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Editorials: Important Events in Dutch and Australian inbw Guinea :; Solutions for Fiji- Indian Problem 9, 10 There are Four Types of Rhino Beetle—The Asian Kind Is the Menace 11 Typhoid Scare Kills Papuan Desiccated Coconut Industry 11 Governor to Examine Fiji’s Central Plateau 11 Editors’ Mailbag 12 Lae-Labu Ferry Near Collapse— Threat to Wau-Bulolo In dustries 13 Do You Remember? Extracts from PIM of 20 Years Ago .. 13 Important Transport Plans for
Wphc 14
Many Happy Septembers to New Caledonia—loo Years a French Colony 15 Poor Impression Made by Trusteeship Mission 16 From Notes Made In NG by R. W. Robson 17 Japanese Get Huge Hauls of Fish 19 Absurd Status of P-NG Governor 19 Queen Salote in Sydney .. .. 19 Woman Pilot Down in NG Jungle 20 Solve the Solomons-Fiji problems by Indian Migration to Solomons 20 Amphibious Landing of Honiara Power Plant 24 Fiji Council—E lection on August 29 25 Screeching Newspaper Finds
Revolt in Solomons 25 Fiji’s Hotel Programme Going Ahead 28 London Copra Quote Under MOF Price 29 £1,663,000 in P-NG Stabilisation Fund 33 Malaita Natives Grow Cocoa and Rice 35 School of Tropical Administra tion should be in N. Guinea 36 Tonga Makes It Tough For Away-From-It-Allers 37 The Fight Against Rhino Beetle In Fiji and Tonga 38 France’s Grip On New Hebrides —Forgotten Story of John Higginson 41 Samoa’s Coronation Awards 50 Interesting Moves in the Jute Market 53 SPC Research Council Plans For 1954 57 Developments In Fiji’s Com munications 59 Prospects Of Cocoa Growing In Some Pacific Islands 61 In Defence Of Bods and Smells 65 Beqa Firewalkers For Auckland 67
Magazine Section:
Tropicalities 69 Samarai In Pictures 71 Tongan Jack-in-the-Box ... 72 How To Keep Fit in the Tropics 76 Missionaries Go Over the
Mountains—Roadmaking In
Papua 81 Samoan Banana Shipments Increase 86
Fiji Visitors’ Reaction to Coronation 95 High Cost Of France’s War Against Communism 97 Suva “Welcomes” Tahiti’s Mayor 99 New Hospital and School for Wau 105 Criticism of PNG Co-ops 106 P 1 ante r s’ Representatives’
Answer to Mr. Hasluck’s Reproach 107 Absurdities of PNG Permit System 109 For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 113 Japs Show Us How to Fish For Pearl Shell 115 News of the Smallships 117 Another Coronation Climb — Baines at Top of Mt. Victoria In Papua 128 Official Appeal to Raluana Natives 129 Runaway Labourers Are a Seri ous P-NG Industrial and Social Problem 131 Pedgin—lllegitimate, but here to Stay 135 OBITUARY: Mrs. Isobel Field; Francis Griffen; The Rev. Bro.
Cuthbert; Miss E. B. Inch board; Mrs. Janie Macnair; Babulal; Henry Lovett Cameron; J. B. McKenna; F. M. Campbell; Father Bock; Ted Nielsen; R. L. Corney 137-140 Moresby “Body Snatches”
Rabaul Driver Boys 143 Cook Is. Judge Retires .. .. 144 Farmers’ and Settlers’ Assn.
Formed in NG Highlands .. 147 Commercial, Markets, Etc 148