Contents:

Editorial: Time to Review Scope of South Pacific Commission? 13 Loss and Inefficiency in P-NG Projects Admitted by Minister 15 Debate Over Japs in New Hebrides Continues .. 16 Do You Remember?— Extracts from PIM 20 Years Ago is Few Details About Manila Copra Conference Emerge 17 Travel Notes and Comments 18 Slum Area of Rabaul Under Attack 19 The Editors’ Mailbag ... 20 Query About Eurasians for New Hebrides 21 What Will Follow Ending of MOF Copra Contract? 23 Remote Tikopia Suffers Serious Epidemic .. .. 24 Drunkenness is One of Fiji’s Youth Problems 25 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 27 Earlier Hurricane Warnings Are Now Possible ... 33 News Items from Our P-NG Correspondents .. 37 Wrecked Yacht “Solace”

Restored at Palmerston 49 Hopes of the Waria Syndicate in NG ... 53 Drastic Action to Meet Suva’s Housing Shortage 55 Tolai Cocoa Enterprise Quoted as Example ... 57 Lack of Ships Causes Cook Is, Tomato Crisis .. .. 61 Santo Airfields Present Thorny Problem ... 67

Trochus-diving Question

at Vanikoro 74

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 77; Tongans Were “Ruled” by Shirley Baker, 79; Radio Rarotonga is Cook Is.

Nerve Centre, 80; Saram’s Hair Restorer, 81; This Month’s New Reading, 83.

French-Samoan Tradition at Tutuila 86 Poultry-raising Problems in the Islands 89

News of the Smallships ini New Caledonia Has Thoughts of Dairying Industry 115 Tahiti’s Wartime Drama of .1914 117 Fiji’s Manganese Exports Increase 119 Coffee Round the World 121 Pacific Produce Markets are Generally Satisfactory 123 Memories of Vanikoro’s Spacious Days 126 French Oceania’s Finances 129 Semi Galoa, Noted Fijian Boxer, Dies 131 West NG Again Goes Before UN 132 OBITUARY: Miss Pauline Hoeft, Mrs. E. St. Anbyn, Bishop T. J. Feeney, A.

R. Tarte, W. A. Douglas, W. H. Halford-Thompson, Mrs. M. E. Cleary, F. E.

Wood, Mrs. Myra Harrington, G. Stoockicht, R. F. Warren, Mrs.

Sophie Tucker, Canon James Benson 135 Aluminium Plan Investi gated in New Guinea .. 137 Western Samoa’s PWD Report Goes to Assembly 137 Complications of Tongan System for Copra ... 139 Eastern Samoa’s Airport .. 140 Survey Criticises Islanders’

Care of Infants 141 Earliest Island Stamps are Valuable Today 143 Norfolk Island’s NZ Air Link to Return 145 Apia Ship Joyita Missing 147 Hope Abandoned for Man Lost in Papuan Jungle 148 Move to Maintain Standard of Fijian Ceremonial .. 149 Pearlers for Trobriands .. 151 Australia Must “Make up Mind” About NG .. .. 152 More “Sorcery” in Two Island Regions 153 New Islands Radio “Ears” for Australia 155 For Pacific Radio Amateurs 157 Commercial and Markets 160