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Editorial: Time to End Aus tralian Namby-Pambyism in New Guinea 13 Brutal Murder of Niue Is.
Resident Commissioner ... 15 N & R Return to Rabaul ... 15 Expectation of Oil in Papua .. 16 Fiji Election Results 16 Editors’ Mailbag 17 Queen’s Visit to Pacific Islands 18 Do You Remember? Extracts from PIM of 20 Years Ago 19 From Notes Made in New Guinea —by R. W. Robson .. 20 Territories’ Talk-Talk 23 Beetle Infestation in S. Pacific 29 Building Site Allocations Cause Discontent in Rabaul .. .. 34 TEAL begins Suva-Nukualofa Service 35 Whose Yacht Is It? More About the Alsirat 37 Lae Rice Growers’ New Enter prise 39 Future of Chinese Communities In the Pacific 40 Crows As Destroyers of Rhino Beetles 43 NZ Growers Howl About Tomato Imports from Cl ... 45 Fiji Sugar Crop Prospects Good 46 NG Organisations Still Strong in Australia 47
Rabaul Woman’s 4-Days Sea Drift 49 Co-operatives Clash With Some Fiji Customs 51 Large Rhino Beetle Find In Fiji 51 Literacy In Fiji—Angles of Racial Problem 54 The Possibilities of Pidgin ... 55 Fiji Sports Fans Well Catered For 61 US Closes Brisbane Consulate 62 Scientific War on Fi j i’s Starlings 68 Tahiti Resident Invents Mech anical Copra Cutter 69 Governor Petitbon Departs .. 71
Magazine Section: We Saw
No Rice, 73; Tropicalities, 75; Farewell to Mother Mac’s, 76; Book Reviews, 78.
Eastern Samoa in the Doldrums 86 For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 89 New ABC Broadcasts to P-NG Schools 91 Fiji Government Answers Organised Labour 95 Fiji Urged to Review Exchange Rate 97 Relics of the Calliope 101 Geologists Busy in Viti Levu .. 103 Norfolk Is. Notes 106 Fate of Ben Boyd—Old Paper Is Reminder of Tragedy of 1851 107
Unexplained Increase In Crime Among Fijians 108 Moresby Gets New Wharf .. .. 118 News of the Smallships 114 Agricultural Gazette from P-NG 12T Bank Governor Visits New Guinea 128 New Guinea Planters Meet In Rabaul 131 OBITUARY: Dr. E. T. Brennan; Mr. E. P. Moncktoh; Mrs.
Kathleen Devany; Mr. Frank Macdonnell; Mr. J. W. Barn bridge; Rev. Fr. Boch; Mr.
Charles Davidson; Mr. J. M Nelson; Mrs. J. W. Burton; Mr. F. Barton; Rev. W. Ander son; Mr. W. T. Maltby; Capt.
W. Reiher; Ratu Finau; Mrs.
Elizabeth Hicks 133-139 Copra and Butter and Votes .. 139 120 Lost When Ship Mysteri ously Disappears 141 The Desiccated Coconut Scare 149 Acclaim for Leaders from Polynesia 151 Commercial, Markets, etc 151
If Mr. Barry Wentworth Jackson, ASTC, FIO (Syd.), son of the well known Sydney optometrist and optician, Mr. S. Wentworth Jack son, who has been making periodical business visits throughout Papua and New Guinea in recent years, opened his own business in Douglas St., Port Moresby, Papua, on Sep tember 1.