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PEOPLE: Personal Para graphs of Islands’ Interest 5 Tonga, Britain, Sign New Treaty of Friendship ... 17 Indian Traders Discuss Fiji’s Finances 18 Higher Prices Continue for Copra 19 France’s Fateful Yes or No Vote Soon 19 Conference Planned on P-NG Coffee 20 New Director of Education Appointed for P-NG ... 20 Floods Cause Strife in NG Morobe District 20 Whitehall’s Plan for a New Set-up in Fiji 21 HOME BASE: Sydneysider Tells What Made News in the Hub of the Pacific .. 22 Fiji Hopes for a Million Dollar Hotel 23 Significance of SPC Meeting in Rabaul 23 Fiji Has an Acting Governor 23

Commentary. The Pub

lisher and the Editors Look at Pacific and World Affairs 25 Editors’ Mailbag 27 A View on Racial Values .. 31 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 33 Death of Eric de Bisschop in Raft Drift 37 Fiji Surveys Her Agriculture 41 Whence Goes Netherlands New Guinea? 43 FIJI TALANOA: Vakatawa Talks of This and That .. 45 Mr. W. C. Groves Retires from NG Scene 49 Latest on Pacific Air Services 53

Tonga Has a House Design For It 53 A Correspondent Discusses Future Status of French Polynesia 57 Argument Over P-NG News Broadcasts 61 Papuan Rubber Won’t Be Affected by New Malayan Trade Agreement 65 Levuka Has Hopes for Whales, Tourists 69 Frenchman’s Solid Works on New Caledonia 73 Hunger in the Papuan Islands 77 US Pacific Consul Moves to Suva 78 Timber in Fiji—lf the Fire bugs Don’t Get It 79

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 81; Crossquiz, 82; Fishing by the Nights of the Moon, 83; Do You Remember? 83; Pacific Pioneers Return, 84; The Meanest Archduke I Ever Saw, 86; This Fiji Firm In vites the East to Keep Its Shirt On, 87; The Month’s New Reading, 88; Mail Day at Niue 88 This Month’s News of Pacific Shipping and Cruis ing Yachts 101

Pacific Report: Round

up of the Month’s News and Pictures (Index page 17) 117

Obituaries: Mrs. E. L.

Leembruggen, Mr. Robert Walker, Mr. J. H. Netzler, Rev. Father Alphonse Schaefer 151 Sports Review 153 Shipping and Airways Time tables 155 Commerce and Produce .. .. 165