Contents

No. 9. Vol. XXXI.

April, 1961

People 5

P-NG Opens Its Reconstituted Legis lative Council 17 New Faces in P-NG Council 18 America Criticised in New Guinea Raad 19 Vital Samoan Plebiscite Near 19 Fiji Wins the Battle of the Sulu 20 Fiji Sugar Industry Agreement 20 New Horizons Open for TEAL 21 New Zealand Islands Minister is an Old Hand 21 New Guinea Coffee Growers Will Seek Tariff Protection 22 Noumea Shut Down by Strike 22 Hurricane Devastates Parts of Tonga 23 Another Chapter in the New Guinea Hamac Story 23

Commentary 25

The Editors' Mailbag 27 Mick Leahy's Fight Against Bureau cracy 29 Fiji Toads Love Science 31 TERRITORIES TALK-TALK, with Tolala 33

Canberra Commentary 37

The Most Beautiful Islands Schooner 40

Sydneysider Goes Walkabout ... 41

P-NG Flying May be Different Soon .. 45 P-NG Prefers Pop-Tunes 47 Cooks Want Tourists Without Tears .. 49 Cooks' Co-op. Buys Hervey Islands .. 50 Pictures of "Orsova's" Visit to Tonga 51 South Pacific Games for Suva 53 Beryl Sawyer Reports from Papeete .. 57 Fiji Competes with Low Wage Countries 61 Fiji Students Learn Farming 63 Suva Stages an "Unemployed" March 65 Tonga Radio Has Excellent Coverage 65 Pearce Home for the Suva Aged ... 67 Melanesian Mission Keeps an Anni versary 69 Cinderella Timber Comes into its Own 69 Canberra Scientists Discuss the NG Politician 71

Magazine Section 75- 95

News of Pacific Shipping 97

Pacific Report 113

Obituaries 145

Travel Talk 146

Shipping, Airways Timetables 149 Commerce and Produce 157