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Editorial: “Danger in too Rapid Native Advancement” .. .. 13 Gold Bricks Found at Bulolo .. 15 Raluana Scuffle 15 Dutch Agricultural Experts in
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Do You Remember? Extracts from PIM of 20 Years Ago .. 16 Changes in Qantas NG Services 17 Editors’ Mailbag 18 Fiji Unskilled Wages Are Too Low 19 Coronation Medals for P-NG .. 20 Producing Tea in NG 21 Value of Islands’ Trade to Australia and NZ 23 Fiji-Indian Troops for Malaya 25 The World Now Has Too Much Sugar—Conference in London 27 Hawaii-Tahiti Air Service in 1954 27 Fiji-Australia Radio Phone .. 27 Fiji-Tonga Air Service .. 29 Crayfish Industry for Dam .. 29 Papeete’s Mayor Well Received In Paris 30 P-NG Legislative Council Meets In July 30 Rhinoceros Beetle—Report from Hebrides and Tahiti 31 Good Kenaf Seed Crop in Papua 32 Enlargement of Papeete Brewery 33 News from the Cooks 34 No Unemployment in Fiji .. 35 CSIRO Survey in Papua .. .. 35 Pakistan Cattle in Papua ... 37
Kovala is Distressingly Costly 38 Some Sidelights on UN Trustee ship 39 Guam’s New Governor Speaks Out 41 Notes from NG Goldfields ... 43 New Governor of Dutch NG .. 45 Beetle Pest Now Widespread in Fiji 46 Interesting Trends in Fiji’s Population 48 Bureaucracy’s Failure in Cook Islands 49 W. Samoa and the Tourist Business 55 Native Co-operatives in the Pacific Islands 57 Standard of Education in Cook Islands 61 Western Samoa Suffers a Liquor Drought 62 The Growing Population of Western Samoa 63 Fiji Anti-TB Fund 65 Samoan Leaders Will See Queen
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Indonesians and Western NG 66 Should Indians and Europeans Go Swimming Together?— The Suva Baths Again ... 67
Magazine Section:
Tropicalities, 69; Mapping the Floor of the Pacific, 71; Eating Our Way Across the Gulf of Papua, 72; Pacific Island Cooking, 76.
Federation of West Indian Islands—Plan Advanced a Step Further 84 News Notes from Tonga .. .. 88 Permanent Reminder of the Japs 89 For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 91 Modern Whaling As it affects Copra Industry 93 Native Conchologists of the Louisiades 98 Moresby Has a Successful Flower Show 101 Papeete Streets Renamed .. 104 Jobs Not Being Withheld From Nauruans 105 P-NG Public Service Assn. .. 107 NZ’s Tokelau Stamp Racket 108 Interest in YMCA Activities in Moresby 109 Peculiar Economy of New Caledonia 112 News of Small Ships 113 Another Patrol Attacked in NG 127 Historical Society Proposed for Moresby 131 Airways Fuel Installations lii Fiji 133 OBITUARY: Alex. S. Tetzner; Mrs. E. T. Hart; Edward Anderson; A. W. James; William Tarr; Miss Beatrice Grimshaw; Parua Ariki of Atiu; George Crummer, Snr.; T. F. Cody, Sir Guy Pilling; Emile Robert Stein; Madame Pierre Herault 135-139 Commercial, Markets, etc 140