PEOPLE: Personal Para graphs of Islands’ Interest 1 Startling Papuan Gas Pos sibilities 13 Tahiti Assembly Stoned Du ring Tax Protest .. .. 14 Fiji Drover Ai r c r a f t Grounded Again .. 14 New Guinea Native Wins the Lottery 15 NZ, Australia Argue Over New Aircraft 15 Mr. Powles Returned to Top W. Samoa Post .. .. 16 NG Cocoa Prospects Re viewed 16 Solomons’ Phosphate Find .. 16 Copra Situation Surveyed .. 17 Cocoa Planted in the Waran goi at Last 17 New Caledonia Discovers “Brilliant” Painter .. .. 19

Commentary; The Pub

lisher and the Editors Look at Pacific and World Affairs 21

Editors’ Mailbag .. 23

Territories’ Talk-Talk .. 24 Mystery NG Earthworks to be Probed 27 Palm Oil Experiments in the Pacific 29 Britain Discusses Pacific Federation Problems .. 31 New BP (South Sea) Sal aries Sheet 31 More Details of La Perouse Relics 33 American Coffee Exporters Worried 35 Progress With NG Industry: Brickworks and Tobacco .. 37 It’s “Now or Never” for NG Anglicans 41

Gordon Thomas Reviews Missionary’s War Story .. 43 Mr. E. J. Frame, of NG, Dies 46 Fiji Talanoa; A New Column 49 New Volume of Australian War History Out Soon .. 55 A Critic’s View of Mr, Powles, of W. Samoa .. 56 Is Fiji’s Population Reach ing Explosion Point? .. 59 J. P. Shortall Reviews US Shell Market 61 John Ward, of Tulagi, Re tires 65 Judy Tudor Takes a Close Look at Cairns 65 NG Man Picks an Argument With an American Author 69 Encouragement for Cooks’

Banana Growers .. .. 75

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 77; Cross quiz, Profile, 78; Like a Pig Under the Gate, 79; Ocean Island of 50 Years Ago, 80; Papeete of Yes terday, 81; Germans Aided Gold Seekers, 82; Fantas tic Royal House of Abe mama, 83; Do You Re member? 83; Book Re views, 84; Fashions in Churches 91

Pacific Shipping And

Cruising Yachts .. 97

Pacific Report: The

Month’s Round-up of News and Pictures (Index p. 13) 113

Obituary: Mr. F. C. Exon,

lan Malcolm, Charles Hay ward Hughes, Mrs. Sarah Ann Mackenzie, Mr. E. J.

Frame 147

Sports Review .. ..148

Shipping Time-Tables .. 151

Airways Time-Tables .. .. 155 Commerce and Produce .. 160

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