Contents:

PEOPLE: Personal Para graphs Of Islands’ Interest 1 Fiji Takes A Backward Look At The Riots 13 Inquiry Opens Into Suva Riots • • • 13 Fiji Oil Strikers Win Wage Increases 14 Burns Commission Report Soon 14 How Long Will The Islands Keep TV At Bay? 15 Horror Hanging That Never Happened 15 Fiji Cricketers In NSW ... 16 Hurricane Razes Niue For Second Time 17 Grim January Weather Picture • • • 17 Nausori Mill Scheme “Reck less”, Says Government .. 18 They’re Really Planting Rice In The Rewa 18 P-NG Unionism Is “On The Way” 18 Denial Of French Pacific A- Bomb Tests; Report Of Russian Missiles .. .. .. 19 Big Changes And Cheaper Air Fares Coming To

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Commentary: A Look At

Pacific And World Affairs 21 The Editors’ Mailbag 22

Territories Talk

TALK with Tolala 25 Closer Relations Between Tonga And Japan Predicted 31 The New Guinea Road That’s Become A Symbol 33 Red China’s Influence On The Copra Market: Full London Copra Survey From Judy Tudor 35 Tribute To The Late Com mander R. B. M. Long .. 41

Bishop Wade Leaves The Solomons 42 New Guinea Doctors Have A Lot To Do 45 Unique Forked Coconut Palm 49 Anthropologists Honour H. D.

Skinner 49 She’s The “Bargain Hunter Of The Jungle”, They Say 55 Sydneysider's WALKABOUT 57 Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd In Search Of His Great Uncle 63 Survey Of Fiji’s Banana Problem 65 When Britain Rejected Fiji: Old Document Found ... 65 Rossel Waters Were Once Tabu 67 Final Extract Of Address By Mr. G. T. Roscoe 69

Magazine Section;

Tropicalities, 77; Crossquiz, 78; Do You Remember? 78; Why Do Smokers? 79; Can Hurricanes Be Diverted? 80; A Visit To Bermuda, 82; Brett Hilder Profile, 83; Book Reviews 84 The Month’s News Of Ships And Yachts 97

Pacific Report; Round

up Of Pacific News And Pictures (Index p. 13) .. 113 OBITUARIES: Mr. William Edward Hancock; Mr.

Thomas Chambers; Mr.

Sydney Harry Edwards; Captain J. Flynn; Mr. Erich Retzlaff; Mr. Robert Vernon Robertson; Mr.

Noel Barry; Mrs. Frances Becke, Mr. H. R. Wales; Lady Mildred Murray, Mr.

A. Batze; Mr. C. Hendrick; Mr. G. Saunders; Mr. A.

Young 145 Sports Review 147 Shipping and Airways Time tables 149 Commerce And Produce ... 156