Contents:

PEOPLE: Personal Para graphs of Islands’ Interest 5 They’ll Talk Our Way Out Of New Guinea! I 7 Minister’s Statement On P-NG Target Dates ... I 7 New P-NG Election Can didates i 8 Qantas Leaves New Guinea, But More Moves Soon .. 19 Cuba’s Trouble May Benefit Fiji The Last Cruise of the Monowai 21 The Bumpy Road to Samoan Self-Government 21 J. B. Wright As West Samoan High Commissioner .. .. 22 What Happened to Amelia Earhart? 22 These New Guinea People Suffer For Their Aus tralianism 23 A Decision on New Cale donia’s Viets 23

Commentary 25

The Editors’ Mailbag .. .. 27 Sugar Deadlock Threatens Fiji’s Economy 29 A Moresby Guest House That’s Different 33 All NZ Under Leo White’s Camera 35 R. W. Robson’s Fiji Roundup 37 Education In Papua-New Guinea 4 5

Territories Talk-Talk,

With Tolala .. 48 New Guinea Has Roads But Not Bridges 51 HOMEBASE with Sydney sider 58 Letter On New Guinea Sugar Situation 57 Odd Angles On Lord Howe Island 61 Life With the Frisbies ... 63 Old New Guinea Flyers Meet 67 New Guinea Self-Govern ment—Ready Or Not ... 69 Tin Can Islanders Are Back 75 Fiji’s Paralysed Artist .. .. 77 Letter On Fiji’s Leper

Colony .. .. 79

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 81; The Old Walrus Amphibian, 83; New Guinea Gamblers 84; Ode To a Conche Shell, 85; Use For Oil Drums, 86; Do You Remember? 87; Alice Bowring in the US, 87; Book Reviews 88 This Month’s News of Ships and Yachts 101

Pacific Report; Round

up of Pacific News and Pictures (index p. 17) .. 115

Obituaries 1 47

Sports Review • • 150 Shipping and Airways Time tables 154 Commerce and Produce .. .. 161 Volume Index 165