Pacific Islands Monthly
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No. 5. Vol. XXV.
December, 1954
Editorial; Vital Land Settle ment Policy at Stake in NG 9 Do You Remember? From PIM of 20 Years Ago .. 10 Fijians May Stay in Malaya “Quite a While’’ 10 Japs’ POW’s Will Receive Pay ment 10 Samoans Discuss Future Government 11 NG Reacts Unfavourably to Japs 12 Fiji Budgets for Tax Con cessions 13 Editors’ Mailbag 14 Noise and Bluster from In donesia 15 New Indian Commissioner for Fiji 15 Change in P-NG Adminis trative Policy 16 Tourists and Tuna For E.
Samoa 17 Sugar Price Falls Again .. 17 South Seas Hotel in Suva .. 19 New Secretary-General of SP Commission 19 Territories Talk-Talk .. 20 Doubtful Future of BSIP .. 26 Goroka’s On-and-Off Hydro Scheme 29 New Capital for Fiji Man ganese 31 News Notes from our Corre spondents in P-NG .. .. 33 Makatea Still Needs Cook Is.
Labour 43 Honolulu-Tahiti Air Service 47 Travellers’ Impression of In donesia 49 The Great Mangaian Experi ment 54
Tariff Board’s Inquiry into Papuan Rubber 59 For Pacific Radio Amateurs 65 There is Money and Grief in the NG Crocodile Business 67 Caledonian Nickel Booms While Chrome Languishes 71 Stamps Commemorate Pacific Air Age 73
Magazine Section:
Tropicalities, 77; Notes Made by RWR in N.
Caledonia and Fiji, 80; This Month’s New Reading, 84.
Robt. Gillespie Expands to Papua 91 To Lavani—With Cameras 97 News of the Smallships .. 99 Long-lines and Now Nets .. 120 News Items from Honiara 121 BSI Sawmill Aid to Building Industry 125 Too Many Capt. Kellers .. 131 News of Santo Aero Club .. 135 OBITUARY: George T.
Robins; Reuben Swann; Michael Corrie; The Hon.
Akau’ola; Mrs. W. J. Ragg; Mrs. Khan; Mrs. Irene Cox; E. Eaves; Sidney Powell; Madame Le Strat; W. L.
Davidson 137-139 High Cost of Grass Huts .. 143 Getting More Bananas Out of Fiji 149 Trends in Pacific Produce .. 150 Lands Policy Resented in NG Highlands 154 Heavy Losses in Fiji’s Malaya Battalion 155 Future of Upper Markham .. 157 Cattle For Tropical Islands 159 Market Information 164