In This Issue:

Editorials: Fiji’s Major Problem Shifts from Indian to Fijian: Have You Forgotten, Uncle Sam? ' .. 13, 14 Australia Confident of 10% Rise In Copra Price 15 W. Samoan and British Tariff —No Abolition—Yet 15 Orient Co.’s Successful Pacific Experiment 15 Australian To Be Tongan Judge 15 Queen Meets Australian Terri tories Delegates in Canberra 16 £5 Million a Year Industry in NG Ply Mill 17 19 Native Scholars Arrive In Australia 18 Do You Remember? Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 18 Still Going the Rounds—Fiji Legco. Plea For Population Inquiry 19 Britain and the New Hebrides 20

Territories Talk-Talk 21

Papuan Coconut Still Not Wanted 25 Asia and the South Pacific ... 27

Australia and the Japanese Pearling War 31 Mana and Atu Are Regarded Seriously 35 The Genius of the Late Sir Walter Carpenter 39 Future of NG Goldfield .. .. 43 Low Price For NG Peanuts— Kingaroy Nuts Swamp Market 45 Native Papuan Ordained As Priest 51 Mr. Wilberforce Clint on War path 55 The Travels of Niue Murderers 56 DC 6 on Trans-Tasman Service 59 Dutch NG’s Economic Future 62 Phenomenal Fish-Catching Off Samoa—Japs Show Us How and Put Pago Cannery Into Operation 63 Phenomenal Prices For NG Cocoa Beans And What Buyers Look For In Your Cocoa 70

Magazine Section:

Topicalities, 73; Mclnerney, 75; The Queen Came to the Realm of Dakuwangga, 76; South Pacific Cooking, 80.

Pacific Nature Notes 82

News From Tonga 85 News From Mangaia, Cook Is. 96 For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 97 Rejuvenating the Cook Is. Pearl ing Industry iqo News of the Smallships .. .. 103 Only One Crop and Lack of Labour Officials Comment

On Bsip H 4

No Relief Yet For Papua’s Rubber Planters 117 Raluanas Come Into The Fold 119 Higher and Higher Cost Of Living In Fiji 129 Current News From Our Cor respondents in P-NG 121 Savoie Adds To His Fleet .. .. 135 OBITUARY: Sir Walter Car penter, 39; Capt. D. H. Cam bridge, Mr. V. Ngatae; Mr.

Alex Wilson; Mr. A. F. Small; Major J. M. Cauty; Mr. M. C.

Brazey; Rev. Fr. L. Verbays- Mr. M. Wright, Jnr.; Mrs. Iris Thomas 136-137 Make the Fijian an Individu alist-Suggested Solution To Indian Problem 139 More Gilbertese Despite Tough Conditions 141 Teaching the Islands To Grow Their Own Rice 143 Captain Williams Tells a Story 149 Moribund Pidgin Is Mutilated English, says Reader 151