Contents

No. 3. Vol. XXXI.

October, 1960

PEOPLE: Personal Paragraphs of Islands' Interest 7 Papua-New Guinea is on the Road to Autonomy 17 BSIP Announces its First Legislative Council 18 P-NG Labour Tour is All Very Secret 18 Does the New Hebrides Know Where It's Going? 19 A Round-up of Fiji Troubles 20 No Fireworks in Mr. Amery's Islands Visit 20 Fiji Facing the Graver Issues 21 New Cook Islands Resident Commis sioner 22 New Guinea has a Japanese Trade Flood 22 Six Fiji-lndians in a Big Lottery Win 23 No End Yet to West Samoa's Battle of Words 23 COMMENTARY: A Look at Pacific and World Affairs 25 The Editors' Mailbag 27 G. W. L. Townsend Says: "We Didn't Play Our Cards Right" 29 Factory Shut-downs Mean Further Gloom for Fiji 31 Dark Days in New Guinea Recalled 33 Mystery of the "Montevideo Maru" 33 Financial Revolution in the Planting Industry 37 Copra at a Sensible Level 41 The Tolais Start a War of Their Own 43 End of Norfolk Whaling Season 45 Senator Kennedy's Solomon Exploits 45

Fiji Legco Debates the Sugar Problem 49 You Won't Be Sorry to Be in Vanua Levu 53 Big Influx of BSIP Shipping 54 Are "Sub-standard" Houses Fiji's Answer? 57 Noumea Has a Housing Scheme ... 61 The Mighty Sepik Puts on a Show .. 61 SYDNEYSIDER at Home Base 63 Fred Hargesheimer's Plans for a New Britain School 67 The Road to the New Guinea High lands 69 Fiji Sugar Hold-up Means More Crops in Some Ways 78 Some Memories of Sir Beaumont Phillips 79

Magazine Section:

Tropicalities, 81; Crossquiz, 82; Goodbye to an Era, 83; Exploits of the Mission Ship "Duff", 84; Do You Remember? 86; The Wonder ful Sisters of Noumea, 86; Brett Hilder's Profile, 87; Books 88 Pacific Shipping News 101

Pacific Report (Index P. 17) 117

OBITUARIES: Mr. A. Cresswell; Mr.

Maxwell Taylor Duff; Mr. Patterson Alsop; Mrs. F. M. Addis; Mr. A.

H. Wright; Mr. W. J. Gatward; Mr.

Matthew Whan; Dr. W. M. Ram say; Hon. Ulukalala-Ata 149 Sports Review 151 Shipping and Airways Timetables ... 153 Commerce and Produce 161