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Editorials: Pacific Defence Con ference at Honolulu :: How Asia Creates Problems in the Pacific :: P-NG’s Land Pol icy 13—14 Cautious Ministerial Statement on P-NG Land Policy . . . . 15 Rice and Peanut Planting near Rabaul 15 Editors’ Mailbag 16 G & E Copra Growers get £25 per Ton! 17 Fijian Council of Chiefs Talks Plainly 17 Rabaul’s New Copra Mill ... 18 Review of World Copra Market 19 Do You Remember? 19 Muliama Rescues Matoma from BSI Reef 20 Territories’ Talk-Talk 21 Mercy Planes for Port Moresby and Nauru 25 History of Home-Brew in Tonga 26 The W.P.H.C. now under New Control Mr. Stanley on Tour 29 New Liners for Messageries Maritimes 31 Sea-Fire Drama in Papua ... 32 RAAF Dakota Gets out of Highlands Mud 33 New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney 34 Col. Murray and Future of New Guinea 35
Coconut Selection in Western Samoa—Work of SPC . . . . 39 New Governor for Eastern Samoa 41 More Fruit from Cook Is. .. 41 What Comes Next in N.
Guinea?—A Survey by R. W.
Robson 43 Prickly Character of Fiji’s In dian Problem 53 Pacific Cruises by French Ship ping Line 56 Why Do NG Chinese Not Learn English? 59 Rice Crop Failure Causes Con cern in Fiji 60 NG Salvage Profits Under Tax ation Fire 61
Magazine Section—
Pick of the Pictures of Fijian Footballers ... 63 Tropicalities 65 Foundation Stone for Papua—And Sir Peter Scratchley who laid it .. 67 Malolo 70 Keen Interest in NG Cattle Farming 76 Is this Book on Education Pre mature? 77 Suva Watches Making of O’Keefe Film 79 TB Suspects in Crowded Suva 81
NAC To Remain 100 Per Cent.
Government-owned 8 Suva Slum Demolition Brings
More Overcrowding , . 8
Atiu Newsletter 8 Tribulations of BSI Dairymen . 8 Future of Maui Pomare ... 8 For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 9 Samoa’s Acute Food Shortage 9 Airfields While - You - Wait RAAF Effort on Cocos Is, . . 9 New Advisory Council on Nor folk Is 9 Book Reviews 9 Day-old Chicks on Passenger Planes—Pilots Don’t Like It 10 Fiji’s Liquor Headache is Loom ing Again 10 Another Fiji Gold Rush? . . . . 10 New Buildings in Suva for Is landers’ Medical Training .. 10 Experts Look over Papua’s Rub ber Industry 10 OBITUARY: Mrs. Julia Nord man; Brother Alexis; Mr. Les lie Davidson; Mr. Ephraim Hathaway; Mr. E. F. Ram hein; Mrs. T. Snow; Mrs. G.
Crummer; Mrs. E. W. Fenner; Mr. E. D. Francis . . . . 114 —11 The Monarch and Islands Stamp Issues 11 News from Rabaul 11 More About Teaching P-NG Natives Simple English . . . . 12 News of the Small-Ships . . . . 12 Markets, Commercial 13