Pacific Islands Monthly
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Contents :
No. 6. Vol. Xxxviii
January, 1958
Commentary: The Publisher and the Editors Look at Pacific and World Affairs 17 Do you Remember —Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 18 Copra in the News as Pacific Producers Enter Free Market 19 Newspapers Hamstrung Over Fiji Sugar Strike .. .. 20 Weather Problems and a Volcano Give the Pacific Some Hurry Up 21 Fiji Approves “Open Go”
Beer Legislation .. 22 High Court Releases Former P-NG ADO Frederic Anderson: Full Details .. 23 Awards for P-NG Patrol Officers 24 Pacific Islands Regiment Involved in Rioting .. 25 The Future of the New Hebrides 27 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 28 Cook Islands Skirt Around Liquor Reform 33 Interesting People: Dr. Eric Bridgman 37 N. Caledonia Remembers Pioneer Missionaries .. 39 Big Number of Scientists Expected for Eclipse in Pacific 41 A Letter Tells of a “Vast, New” Promotion Scheme for NG Coffee 43 No More Light on Kuru, NG Mystery Disease 44 Jack Thornton’s Deportation from Fiji: Question in British Parliament 47 P-NG Association Formed in Australia 49 Monowai for Pacific Cruise 50 Gilbertese in Solomons Settling Down 51 Big Money Offering in the Flower Business 53 TEAL Has a Lucky Mishap 57 Norfolk Island News . 58 Solomon Islands’ Rice Potential is “Good” . • 61 New Volume of Australian War History Looks at Events in New Britain .. 65 The Indonesian Situatimi: Australian Press Opinion 69 Missionary is Critical of Condominium 71
Letter to the Editor: Role of NG Chinese 73 Tuna Dollars Roll in for East Samoa 75
Magazine Section:
Tropicalities, 77; Crossword 78; The Tahitian Dance, 79; E. A. James and The Courier , 81; George Clark’s Socks, 82; A Fiji Mercy Mission, 83; This Month’s New Reading 84 Cook Islands’ Legco Dis cusses Banana Market .. 98 New W. Samoan Assembly Sworn In 99 A Whopping Fish Story from the New Hebrides .. .. 103 Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts 105 New Caledonia Hit by Fall in Nickel Exports 121 A Correspondent Defends NG Trusteeship 122
Obituary: Mr. Les
Lawlor; Mr. Ray Galloway; Capt. Joseph Coste; M.
Rene Petre; Mr. C. D.
Barford; Mr. W. P. (Willie) Brown; M. Paul Berton; Mr. Joseph Michael; Rev. Father Benjamin Briand, SM; Mr.
G. H. Massey-Baker; Mr.
A. R. Pechotsch, Dr. G.
Kroening 131 Russian Scientific Ship, Vitiaz, in Suva 135 New Course for P-NG Co-operatives’ School .. 137 Fiji to Become a Cocoa Producer 143 Unions Demanding Right of Entry into P-NG and Other Australian External Territories 145 W. Samoan Financial Crisis Continues 145 Editors’ Mailbag 146 Fiji to Get a Port Authority 149 Scrap Men in a Big Pacific Clean Up 151 Queen Mother’s Visit to Fiji: A Memory Recalled 152 Pacific Commerce 153 Sports Review 155 Produce prices, Markets .. 160