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Editorials: Why SPC Should be Given A New Status:: MBE for M. J. Leahy, .. 13, 14 Stabilisation’s 3 Millions ... 14 Anniversary of Fall of Rabaul 14 Sir Ronald Garvey, New Gov ernor of Fiji 15 New Year Honours 15 Administrative Change in W.
Pacific Awaited 16 Rise in MOF Copra Rates .. 16 Editors’ Mailbag 17 BP’s Shipping Reshuffle ... 18 Do You Remember? 18 Hurricane in Hebrides Kills Over 100 19 Tofua Enters Pacific Islands Service 19 MOF Sugar Price Near World Parity 20 TEAL'S Service to Tahiti ... 20 First Indian Deputy Mayor of Suva 20 Fiji Battalion Leaves for Malaya 21 New Resident Commissioner for Cook Is 21 Wilkinson Released—But Has No Remedy at Law ... 23 New Coconut Mill for Rabaul 23 MV Polurrian Departs for Rabaul 25 The Month in Papua-New Guinea 27
SPATC Recommends Third Runway for Nadi—Jets on Pacific Service 33 Tribute to the Late Sir Peter Buck 34 Two Writers in Defence of Tahiti 35 Rawhiti Joins the Peruvian Navy 40 Boong-Bashing—Silly Talk by Tasmanian Socialist ... 41 Hoodoo Name for a Ship ... 43 Ineptitude and Waste—Attacks on W & H Dept 47 Criticism of G& E Colony . 49 Madang Notes 50 Territories’ Talk-Talk 52 Soap Factory for Apia ... 55 .Agricultural Experts in New Guinea 56 Norfolk Is. Notes 57 Beauty Treatment Urged for Suva Town 59 Another Ship for Hebrides- Caledonia Trade 59
Magazine Section—
New Hebrides in Pictures . 61 Crossquiz 63 Makatea—Third Phosphate Island 65 Islands Prayers for Peace— Lady of Fatima Statue .. 70 Rabaul Social Life 73 The Story of T. E. Bunkley . 75
News Notes from NG Gold fields 78 Cocoa Planting in P-NG Official Enthusiasm, but No Land or Labour 81 Behind the Scenes in the Solomons 85 Whence the Polynesians? ... 89 Long Drought Ends in Suva . 96 Women’s Club Party Voted “Best Ever” 97 For Pacific Radio Amateurs 100 Jap Shipping Companies in Pacific Service 101
Interesting Developments at
Suva Medical School .. .. 103 OB ff^ ARY: Adi Cakobau, Major F. G. L. Holland, F. S Whitcombe, W. H. Brabant, Charles B. Hill, W. Young, Miss M. N. Christian .. 105-108 Death, W. H. Carpenter .. 113 Airfield for Ocean Is? 109 South Pacific Commission— What Was Done in 1951 .. 113 The House That Wahlen Built 114 Success of P-NG’s New Council 115 BP’s Expand Store Holdings in Australia ng Christmas Party!—Tough Da vs On Kokoda Trail 121 Shipping Facilities in Solomons 121 Yacht Represents Port Moresby in Tasman Race 122 Oil Hopes from Papua 123 Small Ships News 124 Three Attacks by NG Natives 127 Commercial, Markets, etc., .. 128