In This Issue

Editorials: Churchill’s Appalling Task :; Fijian Battalion—is Malaya sufficiently Im portant 9, 10 Another Pacific Air Service — NG to Gilberts 10 NG Legislative Council Elec tions 11 No Major Copra Decisions .. 11 Governor Angamarra arrives in Noumea 12 High Cost of Giving Oranges to NZ 12 Fiji Gold for Open Market ... 12 Threat of Income Tax in

P-Ng 12

Details of Current Expenditure in P-NG 13 Memorial to Victims of Japs on Nauru 13 Qantas and Air Freight in NG—MAL Will Not Carry Mail 14 Grave Unrest in Indonesia ... 15 Micronesian Groups Added to

Spc 15

Sterling is Shaky—Copra Pro ducers’ Fears 16 NG Women’s Club of Sydney .. 17 Fijian Battalion for Malaya .. 17 Territories Talk-Talk 17 Cooks Island Still Must Rely on Maui Pomare 19 Editors’ Mailbag 20 Fiji’s Cost-Plus Import Duties 21 Fiji’s Growing Land Problem .. 23 Auckland-Fiji-Tahiti Air Ser vices 25

Another Little Ship for New Guinea—Capt. Coyne’s 450- Tonner Improving Apia’s Wharf Facili ties Not Now So Savage Cargo Handling in Pacific — Photographs Britain and the Copra Price— Case for BSI Planters ..

Niue and other Islands hit by Drought Tourism is Now Important in Fiji .

Tributes to Governor Phelps- Phelps of American Samoa Second Vacuum Bulk Terminal opened in P-NG Central Highlands Fairy God father Papuan Police Loyalities ..

Magazine Section—

Well Done. Calliope Tropicalities About Five Miles Further— Tongan Picnic Crossquiz Children’s Section The Sacred Right to Strike— Red Poison among Papuan Seamen Islands Film Script Competition Solomons and New Hebrides— Changes unler Discussion ..

P-NG Want Visit by Royal Couple Stamps Built this Schoolhouse Fine Work of A. W.

Moverley of Pitcairn ..

Solomons Valuable Kauri Pro duction Samoan Assembly Discusses Ex penditure Progress in Medical Organisa -29 tion in P-NG Drasa—Where They Teach 31 Fijians to Become Cane 33 Farmers Black Equals White—A Fijian 37 Replies to New Guinea Reader 41 High Commissioner “Snubs”

European Community .. .. 4b Long Drought in Vila ( - 1 New Guinea Mainland News ..

Useful Boat Lost in NG .. 54 Big Solents and a Little River Lost Navy Rule Seems Good 57 to Samoans, Now Pacific Artists Meet 58 Banana Industry in W. Samoa 59 The Investigations of the Galathea 61 LMS War Memorial Fund .. 62 Ownership of Abandoned War Goods 64 Events in Papua-N Guinea 66 South Pacific Commission— -68 Eighth Session OBITUARY: J. A. Garnett: Harold Rhodes; H. H.. 70 Hemus; C. W. Rundnagel; 74 Mrs. P. Huon; Mrs. Louie Reay 123- 79 Wilkinson—Bock Muddle in Papua 80 Whats News in BSIP !

Adrift for 102 days Nauru Diary 83 Commerce, Markets, etc. .. !!