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Editorial; An Appraisement of the South Pacific Commission 9 Simogun Wants More Land for More Australians 10 P-NG Legco Considers How to Spend £lOl Millions 11 BSI Residents Try Again to Oust Income Tax 12 Pool Gives Only Evidence at Sydney Rubber Inquiry ... 12 BSIP’s 5-Years’ Plan Begins Next April 13 High Resignation Rate Allegedly Due to Poor P-NG Service Conditions 13 Editors’ Mailbag 14 Sukuna’s Call for Equality of Sacrifice 15 Man and Cat Against the Sea .. 16 Unionists Threaten Another Waterfront War Many Islands Ships Tied*- Up in
Australia X,./ .. 17
Unilever in Coco a-Growing Partnership With BSIP Government? 18 Do You Remember? —Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 18 An American at Head of South Pacific Commission 20 P-NG Land Settlement Policy Is Inadequate—Narrow, Rigid and Unrealistic 21
The Copra and Cocoa Markets 26 Jack Hides and the Hidden Valley 24 Territories’ Talk-Talk 28 Current News Items from Our Correspondents in P-NG .. 33 Harold Gatty on Future of Pacific Tuna 41 Ex-Police Commissioner Leaves
P-Ng 42
Disposing of BSIPs Trade Scheme 43 Suitability of Drover Aircraft in Fiji 47 What the Atomic Age Means to the Marshallese 48 MV Bulolo Goes to the Cup! 50 The Great Mangaia Experiment 51 Inducements for Cl Banana Growers 54 Tilipia and Trout for NG Highlands 55 Mr. Webb’s Last Word on the Cooks 58 Turning NG Grasslands into Forests 62 Australians Now Have Unique Collection of NG Mammals and Birds 65 Education Headaches in New Guinea 67 Jap Horseshoes for Luck! ... 71 He Showed Oysters How to Produce Pearls ■ 74
Magazine Section: Fifty Years of Sea, Sail and Reef, 78; Only the Europeans Have Changed at Tari, 79; All at Sea, 80; Flag-Raising in Moresby, 82 Wide Interest in Better Copra Driers 99 News of The Smallships .. .. 101 Polynesian Boxers in Big Money 115 New Caledonia’s Incredible Mass Of Iron Ore 117 News For Pacific Radio Amateurs 121 Passionfruits’ Long Journey .. 125 How Lae has Risen from the Shambles of 1946 —and Why 137 Fiji’s New Booming Button Industry 145 Progress and Plenty in New Caledonia 148 OBITUARY: Sam Mervin; Earnest Weaver; Paul Poznanski; Mrs. Janet Snow; J. J. Real; G. R. Robertson; Rev. Fr. Theophile; J. Clark son; Mrs. Blanche Helsen; William Riley, 149-150.
Credit Unions Popular With Fijians 155 New Hebrdies Labour Problem 157 Cheap Tea from NG —Australian Pipe-Dream 159 Norfolk Is. Notes 160 Samoan Permanent Residence
In Nz 161
News About the Coffee Industry 163 Commercial, Markets 164