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Editorial: The Mission of Queen Elizabeth II 13 Another Indian Commission for Fiji 14 Queen Elizabeth’s Fine Gesture to Salote of Tonga 14 British Monarch in South Pacific 15 TEAL May Use Landplanes to Nadi 16 Do You Remember? Extracts from PIM of 20 Years Ago .. 16 Copra Price Next Year—Rates Should be Maintained .. .. 17 Appointment of New Niue Is.
Commissioner 17 Australia’s Dead in New Guinea —Some Aspects of G-G’s Visit to War Cemeteries 18 Samoa to Remain “Dry” ... 19 No Penal Sanctions Says Minister 20 Britishers Sustain Interest in Queen Salote 20 Editors’ Mailbag 21 Debate About Productivity of Papua-New Guinea 24 BSI Tax Challenge Dropped . . 25 Territories’ Talk Talk 27 Two Marine Disasters—Tonga and Fiji 31 New Guinea—Trout Angler’s Mecca of the Future 31 Fiji’s 79 Years of Progress .. 33 Fiji Can Expect Next Earth quake 200 Years from Now .. 34 Papuan Man is Madang DC 38 Less Whale Oil in 1953 Season 42 Last of Solomon Is. Scrap ... 43 New Guinea Beer Selling in Queensland 45
Emergency Procedure For Damaged Sandringham ... 46 US, Australia & NZ Co-operation Saves Seriously 111 Man ... 47 Coastwatchers’ Memorial Will Probably be a Navigation Light 50 P-NG Exports Were £IOJ Million in 1952-53 51 Japanese in Northern Solomon Waters 53 How Do Islanders Communi cate? 55 “Screeching Unlimited” from Australian Press and Radio .. 56 Suva Proclaimed a City .. .. 57 World Needs More Cocoa ... 58 Fishing By Electricity 59 Fiji’s Reluctant Rehabilitation of Exservicemen 63 Asiatics in New Hebrides ... 64 Swains’ Headache Labour Problem for Old Family ... 67 An Amazing Tongan Boxer .. 70 NG Stone-Age Men Sample Outside World 73 Trans-Busu Let Again 74 More Education for Samoans 75 Magazine Section: Tropicalities, 77; Suva Knew Tahiti’s Nature Man, 78; The Town the Yanks Left, 79; This Adam was a Kuku kuku 82 Samoa Abandons British Pre ference Tariff 94 Canberra Asked to Back Talk With Hard Cash 95 Nassau’s New Settlers Do Well 97
Western Samoa Under Micro scope g War on the Beetle IQ Snow on the Equator 10 Small NG Ships that Don’t Care iq The Basic Problem in Attacking Malaria 10 More Money for P-NG Public Works 10 P-NG’s 280 Students Cost Ad ministration £48,000 II Plans for the Islanders—l2th Session of SPC m For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 11l Tongan Boxer Has Bout of Temperament h News of the Smallships .. .. 12 Niueans Appeal Against Con viction for Murder 13s Pointed Sticks in Place of Bull dozers on Highlands Roads .. 12 Prayer as Weapon Against Rhino Beetles is Sheep Possibilities in New Guinea 14^ Beetle Has Probably Been lii Fiji For 2 Years 1# City Council Poll in Suva .. .. 1# OBITUARY; William E. Cald well; Madame Jerusalemy Charles Gifford; Joseph Gib son; Madame Lagarde; F. W.
Clark; Sister Beatrice Dev enish-Meares; Mrs. A. Irvine; Mrs. John Grant is West N. Guinea Affected By Indonesian Chaos is Papua-N. Guinea Round-up .. IS Moderates Gain Control in Strange Vote in Tahiti .. ..is Commercial, Markets, etc 1©