Contents:

Editorial: “The Satellite In troduces Calamity-Howling 13 Editors’ Mailbag 14 New Caledonia’s Most Im portant Election 15 New Colonial Secretary Arrives in Fiji 15 P-NG LegCo Meeting Pro duces Bombshells and Lightning Bolts 16 W. Samoa’s Copra Crop to Unilever 17 Do You Remember? Extracts from PIM of 20 Years Ago 17 P-NG’s “Back-to-Bread-and Water” Budget 18 Nadi’s Part in Jet Age .. 20 Territories Talk Talk .. .. 23 Overcoming Suva Bottle neck—Maybe a New Ragg Hotel 27 Raised £l7O by Knowing the Answers 29 Timber Revives Kadavu Importance 30 Kainantu Puts On the Show of its Life 33 Some Liveliness in New Hebrides Who Should Get Rights to Manganese 37 Only Mystery Now is Mr.

Tomarchin —Flying Walrus in Rarotonga 41 Australia is Sugar Daddy of Pacific—Huge Grant to

P-Ng 45

WRC Make Another Rich Gift to Shareholders .. 49 The Arabica Coffee Damage Claim 50 New Status for NG Chinese —Nothing for Euronesians 53 This Month’s News of Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts 59 Overboard in Mid-Ocean — Recent Dramas Recall Earlier Episode 69 Fiji Advocated S. Pacific Federation 35 Years Ago 71 Just One Tax and He Leaves! 73 Science Congress in P-NG 75

Your World of Stamps ... 77

Magazine Section:

Topicalities, 81; Southern Cross Makes Last Journey by Road, 83; Teeth for the Twisels, 84; Interesting Pacific People, 87; Book Reviews gg Fiji Whaling—lf the Count is Right H 4 Where New Guinea is Going Under Hasluck-Lambert

Dictatorship 117

TEAL Re-equipment Scheme Not Announced Until “After the Elections” 121 Cooks Try to Boost Copra Production 123 New Tonga Hotel for Tourists 123 Banana Boat Arrives in NZ —With Bunches 125 New Lease of Life for New Guinea Goldfields 133 Steady Progress Shown by Qantas 137 Primitive Cultures Will Not Be Lost 142 Indonesian Anarchy Menaces New Guinea 145 Fr. Rossier Celebrates Jubilee 146 OBITUARY: Mr. Allan Pinkerton; Mr. J. A.

Bunting; Mrs. R. M.

Ewins; Mr. J. F.

Protheroe; Dr. J. S.

Phillips 150-151 Commercial Notes of the Month 154 MacGregor Released in Last Goilala Case 158 Road to NG Highlands, Needs Tough Vehicles, Iron Men 161 P-NG Native Labour Ordin ance —Makes Brief Ap pearance in Leg Co.. .. 165 W. Samoa Elects New Assembly in November .. 166 The P-NG LegCo—From the Press Gallery 167 Japan Slashes Nickel Im ports from N. Caledonia 168 Commodity Prices 172