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feditorials: The Problem of ‘ Education in the Pacific Is lands :: New Guinea, Samoa in Annual Farce at Lake . Success :: The Hasluck- Cleland Driving Force in
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Sir Ronald Garvey Due in Suva in August 11 Political Crisis in New Cale donia 12 Editors’ Mailbag 13 BSI Awaits its New Head 14 Guam’s Strong Challenge to Hongkong 15 South Pacific Commission— Ninth Session in April . . . 16 France-Fiji Shipping Connection ; Restored 17 Do You Remember? 17 Territories Talk-Talk 19 More Jute Available Now— Future of Kenaf 22 Bog-Holes and Red Carpets for NG’s Political Guests . . . . 25 Your Fungus, Shark-fins, etc. are Valuable 27 Tourist Hotel for Rarotonga . . 30 Lively Developments in MOP Industry 31 Moresby Has Cars but Can’t Export Them 32 Fijian Producer is Not Free— Charges by Old Resident . . 33
Precautions Against Rhinoceros Beetle in Fiji 35 W and H Frustration Caused Nervous Breakdown 37 Boosting Samoan Banana In dustry 39 Executive Council for Western Samoa 39 Increased Postal Rates for Fiji 42 The Banabans of Rabi Thank Fijians 43 Fiji’s New Manganese Industry 46 End of Promising NG Industry 47 The New Hebrides, too, Had a Hurricane 49 Italian Copra Cutters Quit — End of Hebrides Experiment 51 Fiji Needs More Tax Inspectors 53 Polio Outbreak in Central Pacific 54 US Decoration for J. K.
McCarthy 55 Dr. Davis Exchanges Scalpel for Sextant 56 Small Tuna Fleet Now Widely Scattered 57 Financing Fiji’s Football Tour 59
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Rabaul in Pictures . . . . 61 Tropicalities 62 Over The Reef—Westerly Gale at Ocean Is 64 School Journals for Poly nesia 66
Aftermath of Suva Hurricane 711 World Laughs at Samoa’s Liquor System 75 Future of Norfolk Is.—Minis terial Visit ... ... 77 BSI Minerals—lnteresting In quiry in Progress 78 NG Rice Possibilities 8C Copra Production Increases in
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What is Future of Pacific Copra Industry? . . ... St Quinine from New Guinea— Latest Development in Re markable Story 8S Fiji Has 300,000 Population . . 91 Work to Begin on Moresby’s Hydro-Electric Scheme ... 9£ For Pacific Radio Amateurs . 10] The Pacific’s Need for a Lingua Franca 10: North Pacific Islands Joined With S.P. Commission . . . IOS The Old and the New Malekula 11l
Obituary; E. C. Harris; A.
E. Hosie; J. H. Baldie; J. K.
Harrington; M. Elfinbein; A.
C. Kosky 114-1 H More BSI Timber for Export IK No Rural Problems in This School . . 11' Small Ships News 11* Early Gold from Papua’s Rivers—Survey by A. P.
Lyons 12^ Commercial, Markets, etc. . . 13i