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Editorials: New Guinea’s Place in South Pacific Defence :: Who Will Get the Nauru Ad
ministratorship 13,14
Nauru Head Resigns Post 15 Not Enough Good Land in NG Says Expert 15 Editors’ Mailbag 16 Native Policeman Murders Chief in Mangaia 17 Tahiti’s Most Vital Problem . . 18 Do You Remember? 18 Territories Talk-Talk 20 BSI Tax Power Challenged —Whole Structure May be Altered 21 The New Timber Industry Around Rabaul 27 Local Beer for Papua Soon— Price of Imported Beer Falls 29 The Japanese in the South Paci fic 33 War-Torn Britain—Some Plain Aspects of Sterling-Dollar Problem 37 Improvidence of the Fijians— Sukuna Speaks Plainly to the Chiefs 41 Thorsisle in Trouble on First Run 42 Beef Cattle Project for BSI . . 43 Passion Fruit Industry in NG Highlands 43 New Stamps for Papua-New Guinea 45
Reviving Norfolk Is. Banana Trade with NZ 46 Rugby Team’s Triumphal Re turn to Fiji 47 TEAL’s Stopping Place in Cook Is 49 Value of British Consulate in Tahiti 54 How Self-Government Works in West Africa 55 Tikopia’s Population is Increas ing 56 Liquor Control in Western Samoa 57 Britain’s Share in Pacific Avi ation 59 SDA Hold Camp Meeting at Goroka 62 900 Gone, 1,000 going—Exodus of Eastern Samoans 63
Magazine Section—
Tropicalities, 65; Crossquiz, 66; When the Kuni-Maipas Saved 10 Yanks, 67; More About Mapia, 68.
Pelicans Blown into Solomons 78 All Drover Planes Grounded . . 79 Agricultural Development in Morobe Area ... ... 79 38th Anniversary of Bombard ment of Papeete 81 TEAL May Save NZ Taxpayers £40,000 on Islands Services 83 Nauru’s Education is Responsi bility of P-NG Director . . . . 85
The Monarch and Islands Mamp Issues g Niueans Do Not Want Mormons 8 Is NG Copper Valuable Again? 9 What the Colonial Development Corporation is Doing in Af rica and Elsewhere 9 For Pacific Radio Amateurs . . 9 TEAL Makes Substantial Profit 9 Much Building at Rabaul ... 9 Cook Island Orchardists Try Modern Methods . . . . 9 Australian Newspaper Excite ment Over Sepik Oil Patches 10 Margarine and the High Price of Butter jq Planters’ Leader Likes NG Village Councils 10 Fiji Missed on Sheep 40 Years Ago ii Sects Clash Over Village School in NG |i The Bailey Family 7 Wartime Scrap Planes Worth Millions 11 Suwarrow’s Lone Philosopher . . 12 News of the Small Ships . . . . 12
Obituary: Mr. G. L. Peeks;
Mr. C. A. W. Bailey; M.
Ronnie Mitride; Mr. B. D.
Martin; Mr. T. A. Fox; Mrs.
P. Gordon; Barbara Ewins; Mrs. R. K. Caldwell; Mr. F.
Krone; Mr. Edwin Berry; Fr.
Jules Dubuy; Capt. A. T.
Norton 133-13 Commercial, Markets 13