Contents:

EDITORIAL: Why Cannot Australia be Honest About Dutch NG? :; Teachers in Demand :: Shape of Things to Come : NG Forests and Australian Newsprint 11, 12 Import Restrictions for Papua-New Guinea .. .. 12 MOF Copra Offer Will Certainly Be Lower in 1956 13 Carpenters May Buy Control of Morris Hedstrom Ltd. .. 14 Editors’ Mailbag 16 Junkers Aircraft Return Again to New Guinea ... 17 Young Officials of P-NG Gain Their Diplomas 17 Do You Remember? Ex tracts from PIM of 20 Years Ago 17 Irresponsible Speculation Runs Riot Over Joyita .. 18 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 22 More Delays in S. Seas Hotel —But the Beer is Still on 31 Current News Items from Our Correspondents in Papua-New Guinea 33 Annual Exodus from Cook Islands 47 Trade Slump in New Hebrides 49 The Escape from Tarawa in 1942 1)0 French A i r-P lans for Hebrides and S. Pacific 53 Air-Mail Restored to NH .. 54 Police Bribery Allegations in Fiji Show Psychological Aspects 59 Luxury Coach Travel for Fiji Tourists 62 Fiji’s Reliance on Customs’

Duty causes Concern ... 63 It Is Not A Pretty World — Impressions Gained by R. W. Robson 65 New Suva Buildings Are Soon Crowded 73

Magazine Section;

Tropicalities, 77; Charley

Makes Liebfraumilch, 79;

Trochus Made Him a Fortune Colourful Memories of German New Guinea, 81; Book Reviews 83 Medical Survey of Aitutaki .. 89 Sir Gordon Taylor in S.

America 9 1 Housing, Liquor and Other Problems Loom Large in Fiji 91 News of the Smallships .. 97 Ever-Rising Costs Worry P-NG Producers 114 With the Navy and Air Force On Joyita Job 119 Cocos Is. Comes Into Aus tralian Fold 121 US Doing Valuable Fish Survey Work 122 Canton Is.—How Barren Atoll Became Airways Station 123 Are Fijian Qualities Going to Waste? 126 Fiji Development Fund’s Work Expanding 129 New Zealand Professor Sees Dangers for W. Samoa .. 130 NGG Produces Another 3d.

Dividend 131 For Pacific Radio Amateurs 133 UK Firm Will Build Roads, Bridges for APC 135 Pan-American Operations in E. Samoa 137 OBITUARY: Mautaire Pe; Tuia Ngamanu Ariki; Aerapo Pokino; Joseph Bennett; Mrs. Mary Poland; Madame P. Miller; Madame V.

Pambrun; Pastor R.

Putty 138-141 Menyamya Has Changed in 22 Years 148 New Suburban Hotel in P.

Moresby 149 French Empire On Display at Sydney Show 151 Governor Sees Bright Future for N. Caledonian Minerals 155 Commerce, Markets, etc. .. 160