Contents

No. 8. Vol. XXXI.

March, 1961

People 5

It's Crisis Time for Dutch New Guinea 17 Elections in NNG and P-NG 18 No Solution of Fiji's Troubles 19 Lower Plantation Incomes This Year 19 West Samoa Picks a Vital Cabinet 20 Cook Islanders Want Liquor Reform 20 Fiji's Student-Farmer Scheme 20 Sir John Gutch Talks of the Future 21 New Hebrides Land Case 22 Earl Mountbatten Visits Fiji 22 Tongan Sued for Breach of Promise 23 Future of TEAL May Be Known Soon 23 A Report on P-NG Election Candi dates 23 Priest Suggests We Adapt Native Rite 23

Coaamentary 25

The Editors' Mailbag 26 Report from the Fiji Sugar Inquiry 27 West Samoa's Forthcoming Plebiscite 29 TERRITORIES TALK-TALK, with Tolala 31 The Need for Goodwill in the Islands 33

Sydneysider At Home Base 41

No Shoe Factory for P-NG ... 41 Scholarship Plan for the Pacific ... 45 Honiara Offenders Treated Too

Leniently 47

Air War in the New Hebrides 49 Harold Gatty's Memorial 57 Beryl Sawyer's Report from Papeete 59 Story of Errol Flynn's Daughter ... 51 Americans "Not Wanted" in Tahiti 63 They're Taking the 'Bush' Out of

Flying 65

Island Owner Wants to Meet Others 69 Fiji is Not What it Was, says Lema Low 71

Magazine Section 75-100

News of Pacific Shipping 101

Pacific Report 117

Obituaries 145

Travel Talk 146

Shipping, Airways Timetables 149 Commerce and Produce 157