Contents

No. 1. Vol. Xxxiii.

August, 1962

People 3

McCarthy Puts Australia's Point of View 13 The NG Report that Wasn't so Nice 13 New Life in SPC —Maybe 17 Dollars and Paint Give Pago a New Face 17 UN Proposals for Nauru 19 Pacific Events Against Global Back ground 20 What the Common Market Could Mean 21

Commentary 23

The Editors' Mailbag 24

Fiji Government Pushes Open-go Drinking 25 Radio Australia's "Indonesian Bias" 25 The STC-Colyer Merger 27 Samoa's Interest in Sport Stimulated 29 Things Look Bright for Fiji's Sugar 30

Nz Trade Mission Feature ... 31

Self-Government for Cook Is 41 Remembering Guadalcanal, 1942 ... 43

Canberra Commentary 44

Wage Problems in Nauru 45 Nl Votes for the Mixture as Before 48

Territories Talk-Talk 51

Evacuee Family from NNG 57 Fears for WNG's Cattle Industry .. 59 S. Pacific Banana Outlook 61 Canberra Gifts to Nl 65 Polynesian Voyages Were Just an Accident 67 Migrant Couple for Norfolk 75

Magazine Section 77

Pacific Ships And Yachts 103

PACIFIC REPORT (Index p. 14) ... 121

Travel Talk 150

Shipping and Airways Timetables .. 152 Commerce, Produce 163

THE COVER: No comment is necessary with this picture of a pretty girl from French Polynesia, If anyone is interested, she is beating tapa, or bark cloth.

Studio Mackenzie Photo