Contents:

Editorial: The Dumping of Lakshman Is a Lesson For All 17 New Faces In P-NG Legis lative Council 19 Rona Tied Up In Sydney By Black Ban 19 Missing and Mysterious— Samoa’s £126,000 Budget Mistake 20 The Month’s Silliest Story: A Man On An Isle With a Chimpanzee 20 Unilevers Will Buy 20,000 Tons Of P-NG Copra In 1958 21 To Help France, N, Caledonian Soldiers Asked To Forego Pensions 22 P-NG Gets Biggest Canberra Grant On Record 22 Do You Remember? Extracts from PIM of 20 Years Ago 22 Background Of Fiji Public Servants Discontent .. .. 23 Bananas From Ecuador— NZ’s Insatiable Banana Hunger 24 Native Charged With Murder of BSIP European 25 Sinkiang Will Inaugurate New Sydney-BSIP Services 25 Goilala Cases —Three Men Go To Supreme Court .. 27 Territories Talk Talk ... 28 P-NG and the Working Week 36 Growth of the Carpenter Empire, 1935-57 40 Fijians Provide Entertain ment For NZ Rugby Fans 43 From Notes Made In New Guinea By R. W. Robson .. 45 Photographer Got His Wires Crossed 51 Franc Revaluation Hits New Caledonia 52 Advisory Council For the New Hebrides 53 Hasluck War On Private Enterprise 55 That Tuna Could Be Worth $3OO 56 From Kenaf To Peanuts .. 57 Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts 59 Community Life Is Pleasant Where Timber Is Displacing Gold 69 Fiji’s Europeans Mostly Apathetic 75

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 81: Prison Can Be Fun In Tonga. 83; Six-feet Men With Five feet Axes, 84; Your World Of Stamps. 85; The Name Of the Little Copper God, 86; Health Notes, 87; This Month’s New Reading .. 88 SW Papua May Become Cattle Area 119 Lae Is Building a Brewery 125 Those Dear Dead Days Be yond Recall In Papua .. 127 Fiji’s Unbalanced Labour Position .. 130 A. F. R. Stoddart Leaves Fiji 133 Fiji Athletes In Malaya .. .. 133 South Pacific Commerce and Industry 134 NG Rice Industry Dis couraged By “Foreign” Im ports 138 Females Increase Faster In Fiji 139 Lae Is Building An Important Botanical Gardens 141 Obituary: Mr. Harold Gatty; Mr. A. O. Barrack; Madame Lafleur; Mr. Amie Ragg; Mrs. Zellah Sherman; Mr.

J. G. Boileau; Mrs. L.

Spowart; Mrs. Mary Boyer; Mr. Henry Simmons; Bro, E. Roe; Miss M. Brown; Mr A. B. Snodgrass, Mr. R.

Glasson 145-147 NG Women's Club’s 16th Year 150 Many Achievements Of the Late Mr. Harold Gatty .. 151 Ansett Has Purchased ANA 154 Cecil Hotel Has New Owners 155 CSR Changes Fiji Staff .. 157 Mr. S. Elliott-Smith Goes South 158 Battle On the Rhino Front— Fiji Makes Strategic With drawal 159 Nickel Seekers In P-NG Apply For Leases 161 NG Klinkii Pine Arouses In terest In E. Africa 163 W. Samoa’s Most Important Election In November .. 164 No Radio Active Disease In Fr. Oceania 165 White’s Travel Forms Fiji Company 166 Market Prices 168