Pacific Islands Monthly

Contents:

No. 9. Vol. Xxxviii

April, 1958

PEOPLE: Personal Para graphs of Islands’ Interest 5 BSIP Liquor Committee Presents a Forthright Report 17 W. Samoa Will Get Extra Financial Help 18 PIR is Now “Back to Normal” 18 Burns, Philp Makes Its First Bonus Issue Since 1918 18 Netherlands NG Gets a New Governor 19 Fiji Cuts Its Wharf Plan 19 Alterations to Nadi Airport May Disrupt Pacific Air Services 20 Fiji Has a Wave of Violent Deaths 20 Leftist Party Takes Over in French Polynesia .. .. 21 P-NG Investigates Use of New Building Materials 21 World Copra Price Rises .. 22 Qantas to Supply “Trade Correspondent” in Fiji .. 22 Fiji Leper Colony Recevies a Visit from Queen Salote 23 W. Samoa Receives Its Parliamentary Mace ... 23

Commentary: The Pub

lisher and the Editors Look at Pacific and World Affairs 25

Editors’ Mailbag 27

French Discover La Perouse Relics: Special Report 28

Territories’

Talk-Talk 29

Upset in Port Moresby Over a “No Bathing” Sign .. 35 Death of Fred Ball—Old Hand Gold Prospector .. 37 P-NG Issues a New Set of Stamps 37 Rev. John Metcalfe and His Wife Retire from BSI Missions 39 NG Man is Heir to a Famous Bath 41 Americans in Thorough Scientific Research of N.

Pacific 41 Dust Up Over Export of P-NG Native Art 43 How to Read the Cook Islands’ Annual Report 45 Photographs Show Changing Face of Rarotonga .. 45 Anglican Diocese of Poly nesia Celebrates Its Jubilee 49

The Future of Papua's Search for Oil 51 Some Hints on How to be A Cocoa Millionaire ... 53 Sir Harry Luke Revisits the S. Pacific 57 Judy Tudor Gives Some Advice for NG Air Travellers 59 Bergensfjord Gets a Real Hula Welcome in Raro tonga 65 Correspondents Discuss the NG Bena Bena Incident 67 Tongan Education System: A Survey 69 Scientists Bring Problems to the Cooks 72 A Special Writer Asks: Has E. Papua a Future? 75 Power From Papuan Rivers 75 Last Cruise of the Wanderer: An Historical Sidelight .. 77 The Pioneering Work of Port Moresby Missionaries . . 79

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 81: Do You Remember? 81; Crossquiz, 82; Brett Hilder’s Pro file, 82; When Britain Was Reluctant About N. Guinea. 83; Limerick Winner Visits His Island, 84; How the Japs Work in Rabaul, 85; Hindus Celebrate Holi, 86; Fijian War Dead in NG Cemetery, 86; Movieland Drops In, 87; Book Reviews, 88 ; When the Fiji Constabulary Called on the Admiral, 97; His Father Designed Postage Stamps; 99

Pacific Shipping And

Cruising Yachts, ..117

Pacific Report; The

Month’s Round-up of News and Pictures (Index p. 17) 117 OBITUARY: Mr. Thomas J.

Monaghan; Mr. Wallace Washington Brown; Mrs.

Clara Augusta Browne; Dr. Pierre Jean True; Mr. H. C. Crozier; Mr.

William Thomas Kirk; Mr.

Charles Hayward Hughes 151

Sports Review .. ..153

Shipping Time-Tables .. .. 155 Airways’ Time-Tables .. .. 161