Contents

No. 2. Vol. Xxxiii.

September, 1962

People 5 Indonesian Take-over Poses Many Problems 15 Australia Acts to Avoid NG Border Disputes 17 Australian PM on NG Trustee Report 18 West Samoa-NZ Sign Treaty of Friendship 19 Burns Philp's Consolidated Accounts 19 West Samoa Not Yet Admitted to

Spc 20

Faster Pace Needed with South Pacific Games Organisation 20 Tragic Death of American Samoan Official 21 Missile Base for French Polynesia Reported 21 Details of Cook Islands' Executive Committee 21

Commentary 23

Spotlight on the Samoan Islands 25 New Fiji Handbook Released 37 SYDNEYSIDER at Home Base 39

Territories Talk Talk 41

Peter Plowman Gives a New View on the "Joyita" Mystery 45 Rabaul's Never-never Bus Service .. 51 An Odd Race to the Beehives 51 American Samoa Prepares for TV .. 53 New Caledonia Battles for the Ashes 57 P-NG Census Figures Tell a Story ... 61 Death of Mr. T. H. Manning Recalls an Aviation Story 63 Palmyra: Plans for an Organised Paradise 67 Day by Day in the Cook Islands ... 71 The Man Who Fought the Rhino Beetle in Fiji 71 New BSIP Liquor Laws Appear to be Working Well 75

Magazine Section 77

Pacific Ships and Yachts 103

Pacific Report 118

Deaths of Islands People 149

Travel Talk 150

Shipping, Airways Timetables 153 Commerce and Produce 161

THE COVER: All over the South Seas there are scenes like this one, as the islanders get into training for the First South Pacific Games, to be staged in Suva next August. For a story on what progress is being made with the organisation of the Games see p. 20. The cover picture of the athlete throwing the discus was taken by Rob Wright, of the Fiji PRO, on a recent visit to Tonga.