The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1960Vol. XXX, No. 7

Pacific Report

p. 19 · Read in the full issue

Turn to these inside puges

for more highlights of the

month’s news:

New Britain’s Worst Storms For 20 Years—ll 3; P-NG Mineral Search; Tonga’s Beach House Reopened— -113; Alarming Increase In Suva Thefts; Fiji Public Servants’ Wage ll5.

Papeete Tourists Find It A Dull Day 116; NG Vessel Burns —116; Fiji Concession To Tourism; New Guinea’s Floating Trade Store -11- Rabaul Disturbance; A New Leper Man?—ll9; Jap Ship Wrecked in New Guinea; Success ful Tolai Cocoa Scheme —120.

New Look For Samoan Paper—l2l; New HQ For Rabaul Police —121; P-NG “Makes It A Museum Year” 123; Samoan Population In crease; Is Fiji’s Cocoa The Wrong Type?—l2s; “Arcadia” In Trouble In Suva —127.

Behind The Airline Breakdown -129; GEIC Loans Board —129; Some Action On Fiji Bananas — 131; Japanese Interest In Timber —132; Important New P-NG Cocoa Discovery—l 33; Big Increase In Ship Travel Predicted—l3s.

New Ton g a n Vessel —136; Jame Plantation Sold-137; Moves On Hamac Group: Vessels Lost In BSIP Samoa; W. Samoa’s Record Year—l 39; Fiji Copra Tax Up; Honiara Census; New Caledonia Nickel Plan—l4o; Numbering For Suva Streets; Bunting’s, NG.

Changes Direction —141.