In This Issue

General

Pacific-Wide Drought 13 Aust. Decimal Currency 17 ASOPA Graduates 71 Firm Prices for Copra Expected ... 137 Cultured Pearls 137 New Year Honours List 153

American Samoa

Newspaper Changes 15 Fishing Corporation Launched 137

Cook Islands

Decisive Year for Albert Henry 45 Twins Born in Sailing Boat 45 Warning on Postage Stamps 59 Wandering Pigs 63 Harbour Needs 107 Air Service in Doubt 123 Rarotonga Looks at Copra 135

Fiji

Games Warm-Up 15 Another Prasad Case 16 Tip for Sydney Post 21 Legco Chamber Portraits 23 Mary Edwell-Burke, Artist 25 Raymond Burr Buys Naitauba 33 Walk Round Viti Levu 53 Concert Celebrity Now Missionary ... 65 Sound Shell for Civic Centre 69 Action Needed on Shipping 99 More Hotel Accommodation 121 Banana Shipments 137 Adverse Trade Balance ... 137

French Polynesia

Call for Beryl Brings Results 25 Naval Task Force for Tahiti 35 Tuamotu Shark Experiments 69 Protest Cruise on A-Test 101 Criticism of "Le Truck" Travel 127

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

Mouth-to-Mouth Resuscitation 21 Busy Year Ahead 50 £900,000 Grant 51 Fanning Island Pound Notes 55 Strange Lizard at Nanumea 69 Tourism, Colony-Style 127

Nauru

Legislative Council Opened 16

New Caledonia

Games Warm-Up Against Fiji 14 Effort to Save Local Birds 69 Weather Station for Surprise Is 109

New Hebrides

Erromanga Timber Plan 133

Norfolk Island

Official Secretary Leaves 59 Shipping Service 101 Power for New Hotel 129

Papua-New Guinea

Three Top Admin. Jobs Open 11 New University 12, 71 Public Servants' Demand 12

Workers' Associations to Federate ... 12 Changes in Newspaper Company ... 14 No Light on Future from Minister ... 19 Multi-Racial Councils Opened 19 Big Men of German Times 23 Murray Memorial Neglected 27 Opinions on Pidgin 27 Johnson Cultist Loses Faith 29 Cultural Societies 57 Oala Oala Rarua 61 Tea Blocks Popular 73 When Snow Fell at Goroka 85 Book by Sir A. Grenfell-Price 92 Moresby Wharf Congestion 101 Watersiders' Log of Claims 105 Progress on New Moresby Hotel ... 125 Rabaul Hotel Plan 129 Pacific Islands Mines 135 Cocoa Growers' Federation 137

Solomon Islands

Submarine Volcano Erupts 21 £6m. for Development 29 First Garnet Found 49 Malaita "Ready for Tourists" 121

Tokelaus

NZ Resettlement Plan 17

Tonga

Death of Queen Salote 38 Kingdom as Tourist Centre 117

Torres Strait Islands

German Harry of Deliverance Is. 81

Western Samoa

"Samoana" Court Case 14 Money for Games Team ... 15 First Airmail Stamps 69 £lm. Development Plan 133 Banana Production Down 137 Asian Bank Loan 137

DEPARTMENTS: People in Pictures, 37; Territories Talk-Talk, 53; Pacific Planters' Digest, 73; From the Islands Press, 76; Magazine Section, 81; New Books 91’

Shipping, 99; Cruising Yachts, 112; Travel, 117; Cruise Ship Schedules, 131- Commerce, 133; Shipping, Airways Schedules, 141; People, 149; Deaths of Islands People, 153.