In This Issue:

Editorial: SPC Tasks as Seen in Village Schools and Rhino Beetle 13 Fiji’s New Governor Arrives and is Sworn In 15 Mr. R, E. P. Dwyer to be P-NG Director of Agriculture 15 Editors’ Mailbag 16 Papua Rubber Planters Again In Trouble 17 No P-NG Administrator Ap pointed Yet—Mr. Cleland’s Position 17 The Australian £ Looks Pitiful In New Caledonia 18 Do You Remember?—Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 18 Territories’ Talk-Talk 19 Island Section of Sydney Chamber of Commerce Re formed 20 Wake Is. Levelled by Hurricane 20 World Copra Market—British Producers Now Have Ad vantage 21 Tonga May Go to Par with Sterling 21 Aorangi to Withdraw Next Year—Too Old 23 New Commissioner Visits W.

Pacific 26 X. K. Murray Row Drags On 29

Last Islands Flights of NZNAC —TEAL Takes Over in Samoa 32 Awahau Disappears at Sea . . 37 Dismantling BSI Airfields . . 39 Encouraging Results from BSI Cocoa Experiments 43 Indonesia and the Peiping Peace Farce 46 The Tyranny of Rice—NG Veteran Urges Alternative . 47 Lautoka One Step Nearer A New Wharf 49 P-NG Imports Kenaf Seed . . 50 Dr. Jacomb Does Not Like To- Day’s Islands’ Conditions . 51 NZ Soccer Players Beat Indians —And Fiji Holds Post- Mortems 53 Cattle Raising Prospects in New Guinea 55 Cook Is. Finances and Figures 58 Tonga’s Campaign Against Beetle 61 Cocoa Industry in Carolines . 63

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Tropicalities, 65; Digoel River Journey. 67; Book Reviews, 70; He Was A Guest of the Government, 71.

Fiji Indians Protest Against Increased Rents 79

For Pacific Radio Amateurs . . 81 Local Government Plans for Fiji 8* Long Awaited Hotel for Suva 87 Giving a Ship a Name—Fiji Fashion 91 New Asiatic Colony in New Hebrides—What Followed Breakdown of Indentured Labour 9* P-NG’s Secondary School Dis cussed Again 90 Jap Labour for N. Caledonia— Australia Does Not Like It 101 OBITUARY: W. A. Mossman; M. Louis Landre; Capt. G.

H. George; Mrs. Alex Bent ley; Major G. R. Warren; A. Henderson; Teriieroo Teriierooiterai; Mrs. M.

Rooke—los-107, A. E. Even ett, 28 Rabaul is Still P-NG’s Cin derella Town 108 145 Co-operatives in P-NG .. 112 News of the Smallships .. .. HI Seone, Tokelau Castaway is Going Home 121 Tenth Session of SPC at Noumea 124 Two Views About Fiji Tourism 121 Old Planter Is Outspoken About

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