Pacific islands Monthly

Contents

No. 12 Vol. XXVI

July, 1956

Editorial;: S o c i o-Political Dangers in Pacific:: It Mightn’t Do for the Duke, Sir 13, 14 Maurice Scott New Chairman of BP (SS) Co 14 Duke of Edinburgh’s Visit to

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Oil Search Shares Boom Again 15 Fiji Legco Elections 15 Outside Aid Suggested by Trusteeship Visiting Mission 17 RC of Niue for NZ Appoint ment—Larsen Case Recalled 18 Gen. de Gaulle to Visit New Caledonia 18 Christmas H-Bomb Still Secret 19 Western Samoa’s PWD Troubles 19 Kitione Lave Loses to Jamaican 19 Bold Plan to Meet Fiji’s Land Problem 20 Editors’ Mailbag 21 NG Labour to Work in

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Norfolk Island Retains Old Liquor System 22 Opinions Conflict Over Bougainville Com p a n y’s Rabaul Land 23 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 26 Norfolk Island Celebrates Centenary 34 Active and Useful Life of Late Sir Alport Barker .. 37 Port Moresby’s Spectacular Waterfront Fire 41 This Month’s News of Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts 45 Current News from P-NG 53 Big Game Fishing, Fiji ... 62 “Foreign” Companies Not Wanted in Western Samoa 63 Apia’s Expensive Electricity Blackout 67 Cook Islands Shell In dustry—lnterest Centres on Suwarrow 69 Turning back the Clock — Fead Is. Massacre 75

Twenty Years in the Bamu River Mission 77 Fiji Government Asked to Help with Tourist Hotels 79 Half-Century for Condo minium 79

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 81; Taki baina, Otherwiss Known As Fox, 83; When the Eastern Highlands Put on a Show, 84, Taipii Resurgent 86 School Broadcasts for Cook Islands 99 Movie and TV Moguls Descend on Tahiti 101 Native Labour Exchanges Would Assist in NG .. .. 103 New Guinea Suffers Land Problems Because of Lack of Surveyors 105 Ex-Jap Mining Concessions Find Few Buyers in New Caledonia 106 Markham Valley May Be P-NG’s Rice Bowl 107 Polio Scare in New Caledonia 107 Sun’s Eclipse in Rarotonga 115 Paua Shell Industry for Cook Islands 129 Fiji Cigarettes May Be Even Cheaper 130 No Pineapple Cannery for Lae 137 Journalist’s Exaggerated Idea of Fiji Permit System .. 141 NZ Minister’s Sensitivity Over Cooks 145 OBITUARY: Eric Seal; John W. Ryan; A. Mclntyre; Leung Wai; L. F. D. Carter 151 NG Civilians in Book of Re membrance 157 Rivals for NH Airservice — Transpac and TAI 159 Fijian VC’s Brother Attends London Ceremonies .. .. 160 More Plans for Cl to be Garden of NZ 162 Club Hotel Closes in Suva 163 Rabaul’s Chinese High School Produces Successful Citizens 164 Commerce, Markets 168 Index to Vol. XXVI 169