Contents

No. 4. Vol. Xxxiii

November, 1962

P-NG Council Increase as Next Step to Self-Government 5 Nauruans Want Fraser Island 6 Wreckage May Shed Light on Sea Mystery 7 Mr. W. D. Forsyth is New Secretary of SPC 8 They Gave the World a New Style of Swimming 9 Epic of Minerva Reef Stirred the World 11 94,000 Voters for Fiji Legco Poll 13 Indonesia Quickly Consolidates in Dispirited West New Guinea ... 15 West Samoa's Economic Survey Starts 17

Commentary 19

P-NG Political Report is Trimmed to the Winds 21 Canberra Apprehensive Over Swift NG Developments 23 GEIC's Isolation "Must End" 25 NG to Lift Liquor Prohibition 27 WNG Take-over Raises Health Menace 31 Tonga Has High Hopes for Coconut Plant 32

Tropicalities 33

From the Islands Press 43 US Still Claims Many South Seas Territories 46 Dutch NG: The End of an Era ... 47 Coconut Oil is the Big Industry in New Britain 53

Palmyra: Polynesian Paradise 56

Territories Talk-Talk 61

Missionary's View of the Red Menace 67 "Sydneysider" Goes Walkabout ... 69 "Joyita" to be Filmed Soon 71 Why Should Colonialism be a Dirty Word? 73

Magazine Section 79

Book Reviews 99 Pacific Shipping IQS PACIFIC REPORT (with Index) ... 125 In a Nutshell 146

People 149

Deaths of Islands People 153

Travel Talk 154

Shipping and Airways Timetables .. 157 Commerce and Produce 165

THE COVER: It is true that life in the Islands these days has lost some of its easy-going ways. But there are still pockets of serenity—as illustrated in this photograph, by Rob Wright, of Fijian maramas from the village of Dakuibeqa, exchanging the local gossip as they do the family washing in a nearby stream.