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Editorial: Chinese Communi ties in Pacific Islands — Are They Now Dangerous? 13 Rice—£loo per Ton 14 Taxation of Papua-N. Guinea —ls the Inquiry Loaded? .. 14 Copra Market Uneasy—MOF Price Up, All Others Down 15 NG Pine Forests Go to Mono poly 16 Do You Remember? 16 Evatt—Gate-Opener for Asia 17 Editors’ Mailbag 18 Australia as P-NG’s Fairy- Godmother 19 Mr. Powles Reappointed for Second Term 19 Fiji Courageously Repairs Storm Damage 20 Territories’ Talk Talk 23 Canberra’s Strained Silence About Rapopo, TNG 26 Matua Temporarily on Sydney- Auckland Run 29 NZ Minister’s Hoodoo Visit to Western Samoa 35 Tahiti Notes 37 Cutch Industry in Papua ... 38 Soldier Settlement Plan in Papua-N. Guinea Limps Along 39 Investigations Proceed into New Guinea Kenaf Fibre .. 43 American Samoa and the Troubles of Transition ... 45 Sydney Wants Niue’s Basket ware 49
Future of NG Central High lands’ Agriculture 51 P-NG Hospitals Still a Dis grace to Australia—Matters Discussed at RSL Congress in Lae 53 New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney 55 P-NG Legislative Council Meets 56 Search for Anti-Biotics in New Guinea 59 Review of the MOP Industry 61
Magazine Section—
Norfolk: Tourists’ Island .. 65 Crossquiz 66 Tropicalities 67 End of Taipi 71 Honolulu To-day—Crossed Strains at the Pacific Cross-Roads 77 Suva’s New Cathedral Damaged in Hurricane ... 81 The W&H “All Found" Farce in P-NG 83 United States Seeks Bases on Easter Island 85 Proposed Aerial Charting of Fiji Waters 86 Those Islands that Vanish .. 87 Fijian Can Remain in Aus tralia for Two More Years 89 Postage Stamps for P-NG at Last 89 Lived with Native Woman — Gaoled 91
The Unexpected Wealth of Erromanga, NH £ Robbing the Coconut of its Fronds £ NG Natives Learn that Gold is Worth Money S New Administration Faces Muddled Conditions in Solomons !
For Pacific Radio Amateurs 1< Football and Cricket Tours Proposed for Fijians .. .. li Boost in American Rubber Production 1 Minister & Samoans in Lively Debate on Administration 1' The Methodist Mission Pro tests About Malaya Batta lion 1 News of the Small Ships ... 1
Obituary: Mrs. W. Wil
loughby-Tottenham; Miss R. A. Mune; Mr. O. B.
Corbett; Mrs. Ross Elliot; Mr. O. Savage: Mons. E. E.
Touze, 121.
How Moresby Heard of King’s Death 1 Outstanding Example of Moresby Departmental Methods 1 Ambrym Volcano—Ash is Worst Feature 1 MLC’s Speech in Pidgin in P-NG Legislative Cel 1 Fiji Limits Imports 1 Victorian Memorial Scholar ship Winner 1 Commerce, Markets 1