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Editorial: Some Brutal Facts About Indian Situation in Fiji and Elsewhere :; No Trained Territories Man Need Expect a Minor Ad ministratorship 13-14 Carpenters May Provide Trans- Pacific Line . . ... 15 Oil Direct from Coconut— New Philippines Claim 16 NG Copra Producers Demand Return of £1,500,000 Stabili sation JFund 17 Do You Remember?—Extracts from PIM of 20 Years Ago 17 New Administrator for Nor folk Is. . 18 MV PollUrian—Strange Prosecu tion in Rabaul 18 Editors’ Mailbag 19 Copra Prices—Xmas Box for P-NG Planters 20 MOF Sugar Price Up Again . .
Good News for Fiji . . . . 20 No Australia-NG Customs Union—Yet 21 Territories’ Talk Talk . . . . 25 Queen Salote to Attend Coro nation 27 Temporary Relief for Papuan Rubber Planters 28 Life of BGD—Dredges Going, Plvwood Coming 30 Dairv Farmers Open War on
Copra . . 31 From Notes Made in the Pacific by R. W. Robson 33 Cook’s Telescope for New Zealand 43 Samoan Interest in Tourism . 46 Future of P-NG Kenaf In dustry—Experimental Stage Over 47 O’Keefe Film Unit Departs— More Beds in Fiji 49 Nature—ln and Out of Balance In Fiji 51 Falcon Is Missing Again . . 53 Border Murders—Dutch and Australians Affected . . . 57 Cattle Industry for the Islands 59 Move to Save Historic Sites in the Islands 63 Fiji Cannot Support Large Population—Plus Soil Erosion 65 Islands Council’s Sixth Session at Rarotonga 67
Magazine Section—
Fiji’s Second City, 71; Who Owns the Shabby Cheng Ho? 72; Nature Notes, 73; The Repudiated Annexation of 1883, 76.
More Experts for P-NG Oil Search 81 WPHC Moves to Honiara . . 82 Niueans Petition to Minister . 83 Inquiry Into Awahau Loss A
Matter for Fiji 8S Pacific Representatives at Coro nation 86 New Governor for Eastern Samoa 88 Discouraging New Enterprise in Solomon Islands /.. . . 91 Increased Banana Exports from Samoa 94 Canberra Still Discussing P-NG Soldier Settlement 99 For Pacific Radio Amateurs . 101 Drought Spreading in Fiji . . 102 New French Liner Makes Good Impression 109 Fiji’s £4 Million Budget . .. 110 Dutch Activity in N. Guinea Impresses SPC 11l Activities of South Pacific Com mission 112 News of the Smallships . . . . 118 Fiji’s New Governor Off to a Good Start 126 W. D. Forsyth Speaks Frankly 127 OBITUARY: L. R. Dowling; F. W. Kruse; W. W. Apted; Mrs. C. H. Blanche; Andre Naturel; J. King; J. A Muir; F. Staughton; N. Kelly; W.
C. Fisher—l 29-130.
New Guinea Women’s Asso ciations in Australia .. . . 132 The Euronesian—An Appeal for Reform 134 Pacific Islands Miscellany . . 139 Commercial, Markets, etc. .. 144