Pacific Islands Monthly
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Contents:
No. 6 Vol. XXVI
January, 1956
EDITORIAL, New Year Opens to Liveliness in Cold War 17 Carpenters to Buy MH Shares 19 Noumea-Nadi Airservice Suspended 19 Moresby Brewery Under New Control 20 Price of Copra in 1956 ... 20 Pilot Escapes When Fiji Plane Crashes 21 Do You Remember? Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 21 Editors’ Mailbag 22 Bogus PIM Advt. Directed Against CSR Officials ... 22 Three New Knights in New Year Honours 23 Another Good Year Ahead for Fiji Sugar 23 Pacific Airline Manoeuvres 24 Notes Made in Fiji by R. W.
Robson 25 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 27 No TEAL-NAC Merger ... 32 Pineapple Cannery for Lae 33 Current News Items from Our Correspondents in Papua-New Guinea .. .. 35 Scholarships for Fiji Students 49 Restricting Islanders’Entry to NZ 50 3d. a Share is Acceptable to NGG Shareholders 51 News of the Smallships ... 53 Christmas Parties in Sydney 66 Buyer Resistance Starts Chain Reaction in Cocoa Industry 67
Papeete Assembly Discusses Budget, Taxes 13 Tari Has a Landrover ... 75
Magazine Section:
Reminiscences of an Islands Skipper, 79; Strange Death and Strange Burial of “Queen” Emma, 80; See ing Norfolk on the Run, 82; This Months’ New Reading 84 [slands Boxers Do Well Over seas 99 They Are Making Villagers Money-Conscious in Fiji .. 107 Results Soon in Papua Hydro Survey 118 Road Neglect in New Guinea Highlands 122 OBITUARY: Mrs. Kathleen Bignell; Professor Radcllffe Brown; R. M. Farlow; Mrs.
C. S. McOwan; Mrs. Grace Rasmussen; Fred Rennie; Mrs. Mary Sorby .. ... 130-131 New Hebrides Murderer Suicides 133 DCA Decision Means Hard ships for NG Highlands 135 New Caledonia at Sydney’s Royal Show 135 Gas Flow In Papua Causes Oil Shares to Rise 138 Plywood Helps BGD’s Total Earnings 145 Disaster on Promising US Flying-Boat 146 Whitehall Could Not Care Less 147 NZ Ban on Fiji’s Part- Europeans 149 Yankee Voyages to End After 25 Years 151 Market Information 160
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