Contents:

EDITORIAL: S. Pacific Gov ernments and Their Press Relations 17 Editors’ Mailbag ig Colourful Ceremonies When Fiji Installs First Speaker 19 Duke of Edenburgh’s Visits to P-NG and NI 19 Seeing the News Through the PRO’S Issue Spectacles .. 20 Robertson Case Supreme Court Halves Sentence .. 20 Suva Baths Now Free—For All Races to Ignore .. .. 21 French, British and Aus tralians Celebrate Jubilees 2 r Governor Says Fijians to be Educated to Drink Beer .. 22 Do You Remember? Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 22 BSIP Budget—Revenue-Ex penditure Gap Widens .. 23 Petrol Shortag e Delays Search for Stolen Cl Vessel 24 Copra After 1957 —Planters’

Conference Suggested .. .

Fiji Loses Another Official to W. Samoa 25 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 28 Air Company Wins Big Dam ages from Australian Government 35 Papua-New Guinea Diary .. 37 Census Taking in Fiji and Samoa 46 New Caledonia Hears Cryptic Warnings from de Gaulle —But Against Whom? .. 47 Opinions Differ Over Cook Islands Fight Against TB . 55 A First For Honiara — Superseding the A 1 Fresco Method 59 This Month’s News of Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts 61 GPY Boffin Islands Fixed .. 70 Foaming at the River Mouth May Help Sugar 71

Geography of a French Neighbour 77

Magazine Section: La

Plume de Ma Xante, 83; Your World of Stamps, 85; Louis Becke—the Writer Who Lived His Own Romances, 87; Book Re views 88 Re-opening of Munda and Henderson Airports .. 115 Reparation Estates Make Valuable Profits for Samoans 119 Fiji Only a “Minor” Little India .. .. 121 FOA Debunks Tilapia—but Cook Is. Still Like It .. 122 Frameless Aluminium Build ings for the Islands .. 133 Sept.-Oct. Summary of S.

Pacific Commerce and Industry 135 TAl’s NZ Extension Still Awaited 139 £5OO Damages Against Fiji

Mlc 141

Obituary: Mr. A. H.

Baldwin, Mr., Denis Murray, Mr. A. V. Addis, Mr.

William Mcßirney, Mrs.

Blanche Johnson, Mrs.

Florence Hathaway, Mr.

C. F. Sollitt, Miss Minnie Walshe, M. Alfred Laborde 142-145 Sian g-Whanging in W.

Samoa’s Legislative As sembly 150 P-NG’s Bishop is Wrath Over Native Marriage Bill 153 A Tribute to Late C. H.

Luxmoore 155 Bill Money “Goes Finish”— Big Six Now Reduced to One in P-NG 158 Dutch, Indonesians Go To

Uno 160

Market Information 168