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Editorials: Where are our Defences Against Red Asia? :: Legislative Cel. Breaks Down Official P-NG Reti cences 13-14 Another £5 per ton for Pacific Copra 14 New Hebrides’ Labour Diffi culties 14 Suva Has a New Mayor ... 15 Dr. Macmillan Leaves SP Commission 15 Vila Uneasy over Ambry m Eruption 15 P-NG Legislative Council Opened 17 Air Service for Phosphate Islands .. .. 18 “Pardon” for Wilkinson .. .. 19 Cost of Living in P-NG .. .. 20 £3,000,000 in Stabilisation Fund 20 Territories’ Talk-Talk 21 Fiji’s Indians and the Malaya Battalion 23 Fijian Causes White Australia Trouble 25 P-NG Urged to Grow More Rubber 26 Fall in Sugar Production in Fiji, Australia 27 P-NG Trade Figures 29 Recruiting Saltwater Boys for
Ran 30
Samoan Cocoa Position ... 31 Samoans Get Along Without Us Very Well-—Up to a Point 33 The Starling Arrived in Fiji .. 39 El Ritiro, the Vila Flyer ... 39 Inducing Native Papuans to Grow Rice 41 Lautoka Escapes Moresby Reef 42 Churchill’s 1943 Plan and the Chaos of 1951 43 Why Copra Bags are So Costly 45 BSI Govt. Aid to Medical Missions 50 The Isles of Unwisdom 51 Suva Wharf Will be Repaired— But Not Yet 55 NZRE Benefits W. Samoa ... 55 TB in Tonga—Visitor Urges Use of Vaccine 57 Active Tax Dodgers in Fiji .. 59
Magazine Section:
No longer off the Record 61 Crossquiz 62 Tropicalities 63 Round and About in Fiji .. 64 The Mules that Wouldn’t .. 67 New Guinea Women Sentenced for Drinking 71 News Notes from the Goldfields 77 Dry Samoa! 78 US Territories Welcomed to the SPC 79
Rabaul Social Life 8 Fleeing from City Frustrations to Seek Utopia 8 Huge Crocodile Taken in Ex citing Fight .. 8 Praise for Suva’s Wharf Labourers 8 Muddled Shipping in Vila .. 8 NZ Catalina Carries US Visitors to Pago Pago 8 Tragedy of the Pensioned — Black Outlook for Retired Islands Officials .. 8 Leprosy on Nauru 9 Of Ships & Sailormen—Ship lovers’ Society of Victoria .. 9 News Notes from Vavau .. .. 1C Another Native Messiah Goes to Gaol 1C Notes from Lae 11 New Guinea Women’s Club, Sydney 11 Norfolk Is. Fatal Explosion .. II OBITUARY: Lady Barker; Sir Peter Buck; The Rev. C.
Beharell; A. J. Tattersall; E. E. De Brath; R. McMil liams; S. R. Foy; Capt.
Victor Brisson; Mrs. Joe Winchester; T. E. Bunkley; Christian Jensen; Franz Franzen; Madame de Vas seau Devaux; Dan Cos tello 119-121, IS South Pacific Commission .. IS Small Craft News IS Markets, Commercial, etc. .. IS