Contents

No. 7. Vol. Xxxii.

February, 1962

People 5

Fiji Enters 1962 with Two New Economic Bosses 15 Fiji Sugar Council Members 16 New Moves in P-NG Public Service 16 Christmas with Queen Salote 17 Nauruans "Won't Accept Resettle ment Offer" 17 NNG Council Discusses Dilemma ... 18 Malaspina: Forgotten Spanish Navi gator 19

Commentary 23

The Editors' Mailbag 24

Famous Fiji Melody is from Tonga .. 25 Memorial to a Famous NG Pioneer 26

Territories Talk-Talk 31

End of the Rewa Sugar Scheme 36 American Samoa Hopes for TV Station 37 Saipan Capital of US Trust Territory 37

Canberra Commentary 39

News Round-Up from West Samoa 42

Furore on Fiji Whale's Tooth 44 Cook Islands Library and Museum .. 45 Happy Scenes as Samoans Celebrate Independence 47 Fiji "Marks Time" 53

Sydneysider At Home Base 55

Americans Want to see Tafuna Busy 57 Is Darwin a Lesson for P-NG? ... 60 For a New Corner of the World, Try the Sepik 63 Samoan Economic Report Un impressive 71

Magazine Section 73-97

Pacific Shipping And Cruising

Yachts 99

Pacific Report 115

Deaths of Islands People 139 In a Nutshell 141

Travel Talk 142

Airways, Shipping Timetables 145 Commerce and Produce 153

THE COVER: The dawn of modesty in the South Seas. A piccaninny whose father is a launch boy from Lilihina Plantation, British Solomons, is not so sure that the camera isn't intruding on her water sports. But she might just as well have saved herself the trouble as far as her little companion is concerned.

The charming picture was taken in the BSIP by Paul Brown.