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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1961Vol. XXXI, No. 8

Pacific Report

p. 19 · Read in the full issue

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month’s news: “Excellent” Chance of Oil in P-NG —119; Tonga is Now on the Air; Income Tax is Troubling Some in Fiji—110. Rabaul Airport to be Improved; A Pacific “Naviga tor”—121.

P-NG Natives Want More Wages— 122; P-NG Air Weight Restrictions —125; Expensive Malaria Fight; Gaoled for Supplying Liquor— 127; NNG to Grow Rubber; NNG Film Censorship: “Critical”

Period for Fijians; Norfolk Thinks It’s “Theirs”; New Govt.

Offices for Honiara—129; The Muu Muu Has Arrived—130.

Heavy Food Loss in N. Caledonia Cyclone —131; P-NG Assault Charges—133; Lautoka Has a Wharf at Last—134; Luxury Hotel Plan for Noumea; Dutch Protest at Indonesian Landings—137; Norfolk Weed is Too Tough to Handle—138; Suva Spends All the Money; Why Does P-NG ‘Buy Foreign’?; Fiji’s Magnetite Dis covery—139; Mick Leahy Loses Tick Case—140.