Contents

No. 6. Vol. Xxxiii.

January, 1963

Fijians Demand a Voice in Their Future 5 Noumea's Young Tennis Hopeful 6 Cook Islands Will Have Self- Government "Soon" 7 Doubts Grow on NG's "Open Slather" Drinking 7 Complicated Politics of French Poly nesia 9 Papuan Church is Self-Governing Now 10 New Wreckage of La Perouse Vessel Discovered 11 Pacific VlP's in Sydney 11

Commentary 13

Dramatic End to Tahiti Tuna Ex pedition 14 The Editor's Mailbag 15 TROPICALITIES: An Old Department with a New Look 17 Vanikoro Wreckage Was Not from the "Kobenhavn" 23 Fiji Milk Plant Exports to the Islands 25 Islands Markets Must Be Followed Up 29 Duty Free Goods in Fiji Now 33 Technical Education for P-NG Girls 35 NZ Clears the Way for Cabinet Government in the Cooks 37 Australians Will Try NG Tea 39

Flashback on 1962 45

Territories Talk-Talk 53

Sydneysider Goes Walkabout 61 Request for Fiji Tourist Survey 67 Pitcairn Protests Over AAangareva Missile Site 69 Fiji's Birthrate Increase Disturbs Government 71

Magazine Section 81

Book Reviews 89 Pacific Shipping 97 Significant Progress in the New Hebrides 117 NG Berthing Priorities To Go 119 Any Threat to P-NG Would Be from Communism 121 NG Border Airstrip Extended 122 BSIP Round-up 123 Hope for New Industry on Norfolk Island 124 Many Places Benefit from New Cable 125

From The Islands Press 127

Crowded Fiji Itinerary for Queen 127 ASOPA's 1962 NG Awards 129 In a Nutshell 130 people ;;; i 34 Deaths of Islands People 137

Travel Talk 133

Shipping and Airways Timetables 141 Commerce and Produce 149