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Editorials: The Horrors On Our North-Western Horizon :: A Growing Reproach Upon British and French Adminis trations 13,14 New Copra Price Gives Us Another Million PA 14 British Preference May Re main In W. Samoa 15 RSL Congress In Lae 15 Colossal Waste Alleged At Manus 16 Queen Delays Departure To Meet P-NG Delegates At Cairns 17 UK Leaves Pacific Air Services To Australia & NZ 18 Do You Remember? Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago .. 18 Editors’ Mailbag 19 High Prices For All Cocoa Beans Expected To Continue 21 Raluana Affair To Be Dealt With Soon 21 Sea Link Between Australia and Dutch NG 21 P-NG Legco Meets May 10 .. 21 Territories Talk-Talk 23 Nauruans Seeking New Island 26 Greek Divers May Save NT Pearling 27 Unorthodox —But This Bishop’s Wife Helps Build a Cathedral 29 Extension of Broadcasting When FBC Takes Over 33
Fiji Still Pursues Rhino Beetles —But New Guinea Waits On Zanzibar Wasps 34 Kenaf Fibre Industry Now Ready For Development In Papua 37 British Expert Praises CSR Farms In Fiji 42 Queensland Macadamia Nuts Are Big Business In Hawaii 45 Western Samoa Is Now Fish- Minded 50 Unexploited Wealth In the Cold Auckland Is 51 New Hebrides Matters Under Discussion 53 American Professors’ Opinion of Tonga 55 Businessmen Criticise Fiji Postal Delays 56 NG Natives’ Significant Con tribution To Territories Rice Production 58 Cloud Again Defeats Fiji’s Aerial Mappers 61 Van Camp Must Teach Samoans Jap Fishing Methods 62 New Official Secretary For Cook Islands 66 Nature Notes 67 Joe Levula In Demand .. .. 70 Another Pearl Button Factory For Fiji 71
Magazine Section:
Tropicalities, 73; Makatea — Freak Island, 75; This Month’s New Reading, 77; He Paints In Tahiti, 79.
Pacific Islands Stamps Show Many Canoes and Ships .. 8T Suva’s Milk Waterers Carry On 89 For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 91 News of the Smallships .. .. 95- Is It Possible to Modify Fijians Way Of Life? 109 Plea For More Trees & Flowers In Suva 114 Birth Pangs of Islands Pearling Industry 11T Current News Items From Our Correspondents in P-NG .. 12L Fluctuating Prices For NG Peanuts 129* OBITUARY; Mr. D. Quail; William John Roberts; Mr.
D. A. Rutherford; Mr. J. J.
Davis; Tagaloa; The Rev. Fr.
Brady, Mrs. Elsie Holland; Mr.
D. Freyer; Mrs. Forrest-Sale; Archdeacon S. R. Gill .. .. 132-1331 Open Season For Missionaries
In P-Ng 134
The Troubles of the G & E Administration 138 Jap Tuna Still Keeps Pago Cannery At Top Production 142 Genesis of “Murray” Policy .. 145 i Samoa’s Continuing Prosperity 15U Commercial and Markets .. .. 152