Contents:

EDITORIAL: Minister Hasluck’s Papua-New Guinea :: The Suez Pot Begins To Boil 17, 18 Duke of Edinburgh’s NG Visit Extended 19 Savage Gaol Sentence For Port Moresby Woman .. 19 P-NG’s Burnt Offering To the God UNO 20 Suva Has a “Switched-Baby”

Case 21 Nabavatu’s £54,000 Price-tag 21 General de Gaulle in Noumea 22 Do You Remember? Extracts from PIM of 20 Years Ago 22 GEIC Copra—£23 for Pro ducers; £5O for “Charges” 23 Court Sequel to 5-Years-Old Air Accident 23 Editors’ Mailbag 24 Chilean Government Promises S. America-Australia Air service by 1958 25 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 28 Australia and New Zealand Unhappy About SPC ... 35 Few Changes in Fiji’s New Legco 38 Critics Assail Plan For Apia Port 42 Anderson’s Sell Out Of Whaling Companies ... 43 All In Together in Suva’s Sea Baths 47 Papua-New Guinea Diary— Summary of Month’s News 49 Oryctes Rhinoceros Defies Science 57 Preliminaries to the Geo physical Year 58 Suva—An Unnumbered City 63 This Month’s News of Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts 65 UK Researcher Throws Doubt On Bombard Theory ... 79 Boom Price Cocoa Did More Harm Than Good 81

Magazine Section: The

Eutychusian, 87; It Was An Historical Occasion For Papua and for Australia, 89; Your World of Stamps, 90; This Month’s New Reading 92 New Guinea Highlands’

Residents Draw Up Bill of Rights 115 A Tribute to F. R. Jolley .. 119 The Cinema and Its Effect On Brown Brother 131 Another Plan To Develop P-NG Fisheries 135 New Caledonia Shows Net Trade Gain 137 One In the Eye For Hurri canes 138 An Instrument To Make Mining Safe 142 A Cure For W. Samoa’s Hydro Headache 145 Aug.-Sept. Summary of South Pacific Commerce and Industry 146

Obituary: Major C. A.

Swinbourne; Mr. W. A.

Macdonald; Mr. Ernest Reid; Mr. George L.

Wignall; M. Jules Chevrier; Capt. A, Mervin; Mrs.

Mary Lum Houng Lee; Mr. Charles Widdy; Capt.

C. H. Luxmoore .. .. 153-155 Kenaf Joins Other Promis ing NG Industries on the Scrap-Heap 159 Fiji To Have Brewery, and Beer-drinking For All 162 Final Acts In RSL’s South Seas Story—Dedication of Apia Tomb 165 Primitive Sepik In News In Native Outbreaks of Violence 166 Rubber Is Still a Profitable Industry 170 Giant Rice Project in NT Aims At Price Of 2d per lb 173 Market Information 176