Contents

No. 11. Vol. XXXI.

June, 1961

People 5

Why Fiji Awaits The Sugar Report With Anxiety 17 Are These Relics From the "Eliza"? 17 West Samoan Plebiscite Went With out A Hitch 18 New Hebrides' Girl Undergoes Heart Operation 19 P-NG Administration Outvoted in the Legco 19 Dutch Exodus From NNG 20 NNG Political Party Wants a Republic 20 All the Latest in P-NG Handbook 20 American Samoa Has a New Governor 21 New Faces Following Cook Islands' Elections 21 New Official History of the War in New Guinea 22 Pictures of Fiji's Touring Rugby Side 23

Commentary 25

The Editors' Mailbag 26

Canberra Commentary 27

The Weird Mob of Western Samoa 27 Still No Cause for Joy Over Copra . 28 TERRITORIES TALK-TALK, with Tolala 29 TEAL's Spreading Wings Mean New Problems 35

New Zealand Aviation at the Cross roads 37 Samoan Air-link Returns 39

Sydneysider At Home Base 41

Quarter Century with the Mission in the Mud 45 Beryl Sawyer Reports from Tahiti 49 Stuart Inder Talks About the Isle of Love 53 Burns Philp Recalls the Old Days 56 Islands' Agents Critical of Trade Mission 59 Kinjibi Chairman Takes the Lid Off the Coffee Pot 61 Sydney's New Polynesian Restaurant 61 New Guinea Brothers with Sports Shirt Collars 69 Labour Want a Common-roll in P-NG 69 Magazine SECTION 79-100 News of Pacific Shipping 97

Pacific Report M

Deaths of Islands People 136

Travel Talk 133

Shipping, Airways Timetables 141

Commerce and Produce 149