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Editorial: In Tahiti: Another Aspect of the Asian Problem in the Pacific 13 Commentary—by the Editorial Staff 14 Papuan Rubber Producers Could Get Relief After September .. 15 India Is Unhappy About Nauru Phosphate 16 Higher Allowances for New Guinea MsLC 16 Do You Remember? Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 16 No Drinking Permits Yet for P-NG Natives —Fiji, Too, Has Its Liquor Problems 17 Editors’ Mailbag 18 The Noise of P-NG Towns ... 20 Appointment of P-NG Assistant Administrator .. .. 20 The Problems of Taxation and Loans in Fiji 21 Territories’ Talk-Talk 24 South Pacific Air Service Re organisation Has Pleased Few 29 P-NG Has Got Another Sky master —But Hotel Bottleneck Remains 34 The Asian Influence on Rabaul’s Political Future 39 Fijians Now Judged on their Football —1954 Australian Tour 41 Why There Is No Malaria East of 170 deg 43 BSI to the Rescue—9 Years Late 46
Anti-TB Fight in Fiji 47 The Japs Want to Buy the Ships We Sank in Rabaul 49 Another Button Factory for Fiji .. 50 Raratonga May Be Back On the Air Routes 51 Papuan Desiccated Factory Closes 55 Nadi Experiments With New Sort of C of C 58 World Market Prospects for Pacific Crops 59 Fur Coats in Fiji 63 Land of the Vicious Circle — Cooks, Tom' with J.P.S. .. 65 Notes from Norfolk Is 74 Noumea’s Traffic Problems ... 75 N. Caledonia Has a Metal Economy 75
Magazine Section: Youwiga,
78: This Month’s New Read ing, 79: Charley the Fisher man, 80; Times have Changed in Eden 82 UN Has Plans for Noumea .. 86 They Want More Money If They Stay in Fiji ‘ 87 Tongan Women Missed Their Vote for New Parliament .. 90 How Government Encourages Cocoa Planters in BWI .. 91 Britain Ignores Fiji’s Vital Problems 93
Western Samoa’s Method of Successful Cocoa Processing 94 Morobe District’s Problem Bridge 99 For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 101 News of the Smallships 103 Rabaul Could Dispense With Water Carts 120 Current News Items from Our Correspondents in P-NG .. 122 100,000 New People to Bring Into P-NG Fold 129 Cocoa Still Going Up—and Up 132 Sydney Market Firm for NG Coffee 133 Fiji’s Six for the Games .. .. 134 Soft Pedal on Raluana Affair .. 139 OBITUARY: Thomas L.
Sefton; Mr. A. Joske; T. P.
Molloy; Col. F. W. Voelcker; Sir Frederick Doidge; The Rev.
J. F. Goldie: Eric Weine; Walter H. Lucas; F. P. Woods; Mrs. Margaret Wright; Brother David; Captain H. S.
Collier 141-143 Discourtesy to Tahiti’s Gov ernor 144 Treatment of Vanikoro Timber Worker 148 Big Development Plan for Dutch NG 149 Sir Hubert Murray Memorial 150 Now the Copra is Radio Active 152 What the SPC Plans for Islanders’ Welfare 153 Fijian Chiefs Prefer Tradition To Democracy 155 Commerce, Markets, etc 156