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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1955Vol. XXV, No. 9

Reds In The Solomons

p. 82 · Read in the full issue

RED agents—mainly Australis seamen in trading vessels —a:, making active efforts to spres discontent among the Solomo Islanders, said Bishop Wade, SI Roman Catholic Bishop in Bougaii ville, when interviewed during visit to the US.

He believed that the answer w' largely in improving native stai dards of living by providing agi cultural development programm and teaching the essential “kno T how.” t A correspondent says that seven 1-ton pick-up jeep trucks late have been taken by plane into tl New Guinea Highlands and land'] at Goroka. The Goroka airstrip hi now been made a double strip. T? effect of these important transpc aids should be reflected in an iJ crease in the already rapid develot ment of the Central Highlam natural resources.

H Miss Maadi Gobrait, well knov Papeete personality, returned the in March per Caledonian aft vacation overseas.