Pacific Islands Monthly
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Contents:
No. 5. Vol. XXX
December, 1959
PEOPLE: Personal Para graphs Of Islands’ Interest 5 Serious Rioting In Suva .. 15 American Samoa Wants Home Rule, But Not Independence 17 West Samoan Minorities Will Depend On Goodwill ... 18 Mr. J. R. Halligan Retires .. 18 Mr. Paul Hasluck In New Guinea To Face The Critics 19 Brisbane’s “Significant” SPC Seminar On Education .. 20 Cook Islands Will Miss Out On Air Service 20 Dutch New Guinea Natives “Want Union” With P-NG 20 Fiji Has An Uncomfortable Economic Year 21 No More Foreign Doctors For
P-Ng 22
Sydneysider’s WALKABOUT 22 P-NG Gets A Shake Up By A Quake That Is “Almost Major” 23 NZ Labour Man Reports On Fiji Working Conditions .. 23
Commentary: A Look At
Pacific And World Affairs 25 The Editors’ Mailbag .. .. 26
Territories Talk
TALK : With Tolala .. .. 29 W T here Does Australia Stand On The NNG Issue? ... 37 Funafuti Is Now A NZ Out post 37 Letter: Foreign Aid For NNG Has No Strings Attached 41 Study Of The Pacific Goes On In Unknown Fields .. 43 Lae Coffee Growers Are The Nouveau Riche 45 Dinkum Aussie Pearls Grown With Jap Know-how ... 45 Shark Fishing Popular ... 47
Rewa Cane Farmers Told The Facts Of Life 49 Port Moresby Man Builds His Own Aircraft 51 Tahiti’s Last Pomare Makes Obeisance To de Gaulle .. 53 Wallis, Futuna To Have A Referendum On Citizen ship 57 Rabaul, Auckland Copra Mills In Action 61 Eric de Bisschop’s Final Report: A Report Of Tahiti Nui .. .. .. .. 65 P-NG Education Director’s Plans For Achieving Literacy Among P-NG Natives 69 New Director Of Social De velopment In Cooks ... 79
Magazine Section:
Tropicalities, 81; Crossquiz, 82; Do You Remember? 83; Memorial To Unity, 83; Mystery Of The Ghost That Walked At Christmas, 84; Brett Hilder Profile, 85; Back To The Bear Skin Sack, 86; The Men Who Made Papua, 86; New Style Surf Board, 87; Book Reviews 88 The Month’s News Of Ships And Yachts .. 101
Pacific Report; Index
p. 15 .. 11?
OBITUARIES: Mrs. Sulita Mann; Miss Beverley Bunt ing: Apororaki Rameka; Mr. Peter Goddard; Mr.
Edgar George; Mr. A. T.
McL. Scott; Puati Ngatama; Mr. J. Chapronier; Mr.
Ram Deo; Mr. Henry John Forsgren I 4?
Sports Review .. .. . • .. .. 151 Shipping And Airways Time tables 153 Commerce And Produce .. .. 160