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Editorial; 500 Million Chinese Are Pressing Southwards . 13 Sir John Nicoll’s Job at Singapore 15 Fijians are Wasted in Malayan Jungles 16 NG Timber Exports Need GATT Waiver 17 Editors’ Mailbag 18 No Air Services to NH ... 19 Do You Remember? Ex tracts from PIM of 20 Years Ago 20 New Caledonia’s Airline .. 21 Burns Philp Looks to the Future 23 Persecution of Dutch in Indonesia 25 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 27 Suva Shops Bulge in Import Boom 33 Tributes to Fijians in Malaya 35 Ex-Jap Property in New Caledonia Discussed .. .. 37 Another Fijian Decorated .. 38 Population Query in Lau .. 39 Queen Salote Opens Vavau Hospital 43 Australian Control “Not Wanted in New Hebrides’’ 46 SPC’s Visual Aid Scheme .. 50 Tongan Oil-mill in Canada? 54 Indian Education in Fiji .. 55
Magazine Section:
Tropicalities, 57; The Mystery of the Little White Bag, 59; Vanikoro Timber Trade Pioneers, 60; Apia Radio Chief Retires, 62; Book Reviews 63 Hunting the Rhino In Samoa 67 Tardy Cook Is. Mails .. .. 69
Jap-manned Fishery in New Hebrides Opposed 70 News of the Smallships .. 73 Hitch in Fiji’s Road Plans .. 95 Tonga 90 Years Ago 99 Suva Taxi Question 102 No Appeal from Cook Islands Sentences 103 Fiji’s Indian Repatriates .. 106 Early Polynesian Navigation 109 Britain Aids Fiji’s Develop ment 114 NZ Bears Coral Route Loss 115 Fijian Banana Area Extended 119 Yaws Campaign in Fiji .. 121 New Caledonia’s Boom .. .. 122 Notes from Western Samoa 123 News from Cook Islands .. 124 Bourail Cemetery Dedicated 126 French Finance for NC Project 127 Complaints about Suva Prices 129 NC’s Repatriation Problem 130 Cash Deposits at Suva Hospital 131 News from Correspondents in
P-Ng 133
Opening up NG’s Sepik Area 141 Pacific Crop Prices Reviewed 142 Copra Industry’s Future .. 149 Notes for Radio Amateurs .. 151 Earthquakes at Guadalcanal 156 OBITUARY: S. Hollander, Mrs. C. J. Beddows, J. T.
Pinner, M. Nicholls, Sister M. Borgia, the Rev. H. A.
Favell, Miss C. H. Wedg wood, C. Procter, Mrs. Isabel Rennie, E. L. Baker .. .. 159 Australian Land in NH .. .. 161 Commerce, Markets 164