In This Issue

Vol. 37. No. 7, JULY, 1966

General

Major Changes in Attitudes 9 Queen's Birthday Honours List 18 How South Pacific Games Started ... 27 Secrets of Fire-Walking 50 Mercy Errands to Remote Islands ... 67 "Matua" to be Replaced 108 £82,000 For South Pacific Lepers 132 Higher Copra Prices 141

American Samoa

US Citizenship Likely Soon 39 Award for Governor Lee 39 New Information Officer 137

Cook Islands

Corruption Charge Against Minister 14 Reef Blasting at Mangaia 105 Air Service Ends 125 Development Plan 140

Fiji

£2om. Development Plan 20 Case of the Shrouded Corpse 26 Census to be Held 29 Pacific Theological College Opens 37 Whippy Harbour 49 Waidina Banana Growers 69 Capital Punishment Abolished 75 New Ship in Service 99 Director of Marine 101 Survey Ship Resumes Work 103 Levuka's Leading Lights 103 "Viti" Converted to Pleasure Yacht 107 Hotel and Resort Building Boom 117 New Manager for FVB 127 Cigarette Industry 138 Japanese Pearls Plan 140

French Polynesia

First Nuclear Test at Mururoa 19 Moorea's Octagonal Church 85 Papeete Harbour Opened 107 Five-Year Tourism Plan 123 Chile-Tahiti Air Service Plans 123

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

New Constitution 12 Phosphate Negotiations 19 Survey of Conditions 45 New Assistant Resident Commissioner 47 1945 Ocean Island Massacre 81 Elusive Shoal Seen Again 103

Nauru

Liquor Ban to Go 9 Phosphate Negotiations 19 British to Cease Buying Phosphate 20

New Caledonia

Games Hostesses Chosen 40 Matson Services Resume 99 Nickel Loading Again at Noumea 101 Maritime Mishaps 108 Moves for Air-1 ndia Service 129

New Hebrides

First Condominium Census 29 New Buildings 71 Resident Commissioner's Illness 137

Niue

New Member System 65 Mercy Errands 65

Norfolk Island

"Balance" for Tourist Industry 17

Council Election 25 Book by Chief Magistrate 94 Work Begins on New Hotel 128

Papua-New Guinea

New Men in Top Jobs 10 Exit Mr. Guise 11 Public Service "Golden Handshake" 15 Japanese for Rabaul? 19 Cleland on Seventh State 25 Rugby League Team in Australia 27 Census 29 Kaindi By-Election 29 "New-Look" Mining Laws 31 Papua's Angry Young Man 35 Administrative Crisis 51 Pyrethrum Extraction Plant Opens . 52 Capital Punishment 75 New Books on Territory 96 Eating Out in Port Moresby 125 New Hotels for Lae 127 Copra Bounty 140 Palm Oil Industry 140 Catholic Seminary to Move 141

Solomon Islands

Air Travel Complaints 49 Naming of Henderson Field 49 Arts Dying Out 61 Capital Punishment 75 Crayfish Export Plan 99 New Forwarding Company 101

South Pacific Commission

New Secretary-General 10

Tonga

Last Tribute to Queen 13 Another Old Tortoise , 89 Dateline Hotel Plans 128 Warning for Traders 140

Western Samoa

Parliament Under Fire 13 Probable Cause of DC3 Crash 129 Retail Sales 140

EFARTWENTS: Tropicalities, 25; People in Pictures, 42; Letters to the Editors, 49; Territories Talk-Talk, 57; From the Islands Press, 73; Magazine Section, 81; Yesterday 89; New Books, 91; Shipping, 99; Cruising Yachts, 109; Travel, 113; Planters Digest, 131; People, 137; Commerce, 138; Shipping, Airways Schedules, 143; Deaths of Islands People, 150.