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PEOPLE: Personal Para graphs of Islands’ Interest 5 Rabaul Plays Host to the Pacific for SPC Meeting .. 17 Sir Alan Burns: The Man Who Will Suggest a Policy For Fiji 18 Fiji Awaits a Decision on the Sale of the Grand Pacific 19 And P-NG Awaits a De cision on Income Tax .. 19 Death of Paramount Lululai Golpaik, of New Britain 20 CSR Wages Agreement in the Balance 20 Noumea’s Yate Dam is Now Operating 21 More Hurricane Damage— Niue, American Samoa, Tahiti 21 HOME BASE: Sydneysider Reports 22 Lae Is Gloomy Over Its Air Services 23
Commentary: The Pub
lisher and the Editors Look At Pacific and World Affairs 25 The Editors’ Mailbag .. .. 27
Territories Talk-Talk:
With Tolala ... 31 Rapid Progress At Nadi Air port 37 New Guinea’s Grouch: Too Many Millionaires, Not Enough Planes 39
Fiji Talanoa: With
Vakatawa • • The Two Faces of Bulolo .. 45 NG Forests are a Monument to Late J. B. McAdam .. 45 NG Tax Shooting: Minister Blankets Report ... 45
Fiji Tackles Its Housing Problem, and P-NG Makes a Move, Too 53 Zoologist Searches For Poly nesia’s Snakes 57 Fiji and the French Are Ahead With Pacific Tour ism 61 Samoa’s Banana Exports Threatened by Disease .. 67 G. C. Luck Reports On Problems of the Sepik: Progress v Cargo Cult .. 69 Brett Hilder Says a Search Is Needed for Clues on Ancient Pacific Writings .. 75 A New Painting Found in NG 75 Tonga Trench Will Be No Good As An Atomic Dump 79
Magazine Section:
Tropicalities, 81; Crossquiz, 82; The Becke Family in Paris, 83; Do You Remem ber? 83; Through Wildest NG With Cleft Stick and Water Tank; 84; History of Wally’s Topper, 87; Book Reviews 88 The Month’s News of Ships and Yachts 109
Pacific Report: Round
up of Pacific News and Pictures (Index p. 17) .. .. 117 OBITUARIES: Mr. Walter George Smith; Mr. David Simpson; Sister M. Irenee; Sister M. Felix; J. Frank Stimson; Mr. Wilfred Wise; Mr. E. W. Hardwick; Mr.
J. B. McAdam 151 Sports Review 153 Shipping and Airways Time tables 155 Commerce and Produce .. .. 165