Pacific Islands Monthly
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Contents:
No. 9 Vol. XXV
April, 1955
Editorial: Asians and Africans “Confer” While Hell’s Broth Simmers 9 Dr. Bedell Arrives in South Pacific 10 BSl’s Cautious Announcement of Gold Discovery 11 Editors’ Mailbag 12 Copra Planters Could be in Trouble After 1957 14 “Excellency” Is Tabu for
P-Ng 15
Changes in Pacific Air Services 16 Floods in Fiji Cause Deaths 17 Territories Talk Talk .. .. 19 Decision on Liquor for P-NG Natives Deferred 23 Norfolk Islanders Missed Assault Trial 26 P-NG Could Save £300,000 on its Rice Bill 27 Coconut Fibre to be Produced Again in New Guinea ... 30 The Future of Fiji Pearl Button Industry 31 Fiji Pineapples are Un economic 33 Simogun, ML A. and the Servant Problem 34 New Caledonian Nickel Min ing is Booming 35 P-NG Students at Suva Medical School Face Formidable Task 37 More High Official Scolding —Those Electorally In different P-NG Voters! .. 42 Grassland Survey Team Ends Tour in Islands 43 News Items from Our Corre spondents in P-NG 45 Suva Finds City Status Not All Joy 50 French Oceania’s Economic Worry 51
Magazine Section; A
Matter of Ballistics, 55; There and Back in a Dreamship, 56; The First
Church In Polynesia, 59.
Keller Mystery is Ended .. 62 News of the Smallships . . 65 End of a Promising Career — Lieut. Vula’s Death 79 Is it Time for Fijians to Re turn from Malaya? 82 The Mangaia Experiment— Report on Profit and Loss 89 Changes on Fiji Goldfield — Loloma Almost Worked Out 92 Western Samoa Under the Microscope 95 Notes from the Gilberts .. 97 Marked Change in Fiji’s Young Women 101 Matson’s Plans for South Pacific 104 Taylor Plans Children’s Special for First Flight .. 105 Gilbertese May Go to BSIP 108 Fiji Planters Need the Good Years 121 NZ Cemetery in New Caledonia 124 Big Link-up Over New Caledonia Chrome 127 The Prices of Most Pacific
Products Are Easing .. .. 129
Picturesque Fijian Houses May Go 133 P-NG Residents Want Radio Quantity As Well As Quality 135 Tri-Lingual Radio Service in Fiji is Costly 135 New Papuan Tribes Found in Upper Fly 137 New Suva Hotel Planned 141 The Petition Agitation in Norfolk Island 148 For Pacific Radio Amateurs 151
Obituary: Mr. J. A.
Carpenter: Mother Mary Agnes; Mrs W. G. Bovell; Capt. Lucien Lefevre, 154-155 French Oceania’s Asiatics— Paris Urged to Avoid Errors of Past 156 Commercial, Markets .. .. 164