Contents:

Pacific Islands Monthly

No. 1 ] Vol. XXVI

June, 1956

Editorial; Significant Changes in Britain’s Atti tude Towards SE Asia .. 17 Still More Tourists for S.

Seas 19 New Guinea’s Beer Makes Big Profits 19 Fiji Battalion Comes Home from Malaya 20 Editors’ Mailbag 21 There was No Kau-Kau Racket 22 Deadwood Threatens Useful ness of SPC 23 Official Reticence Over Christmas Is. H-Bomb .. 24 Ex-Territorian As NT Ad ministrator 24 P-NG’s Top Brass Go to School in Sydney 25 Birthday Honours 25 Norfolk Is. Has Centenary 27 P e n n e y’s—BP’s Merely Change Nature of Invest ment 29 Territories’ Talk-Talk .. .. 30 Nuisance-value of Unofficial Members Saves P-NG Legco from Failure .. .. 37 Tahiti Argues About “July 14 ” 39 Santa Gertrudis Cattle for Islands 41 Inquiry at Last—ls there Gold in BSIP? 43 NG Missions—One More Joins Merry Throng .. .. 47 Suva’s New Automatic Telephone System in Operation 51 Set-back to BSIP Cocoa Scheme 54 Two Tahiti Leaders Visit Paris 58 37 Countries Meet to Discuss Sugar Problems 59 Death of Notable Fiji Man- Sir Henry Milne Scott .. 61 Whaling for Levuka .. .. 66 Current News Items from Our Correspondents in P-NG 69 UNO on Indian Education in Fiji 77

Magazine Section

Tropicalltles, 81; Whatever Became of Jerry, 88; Transplanting Pearls and Coconuts in Pacific of 1906; Book Reviews . . . . 87 This Month’s News of Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts 93 Better Radio Service for Fiji 102 The Poole Case—BSlP Re sidents React to Australian Newspaper Sensationalism 103 Suva’s Working Classes May Demand Higher Wages .. 117 Defence of the Samoan Matai System 121 P-NG Administration Herds Its Official Sheep in Matter of Oaths of Allegiance .. 129 Fiji As Happy Example to New Guinea 130 French Plan N. Caledonia- N. Hebrides Airservices .. 132 Noumea Indignant Fleet ing Impression by Fast- Flying Journalist 135 Fiji Loses Top Agriculture Men 137 Chained to Office Chair — McCarthy Attacks in Paper-War 138 Apia Police Pay Recovered From Schoolboy 139 OBITUARY; J. P. Samuels; Mrs. M. L. Rudling; W. A.

Boucher: Mrs. Elizabeth Muir; Sir H. Milne ScoH 145 Help Needed for Dying P-NG Gold Industry 146 Three Pacific Towns Have Automatic Phones 147 New Whaling Industry Should Give Norfolk Is. a Boost 149 Why and Wherefore of World Coffee Price 157 Police Break Up Noisy Indian Meeting With Tear Gas .. 158 Anti-Y aw s Campaign in Solomons 160 Population Problems in N.

Caledonia 163 Cook Is. Tilapia Are Tasty 164 Forgotten History Levien and Wells to Bulolo and Plywood 166 Commercial, Markets 168