In This Issue

General

Six Territories "Go Decimal" 12 South Pacific Arts Festival 13 Devastating Hurricane 45 Royal Society "Bigwigs" 71 Captain Cook's Yorkshire 85 Four Books on Pacific History 92 "Bligh" Launch in Long Drift 105 W. R. Carpenter Dividend Steady 141

American Samoa

Handyman, James F. Flannery 23 Heavy Hurricane Damage 47 New Job for Governor Reported 135

Cook Islands

Lucky Escape for Ketch 16 For Administrative Convenience 21 Hurricane Misses Main Islands 49 "Small Town" Rumour and Gossip 76

Fiji

Council Members' Salaries 14 New Representative in Sydney 14 Banabans to Seek Higher Royalties ... 15 Ana Ramacake, Athlete 21 New Political Awareness 29 Union Leader Acquitted of Arson 35 Digging Up the Past at Sigatoka 61 Molestation in Streets 76 New Ship for Inter-Island Trade 101 Bay of Islands Development 121 "Big Hair" Policeman Leaves Force .. 133 New Development Projects ... 141 Suva's Highest Building 141

French Polynesia

Atomic Tests 16 Tahiti (Picture Series) 117

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

Ocean Island Phosphate Payments 15 Aviation Idea of 40 Years Ago 25 Another Strange Reptile at Nanumea 73

Nauru

Action on Independence 16 New Moves on Phosphate Industry .. 16 "Human Torch" Deaths 21 Legislative Council Opened 37

Shipping Hold-Ups 97

New Caledonia

Port of Noumea Criticised . 103

New Hebrides

"Tui Cakau" in Service 103 Visit by Survey Ship 109 Upsurge in Commercial Aviation 137 Copra Exports Down 141

Niue

Disappearance of Local Customs 76

Papua-New Guinea

Crisis in Administration 11 Rabaul Fire 16 University Appointments 16 Development at Kieta 17 Native Problems on Bougainville 19 Bougainville Rat Problem 23 Inquiry into Police Force 51 Goroka Show, VIP Visits 55

Land Handed Back 59 Tolai Local Govt. Councils 65 Watom Island Pottery 69

Stanley Library for New University 91

"Roll-On, Roll-Off" Ship 105 Last Catalina Up for Sale 123 Hotel with Native Capital for Rabaul 129 Mt. Hagen Hotel Improvements ... 129 TAA Travel Lodge, Lae 129 Study of Land Snails 133 More Money Needed for Misima 137 New Guinea Women's Club 142

Pitcairn Island

Trouble with Goats 75

Solomon Islands

Acquittal in Murder Case 16 Onedownmanship at PWD Office 23 New "Island" Sinks Again 99 Ketch for Charter Work 107 First Marine Pilot 109 Discrimination at Hotel Mendana 125

Tokelaus

Severe Hurricane Damage 48

Tonga

Strange Sea Creatures Caught 13 Mourning Slows Kingdom 16 "Niuvakai" Breaks Down at Sea 99 Laws to be Consolidated 133 Traders Hard Hit 137

United States Trust Territory

Deputy High Commissioner Resigns .. 133

Wallis And Futuna

Night of Terror in Hurricane 48

Western Samoa

Mountaineering on Savaii 25 Heavy Hurricane Toll 45 Lessons from Hurricane 76 Historic Vailima Badly Damaged 81 Book by J. W. Davidson ... 135

38 w*t ENTS ' A 6 16; Tro P icalities ' 21; People in Pictures, 73- !11p Ta k 'l a J k, AA SS; Letters t 0 the Editors ' 65 '- Pacific Planters' Digest, 73, Islands Press, 76; Magazine Section, 81; New Books, 91; Shipping, 97- Cruising Yachts ,111; Travel, 117; Cruise Ship Schedules, 129; Peoplef 133- Commerce, 137; Shipp,ng, Airways Schedules, 145; Deaths of Islands People. 153^