In This Issue

General

Lid Scheme for South Seas Wanted . 10 resh Water from the Sea 88 Jew Book by Evelyn Cheesman 93 Aatson Interest in New Ports 123 Jew Aircraft for Air New Zealand .. 125 Copra Price Falls in Europe 128 italemate Over Rice - Price 128

American Samoa

lirth Control Programme 16 Coconut Processing Corporation 16 Jew Pago Hotel Plans 125 Govt. Information Officer Appointed 132

:Ook Islands

Libert Henry Wins By-Election 13 •tamps to Mark Self-Government 16 Jew Director of Education 72 alks on Future of Air Service 121 bating Hotel Plan for Rarotonga ... 127

Iji

Constitutional Talks in London 11 Auch Unsaid in Privileges Law 33 Aeeting of Council of Chiefs 49 lackground to London Conference .. 61 ligh Born Twins 65 Vhere Now for Minority Groups? .. 65 lad Old Days in Levuka 89 Aore Wharf Space Needed 101 Geological Survey Ship Launched ... 107 !ob Wright Pictorial Series 113 •uva's Film Star Commissionaire 117

lotel Developments 125

.ower Sugar Return Expected 129 Jew US Consul 132

French Polynesia

Airstrips for the Marquesas 11 Life's Faster Tempo Brings Problems 41 US Airline Wants Tahiti Service 125

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

Visit by Fact-Finding Mission 10 Policy on Line Islands 16 Inquiry into Christmas Is. Deaths 16 How Ocean Island Became British 72

Nauru

Legislative Council 16

New Caledonia

Shipping Service from New Zealand 103 Catamaran Wrecked 105 South Pacific Games Plans 121

New Hebrides

Legislative Council Possible Soon 9 Wreck of Sailing Ship Found 14 Hydro-electric Scheme for Santo? 16 Japanese Fisher Wrecked 105 Hotel for Tanna; New Aircraft 125

Niue

Trouble With Kumaras 130

Norfolk Island

New Weekly Paper 16 Boat Harbour Suggestion 53 Shipping Service from New Zealand 103

Papua-New Guinea

Quick Action on, Coffee Disease 8 Help for Cocoa Growers Wanted ... 8 Bright New Book by Keith Willey 14 Bougainville's Lake Billy Mitchell 15

Memorial to Lt.-Governor Robinson .. 49 Bougainville, Buka Pygmies 51 Imaginative Approach Needed 53 Mysterious Cannon Found at Kokopo 71 New Bibliography 96 Moresby Port Problems 99 New Ships on Territory Run, 101, 103, 105 Tenders for Kieta Wharf 103 Drive Against Unlicensed Canoes 107 "Macdhui" Attracts Moresby Tourists 123 Mt. Hagen Show 123 Timber Expansion Plans 129 Value of "Post” Shares 129 Misima Gold Production 130 Bulolo Profit Down 130

Solomon Islands

Exceptional Floods 16 Book by D. C. Horton 94 Royal Society Expedition 107 "Hometel" for Honiara 123 Baga Is. Timber Logging Ends 130

South Pacific Commission

Regional Council Likely 21 Quotes from the Lae Conference 30 "Togetherness" was Conference Theme 31

Tonga

Birth Control Programme Expected 16 Attempted Murder of Shirley Baker 51 Move Towards Democracy 59 New Marine Superintendent 107

United States Trust Territory

Congress of Micronesia Session 128

West New Guinea

Shipments of Volkswagens 14 New Voice for Exiles 14

Western Samoa

Deportation Orders Cancelled 16 Development Plans 35 Apia Harbour Progress 36, 37 Advice on Proposed Apia Hotel ... 125

DEPARTMENTS: Tropicalities, 14; Territories Talk-Talk, 44; Editors' Mailbag, 49; From the Islands Press, 57; Pacific Planters' Digest, 69; Magazine Section, 81; New Books, 93; Shipping Section, 99; Cruising Yachts, 109; Travel, 113; Cruise Ships' Schedules, 119; Commerce, 128; People, 132; Shipping, Airways Timetables, 137; Deaths of Islands People, 147.