Contents:

Editorial: Nuclear Fission Brings Some Startling Changes in the Pacific .. 17 Editors’ Mailbag 18 Copra’s Future —More Dis cussions in London .. .. 19 Mr. McCarthy Leaves for Nauru 20 Two Die in N. Caledonian Plane Crash 20 Conference In Canberra To Review S. Pacific Com mission 21 Do You Remember? Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 21 New Zealand Gives £1 Million Enterprise To Samoans .. 22 lan Downs To Stand For P-NG Legislative Council 22 Delay In Fixing 1957 MOF Copra Price 23 Founder Of NGVR Dies in Melbourne 24 Mr. Mitchell Retires From Papuan Co 25 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 25 P-NG Ex-Servicemen Meet At Lae For Annual Con gress 33 This Month’s News of Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts 41 New Guinea Di a r y—The Month’s Notes From Our Correspondent 49 Historical Society Formed — Early Days In New Britain 63 Important Line Of Young Chiefs —How Fijian Problem Is Being Attacked 65 Plea For Landless Samoans 67 The Reluctant Consul —From the New Hebrides To Cecil Rhodes Empire 71

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 77; Costume Of the First Class, 79; Preview —Christmas Island Awaits the Berth of the

Bomb, 80; The Buried Treasure Of Hat Island, 83; . .This Month’s New Reading, 84; Your World Of Stamps 90 Fiji Tackles Problem —Fair Allowance For Tropical Leave 97 The Spade Work Goes In —Establishing Beef In dustry In P-NG 101 Resettlement Of Rich Rewa Valley 103 Mistakes In Putting SW Pacific On the Oxford Atlas 107 Large Coffee Crop Predicted This Year 121 Pitt Street Farmers Blamed For Sangara Dissension .. 123 Mystery Explosion in Lae Car 126 Administration Policy Alleged To Drive People Away From Norfolk Island .. .. 129 Tugi and Tonga Honoured By Denmark 130 Dutch Will Not Use NG For Eurasian Re-settlement .. 131 Mining Boom Continues In New Caledonia 133 Mr. Faure Tries To Convince Planters That Grading Is Best 135 OBITUARY: Col. John Walstab; Colin M. Brown; Donald McKinnon; E. J.

Stuart-Russell; Mrs. H. T.

Allan; Mrs. Dorothy Lester; Abdul Rahman Manu; C.T.

Wurth; Mrs. M. Hopwell 139-141 W. Samoan Libel Case Fails 142 P-NG Advisory Council Round-up 146 Quick Action Saves Woman In Wau Air Accident .. .. 149 HC Of W. Samoa Reports On His NZ Visit 153 Produce Prices, Markets .. 160