Contents

Mr. Hasluck’s New Guinea Dictatorship and the Arrival of Mr. Downs .. 17 Fiji Select Committee Wants To Trim Salary Report .. 19 Forthright P-NG Candidates Stir Some Election Interest 19 Next Secretary-General of

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Editors’ Mailbag 20 Copra After 1957 21 W. Samoa Prunes Budget After Withdrawal of Rep aration Estates Grant ... 22 Do You Remember? Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 22 Lae’s Mrs. Beetons Took One Fish and a Plane-load of Oysters 23 Pacific Mercy Missions Aid Two Isolated Women ... 24 P-NG May Not See Super- Constellations Before 1958 25 Another Air Service For Fiji? 25 They Say He’s Fiji’s “Yes” and “No” Man 27 Territories’ Talk-Talk .. .. 28 PlM’s Photographic Awards Announced 35 New Guinea Diary 37 There Are Now 16 Hotels In

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Scientific Approach to Language In NG 54 Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts 57 Territorians and Australian Pensions 69 Cook Islands’ Bus h-Beer Schools 70 Undesirable Trends Among Young Fijians 73 ATIU Afforestation Scheme 74 He’s Springboard Diving At 85 77

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 81; Fashions In Headgear, 83; Wife Trouble Set Him Adrift, 84; Health Notes, 85; Your World of Stamps, 85; The Story of the Kerr Brothers, 86; The Disappearance of Ginigolo, 90; This Month’s New Reading 93

Fiji’s Development Loan Was a Success 119 Striking Fiji Sugar Workers Bring Down Wrath of Authority 121 South Pacific Copra 123 Peculiar Disease Among NG Primitive Tribe 129 South Pacific Commerce and Industry 133 New Guinea’s New Boom Town—Kainantu 137 New Stamps Issued In N.

Hebrides 142 Noumea, Too, Has Hotel Bottleneck 143 P-NG Registrar Has Mis givings About Co-operatives 145 New Guinea’s New Tobacco Industry 146 Mr. Hasluck Says Students Led Astray 147

Obituary: Mr. F. K.

Hooper; Mr. H. Ledger; Dr.

R. F. de Boissiere; Mr.

W. G. Bagnall, Mr. J.

Blacklock; Mrs. I. E.

Luchinelli; Archdeacon W. J. Hands; Rev. Mother Ursula; Capt. S. Rotherey; Mrs. W. M. Gay; Mr. A. B.

Commins 149 What is P-NG Administra tion’s Policy On Cattle In dustry? 152 Memories Of An SDA Mission Leader 153 Flooded Butibum Cuts Lae’s Supplies 154 Holy Cross Cathedral Com pleted In Honiara, BSIP 155 New Ply Peeling Mill Opened At Lae, NG 157 Interest In P-NG Nickel .. 158 rhe Tapini Affair In the Open 159 Fijian Footballers Please NZ 160 Canberra Convention Will Discuss Papua-New Guinea 161 Concession Fares By Matson Co 162 Fiji Public Accused Of Apathy 165 Produce and Markets 168