Contents:

PEOPLE: Personal para graphs of Islands’ Interest 1 Pacific Planters Did Nicely From Free Copra Market ing in 1958 13 Common Roll Was Used In New Caledonia, Tahiti Elections 14 Hotels Help to Balance Fiji Budgets 15 Death of Robert Crompton Of Fiji 15 In BSIP, Bermuda Tax De ferred 16 HOME BASE: Sydneysider Reports 16 Territorians Fear Tax-Axe About to Fall —but Fiji Swallows Its Tax Pill ... 17 Goroka Coffee Conference in January 18 Fiji Produces Another Pacific Mystery 18

Commentary; The Pub

lisher and the Editors Look At Pacific Affairs 19 The Editors’ Mailbag 21 FIJI TALANOA—Vakatawa Talks of This and That .. 23 But Our’s Was Not the First Talanoa By 66 Years .. 25 Papua’s Cut c h Industry Offered for Tender 27 Reader Says: “Cannot Deny Self Rule to Solomons Now” 31

Territories Talk-Talk

With Tolala 33

NNG Oil Is Not World Class, But It’s Useful ... 41 In Fiji It’s Holidays As Usual 47 New Light On the Bounty Story 49 NZ Is After Pacific Trade .. 55 Pacific Exhibits at Sydney Royal Show 57 The Massive Education Pro gramme in W. Samoa ... 59 An Endless Chain of Chicken Of the Sea From Pago Pago 65 Fiji’s “Works” Gets a New Home 69 Te Vega Leaves Pacific ... 71 Fiji Could Do Better With Its Cattle Industry .. .. 73

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 77; Becke and His Hermaphrodite Brig., 79; Do You Remember? 79; He Feeds Baby Food To Snakes, 80; More About Jimmy Malay, 82; Book Reviews 84 The Month’s News of Ships and Yachts 97

Pacific Report: Round

Up Of Pacific News and Pictures (index p. 13) .. .. ??

OBITUARY: Mr. Bill Cash; Mr. Robert Crompton; Mr.

J. S. Stubbs; Mrs. H.

Leonard Murray 147 Leonard Murray; Adi Asenaca 147 Sports Review 148 Shipping and Airways Tables 151 Commerce and Produce .. 161