Contents

No. 5. Vol. XXXI.

December, 1960

People 5

Burns Plan Meets Trouble 15 New Caledonia Finance "Excellent" .. 16 Fiji Reserves Better 17 Will Emperor Mine Liquidate? 17 Norfolk Doesn't Want Land Laws ... 18 P-NG Economic Survey 18 Fuss Over P-NG Native Conference .. 19 P-NG Man Charged With Sedition ... 19 GEIC Plans an Advisory Council 20 BSIP Politics Bring Little Response 20 Many Nominate for P-NG Elections ... 21

Commentary 23

The Editors' Mailbag 24 Story About a Hill in Lae 25 Teacher Training Scheme Meets Trouble 27 Plans for Pago Pago Conference 27 New Trust Territory Could Appear In N-Guinea 30 TERRITORIES' TALK-TALK, with Tolala 33 Beware the Killer Shell Fish 37 Alfred Hill Did a Lot for Native Music 41 Judy Tudor's Brief Encounters 47 New Guinea Native Drink Problem 51

More Sea Transport for the Cooks ... 53 Tahiti Gets Going on Its Tourist In

dustry 57

New Wealth in the Pawpaw? 59 Death of Mr. R. A. Derrick 60

Sydneysider Goes Walkabout ... 65

Charges of West Samoan Inefficiency 69 Fiji School with the Right Idea 71 New Guinea Cocoa Scheme Has Its Problems 71

Magazine Section 75-100

News of Pacific Shipping 101

Pacific Report (Index) 117

Obituaries 145 Sports Review 147 Shipping, Airways Timetables 149 Commerce and Produce 157