PEOPLE: Personal Para graphs of Islands Interest 1 NG Tax Showdown: Serious Legal Threats ... 13 Burns Commission Off to a Good Start 16 More Relics of La Perouse’s Expedition 17 Fiji Sugar Industry Report Soon 17 HOME BASE: Sydneysider Reports 18 Tahiti Political Leader Still Awaiting Trial 19 The Pacific Jet Age Arrives 19

Commentary: The Pub

lisher and the Editors Look at the Pacific and World Affairs 21 The Editors’ Mailbag 23 Copra Prices Will Level Out 25 The Problem of the Stubborn Tolais 27 UN Mission Takes a Broad View of Samoa’s Problem 29

Territories Talk-Talk

With Tolala ... 37

Fiji Talanoa With

Vakatawa 43 New Guinea Farewells Cap tain Orme Denny 47 Fiji Offers Protection For Rice in the Sugar Bowl .. 49 Hurricane-Battered Niue Builds Again 53 Letter; Attitudes at the South Pacific Conference ... 56 Everything, Including Blood From Stones, in New “Pacific Islands Year Book" 59

Fiji’s Airport Building Is Bigger, Better, than Sydney’s 61 Sydney Group Plans to Cross the Pacific 65 The Talking Boards of Easter Island 69 Some New History on an Escape to the Islands .. 75 Monumental Report by Pro fessor Spate on Fiji Problems 77

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 81; Do You Know This Old Store? 81; Crossquiz, 82; Changing Face of Port Moresby, 83; Do You Remember? 83; Brett Hilder Profile, 84; What You Should Know About Tidal Waves, 84; All That Charm! 85; South Pacific Asians, 86; Cannery Row of New Guinea, 87; Book Reviews 88 The Month’s News of Ships and Yachts 101

Pacific Report: Round

up of Pacific News and Pictures (Index, p. 13) .. 117

Obituaries: Mrs. R. E.

Nelson; Mr. S. G.Marshall; Mr. H. B. Riley; Mr. L.

Morrisby; Mr. O. J. Atkin son 151

Sports Review .. .. .. 152

Shipping and Airways Time Tables 155 Commerce and Produce .. 165 Index to Vol. XXIX .. .. 11