Contents:

PEOPLE: Personal Para graphs of Islands’ Interest 5 Governor’s Firm Action Saves New Caledonia from Civil War 17 Australia and New Zealand Will Re-Appraise S. Pacific Air Services, and the French Also Get Busy .. 19 New Governor of NNG Arrives in Hollandia ... 19 HOME BASE; Sydneysider Tells What Made News in the Hub of the Pacific .. 20 Lae Has a Flap—and a Tourist Ship 20 The 30th Anniversary of the Southern Cross Trans pacific Flight 21 It’s New Guinea’s Most Unique Occasion—The Goroka Show 22 No Decision Yet Purari Power For Aluminium .. 23 Honoured By the Queen .. 23

Commentary: The Pub

lisher and the Editors’

Look at the Pacific and the World 25

Editors’ Mailbag T, '. . 27

Talk-Talk 29 New Wharf For Honiara .. 34 Over-age Trees and Unat tractive Prices Are a Factor In W. Samoa’s Copra De cline 35 The Bena Bena Incident— A Reader Comes Back To the Attack 37 New Guinea and Papua Issue Their Annual Reports —One Year Late 39 That Sea-Going Texan Is Off Again 41

Polynesia’s Infant Mortality Is Higher Than They Think 42 Survey of World Copra Market 45 The Man Who Knows How To Write On a Butterfly Wing 49 Eric Feldt Issues a Sharp Challenge to the Anthro pologists i 3 Fiji Tala n o a Vakatawa Talks of This and That .. 61 The Increasing Pressure On Fijian Landowners 66 It Is Not Always the Right Kind —But the Japanese Are Catching Fish For the Hebrides 69 Kings, Queens and Coco nuts on Pacific Islands Stamps 77

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 81; Crossquiz, Profile, 82; Tonga Com bines Feudalism and the Welfare State, 83; Buriat of Fiji’s Most Famous Son,. 84; Papua Owes a Lasting Debt to Polynesia, 86; Book; Reviews, 88.

This Month’s News of Shipping and Cruising Yachts 105

Pacific Report: Round-

Up of the Month’s News and Pictures (Index p, 17) 121 Sports Review 148 Shipping and Airways Time- Tables 151 Commerce and Produce .. 160 Index to Volume XXVIII (August, 1957-July, 1958) 164