Contents:

Editorial: Good Times—and a Word of Warning . .. 17 Editors’ Mailbag 18 Long Copra Price Negotia tions 19 “Fiji Times’’ Purchased by Pacific Publications Pty.

Ltd 19 Are They Expendable? Ara karimoa—Last of Long List of Pacific Sea Tragedies . 21 Hurricane Nerves as Suva Battens Down 21 Oil Search to Proceed in N. Caledonia 21 Hebrides Tuna Fishing .. 21 BSIP Murder—Psychiatrists Visit Poole 22 Samoan Home Rule by 1960 23 Strike Stir in the Fiji Cane fields 23 Proposed New Airservice from Sydney to Santiago .. 25 Mr. Casey Whitewashes Soekarno 25 Big Company Will Prospect Near Gold Ridge 25 Territories Talk Talk .. .. 27 Current News Items from Papua-New Guinea .. 33 End of a Dream —Papuan Shangri-La 46 Closing Manihiki is Unneces sary 47 Van Pel Investigates P-NG Fish Resources 49 Future Plans for Ex-Fijian Fighters 51 Marine Scientists Trace River In the Ocean .. .. 55 Fiji’s Speaker Takes London Course 58 The Yanks Are Back On Tarawa 59 Heyerdahl Makes Easter Is.

Discoveries 65 Some Fish Stories From Ex perts 66 Making Cook Group Fit For Islanders to Live In , 67 Tagging Migrating Tuna .. 70 Fiji Schoolboys Go Into Print 73

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities 77; Finding Who’s Where At the NG Bar, 80; Radar’s Magic Box Soothes Islands Skippers’

Brows, 82.

On the Fish-Line At Palmer ston 86 Prison Reform in P-NG .. 89 Fiji’s Newest Population Figures 90 They Are Rare—But Hurri canes Are Known In Fr.

Oceania 91 New Caledonia’s Mineral Future Is Bright .. 95 News of the Smallships ... 97 A “First” for Fisherman’s Island 115 PNGPSA Has Discussions In Canberra 117 Spotlight On Bananas .. .. 118 Wau Is Now On the Bus..

Route 119 More Light On Poisonous Fish 112 No Betel-Nut Chewing Per mitted In P-NG Taxis .. 127 New Patrol Officers For

P-Ng 130

Markham Valley Cocoa “Equals W. Africa” .. .. 131 Chief Scout In Fiji, Tonga 134 No Super-Connies On BOP Route 135 Proposed Flying-Boat Ser vice to Main Islands Group 143 OBITUARY: James Ryan; C. R. Muscutt; John C.

Sucking; High Chief Letuli; Mrs. Adele King, 145; R. K.

McLaren 158 Guadalcanal Club Has Troubles 147 International Airport For E. Samoa 149 Help Sought In N. Hebrides Biographies 150 Fiji’s Headache Not Enough Houses or Hotels 151 American H. Bomb Tests In Pacific 153 Commercial and Markets Information 160

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