Contents:

Editorial: International Fumbling, Re-Stalinization, Present a Sorry Picture .. 17 Editors’ Mailbag 18 Pre-H-Bomb Activities At Christmas Island 19 Clutha Withdraws From Gold Ridge For Wet Season 19 Pacific New Year Honours .. 19 Joyita Spends Two Days On Horseshoe Reef 20 French Airline Extends to NZ 33 Negotiations for 1957 Copra Price Proceeding 21 Do You Remember? Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 21 Dutch New Guinea Natives Kill Missionaries 22 Fiji Farmers Will Get More For Their Cane 22 CSR To Close One Fiji Sugar Mill 23 NG Public Servants May Revert To 5£ -Day Week .. 23 Brutal Murder Of Second Rabaul Couple 24 Big Papeete Fire Destroys Business Block 24 Notes By the Wayside— From R. W Robson in New Guinea 27 New Newspapers for Rabaul 33 Northern Hotels in Suva? .. 34 New Guinea Diary 39 Fijian MLC’s Stir Up Some Administrative Hornets .. 49 Donations To NG Women’s Club Christmas Party Fund 54 Retirement of Superintendent

Suguturaga

News of Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts 57 Pacific Shell Continues to Button World’s Best Shirts 67 More Power For W. Samoan Executive Council 74 Aluminium Industry and Papuan Rivers 75

Magazine Section;

Tropicalities, 77; The Misses Hibiscus and Bula Shirts, 79; Xmas Party For Junior Territorians, 80; Book Re views 84 Junior-Ranking Australian

Representatives “Show

Canberra’s Contempt” of

Uno 91

Fiji’s Papulation Problem Aired Again 95 A Tribute To Captain J.

Duncan World Experts Conferred On Tracking Tropical Hurri canes 117 Fewer P-NG Student’s Will Go To Australia This Year 122 Socially-Riven Norfolk Is.

Pleased By the Duke .. .. 125 Territories’ Talk-Talk .. .. 129

OBITUARY: Edward Becker;

Mrs. Hilda Hoodless; R. W.

Millington; J. F. D. Wager; Capt Strickland: William Arp; Sir A. Grimble 24, 139-141 S. Pacific Commerce and Markets 14t * Indian Assn. Celebrates 25th Birthday 149 P-NG Band Had a Long, Long Trail To Play Two Anthems 15d Role Of Migrant Doctors In P-NG Health ' Market Information 160