Contents

No. 12. Vol. XXXI.

July, 1961

People 5

Australian Home Offered the Nauruans 17 NZ Offer to Migrants from the Cooks 18 West Samoa Will "Need to Guarantee Capital" 19 Big Drop in P-NG Copra Exports Pre dicted 20 Dramatic Save As Noumea Ship Sinks 20 Indonesia's Special Kind of Geography 20 Queen's Birthday Holiday in the Pacific 21 BSIP Outlaws the One-Armed Bandit 21 Will P-NG Be Link in US Space Plans? 22 CSR Figures are Not so Sweet 22 Danish Scientific Expedition in the Pacific 23 Curves Are Out in Vietnam 23

Commentary 25

The Editors' Mailbag 27 Bishop Kempthorne to Retire Soon .. 27 Three Contenders for New Guinea Bar Honours 29 Letter: US Should Support Dutch in NG 31 Australian Department of Trade Supplement 34

Sydneysider At Home Base 43

"Scotty" Allan for Fiji Airways 49

Memories of "Smithy" 49 Fiji Builders Could Handle More Work 51 Spotlight on Papua's North 53 Mr. van Pel Leaves Fisheries Post ... 55

Territories Talk-Talk, By Tolala .. 57

Fiji National Party Taking Shape 61 Who Discovered Ocean Island? 63 Nadi Township is Getting Better ... 65 Unemployment is a Growing Fiji Prob lem 65 Tonga Replies on the Dried Banana Question 68 Fiji Hotels (and Critics) Are on the Increase 69 Death of Mr. A. M. Gurau, of Western Samoa 73

Magazine Section 75

News of Pacific Shipping 101

Pacific Report 115

Travel Talk 143

Deaths of Islands People 145 Shipping, Airways Timetables 147 Commerce and Produce 154 Volume Index for 1960-61 161