Contents

No. 2. Vol. XXXI.

September, 1960

PEOPLE: Personal Paragraphs of Islands' Interest 5 Government "May Relinquish Ma jority" in P-NG Council 17 Fijians Won't Accept Major Part of Burns Plan 17 187 Dutch New Guineans Came Home 18 Julian Amery's Visit; Future of British Pacific 18 Fiji Sugar Deadlock Broken 19 Significant Moves Against Disorder by Fijians 19 Rabaul's Wedding of the Year 19 Lively Interest in Norfolk Island Council 20 Important Change in P-NG Native Wages 20 The Copra War Livens Up 21 No Change in NNG's Status 21 Mr. David Trench is New High Com missioner for the Western Pacific . 22 West Samoa Hammers Out its New Constitution 23 NNG Has a Political Party 23 COMMENTARY; A Look at Pacific and World Affairs 25 The Editors' Mailbag 27 The People You Meet: Stuart Inder's Islands Roundup 29

SYDNEYSIDER at Home Base 37 Death of Mr. Graham Kerr 41

Territories' Talk-Talk 45

Two Who Have Cruised a Year 51 Vietnamese to Leave the New Hebrides 53 On the Trail of the Cargo Cultists .. 57 New BSIP Wet Rice Project 65 Professor Who Collects Pacific Lan guages 67 How a Fiji Mill Got into Operation . 69 Book Review: Pacific Territories Just Happened 73 The Wood Carvers of Bougainville ... 77

Magazine Section:

Brett Hilder's Profile, 81; Tropi calities, 81; Crossquiz, 82; Do You Remember? 82; Life with an Oil Drum, 83; How Tahiti Became French, 84; My Chinatown! 87; Book Reviews 88 This Month's News of Ships and Yachts 103

Pacific Report (Index P. 17) 119

OBITUARIES: W. H. ("Tavua") John son; C. B. Dupertuis; Mr. Frank Allen; Mr. Harold Adcock; Mr. John Price; Mr. Arthur Cresswell; Ratu Eroni Buresova 149 Commerce and Produce 161 Sports Review 151 Shipping and Airways Timetables 153