Contents

No. 6. Vol. XXXI.

January, 1961

People 5

New Year Begins with a Bang 15 Wide Interest in P-NG Elections 15 New Territories Minister and French Pacific Heads 16 West Samoa Gets the Go-ahead from

Uno 17

Copra Comes Down 17 Trouble over NG Wage Scale 17 NG's PIR in Riot 18 Report of P-NG Labour Mission ... 18 American Samoan Chiefs Make Some

Proposals 19

The Month's Developments with Pacific Aviation 19 New Guinea Air Crash Kills Two ... 20 Australian Officials Visit the New Hebrides 20 Papuan Oil Search Looks Hopeless ... 21 First of New Caledonian Vietnamese Leave for Home 21

Commentary 23

The Editors' Mailbag 24 School Principal's Plea for Fijian Girls 25 Mrs. Gordon Thomas: One of the Women Who Waited 26 New "Bounty" Brings Film-makers to Tahiti 27 Tahiti Has a New Tourist Look 29 Shipping Could Learn from Aircraft Control 30 Albert Schaafhausen: The Man Who Trapped Murderers 32 TERRITORIES TALK-TALK, with Tolala 33

It's Still a Nose for a Nose in New Guinea 34 Fijians Want to Deport Trouble makers 35 Wide Interest in Old Queensland Wreck 37 A Reader's View on the Fear Factor in Leprosy 41 Giving Secondary Industries a Go in NG 44 Petition to Wind-up Coffee Estate ... 46 ASOPA Graduates for 1960 47 United States' 35th President is by Courtesy of Ferdinand 49 A Brett Milder PROFILE 51 Official Inquiry into Fiji Sugar 53

Sydneysider At Home Base 55

Australia's Slice of the New Hebrides' Cake 59 NG Official on Sedition Charge 61 The US "Sturgeon" Sank the "Montevideo Maru" 61 Some Memories of the Ex-Pro Board Days 65 Garaina —NG's Valley of Isolation and Tea 71

Magazine Section 75

News of Pacific Shipping 101 PACIFIC REPORT (index p. 16) 113 Obituaries 143 TRAVEL TALK: a New Section 146 Shipping, Airways Timetables 149 Commerce and Produce 157