Contents

No. 4. Vol. Xxxii.

November, 196

People 5

Final Obstacles Cleared for West Samoan Independence 15 Queen Salote for Sydney 15 Samoan Commonwealth Status Not Yet Decided 16 What the Samoa Bill Does 16 Big Sugar Loss Worsens Plight of Fiji 17 Fiji Tuna Canning By Next Year 18 New Guinea Target Dates Offer Nothing New 19 Will the Targets Be Reached? 20 Chinatown Comes to Port Moresby 21 Flag, New Name for NNG 21

Commentary 23

Editors' Mailbag 24 Changes in P-NG Legal Set-Up 25 Mr. Bernacchi Retires from GEIC 25 What Now in the Colonial Office? 26

More Money Needed for Out stations Eclipse to be Viewed from Lae Capital Leaves New Guinea Top Honours for Rabaul Cadets SPECIAL REPORT: South Seas Liquor Survey TERRITORIES TALK-TALK, with Tolala They Want Fiji Raintrees Interest in NG Trade Fiji Footballers Join the Cash Ranks

Canberra Commentary

Sydneysider Goes Walkabout

Sixty Years in New Caledonia

Magazine Section

News Of Pacific Shipping

PACIFIC REPORT: The Month's News of the South Seas

Travel Talk

Shipping, Airways Timetables Commerce and Produce

THE COVER: He's a Tahitian, and he's in Tahiti—the chances being that if he were anywhere else he probably wouldn't be allowed to dr.nk .n ox,cating liquor. We assume that what he has in that glass .. '" seating, although it could just as easily be beer with a good dash of lemonade, or lemonade straight. For a survey of the South Seas liquor situation telling you who can drink, and who can t—turn to page 33.

Photo: Studio Mackenzie