Contents:

PEOPLE: Personal Para graphs of Islands’ Interest 5 Netherlands New Guinea De velopment Makes the Head lines in April 17 Netherlands New Guinea De fence Build-up is Not New 17 Blue-print for the Nether lands New Guinea Council 18 The Result of Suva’s Riot In quiry 18 Russian Submarines are in the Pacific, Says US Ad miral 19 More Natives Will be Included in Reconstituted New Guinea Legislative Council 19 Navuneram Echo Tolais’

Appeal 20 Fraud Charges Against Insur ance Men Dismissed ... 20 Fiji has a Round of Strikes 20 Papua-New Guinea Sorts out Its New Air Services ... 21 Only Europeans Are Blowing Their Tops 22 The Cook Islanders’ Patience Is Being Taxed 22 Fiji Hotel Hours Remain Unchanged 22 Some Action Over the Late Errol Flynn’s Book ... 23 Fiji Legco Will Debate the Burns Report 23 French Resettlement Plan For the New Hebrides Re ported 23 What Chance for a New Guinea Sugar Industry? .. 23

Commentary; A Look At

Pacific and World Affairs 25 The Editors’ Mailbag .. .. 27 Tonga’s Teiko Disaster An alysed 29

Territories Talk-Talk,

With Tolala 33 First Expedition Walks Across NNG from South to North 37

Papua-New Guinea Exhibits Again at the Royal Easter Show 41 New Guinea Business Optim ism Explained .. .. .. 43 Jim Shortall Makes a Tour of Tonga 45 Second of Two Articles by Professor O. H. K. Spate On the Fiji Burns Report 53 What Professor Cumberland Thinks About the Burns Report 55 Rob Wright’s Photographs of Fiji from the Air 56 Sir Ronald Garvey Criticises An Aspect of the Burns Report 59 Sydneysider’s WALKABOUT 61 Special Survey of P-NG Ad visory Councils 69 Australia’s Fabulous Pearl Fortune Isn’t .. 77 They’re Cotton Pickin’ in the Markham Now 77

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 81; Crossquiz, 82; On the Trail of a Fiji Legend, 83; Do You Re member, 84; The Day the Malabar was Wrecked, 84; Brett Hilder’s Profile, 85; It’s Still Samoa, 86; Book Reviews, 88 This Month’s News of Ships and Yachts 101

Pacific Report: Round

up of Pacific News and Pictures' (Index, p. 17) .. 117 OBITUARIES: Rev. Albert Aufinger; Mr. Roy Colman Evans; Mr. W. D. Mander; Mr. Hugh Ellis O’Keefe; Rev. Wesley Amos, Mr.

David Cunningham, Mr.

George Wedgemann; Rev.

Father C. Destable .. .. 150 Sports Review 151 Shipping and Airways Time tables 153 Commerce and Produce ... 160