EDITORIAL: Does Unilever Come As Friend 6r Foe To the Pacific? 13 Pacific Publications To Open Office In Lae, NG 14 Unilever Executive To Visit S. Pacific 15 No Fixed 1957 Price For Copra Yet 15 Editors’ Mailbag 16 Assistant - Administratorship Is Still P-NG $64 Question 17 Native Dogs Discovered In NG Highlands I 7 Fiji Seeks Further Term For Popular Governor 18 A Brewery For Lae, NG? .. 18 Rabaul Has Murder Nerves— Naval Rating Shot .. .. 19 Do You Remember? Extracts From PIM Of 20 Years Ago 20 Uncertainty over Fr. Oceania Airport 20 PATA Meets —To Discuss Hotels 21

P-TsiG Administration

Releases Some Warangoi Land 21 W. Samoa Plans For Land Planes 23 Deciding How and When To Drink On Norfolk Is 24 No Freight Rise for P-NG Cargo 25 Historical Society Launched In New Britain 25 Territories’ Talk-Talk .. .. 27 No Pigeon-hole For the Johnson Land Plan .. .. 33 Ring-side H. Bomb Comment From the Pacific 35 Notes By the Wayside—From R. W. Robson In New Guinea 41 Golf Links Murder —Smith Wins Appeal 49 Morobe Men Meet At NGVR Reunion 51 Nondugl To Be Agricultural College 65 News of Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts 57

The Phenomenal Boom In Papua New Guinea .. .. 65 Trader v. Author —The Other Awful Side of the Picture 73

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Tropicalities, 77; Don’t Blame Lord Northcliffe For Hot News From the Islands, 79; One Hundred Years In the Sweetening Business, 80; Book Reviews, 84 Mr. Haworth Retires To Paradise 106 Fiji Census Figures (Pre liminary) HO World Famous Singers Give Year To Papua N. Guinea Mission HI South Pacific Commerce and Industry 114 Coral Route Cost NZ £58,000 117 Fiji Whales For Re-count .. 119 New Cattle-Raising On Im pressive Scale In P-NG .. 121 New Caledonia Has First Cyclone Of Season .. .. 135 Indonesian Labour For New Hebrides 136 OBITUARY: Alexander D.

Cameron; Norman Wilde; Robert Craig; George Grant; C. F. Gamson; F.

Isom; Albert F. Jagger, Hong Kong Sang; R. D.

Bagnall; David Collins; Major C. V. Philips; Con stable Beni 137-141 Plans For Nausori After 1959 143 NEW RC Bishops for Pacific 147 Fiji War Bombs For De lousing 1 52 SPAL Still Has Plans Despite UK Blundering Over Christmas Island 153 Mechanising Copra Produc tion 157 Miss Hibiscus From Fiji Gets VIP Treatment In NSW .. 160 The Last Greig Dies On Fanning Island 161 Fiji’s Manganese Is Expensive 162 Market Prices For Pacific Products 164

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