In This Issue:

Editorial; The South Seas in 1953 ;: NG Native Labourers Can Now Defy Employers 13—14 Still No Announcement of Appointment of NG Admin istrator 15 Old Landmarks Go in Suva .. 15 British Copra Producers in Pacific May Lose £1,000,000 16 Do You Remember? Extracts from PIM of 20 Years Ago .. 16 Remarkable NG Case of*Super intendent Steeples 17 Ship for NZ-Norfolk Is. Run 17 More Plans for Suva Wharf .. 18 UK Ship on Ocean Is. Reef .. 18 WPHC Now Functioning at Honiara, BSI 19 Knighthood for J. F. Nicol — New Year Honours 19 Notes Made in the Pacific — Third Instalment by R. W.

Robson 21 Territories Talk-Talk 23 European Woman Drifts 3 Days Off Samarai 27 Four China Line Ships for

P-Ng 29

Unpopular Amendment to NG Labour Ordinance 29 High Court Upholds Creighton Appeal 33

South Pacific Commission’s Activities 34 NZ Knighthoods of Islands Interest 35 Fiji’s Population Problem Handed Back to Britain ... 37 Calais Found After 5-weeks Drift 43 Expert Complains of Lack of Coconut Culture in Islands 45 Cattle, Rice and Kenaf—New Industries in P-NG 47 Pearl Shell Find in North 53 Hurricane on Nissan Is 54 1952: Summary of South Pacific Events 55 New Copra Handling at Blanche Bay 59 Party Investigates Mineral De posits in Netherlands New Guinea 61 Doubled Indian Jute Threat to P-NG Kenaf 63

Magazine Section—

Notes Made in and Around Tahiti, 55; Tropicalities, 67; The O’Keefe Story Up to Date, 68; New Books About the Pacific, 70.

News from the Cook Is 79 For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 81 Lone Rabbit on Phoenix Island 83

P-NG Would Like Renewal of “Penal Clauses”

How Coconut Pearls are Formed Successful Students at Suva

Cms

Umboi Is. —Another NG Hot Spot Profit—and Hard Work —In Papuan Crocodile Shooting War on Rhino Beetle in N.

Guinea Some Aspects of Moresby’s Abduction Case II Politico-Economic Confusion in Indonesia U News of the Small-Ships ... U OBITUARY; Fr. Roduit; Mr.

A. Head; Mrs. E. J. Matthews; Mr. C. C. David; Mrs. Emma Walker; Mr. Kelvin P. Hardy; Mr. H. Irwin; Mr. R. Main; Mr. Harry Goodwin; Mr.

R. G. Speedie; Mr. A. Cruick shank; Mr. L. C. Grahame; Captain Larsen; Mr. E.

Evenett 120—U Watch on Introduced Pests in

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Christmas Parties for Islands Folk H Nauru News H Generous Payments to P-NG Natives II MOP from Suwarrow II Produce, Markets, etc II