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EDITORIAL: Our View of SE Asia and Indonesia Grows Ever More Ugly .. 17 Fiji Leg. Council, 1956 (Photo) 18 N. Caledonia Mourns Death of Henri Bonneaud .. .. 19 More Capital For Burns Philp (SS) Co. Ltd 19
Editor’S Mailbag .. .. 20
H.-Bomb Jitters—P aci f i c Countries Are Worrying .. 21 Copra—l9s7 Prices Not Yet Fixed—Unilever’s Buyer in Pacific 21-22 Dr. J. T. Gunther, Assist.
Administrator 21 New Caledonia Stirred —Will Fight Paris Over Loi Cadre 23 Sir Beaumont Phillips Retires 24 Value of New Guinea’s In digenous Cane 24 New P & O Liner for Pacific 25 Islands Language Problems 27 Muddled Plan—New Liquor Tax in Papua and New Guinea 28
Territories Talk-Talk 33
From Gold to Timber—BGD’s Operations in N. Guinea .. 41 Rebuilding of Tontouta Air port, NC 43 Rearrangement of Papua’s New Cutch Industry ... 45 Wild NG Natives Clash with Patrol 46 SPC Tuition of Fisheries Students by SP Commission 50 Pacific Shipping and Cruis ing Yachts 57-63 Wakaya Reverts to Fijians 65 Neil Thomson—New Public Service Commissioner ... 66
Sidelights on New Guinea’s Primitive Men —By Norman White 69
Magazine Section;
Tropicalities, 77; Papua’s Pioneers (Chas. R. Bald win), 78; Reluctant Consul —Glimpse of New Hebrides History, 79; The Day the General Came, 81; A Then and Now Story, by Amel; Smoke-Out Ended Anchor age Islet Siege, by JPS, 183; Another Angle of the Strange Picture, 83; Book Reviews 84 Fiji’s Lively Arguments About Wharves 99 Tally of Whale Oil From Southern Seas 102 Will They Take the Kinks Out of SP Commission? .. 105 What the Germans Gave New Guinea 113 Mr. Heyerdahl and Easter Island 119 Lost Plan for Reform of P-NG’s Leg. Council .. .. 121 TAl’s Proposed New Service 122 New Zealand and W. Samoa 123 S. Pacific Commerce and Industry 125 Lands Director Says More Areas Available in N.
Guinea 145 S. Pacific Interested In New West Indies Federation .. 147 The New Montoro Arrives .. 149 Move For Science Congress In New Guinea 151 “Jungle War” In New Guinea Is Routine for Patrols .. 153
Obituary —M. Henry
Bonneaud; Two Mar is t Missionaries; Mr. C. McK.
Brown 157