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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1956Vol. XXVII, No. 4

Pacific Islands Monthly

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Contents:

No. 4 Vol. Xxvii

November, 1956

Editorial: History’s Most Dramatic 20 Days 17 Mr. Marsh May Be Out Of Running For P-NG Assist.-

Administratorship 19

New Governor For American Samoa 19 In Spite Of War Threats, Duke’s Tour Goes To Plan 20 Fiji’s Team For the Games 20 One Year Left For the Copra Agreement 21 Do You Remember? 21 Editors’ Mailbag 22 Sea Drama In Gulf Of Papua —Danny Weil Rescued Again 24 PAA Clipper In Dramatic

Ditching 25

Noumea Will Replace Saigon As French Navy Base .. 27 Territories Talk-Talk .. 28 Jubilee In New Hebrides .. 34 Dry Weather Is Costing W.

Samoa Real Money 36 Papua-New Guinea Diary— The Duke’s Visit 37 Fiji’s Fight Against Oryctes Rhinoceros Will Cost More 45 “Turn Suva Baths Into Stadium” 47 Economic Strength of Papua- New Guinea 49 Japanese Know-How Gives E. Samoa a Million Dollar Industry 52 It’s On Again—More Plans For Suva Hotel 53 BEM For “Arakarimoa” Hero 56 Copra Down-Grading Cost £20,000, Claims Milne Bay Planter 57 News Of Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts ... 61 Bouquets and Brickbats —UN Praise For P-NG Men In the Field 69

Radio-Active Fall-out May Help Pacific Fisheries .. 73 An Australian Poet Looks At NG 77

MAGAZINE; Tropicalities,

81; With the Encourage ment of RLS, Even the Cabin-Boy Wrote a Book, 83; They Called It “Shangri-La,” 84; Books of the Month 87 More Census Results in Polynesia 94 Stole n—One B r i x h a m Trawler .. .. 109 What the Senator Forgot About P-NG Labour Costs 113 Meeting the TB Problem In Cook Is. 118 Hini-Williams Fi g h t—NZ Says “No More” 122 A Smithy Man For Suva Post 135 SPAL Still Has Plans .. .. 137 Proposed New Steel Industry Based On N. Caledonia Ore 138 S. Pacific Commerce and In dustry .. .. 139 Well-known Samoans Cause Court Sensations 142 Some BSIP Labour Reforms Promised 146 OBITUARY: F, D. Palmer; Mrs. A. Stevenson; Dr. W.

Worger; Mrs. A. E. Moran; Capt. H. Dryden; H. R.

Greening: E. M. Bucknell; George Harness; Dr. Eric Pockley 147-149 SPC’s 16th Session 151 Sydney Reporter Let Loose In Papua 151 Fiji Police Under New Com missioner 153 SPC Fisheries Course Begins 167 C of C and Fiji Customs Chief Disagree On Suva Wharf Shed 158 Produce and Market In formation 168

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