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Islanders When Away from Islands 13 Depressing Picture in Solomons, N. Hebrides 13 Tension in French Oceania .. 15 Copra on 1952 Levels 15 Rain Damages Rabaul’s Roads 15 Jap. Fishing Boat Fined £5OO .. 15 Rarotonga’s Lively Election .. 16 W. Samoa To Get New Consti tution 16 Parties for Coronation 17 Final Stage in MV Pollurian Disputes? 17 Old-Timers Criticise Grimble’s Book 17 Sir Henry Scott to Chair S.
Pacific Commission ... .. 18 Button-making in Fiji 18 Daru’s Lobster Tails —New In dustry? 19 Fiji’s War on Rhino Beetles .. 19 Challenge to BSI Tax Authority 19 Events of 20 Years Ago 20
The Editors’ Mailbag .. 21
N. Guinea Memorial Scholarship 23
Territories Talk-Talk . 25
Nature Notes, by “Raimanu” .. 30 Kinks in Bougainville’s Economy 32 Cedar Trees for Islands? ... 34 Cost of Public Servants in Fiji 37 Frank Comparisons in Anglo- French Condominium .. .. 39 Air Tahiti Operating Again .. 43 Vanikoro Timber Workers ... 45 Papuan Royal Constable in Disgrace 48 Land on Catch-as-Catch-Can System (New Hebrides) .. .. 53 Some Angles on Scrap (N, Hebrides) 59 Problems of Living in N.
Hebrides 61
Magazine Section—
Whence Came New Guinea’s Tobacco, 65; Wall, of the Fiji Museum, 66; History of the First Malaita, 67; Over the Reef (Cook Islands), 68; Fighting Disease in NZ’s Islands Territories, 69.
Samarai’s Grand Old Man .. 74 New Industries in Papua-New Guinea 77 Preparations for Better Towns in P.-N. Guinea 79
For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 81 Bishop of Melanesia To Retire 83 Hectic Week in Rabaul 85
Small Ships Of The
Pacific 89
News of Cruising Yachts .. .. 95
Events In Papua-N. Guinea 101
S. Pacific Conference and Islanders’ Living Standards 107 NG Patrol Freezes on Mountain 109 Idle - ” Natives Out of Moresby 114 Hollandia Remembers D-Day . 115 Future of Papua’s Water-Power 116 Judy Tudor’s Notes in Solomons and Hebrides 119 Aorangi’s Last Trans-Pacific Voyage 123 Is. Tourist Trade Demoralising? 124 Jap Ship Caught Fishing- Heavy Fine 15, 125 Cheng Ho Story—New Stage .. 126 Disabilities of Solomon Islands 127 OBITUARY: Mrs. F. R. Ott, Mrs.
Eileen May, High Chief Detudamo, Mr. R. p. Scholtz, Sub. Lieut. Varney, Mrs.
Charles Adams, Mr. R Sutherland, Rev. F. R. Bishop 132 Fijians’ Success in Malaya .. .. 131 Samoa’s Executive Council .. 131