Contents

No. 8. Vol. Xxxiii.

March, 1963

Apprehension About New Guinea's Future 5 Fiji Copra Survey Begins 5 New P-NG Liquor Changes 6 New Changes Proposed for P-NG Legco 7 It's Almost All Over in WNG 7 Progress, Plus Taxes, in the BSI ... 8 West Samoa Has an Unexpected Surplus 9 New Moves on Jap Fishing in Fiji . 9 NZ Will Protest at A-Tests 9 Colonial Office Surveys the South Seas 10 Plans Take Shape for South Pacific Games 11

Commentary 13

The Editors' Mailbag 14 How Fijians See Their Future 15 Suva Could be Vital Defence Base 17 That P-NG University Plan 20

Tropicalities 21

SPC: Men of Experience 29 South Pacific's Oldest Weather Station 31 Norfolk's Cracks in Need of Atten tion 33

Norfolk Tourist Trade Threatened? 35 The Big Population Explosion 37

From The Islands Press 43

Tonga Talks Back on Tourism 43

Territories Talk-Talk 47

Full Story: The Queen in Fiji 53 The Future of the New Hebrides 63 Political Charades on P-NG Future 71 Closer Look at the Fiji Banana Market 73

Magazine Section 83

Pacific Shipping 99

Rags to Riches Building Firm 117 NZ Expedition to Rarotonga 121 P-NG Education Commission 123 Attack on American Samoa's Taxes 125 GEIC Round-up 128 New Caledonia Round-up 130

In A Nutshell 133

People 137

Deaths Of Islands People 141

Travel Talk 142

Commerce, Produce 153

THE COVER: The Queen was "exhausted" after her one day visit to Suva in February, according to one report in an overseas newspaper. The report brought a quick reaction from "The Fiji Times", which replied almost with heat that the Queen had enjoyed her visit and had not been exhausted. As photographic proof the newspaper drew attention to this photograph, taken by staff man Stan Whippy just before the Royal couple boarded the "Britannia" at the end of their visit.