In This Issue

General

lew Australian Territories Secretary 12 roblems for South Pacific Commis sion 15 PC Quarantine Conference 18 ATA Conference on Tourism 35 Vork of British and Foreign Bible Society 50 lan for New "Endeavour" 97

American Samoa

Pegging Ban Law Defeated 12 fiew on Future 28 /\any Changes in Two Years 71

Iook Islands

Jew Minister's Visit 12 loyal Visit Hopes 65 Vchaeological Discoveries 83 Jew Roman Catholic Bishop 118

Hi And Rotuma

ierious Floods 11 HP's on "Familiarisation" Tours ... 14 Acre Canadian Tourists 38

-igarette-making 40

/isas Abolished for Transit Passengers 49 Vhen Levuka Had Its Stocks 81 iuva's Memorable Bus Rides 87

Mea on Unseaworthy Ships 103

mmunisation Campaign 113 'omposition of Civil Service 113 'Jew Students at School of Medicine 113 Jook on Colony's Flowers, Plants 115 Jig Expansion for Sugar Millers ... 121 Sold Mines Want Subsidy 122 lapanese Projects 122 FV Company Registered 123 Mew Hotels 131 Development Plan for Rotuma 142

French Polynesia

Big Build-Up for Nuclear Tests 10 TEAL Hopeful on Coral Route 29 Underground Water on Harbour Islet 99 Excursions in Tahiti 131

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

Astronomical Observations 113 Copra Production Up 114 Advisory Council Meeting 115

Lord Howe Island

Ball's Pyramid Climbed 18

New Caledonia

Lenormand Out of Politics 15 TEAL Begins Service from NZ 29 Site Fixed for 1966 Games 57 lie Nou's Guillotine 81

New Hebrides

Who Solved the "Boussole" Mystery? 19 Murder of White Trader in 1887 77 Postage Stamp Design Contest 113 New Airfield at Tongoa 113 Joint Agricultural Training Institution 114 Mild Measles Epidemic 115 Archaeologists at Tanna 118

Norfolk Island

Air Charter Plan 132

Papua-New Guinea

Assembly Elections 9, 11 Facts Wanted for History Books 17 Madang's Beautiful Trees Axed 18 Stock Exchange Suspends Sangara Trading 20 Cargo for Buka Cargo Cultists 27 Territory Has Lost Aviation Lead 31

Mace Designed for Assembly 34 Death of Alice Bowring 39 Australia Active on WNG Border 53 Moresby May Be 1969 Games Site .■ 56 RWR Looks at "Patrol Into Yesterday" 59 Drift from Laughlans to BSIP 99 Extensions for Nautical School 101 Strange Sampan Sighted 105 Nakanai Resettlement Plan 113 New Cathedral at Alexishafen 113 New Badges for PIR H 5 Resolution on Drinking Containers 115 Toting Timber to the Territory 121 Coffee Marketing Board 122 Oil Search Plans 123 Tonolei Harbour Timber 123 Copra Trends 124 New Hotels 121

Pitcairn Island

Archaeological Finds 55

Solomon Islands

Memories of Old Hands 27 Complaint on PWD Transactions 28 Rice Growing 29 Sir David Trench Farewelled 48 Native Claim to Honiara Land 67 A. C. Blair, Radio Ham 79 Deposits of Copper Ore Likely 113 Temporary Changes in Top Posts 116

Tonga

Circular Postage Stamps 18 Vaccination Project H 5 Desiccated Coconut Factory 123

Us Trust Territory And Guam

Growing Shipping Needs 103 Tourists Welcome in Guam 132

West New Guinea

Natives Sold Down the Drain 25

Western Samoa

107 In Election Contest 13 Director of Agriculture Retires 117

DEPARTMENTS: Topicalities, 17; Letters to the Editor, 25; Territories Talk- Talk, 41; Magazine Section, 77; Book Reviews, 89; Shipping Section, 97; In A Nutshell, 113; People, 116; From the Islands Press, 119; Commerce, 121; Deaths of Islands People, 129; Travel Talk, 131; Shipping and Airways Infor mation, 134.