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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1961Vol. XXXII, No. 2

Contents

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No. 2. Vol. Xxxii.

September, 1961

People 5

Nobody Guilty for Rabaul Shootings 15 West Samoa Will Encourage Invest ment 15 New Step Towards NNG-P-NG Union 16 Fiji Sugar Inquiry Report 17 "Monte Carlo of the Pacific!" 17 Two P-NG Assistant Administrators 17 Some Plain Speaking in Fiji Council 18 Government Help for P-NG Unions 18 High Commissioner Visits GEIC .. 19 New Food Helps Vavau Recovery 19 Asian 'Flu Hits Honiara 20 Fiji Co-op Turns Itself into a "Com munist Party" 20 Professor Davidson Badly Hurt . 21 Reprisal Threat by Indonesia 21 Cook Islands Tighten Their Belts 21

Commentary 23

Editors' Mailbag 24

Sydneysider Goes Walkabout 21

Will the South Seas Get Ex-Kenya Tourists? 27 Chief Judge C. C. Marsack Writes a Book on West Samoa 31

TERRITORIES TALK-TALK, with Tolala 35 Pacific Churches Move Closer To

gether 39

Canberra Commentary 42

Overcoming Fiji Flood Problem 45 A Night at Port Moresby's New Drive in Theatre 47 Mt. Hagen to Have a Zoo 49 How Britain's Growing Troubles May Affect South Pacific 50 South Pacific Could Create a Taste for Reading 57 Big US Collection of New Guinea Insects 59 Is Kenya a Lesson for the South Seas? 63 Port Moresby's Integrated Club is a Success 71

Magazine Section 73

Pacific Shipping 99 PACIFIC REPORT: The Month's News from the South Pacific 115 Deaths of Islands People 141

Travel Talk 142

Shipping, Airways Timetables 145 Commerce and Produce 153