In This Issue

I. 35, No. 12. December, 1964.

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I of Transistor Bonanza 12 lis Makes It 14 Committee on Colonialism .. 15, 20 al Skills Wasted 29 v Cost Housing 33 man Language-Teaching Method .. 44 re Venereal Disease 75 cient Sailing Weather 82 w RN Charting Job 83 w "Endeavour" Project 97 ora Prices Steady 145 Record Traffic Figures 146

Lerican Samoa

■few on Children 14 other New Newspaper 65 fy Free Plan 65 Iding "Boom" Goes Bust 67

Ok Islands

torists' Nightmare 20 Hon Sought on Pearl Shell 69 ve to Refloat "Yankee" 76 jrist Possibilities 113 m Plan for Rarotonga Hotel 117 port Decision 119 it Cannery's Troubles 143 I w Banana Arrangements 14 sic Tax Debate 16 nstitution Adviser 20 vernor for Australia 23 jep-Raising Plan 65 iff Snags in Australia 67 ip Abandoned in Suva 99 w Fisheries Laws 105 liters Bureau Conference 121

More Tourists 121 New Canneries 143 South Pacific Sugar Mills Shares 145 Emperor Mines Dividend 146 New Timber Company 146

French Polynesia

Trouble in Tahiti "Not Far Off" 61 "Wanderer" Wrecked 76 New Air Services 127

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

UK Financial Assistance Promised 37 Development Projects Discussed 39

Kermadec Islands

Men Evacuated After Eruptions 23

Lord Howe Island

Attractive Tourist Resort 125

Nauru

Tougher Attitude on Future 15

New Caledonia

Contest for 1966 Games Emblem ... 41 New Ships for Nickel Company ... 99

New Hebrides

Air Services 19 Talks on Labour Problem 39 Ancient Adze Contaminated 61 Crocodile Caught at Malo 85

Papua-New Guinea

Defence Plans 11 Public Servants' Compensation 12

DEPARTMENTS: Tropicalities, 19; Territories Talk-Talk, 55; Letters to the Editor, 61; From the Islands Press, 71; Magazine Section, 81; New Books, 89; Shipping, 97; Cruising Yachts, 109; Travel and Transport, 113; Shipping and Airways Schedules, 133; Commerce, 143; Deaths of Islands People, 148.

Varzin Case 13 Sepik River Voyage 19 Education Seminar 20 Record Voyage on Sepik 19 Rabaul Earthquake 23 Death Plunge in Volcano 24 Low Cost Housing 33 Warning on Independence 35 1969 Games Site 43 Giant Rats Found 59 Chief Justice's Recovery 59 Visit to Tench Island 81 Legislation Likely on Life Rafts 105 Speculation Over Hotels 144 Flour Mill Plans 146

Solomon Islands

Low Cost Housing 33 Search for Airfield Sites 63 New Port of Entry 99

Tonga

Hurricane Damages Bananas 14 New Volcanic Activity Possible ... 23 Interest in TV Education 51 Search for Good Surfing Beach ... 125

United States Trust Territory

Early Koror Shipwreck 85 Tuna Fishing Plan 143

Wallis And Futuna

Airport, Harbour Improvements ... 39

Western Samoa

Sports Plan 43 Caution Over Educational TV 51 Call for Belt-Tightening 73

West New Guinea

First Visit by Western Journalist ... 45 University a Going Concern 49