Contents:

Editorial: A World Bewildered By Ideological, and Racial Hates 11 Expert Says NG Labour System is “Hopeless” ... 12 Joyita Found Abandoned .. 13 New P-NG Import Duty Will Boost Cost of Living .. .. 13 Placer Interest in BSl’s Gold Ridge 14 UN Mission to Visit Pacific 14 SPC Meets for Important Session 15 Qantas Closes Lae Hostel ’ 16 Liquor Permits for P-NG Natives Must Wait Three Years 17 Graduates of SOPA 17 Editors’ Mailbag ig Most PSA Claims Rejected by P-NG Arbitration Court .. 19 Do You Remember—Extracts from PIM of 20 Years Ago 20 Travel Notes and Comments —by RWR 21 Henderson Airfield, BSIP, to be Reopened 23 Fiji Airways Service to Con tinue 23 Norfolk Island Gets Weekly Link with Sydney and NZ 24 High Cost of Educating Children in P-NG 25 Territories’ Talk-Talk .. .. 27 New Hebrides Troubles—Low Copra Price, Bad Com munications 31 NG Airlines and Recruiters Under Fire 33 New Hebrides “Could Have Alrservice Now” 37 New Caledonia’s New Air service Is Doing Well .. 39 Current News Items from

P-Ng 41

Police Bribery Charge in Fiji 49 News of the Smallships .. 51 After 12 months UK Still Considering BSIP Tax Overhaul 57 The MV Tulagi Dispute— Round Two to Owners .. 59 North Africa Looks to New Caledonia 62 P-NG’s First European Apprentice 63

McLeod of Hebrides “No Blackbirder” 55 They Don’t Want BSIP Govt.

Loans 79 Samoa’s Reparation Estates Are Big Business ... 71

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 77; Are There Taipans in Papua? 79; The Cakaudrove Wars, 80; This Month’s New Reading .. 83 Change of Name and Status for BSIP Trade Scheme 90 BSIP Discusses Cocoa with Levers 94 Major Reference Work on New Caledonia 95 BSIP Making Better Copra 95 TEAL Merger with NAC Suggested 107 American Invention Makes Coffee Processing Easy .. 11l War Against TB in Two Islands Territories 113 “Joyita” Mystery—S earch Abandoned 117 Local Income Tax Approved in Cook Islands 121 More Decorations for Fijians in Malaya 123 Pan American and SPAA Plans for Pacific Services 130 Administration Aid for P-NG Cattle Industry 138 For Pacific Radio Amateurs 141 Is Secret of Polio Immunity to be Found in NG High lands? 142 Plans for NG Copra Planta tion Expansion 143 OBITUARY: The Rev. Fr.

J. M. Oreve; R. H. Phillips; J. H. McDonald; Ben Heape; Sister Mary Zita; Patrol-Officer J. Short; Mrs. E. Hendra, B. H.

Marks: T. E. Peterson 145-148 A Tribute to Mrs. Myra Harrington 149 Modern Installation for Noumea’s Nickel Co 151 No Fun, No Profit In Pine apple Growing for NZ .. 153 Phenomenal Prices for Pacific Shell 156 Fijians Throng Seamanship Classes 159 Commerce, Markets, etc 162