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Editorial: “Peace On Earth, Goodwill Towards Men!” .. 13 Graduates from ASOPA ... 14 Finance for P-NG Enterprise 14 Fiji Mayoral Elections 14 The Royal Visit to the South Pacific 15 Suva Wharf Costs Have Risen 10/- (NZ) 16 Indian Workmen May Go To New Caledonia 16 Suva’s New Hotel Will Be 'Smaller, Now 17 Do You Remember? Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 17 The Copra Price In 1954—Rep resentations to the MOF 18 Editors’ Mailbag 19 Profit and Loss Across the Tasman 19 Threat of Detergents to Copra Market 20 Disposal of P-NG Copra Stab ilisation Fund 20 Coastwatchers’ Memorial For Madang 20 The Telef o m i n Affair— Hysterical Newspaper Com ment in Australia 21 Indonesian Threat to Western New Guinea 21 Territories Talk-Talk ...!' 23 P-NG Administrator Should Be High Commissioner 27 P-NG Has No Income Tax and £8,000,000 to Spend 29 Fiji Budgets for £4,140,000 Ex penditure and BSIP for £600,000 3q
Fiji’s New Beach Hotel On Hawaiian Plan 32 Wide Activities of South Pacific Commission 34 NZ-ers for the Cooks—and Cl Maoris for NZ 37 Niue Is. Murder Verdict Con firmed 38 Members of P-NG’s Legco State Their Views 39 Fiji Has a Rice Surplus ... 43 P-NG Legislative Council: “Govt.-Sponsored” Debating Society 45 These Were the Answers— Questions in P-NG Legco 49 You Wreck Them—Property Owners Mend Them 51 GATT’s 2d Per Pound Will Not Be Enough 53 Palmyra Instead of Christmas As An Air-base 57 NG Public Service—Too Many Holidays, Not Enough Land 59 Japs Get More Phosphate From Angaur 61 A Third Ship for the Boom ing Banana Trade 70
Magazine Section:
The Pacific Has Another Nature-Man, 73; Crossquiz, 74; Tropicalities, 75; Tele fomin Has a Long History— for NG, 77.
Hawaii, Too, Has Record Sugar Crop 86 No Shipping, No Cold Store, No Progress in Cook Islands 94 For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 97
The Samoans and Democracy 9« News of the Smallships ... 10 Hurricanes Predicted for Fiji— But No Earthquakes n: Awards to Pilots of Crashed Drover m Priest from Honduras Tells Fiji About Credit Unions ll n Fiji Now Has Plenty of Whales’
Teeth m The Cannery That Has Never Canned no Norfolk Island Notes .. 120 OBITUARY: Mr. E. C. Skelly; Archbishop de Boismenu; Mr.
H. G. Schuster; Mrs.
Tungane Savage; Mr. A.
Williams; The Hon Tuala Tulo; Mr. Ah Kuoi; Mr.
Frank Homes; M. Henri Stitz; Mrs. Ann Oelrichs 125-127 News Items from Our Corre spondents In Papua-New Guinea 129 Western Samoa and Its Ex change Rate i3i More Sheep for Nondugl ... 132 Satan Goes to Reprove Sin in New Guinea 133 W. Samoa Kicks Britain Over Preferential Tairff 135 Minister Replies to Criticism Over War Graves Party ... 137 What Happened to theßaluana Proclamation? 140 P-NG Education—From the Top Down X4I Peril at Easter Island— Taylor’s Exciting Story of S. American Flight 145 Commercial, Markets, etc .. 152