PEOPLE: Personal Para graphs of Islands’ Interest 5 High Court Case on New Guinea Covers a Lot of Ground 17 For That Case: They Got Money from Everywhere .. 17 Secret Talks On Dutch New Guinea Council ... 18 How Taxpayers’ Anger Grew Into a High Court Case .. 18 American Samoa Gets a New Constitution and a New Flag 19 Japanese Bring Interest to Fiji’s Copra Market ... 19 Chile Tidal Wave Is One They Won’t Forget .. .. 20 Ansett-ANA Deal In New Guinea Is Up In the Air .. 20 Will Major Barrett Make a Comeback? 21 In Five Hours the P-NG Legco Was All Over .. .. 21 Rice Mill Operating In Fiji’s Rewa Valley 22 Pictures Of Cruise by HMAS Tobruk and Anzac 23 There’s Some Citizenship Confusion In West Samoa 23

Commentary: A Look At

Pacific and World Affairs 25

The Editors’ Mailbag .. .. 27

Territories Talk-Talk

with Tolala 28 Mr. Allan Roberts’ Departure From New Guinea 29 The Mystery of the Pacific Looms 33

Statement On Cook Islands’

Liquor Laws 37 Bougainville Should Be Put On the Map 39 A Modern School From Pit cairn Island Stamps .. .. 41 There’s High Finance In

P-Ng 45

Beche-de-mer: Food for Princes and Potentates .. 49 Gauguin Was Tahiti’s First Journalist 53 Danger: Seismic Seawaves! 57 Tahiti Has a Bar With a Difference 63 Sydneysiders WALKABOUT 65 Metal Furniture Is a New Fiji Industry 75

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 77; Cross quiz, 78; The Wewak Gold Rush, 79; The Garveys On the Isle of Man, 80; Jubilee Year for the Girl Guides, 81; Where The Trade Winds Play, 82; Do You Re member? 83; Book Reviews 84 The Month’s News of Ships and Yachts 97

Pacific Report: Round

up of Pacific News and Pictures (Index p. 17) .. 113

Obituaries: Rev. J. Sau

Faupula; Mr. Tupe George Short; Mr. Oswald Hay man; Mr. Sidney Ashton; Mr. Grayburn Barrack; Mr.

Arthur Lewis 146 Sports Review 147 Shipping and Airways Time tables 149 Commerce and Produce .. 157