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Editorial: New Guinea Progress Is Shackled by Canberra .. 13 Scandal of Rabaul’s Abandoned Civilians 14 Lae Drome Temporarily Closed To Skymasters 15 Cheaper Saigon Rice “Pro hibited” In P-NG 15 Fiji Airways Drover Down On Reef 16 Foreign Labour Not Wanted In N. Caledonia 16 Australian Tariff Board To Meet In Moresby 17 South Pacific Commission Meets In October 17 New Governor For French Oceania 17 Editors’ Mailbag 18 Is This the End Of Kenaf? ... 19 Huge Flying Boats May Be Used On Pacific Routes 19 Dutch Indonesian Union Ended 20 Do You Remember? Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago .. 20 BSI Govt. Withdraws and Asks Private Enterprise to Try Luck With Hu Farm .. .. 21 New Stage in Waria Syndicate Claim 23 Territories' Talk Talk 24 Oil and Yaqona for Fiji Service men 25 Telefomin Murders Parents Demand Inquiry 29 Fijians Unplaced at Empire Games 30
Value of the South Pacific Com mission 31 Port Moresby’s Overcrowded Hotels 32 Liberals Have Undone Good Work of Labour—Says Labour 33 The Luxury of Running Maui Pomare 38 Emperor-Loloma Interest in Fiji Manganese 39 Fiji Development Fund. Grows —and Grows 42 Let Canberra Dispense Mercy, Says Canberra 43 Giant Toads Handicap Rhino Beetle Eradication 46 More Islanders Seek Their Fortunes in NZ 49 Madang Road Link With Nth, Coast 50 For Pacific Radio Amateurs 53 Bomb Disposal Unit Leaves
Bsip 58
Politicians and Newspapers In terpret the Cooks Is. for NZ Taxpayers 59 Changes in the Pattern of Islands 65 Notes Made Here and There in the Cooks 73
MAGAZINE: Tropicalities, 77;
A Tale of Two Ships, 79; Charley Goes Home, 80; This Month’s New Reading ... 84 News of the Smallships .. .. 97 What J. K. McCarthy Did in 1942 H 5
Work Starts on Lae’s £200,000 Hospital Hi Current News Items From P-NG Correspondents 11 OBITUARY: Charles Beckett; Bishop Vesters; Captain E. E. Kettle; Madame Leonie Bouzer; Felix Grand; Captain D. C. Macdonald; Mrs. J. Tariau; Teariki Tiki; Bro, Thomas de Villeneuve; Bro. Enogat; J. G. Davis; The Rev. A. Rowley; Frederick Wallin 130-13!
Yankee Up the Sepik 13' Enterprise of NG Gets Under Way in Sepik Oil Search .. 13; P-NG Planters Meet to Discuss Their Problems 13 Tonga to Have Licensed Hotel 13i Lower Prices for Cocoa, Coffee 14 Natives Die After NAB In jections 14 There Were Two Richard E.
Vernons 14 Crocodile Shooting in BSIP .. 14 Highlands Foodstuffs—lnterest ing Developments in NG .. 14 Fiji Lost Against Maoris, But Liked It 141 Memorial Gates for Rabaul .. 15 New Hospital for Honiara .. .. 15 Cygnet Crayfish Venture Still Harbour-Bound 15: No Light on Monique Mystery 15: LMS Under NZ Microscope .. 15, Oranges for NZ from Half World Away 15< Commercial, Markets, Etc 16(