Pacific Islands Monthly
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Contents:
No. 1. Vol. XXIX
August, 1958
PEOPLE: Personal Para graphs of Islands’ Interest 1 Two Killed in NG Tax Gathering Expedition ... 13 Fiji Exports Iron Ore to Japan 13 Another Problem Looming in French Pacific Possessions 14 Fiji Offers Tropical Home in An Igloo 15 Fiji’s Governor Nears End of Term 16 NG Education Advisory Board Recommendations .. 16 Coral Route is “On” Again 17 Rise for P-NG Copra Planters 17 HOME BASE: Sydneysider Tells What Made News in The Hub of the Pacific .. 18 Indians Have Plans for Fiji’s Rewa Valley 19 P-NG Grant Up Another Million 19
Commentary: The Pub
lisher and the Editors Look at Pacific and World Affairs 21 Editors’ Mailbag 23 Territories Talk-Talk 25 Names of NG Dead in West minster Abbey 29 Middle East Crisis Increases Copra Prices 31 New Mineral Wealth for Papua 33 No More Capital for Papuan Oil 35 The First Newspaper “Today” 35 High Chiefs of W. Samoa Explain Matai System to UN 37 A Reader Gives His Views On the Navy “Riots” at Honiara 41
Mr. Arthur Calwell Says What Should be Done in
P-Ng 43
Mystery Ship on Roncador Reef Was This a La Perouse Ship? 49 Fiji Talanoa—Vakatawa Talks of This and That 53 Tribute to Boss McKegg of the Cook Islands 59 Still More About the Bena Bena Incident 61 Wide Sea-Air Search Finds Few Clues of Melanesian Disaster 65 Fiji Hopes to Lure Tourists Along the Hibiscus Path .. 69 New Research on the Old Phenomenon of Phosphor escence 73 Fiji’s Mr. Hall is a Busy Man Collecting £33,000 77
Magazine Section:
Tropicalities, 81; Crossquiz, Brett Hilder Profile, 82; And On the Sepik It’s Spring, 83; The Whole Pacific Was Involved When Abbe Rougier Got His Coco nut Empire, 84; Nino Culotta Likes it in Samoa, 86; Book Reviews 88 This Month’s News of Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts 101
Pacific Report; Round
up of the Month’s News and Pictures (Index p. 13) 117 OBITUARIES: Rev. Mother Alphonse, Mr. W. E. Good sir, Rev. K. D. Grove, Sir Brian Freeston, Mr. Max well Wendt, Pastor N. A.
Ferris 153 Sports Review 156 Shipping and Airways Time tables 159 Commerce and Produce .. .. 168