Contents:

PEOPLE; Personal Para graphs Of Islands’ Interest 5 Eight Years For Tahiti’s Leftist Leader ... 17 Grand Pacific Hotel Gets A Face Lift 17 A Good-will Visit To Papua- New Guinea 17 Deputy Premier Soustelle’s Visit To French Polynesia 18 Merger Of Islands’ News papers 19 Labour Dispute At Vatukoula Mine 19 Another Coastwatcher Story Published 20 Memorial To The War-time Carriers Of The Kokoda Trail 20 Nausori Sugar Company’s Fate In The Balance ... 21 Granny Makes A First Into The NG Highlands 21 CSR Decision Upsets Growers 22 Two Men On Fraud Charge 23 West Samoan Cabinet Takes Over 23 He Helped Lead The Mau: Death of A. G. Smythe .. 23

Commentary: The Pub

lisher And The Editors Look At Pacific And World Affairs 25 HOME BASE: Sydneysider Reports 26 The Editors’ Mailbag .. .. 27

Territories Talk

TALK : With Tolala .. .. 29 German Eagle Returns To NG 31 New Guinea’s Teak Should Be Worth A Fortune In 50 Years 37 New Caledonia Tourist Report With A Sting 37 At Last (Perhaps) Cheaper Air Fares Are On the Way 39 Sir Hubert Murray Memorial Finally To Be Built .. .. 43

Cabinet Minister’s Critical Comment On Isla n d s’

Missionaries ... 45 Japanese May Throw Some Light On An Old Polynesian Problem 49 Unconfusing The Fiji Im migration Laws 49 There’s A Market For The Exotic 49 Over the War-time Trail .. 53 P-NG Planters Ask For Sale Of Cattle On Application 59 Prof. Goto’s Visit To NG Coffee Areas 61 Tongan Conscripts Go To War 65 A Hotel With Its Own Air Service 65 New Crop of Rabaul Rumours 67 Seven Were Castaway, And Five Came Back 69 Samoans Rock Around The Clock 71 Move For A P-NG Organ isation In Sydney 73 Side Issues In The NG Tax Fight 77

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 81; Brett Hilder Profile, 82; Cross quiz, 82; Hibiscus Festival, 83, When Errol Flynn Swopped Insults With NG, 84; Do You Remember, 85; The Monthly Dunk, 86; Carrying the White Woman’s Burden, 87; The Flight Of Rusty’s Angels, 87; Book Reviews 88

Pacific Report: Round

up Of Pacific News And Pictures (Index p. 18) .. 117 Sports Review 147

Obituaries: Mr. B. J.

White; Pastor Mohaka; Mr.

G. Shepherd; Mr. K. A.

Lewis; Mr. Aio Taripo; Mr. A. G. Smythe; Mr.

Charles Kuppswami ... 149 Shipping And Airways Time tables 151 Commerce And Produce .. 161