Pacific Islands Monthly

Contents:

No. 9 Vol, XXVI

April, 1956

Editorials: What Red De nunciation of Stalin Means; Those Adjectival Natives 17, 18 Duke of Edinburgh Will Visit

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Slump in Cocoa Prices ... 19 Dutch New Guinea Grab Gets Priority 19 Editors’ Mailbag 20 Stormy Scenes at Apinaipi Meeting 21 Christmas Atoll to Become Death-or-Glory Island .. 22 ANZ Bank Buys Valuable Suva Site 22 New Hebrides Again Without Airservice 23 Do You Remember? Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 24 Poole Appeal Verdict .. .. 25 Copra Interests Prepare for 1958 27 Coconut Experts Seek Clues in NG 29 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 33 Pacific Islands Affairs to be Reviewed at 3rd SP Con ference 41 New Medical Research Director 'or SPC 42 The French Exhibition Stole the Sydnev Show 45 Happy Acer dmi t Saves Mr.

Chalmers’ Face 49 W. Samoan Self-Government Will be on Tradition Not “Democracy” 51 Ray Youl d e n Pioneered Rabaul Baseball 5*7 MOF Copra Falls by 10 Cent r* New LMS Church L*nd Q ” * • Cooks '•••* NG Plante’ Puts * “Absentee’sm” O o

NG Highlands Coffee Needs Good Land, Wise Develop ment 65 Australia May Fill Fiji’s Rice Gap 69 Nondugl Sheep Experiment Will Not Be Allowed to Fail 73

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 77; More of the Queen Emma Story, 79; “BP” Trade But No Cannon, 81; Book Reviews 83 How 4 he Broadcast Lesson Overcomrs Teacher Short ages in W. Samoa 89 N. Caledonia Weather—Dry Side Gets the Wet .. .. 95 New NI Stamps for Centena v y 97 Latest Raft Drifter Recalls How Radio Goes to the Rescue 101 Two Separate Boards for Carpen f er-Heds f rom . .. 103 Wes" Abandons Dutch in Favour of Indorrsians .. 105 News of the Smahships .. 113 OBITUARY: Rangoma^ane Ariki, Vera Pocock, M’*s. Isabel L. Bell, Mrs.

Ellen Pitt, J-rs- H. Buffum.

Mrs. J. S. Lhchfield. H. L.

G Dmk, Harold Koch, E. J. Thomas 129-130 Bette*' Education fo** Hebrid eans 132 Making NG Too Safe for Pioneers 134 Curran* m pws from d -'Tt r 'o , T«cn ndents .. .. 137 Condo" mh'm—Through 'he ■ „ <-■ .147 lf 0 the On* - ' . .. 157 'm .. ->6O