In This Issue:

Editorial: Grave Events are Pending 13 NG’s Irresponsible Critics —Red Crocodile Tears Over Natives 14 Pacific Races for Yachtsmen . 14 Copra Price Higher—MOF Rate May Now Hold . . . 15 Papua’s Rubber Industry in Danger 15 Dutch Say They Will Not Give Up Western New Guinea . . 16 Moresby Will Have Local Beer On November 26 17 Do You Remember? Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 17 New Shipping Service to NG Begins in December . . .. 18 Japs to Pay Compensation to NG Widows 18 BSI Constitutional Challenge May Go Direct to Suva .. 18 Rhino Beetle Threat to NG Plantations 19 Territories Talk Talk .. .. 20 Australia’s Great Rice Mystery —Grower Receives £3O, Con sumer Pays £lOO 25 Gale Plays Havoc With BSPs Unprotected Shipping ... 27 Mr. Ragnar Hyne is Fiji’s New Chief Justice 28 TEAL’s New Coral Route Will Develop Trade and Tourism 29 Storm in a Teacup: Four VlP’s

Watch Spanking of Papuan Child . . .. 33 From Notes Made in the Pacific by R. W. Robson . 35 Hotels and Headaches in Suva —Some Problems of Fiji Tourism 41 Primitive Man in New Caledonia 46 Cocoa Possibilities in S. Pacific 51 Mauritius is Another Fiji . . 55 Local Honiara Residents Run Broadcasting Station . . . . 57 Decline in Pacific Copra— Expert Survey .. .. .. 59 Fighting Hansen’s Disease in NG Highlands 61 Rabaul’s Town-Planners Clash With Administrator .. .. 63 Blackouts for Honiara .. . . 65 Aluminium Industry for P-NG —Maybe 67

Magazine Section—

Tropicalities, 69; Crossquiz, 70; Pat McGusty Comes Home, 71; Green and Pleasant Land, 73.

Fiji Seeks Parasite for Banana Pest 78 Cheap Money for Settlers in Fiji 79 Niue Mills Own Timber ... 82 Is Rabaul Area Subsiding? . . 83 Uranium from Phosphate Rock 83

For Pacific Radio Amateurs . 85!

What Becomes of W. Samoa’s Large Surpluses? 87' Walpole Guano Not Wanted . 901 Planning Primary Industries in

P-Ng 91

Some Doubts About the Fiji Broadcasting Commission .. 931 £66,000 Still in Fiji Anti-TB Fund 95i Men on Pitcairn 14,000 Years Ago? Discovery of Ancient Implements 99( Wanderlusting Niueans Stranded In Samoa 102 Revealing Debates in P-NG October Session of Legislative Council 107 Rabaul Chamber of Commerce Meeting 11C News of the Smallships . . .. 121!

New Era in BSI—Mr. Stanley Completes Survey .. .. 129 OBITUARY: Mrs. A. Bretag; Mr. F. I, T. Corbett; Mr.

A. D. Olsen; Mr. W. J.

Candler; Mrs. Mabel Morri son 132 New Guinea Notes 134 Missions and Native Education Conference in Moresby .. 13f S. P. Commission’s Year of Hard Work 138 BSl’s Copra Board Considers Last Year’s Accounts .. .. 141 Commercial, Markets, Etc. .. 14^