The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1961Vol. XXXI, No. 6

Pacific Report

p. 18 · Read in the full issue

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month’s news: Fiji Sugar Leaders Criticised—113a Hot Water for Nothing in Lae—j 114; Lid Off Grog in New Caledonia—117; Eleven months to go in West Samoa; Tahitians in Sydney—119; Room for More Tourists at Korolevu —123.

The Vercoe Case—129; Danny Weil; Wails Again—129; Banned Bridge Opened — 131; Hard, Words for Mick Leahy; Seven Year Cooks’ Tax Fight—133. ’

New Caledonian Natives Con scripted?—134; Straight Talking on P-NG Apprentices—134; Stateless Stowaways Have Landed at Last—135; Hot Jazz and French Movies in Rabaul —136; John Hohnen Leaves NG; Polynesians were Natural Policemen—137; Drug Charges in Tahiti; New Telephones for Norfolk—138; Fiji Youth Problems—139; Big Backing for NG Pastoral Industry—140; New Year’s Honours List—141; Lessi Hospitality for Papeete Euro-I peans—142.