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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1960Vol. XXXI, No. 5

Pacific Report

p. 17 · Read in the full issue

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month’s news: NNG Council on Target Date—ll 7; Echo of the “Joyita” Mystery -117; Direct London New Guinea Service —119; They Want to Buy the “Bounty”; Split in NNG’s Parna Party—l2l.

Samoan Cabinet Caretaking—l22.

Fiji Industrial Job Filled; Vercoe to Come Up for Sentence; Scrap Clean-up in NNG—I23; Apia’s New Library—l2s; Comment on Tongan Crime —126.

Smallpox Suspect at Niue—l27.

Suva Plans for the New “Oriana”; NNG Mountain Attempt—l 27; P-NG Officers Discuss Future — 128; New Guinea Man Wants to Marry Whitewoman—l3l; BSIP Electricity Charge Protest; Copra Round-up—l 33.

BSIP in Airways 800m—135. Fiji Sugar Meeting—l3s; Fishing Methods for Small Crews; Samoan Airlines Loses its Aircraft—l 37; Hopes Fading for Lost Launch— -139; Dutch Have Trouble with Infiltrators; NZ Snatches Alumina Prize from Papua; Chinese Junks in Sydney—l4l.