Pacific Islands Monthly
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Contents:
No. 7. Vol Xxxviii
February, 1958
PEOPLE: Personal Para graphs of Islands’ Interest 5 Complete Review and Com parison of Copra Prices . 17 Queen Mother’s Brief Visit to Fiji 17 First Day Under Fiji’s New Drinking Laws is Quiet and Orderly 18 Fiji and Tonga Hit by NZ’s New Import Cut in Bananas 19 Relief for the Big New Caledonian Droughts . .. 19 Possibility of Income Tax for P-NG Soon 20 Pacific Islands’ Regiment is Having “Officer Trouble” . 20 P-NG Labour Laws Will Be Debated by March Legco . 20 New Moves in Indonesia .. 20 A Full Review of Latest French and Australian Air Moves 21 W. Samoa Criticises New Zealand 21 Reported Sale of Fiji Air ways to Qantas 21 More Hotels for the South Seas: Latest Moves .. .. 23 Commentary: The Publisher and the Editors Look at Pacific and World Affairs 25 The Editors’ Mailbag .. 29 Australia’s “Nino Culotta”
Makes a Literary Debut . 29 Territories’ Talk-Talk .. .. 31 “West N. Guinea Belongs To Us” (Says an Old Hand, Who Explains How He Captured It) 33 A Fijian Makes a Plea for Tolerance 37
Behind the Scenes With the Jap Tuna Fishers .. .. 38 Popular Cook Islands’ Edu cator Resigns 41 How to Make a Vast Fortune From Crocodiles 43 There May Be Some More Asian ’Flu in the Pacific . 47 An Australian Gives His Views on a Federation of
Melanesia 49_
New Standards Sought for P-NG Cocoa Industry .. 55 A Review of a New Pidgin Grammar 55 Mr. Hasluck’s Canberra Ad dress, Reviewed by R.W.R. 61 It’s Not All Paradise in the S. Pacific, says a French Journalist 71 More Facts About the Cross of La Perouse 79
Magazine Section:
Tropicalities, 81; Cross word, Brett Hilder Profile, 82; Sweet-talking a Tongan Shark, 83; Native Jumpers of Pentecost Island, 84; The Tragic Story of “Kar Kar” Schmidt, 86; The Month’s New Reading .. 88 Pacific Shipping and Cruis ing Yachts 101
Pacific Report; The
Month’s Round-up of Pacific News and Pictures 113 OBITUARY: Mr. William Alexander (Bill) Gill; Mr.
William Pickering .. .. 151 Sports Review 152 Shipping Time-Tables . .. 155 Airways Time-Tables .. .. 159 Pacific Commerce 169 Islands’ Produce and Markets 171