PEOPLE: Personal Para graphs of Islands Interest 5 High Court Challenge May Affect New Guinea’s Future 17 It’s a Legislative Council Boycott 17 P-NG Tax Fight, Round by Round 18 Copra Prices Are Finally Levelling Out 19 Affairs of Hamac (NG) Under Review 20 Pacific Air War Warms Up .. 20 CSR Looks At South-East Asian Rice 20 The House That Warm Hearts Bought for a New Guinea Family 21 Fiji Sugar Report Details: Some Criticism of Both Sides 21 HOME BASE; Sydneysider Reports 22 There Are “Plenty of Signs” of La Perouse 23 Netherlands New Guinea Begins Local Government 23 Eddie Lund Says He’s Locked Out 23

Commentary: The Pub

lisher and the Editors Look At Pacific and World Affairs 25 The Editors’ Mailbag .. .. 27

Territories Talk-Talk,

With Tolala 33 Ex-Territorians Go To South Australia 35 Protection For P-NG Breweries 37 P-NG Tariffs Show More Ups Than Downs 37 Bird’s Eye Views of Rarotonga and Hollandia 43 Pacific Air Service Drought Becomes a Flood .. .. 45 Letter: A Milk Trading Con cern Escapes Taxation .. 47

Memorial to Coastwatchers Will Be Unveiled at Madang 49 Two Fiji Sugar Stories: The Perplexed Rewa and GSR’s Grave Warning 53 Do Stones Mark the Graves Of La Perouse’s Butchered Sailors? 59 R. W. Robson Reports on the NG Tax War .. 61 The Ultimate In Low Cost Housing 69 Let the Missions Help Towards Self-Government

In Ng 73

The VlP’s Meet The P-NG’s Because It’s Winter 77 The Pacific’s Best Collection Of Treasures Goes To Chicago 77

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 81; In Memory of Emily Earhart, 81 ; Crossquiz, 82; The Stamp of Royalty, 83; Do You Re member? 84; Rev. Ben Danks’s Story, 84; He’s a Rum One, 85; Portrait of a Small Girl, 86; Top Brass and a Photograph, 86; The Start of Brett Hilder’s Profiles, 87; Book Reviews 88 The Month’s News of Ships and Yachts 103

Pacific Report: Round

up of Pacific News and Pictures (Index, p. 17) .. 117

Obituaries: Mr. Harry

Doughty; Mrs. V. Langdale; Mr. Jimmie Wilton; Mr. R.

Schulke, Mrs. W. E. Wyatt; Dr. W. P. Williams; Mrs.

H. Van Pel: Rev. Father Petelo Hamale; Mr. A. Seo 151 Sports Review 153 Shipping and Airways Time tables .. •• 155 Commerce and Produce .. .. 165