PEOPLE: Personal Para graphs of Islands’ Interest 5 NNG Wants a “Consultative Union” with P-NG 17 Papua Enjoys Oil Fever As Puri Well Strikes Crude Oil And Water 18 Mystery of the Yacht Annette 18 Explosions Liven Up Tahiti: Many Arrested 19 HOME BASE; Sydneysider Tells What Made News In The Hub Of The Pacific 20 Bananas Are News In Fiij, Samoa and Tonga 21 Report On Pacific Shipping Slump 22 £3,000 Smile For a New Guinean 22 Fiji’s New Governor Is Sworn- In 23 Commission Of Inquiry For Fiji: Chairman Appointed 23

Commentary: The

Publisher And The Editors Look At Pacific And World Affairs 25 Pigs Root Up An Early Bronze In NNG 26 Editors’ Mailbag 27 Rev. and Mrs. Voyce Leave Bougainville 29 P-NG Association Now Has Its “Book”’ 29 Cooks Islands’ Election De tails 31

Territories Talk

TALK: With Tolala .. .. 33 The New Guinea Coe Family 33 A Writer Says: “It’s Time The Publishers Rediscovered Louis Becke” 47 New Plan Cuts Out Papuan Alumina Factory Scheme 45 A New Church Replaces A Shed Of Scrap. ... 47

Fiji Talanoa, With

Vakatawa ... 49

Official Angle On NG’s Education Problems .. .. 52 A Tremendous Task Ahead of NNG 55 Gilbertese In A New Pacific Migration: Story And Pictures 57 A Summary Of P-NG’s New Land Scheme .. .. .. .. 65 Rabaul: The Dog That’s Wagged By The Tail .. 65 October Was Eclipse Time In The Cooks 67 There Are No Teeth In P-NG Labour Laws 71 New Type Of Quarters In Honiara 71 Marriage Links Loyalty Islands Chiefs 73 Some Old NG History Need ing Attention 73 Trees Are Returning To NG Highlands .. .. .. *. 75 Getting Around By Sea Jg The Cooks V. 77 NG’s Head Tax Continu|s, Despite Condemnation %. 81 NG Legco Is So Futile, “They Might As Well Stay Home” 83

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 85; Crossquiz, 86; Telephone Is A Delight To The Tongans, 87; Do You Remember? 87; The Day The Ambrym Hospital Blew Up, 88; NG Escape Story, 90; Brett Hilder Profile, 91: Book Reviews 92 The Month’s News Of Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts 105

Pacific Report: Round

up Of The Month’s News And Pictures (Index, p. 17) 121

Obituaries: Mr. R. R.

Haviland; Mr. Norman Lee; Mr. Percy Edmunds; Miss Maud Forman; Mrs. Lilyan Harper; Captain R. R. Kane 159 Sports Review 160 Shipping And Airways Time tables .. .. 163 Commerce And Produce .. 173