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Editorials: What is Needed for Another Elizabethan Age :: Substitute Science for Human Factor in Forecast ing Hurricanes 13,14 Fiji’s New Banana Industry Destroyed 14 Terrific Hurricane Strikes Fiji 15 Do You Remember?—2o years Back. With PIM 16 Copra—Readjustments in S.
Pacific Territories 17 20 Italian Copra Cutters for New Hebrides 17 Editors’ Mailbag 18 Port Moresby’s Wharf is Unsafe 20 Dangerous Situation over Dutch New Guinea 20 Over £3 per Ton for Sugarcane 20 Territories’ Talk-Talk 21 Costly Emergency Airstrip for Papua 23 No Statutory Powers for Moresby Town Council ... 27 Sir Hubert Murray Memorial Fund 27 P-NG Natives Add Metho to Their Drink List 29 Merkur’s Moresby Call 32 Native Members for Caledonian Council 33 No Profit In It! —Remarkable Taxation Returns of Fiji Indian Businesses 33 Islands Ships in Sydney ... 34
Fall of Rabaul —10th Anniver sary 37 The Cheng Ho Again 38 Suwarrow Closed to Shipping 41 Norfolk Island Notes 43 Mishandled Cargo in Pacific Ports 44 Rabaul or Rapopo—Move Still Uncertain 45 Master Defends Native Fore man—Unusual Case in NG 47 No Hydro Scheme for Suva .. 49 Lautoka Markets Opened .. .. 51 Another Serious Bus Accident in W. Samoa 52 Kenaf Fibre —Support for Pro posed New Guinea Crop .. 53 Cost of Living in W. Samoa .. 53 Another Ship Stolen in Samoa 54 World Rubber Production Re mains Static 57 Pacific Women Meet 57 Ever Heard of a Coconut Pearl? 61 Wilkinson Had to Pay His Own Fare Home 62
Magazine Section—
Goodbye Morinda 65 Rapa for His Kingdom ... 66 New Guinea’s Last Cannibal Outpost 69 Book Reviews 71 How to Use Your Water Power 77 “Micronesia”—US Commissioner Explains 85 Fiji SPC A Owns an Island ... 89
Fijian Development Fund Grow ing Fast No Control of Town Area Natives in P-NG Islands Shell Industry Dis organised Australian and NG Gold on Open Market Red Shadows in New Caledonia 1 W&H Funds—Ministerial Head ache in P-NG 1 Kovala—A Skeleton in BSIP Cupboard 1 ADO on Native Assault Charge 1 Bird Wonderland in Central New Goiinea 1 Exit the Sacred Calabash .. .. 1 Coconut as a Food —Interesting SPC Research 1 Fiji at the Crossroads—Three Communities and Their Problems 1 Solomons Battered by “Young Hurricane” 1 TEAL’s First Flight Welcomed in Tahiti 1 Fiji Battalion in Malaya .. .. 1 For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 1 South Pacific Commission Meeting in April 1 Miners Invited to BSI 1 Weather Breaks in Papua .. .. 1 Sir Peter Buck’s Ashes for NZ 1
Obituary: T. P. L. Byrr
Gavera; the Rev. W. Dear Madame Titipupure; A. Pelleti( Madame Brauet, 135.
Commercial, Markets, etc 1