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PEOPLE: Personal Para graphs Of Islands’ Interest 5 Fiji Gets Some New Taxes, And The Solomons May Be Hit Again 17 How Safe Are Samoan Land Titles? 18 Record London Copra Prices 19 Patrol Visits Shangri-la Plane Crash 19 The lan Crouch —Yet Another Sea Mystery? 20 The Urgency Of. W. Samoa’s Three-Year Plan .. .. 21 Nobody Rides The Hibiscus Highway 21 Threat Of A Fiji Sugar Strike 22
HOME BASE: Sydneysider
Reports 22 Progress Comes To Suva With A Bang 23
Commentary: The Pub
lisher And The Editors Look At Pacific Affairs 25 Silver Jubilee Of The Dis covery Of The NG High lands 27 The Editors’ Mailbag .. .. 29
Territories Talk
TALK: With Tolala .. .. 31 Report On W. Sa m o a’s Birth Pangs 37 The Story Behind The Dis covery Of Puri 43 Big Nadi Project Behind Schedule 45
Fiji Tala N O A, With
Vakatawa 47 Imaginative Approach To Pacific Trade 53 It’s A Do-It-Yourself Stamp Issue 57
Is It Santo, Santos Or Luganville? 57 Pacific Must Prepare For A Tourist Invasion 59 They’re Searching For Native Music 63 The “First Newspaper In The World” 65 The Polio Fight Continues .. 67 Tonga Has Pacific’s Most Enterprising Leader .. 69 Cook’s Famous Tortoise—But Is It? 71 Captain E. W. Harness Re tires .. .. .. 73 Some More Memories Of Humphrey Berkeley .. .. 77
Magazine Section;
Tropicalities, 81; Crossquiz, 82; They Built Their Own Brewery, 82; Descendants Of A Tyrant King, 83; Man Who Cleaned Up Steven son’s Tomb, 84; Gold Dust A-plenty, 85; Manam Is Home To Them, 86; Do You Remember? 87; Fiji’s Diwali Festival, 87; Book Reviews 83 The Month’s News Of Ships And Yachts 103
Pacific Report; Round
up Of Pacific News And Pictures (Index p. 17) .. 117
Obituaries: Mr. Henry W.
Kinney; Mr. J. S. Neill; Mr. William Alfred Smith, Mr. James Yamton; Mr.
V. Rule; Mr. W. Johnson .. 151 Sports Review 153 Shipping And Airways Time tables 155 Commerce And Produce .. 165