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Editorial: “Colonialism” The Evils of Remote Control 13 R. S. Leydin for Nauru Admin istratorship 14 Fijians in Sydney Again! .. 15 Editors’ Mailbag 16 Air Services for Suva With drawn —Move Unpopular with Residents 17 Land Problems in New Guinea 18 Oil Development in Dutch N.
Guinea 19 Do You Remember? —Extracts from PIM of 20 years Ago ..
Horrors of the “Pom-Pom” .. 20 Honolulu-Tahiti Airservice Step Nearer 21 Territories’ Talk-Talk 21 Freezer Plant for Tuna in Eastern Samoa 25 Report of Special Committee of Inquiry into Fiji Taxation .. 26 Lucky Escapes from Fiji Plane Crash 27 Canberra Fiddles While Papuan Rubber Industry Languishes 29 Matson Still Planning for Trans pacific Liners 31 Honolulu-Tahiti Air Service .. 34 Tests of Copra Cutting Machine Being Made in Fiji 35 Orient Line Will Fill Pacific Gap 37 Pacific Air Tourist —Cheaper Fares and No Champagne .. 38
No Import Duty on Copra ... 41 Native Defiance of NG High Officials 42 Controversy Over Trout for NG Mountain Streams 45 Expert Urges Extended Use of Pidgin English 47 Qantas Supports BCPA on Trans-Pacific Service .. 51 Profits of Burns Philp (SS) Ltd. 54 Malaria —An “Entirely Prevent able Disease” 55 Oryctes Rhinoceros —Number One Enemy of Copra Industry 61 Norfolk Island’s Uncertainty of Airfreight to NZ 67 Queen Salote Claimed to Be of German Descent 70
Magazine Section;
Tropicalities, 73; The Creation —in Pidgin, 75; Charley and Smoky, 77; First Climbers, on Tahiti’s Peaks, 79.
Less Bureaucracy and More De velopment—Fighting Speech to Rabaul Chamber of Commerce 85 Beware of This “Progress!” .. 90 Papuans Want Contr o 11 e d “Bride-Price” 97 Trade Boom in Fiji 101 Rehabilitating Pacific’s Ageing Coconut Groves 103 Critics of South Pacific Com mission 109
Fiji Writers Seek Solution to Indian Problem 112: AMP’s Fined for Drinking .. 115- Why No War Service Land in New Guinea 117 Tahiti’s Governor “Ignored” .. 122 Current News Items from Our Correspondents in P-NG .. 122 Enterprise of NG Still Hopes For Oil Search Permit .. .. 128- OBITUARY: Sir Murchison Fletcher; Mr. O. P. Blanden; M. Maurice Leenhardt; Mr.
Loui Ting; Madame Badot; Mrs. Polly Jones; Mr. Albert Morris; Mr. Vincent Ashley; Mr. T. H. Terry; Mr. W. G.
Chapman: Mr. R. P. Frank, 134; Mr. A. P. Kaunkhon; Mr.
Edward Grant; Mr. John Edwards; Mrs. A. E. Pearce; Mr. O. Bieri, 133-134 Jerked Across the Reef—Re markable Salvage Feat in New Britain 135- Legality of Marriage of 1895 French Court Not Easy to Convince 139 For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 141 News of the Smallships 142- Big Purchase by STC in Moresby 14T South Pacifific Commission Will Meet Only Once Per Year 147 Tonga and Shirley Baker 60 Years Ago 148 Commercial, Markets, etc 152