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Editorial: Some Useful Achieve ments at Noumea in April .. 13 P-NG Leg. Council Churns out Bills 14 Australian Duty on Rubber May Be Abolished 15 Hotel Position in Fiji—Tourist Industry Wants More Accom modation 15 Aorangi for Scrap Heap .. .. 15 Some South Pacific Coronation Activities 16 Do You Remember? —Extracts from PIM of 20 Years Ago .. 16 Editors’ Mailbag 18 Peace in Indo-China Could Mean Cheaper Rice 18 Fiji’s War on Rhinoceros Beetle —SPC to Direct Attack ... 19 Press Panic over Rabaul’s Earthquake 20 M. Poroi Again Mayor of Papeete 20 Tulagi Wharf Finally Gives Up Ghost 21 Territories Talk-Talk 23 G & E Officials Visit BSI ... 25 Vessel’s Narrow Escape off Noumea 27 PNG Sawmillers Suffer from Wet “Wet” and Australian Bureaucracy 29 No Reform of W. Samoa Liquor System 31 Rich and Idle Nauruans Set an Administrative Problem ... 32
Whose Yacht is It?—Love and Sea Saga From Pago Pago 33 Japs Pay Fishing Fine and Go 34 American Samoa Governors Come and Go 35 The Touring Stanleys Visit Gizo 39 Sheep in the NG Highlands— Cloud Over Nondugl 41 Two Sides to Islands Medical Service 46 Survey of Islands Shell In rustries 47 Real Progress by Pacific Islanders —Future Needs Dis cussed by Delegates at Second South Pacific Conference .. 53
Magazine Section—
The Menace that Lies East of One-Seven-T hre e; A Crocodile Interlude in Papua; On Justice in Noumea; Tropicalities; Recipe Corner 65-72 For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 75 Famous Tahiti Artist Leaves Huge Fortune 78 New Guinea’s New Passionfruit Industry 79 Smallships of the Pacific ... 85 Two More Years of Malaya For Fijians 94 Road Links for NG Highlands —May Open Up Large Area of Crown Land 96
Lively Politics in Tahiti—Gov ernor Stops Duel Between Party Leaders 10 P-NG Students at Suva Medical School 10; New Britain Planters Reject Cocoa Grading 101 Goilala Air Service Back on Job io!
MM Purchases Changchow .. .. 10 Kenaf—And the Falling Price of Jute hi Honolulu-Papeete Air Line- New Set-up Will Affect Pacific Generally n New Ireland Notes u< Cheng Ho Still at Anchor ..111 One Less Holiday for Terri torians Hi New Cathedral Consecrated by Bishop in Polynesia 12 OBITUARY: M. George Poroi; Mr. John George; Mrs. Marie M. Halstead; Sub-Inspector Tremaine 12; Prosperous Samoa—More Funds for Social Services 12 Why the Taper Tins? Charles Sullivan Loses Battle With Bureaucracy 12 PX-1 is 111 in Brisbane .. .. 12' Future of Fijian Lands 12!
Burns Philp (SS) Shown Steady Figures 13; Commercial, Markets, etc I3i