Ship in Hermits 9 Search for Bullion Goes on Off Lae 10 Minister of State Visits Fiji, Tonga and BSIP 10 Rabaul Meets the New Min ister 11 Lautoka Storm Over a Wharf 11 The Editors' Mailbag 12 Mr. Tailby May Retire from Cook Is 13 Where “Smithy” Landed in Suva 15 Suva Gets Water After Six Years’ Fight 16 Tributes to the Late James Norman Hall 17 Norfolk Island Gets a Market in New Zealand 20 Nadi Makambo Closed .. .. 23 Planting Possibilities in P-NG —British Expert Looks Them Over 24

No Soldier Settlement in P-NG —RSSAILA Plan Gets Bogged Down 25 TEAL’s New Service to Tahiti 25 The Month in Papua-New Guinea 26 NG Legislative Council —Strong Feeling in Rabaul 29 Another £3 for P-NG Planters —But Stabilisation Fund Continues 33 Rabaul Citizens Condemn Rapopo Move —Alternative Plans Put to Government 34 In Defence of the Small Ships 43 News Notes from Buka Passage 47 Legislative Council for Papua- New Guinea 49 Tahiti’s Chinese French Awareness of Difficult Prob lem 53 Jet Planes for CPA 53 Commonwealth Bank Opens in Honiara 53 Rabaul Roundabout 55 Three Killed in Samoan Bus Smash 57 Football Fever—Rugby in Fiji 61 Territories Talk-Talk 63 Moturiki Tries Community Development 64 Tropicalities 66 Accommodation in NG High lands 73 Wandering Bill Murnan and His Seven Seas II ... 77 Record Profit by Morris Hed strom Ltd 78

You Drink Only on the Points System, in W. Samoa ..

Italians for Work in Hebrides Japs Cash-in on Rebuilding New Guinea That Anti-Polynesian Law ..

Fate of Territories’ Hospital Plan Plane and Shipping Schedules Ministerial Visitors to the Islands The Myth of NG’s Sulphur Deposits News Notes From Lae Suva’s Electricity Rates Up Again Ken Douglas Says Goodbye to New Guinea Madang’s New Chamber of Commerce Wants Road to Highlands Commercial, Markets, etc. ..

OBITUARY: Sir Albert Ellis, 71 O. C. Wittus. 8; Bishop Apjc hans, Father Bachus,- F/O J.. 1 Spiers, Miss H. J. Connor, M F. Tindale, K. C. Macdonald) W. Palmer, 10; Mrs. May Mulll 21; James Whitford, 41; I James Fisher. 57; Miss 0..< Bayly, 79; R. H. C. Bentley,, Polito Atoa, 97; Mrs. A. M. Su ing, 98; J. Dodd, 111; A. Bill, A. Cinnamond, 123; L. A. Drn 124.

Industries; Copra, 6, 112; Gi

108, 115; Phosphate, 45; Cod 57; Trochus, 72; Oil, 120.

Organisations: Ng Worm

Club, 31; P.I. Society, 109.