Contents:

EDITORIAL: Australia Should Lead Move Towards S. Pacific Federation 17 Knighthood for -WP High Commissioner 19 Copra Falls by lh% 19 Editors’ Mailbag 20 CSR Co. Loses Privy Council Case and Pays Heavily .. 21 Ansett Bid for NG Service .. 22 The New Status of NG Chinese 22 Fiji Colonial Servants Get Pay Rises 23 Do You Remember? Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 23 Plane Fares, Shipping Freights Rise 24 The “Riviera” of Fiji .. .. 24 Rabaul Wants More Air freighted Newspapers ... 25 New NG Native Labour Ordinance In September .. 25 A Chain Of Tourist Hotels For New Guinea? 27 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 31 Rarotonga Greets a Very Important Boffin 37 Fiji Development Loan ... 41 Air Cruises For Aussies, Americans 43 Papua-New Guinea Diary .. 45 Wage Fixing _ln American Samoa .. .. t 53 Chrome Mine Strikes Labour Trouble 54 ACTU or AWU For P-NG? .. 55 Improving Cl Fruit Exports 58 What Britain Has Done For the World 59 This Month’s News of Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts 61 Sir Alan Burns Flays the UN Trusteeship In a New Book 69

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 81; Yankee In the Southwest Pacific, 83; In the Wake of the Wanderer, 85; Memories of Papua’s Pioneers, 86; Your World Of Stamps, 87; This Month’s New Reading .. 88 P-NG Rugby League 123 Some Memories of Unilever’s Founder 127 P-NG Ship Schedules Over lap 129 Taxi Overcharging In Suva 130 No Transport From Australia To NG For Cattle 133 Levuka Is Not Decayed .. .. 134 Sydney RSL Official Hits Out At Lack of NG Land Settlement 135 Pacific Commerce and In dustry 139 Mr. George Whittaker Leaves NG 143 Waria Syndicate Claim Will Not Die 144 Right Across the World With Qantas —US Concession .. 145 Those Family Groups In W.

Samoan Politics 147 OBITUARY: M. Leon Wright, 138; Dr. Beattie; Fr. C. E.

Bergeron; Capt. and Mrs. J.

Linfoot; William Bentley; Mrs. Nellie Brown; Miss Hally Barker: Mr. James Brown; Mrs. S. Raphael; Otto Stehr 149-151 Fiji Talent On Australian Amateur Hour 153 New Caledonia Fears “Little Vietnam” 154 The History Of Ansett Air ways 157 Traders Finance P-NG Ad ministration at Financial Year’s End 159 Market Prices 160