In This Issue

General

Rapid South Seas Political Develop ments 7 Mr. C. R. Lambert Retires 17 US Family Dreams of Islands Holiday 25 Leper Man Will be Remembered ... 31 Oxford Records Project 52 COMPAC Cable Opens 55 Bitter Naval Lessons of Pacific War .. 87 Andrew Sharp's New Book 89

American Samoa

Mountain Tramway Planned 115 Operators for New Hotel 129

Cook Islands

Full Internal Self-government by 1965 33 Government Secretary Change .. 13, 35 Understanding the Polynesian Mind . 49 Sir Leon Gotz and the Students ... 53 Manihiki Castaways Recover from Ordeal 63 Budget Estimates 113

Fiji And Rotuma

Development Plan Opens "New Frontier" 12 Budget, A Record 12 Archibald Re-elected to Council ... 15 Election Issue Over Banana Imports 15 The Man Who Started Gaol Bakery . 19 Death of Father Gustav Griffon, SM 25 Plans for Talks on Political Future ... 54 US Navy Caught Up With Treacherous Chief 77 Radio "Ham" Is Busy Ambassador . 81 Has Anyone Heard of a Fiji Rose? . 97 Drift in Boat 103 Many More Visitors 112 Family Planning Campaign 112 Fiji-lndian Ordered from Australia . 118 Review of Salaries 119

Merchants Want Return to FOB System 123 Further Steps on Decimal Currency . 124

French Polynesia

New Tahiti Flight 9 Two Political Parties Banned 13 Ex-Queen's Memoirs To Be Published 83 £2| m. Papeete Port Plan 95

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

Meeting of First Advisory Council ... 8 Fanning Island Cable Station to Close 55 Bird Survey in Phoenix Islands 105 Long Drought Broken 113

Nauru

Wider Powers for Council 8

New Caledonia

Lenormand Banned from Polynesia 13 Repatriation of Vietnamese 20,112 Wartime Explosion 83

New Hebrides

Serious Hurricane Damage 10 Repatriation of Vietnamese 20,112 Why Not Some UK Flag-Waving Too? 57 Fears of French Dominion 67 Work on Vila Wharf 101 First Archaeological Survey 113 Interpretation Equipment for Advisory Council 115

Niue

Budget Estimates 113

Norfolk Island

New Powers for Council 8 Sample Fish Exports Begin 129 New Hotel to Open 134

Papua-New Guinea

PIR Recruiting Drive 9 Controversial Bills at Final Legco 10 Nominations for House of Assembly 10

DEPARTMENTS: Tropicalities, 15; From the Islands Press, 72; Magazine Section, 77; Yesterday, 80; This Month's New Reading, 87; Territories Talk-Talk, 109; In a Nutshell, 112; People, 117; Deaths of Islands People, 120; Pacific Com merce and Produce, 123; Travel Talk, 133; Shipping, Airways Schedules, 135.

Visiting Surgical Team 12 Baby Show Winners 17 Death of Fanny Corkin 25 Help Comes to Offshore Islands ... 29 Early Episode in Papua Goldmine ... 85 Rabaul Radio q 5 Progress on Kieta Wharf IQ3 Baby Born in Plane IQ9 Sealing Work on Madang Airstrip ... 112 First Motor Cycle Police 112 Recruiting of Teachers 113 Sealed Runway for Lae 113 Plant Disease in Maize Cobs 113 Study of Religions 113 SDA Hospital at Sopas 115 Tenders for Administrative College .. 115 New Buildings in Port Moresby ... 115 Price Control and Hasty Laws Under Rre 123 Wire Factory To Be Built 123 Further Steps on Decimal Currency .. 124 To Display at Osaka Fair 129 Dispute Over Payment of Export Sub

sidy 129

Solomon Islands

New WPHC Announced 7 Elected Legco Likely in 1965 41 First Islanders to Become Bishops ... 41 Money in Crocodile Skins 47 Calling the Cattle Home 51 Steady Building Progress 61 Passages Charted IQI Yaws Virtually Eliminated 112

Tokelaus

Budget Estimates 113

Tonga

Acting Governor of Fiji Visits Queen Salote 7 Hotel Plans for Nukualofa 19

West New Guinea

European Missionaries Given Full Co operation 112 Transfer Now Complete 121

Western Samoa

Raftsman Arrives from Peru 11,105 Law Against Adultery for MP's 13