In This Issue

General

Getting Tomorrow's News Today 18 Pacific Games Idea 45 New Idea for Copra Industry 142

American Samoa

New Hotel Manager 133

Cook Islands

House of Arikis Opened 15 Big Public Service 18 Many Yachts at Rarotonga 115 Inquiry Into Bank Needs 141

Fiji

Legislative Council Elections 9 More Money Likely for Banabans 12 Australian Commissioner on Aid 17 lotuman Girl in Europe 19 lotuma Postage Stamps 33 Indigenous Literature 49 Japanese Squadron in Suva 105 Joyita" Museum Plan 105 olony Joins AMVER 107 Hotels Association Formed . 131 ow Sugar Industry Survives 141 Decimal Currency 143

French Polynesia

Visit by General de Gaulle 11 New Postage Stamps 33 oorea's Old Church 47 Royal Palace Demolished 92 Dok on Gauguin Museum 99 New UTA Air Service 133 Ist Makatea Phosphate 142

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

Athletes Shape Up for Games 12 Ocean Island Phosphate 12 Trip to Gilberts in 1902 85 Replacement Sought for "Moana Raoi" 107 North Tarawa Causeways 109 Tarawa-Micronesia Air Link Idea ... 131

Nauru

On Chong Men Going Strong ... 87

New Caledonia

General Strike in Nickel Mines 11 Visit by General de Gaulle 11 UTA Service from Auckland 133

New Hebrides

Visit by General de Gaulle ... 11, 45 New British Agency on Malekula 18 WHO Postage Stamps 33 Survey of Conditions .. 57 Vanua Lava's Sulphur Deposits 72 Lamap Airfield Opened 133

Niue

Member System Inaugurated 15

Norfolk Island

Tourist Promotion 131

Papua-New Guinea

1969 South Pacific Games Rebuff 13 House of Assembly Session 14 Toni Voutas, MHA 14 Gambling on Golf 18 Hahalis Leader Studies in Sydney 18 Japanese Regret Over War 19

Housing Project Under Fire 19 Development Bank Almost Ready 19 Public Service Salaries 20 Percy Chatterton's Column 25 Assembly Hansard Reports 29 Clam Shell Chisel 45 Death of Gordon Thomas 45 Japanese Interests 45 Constitutional Development 53 1968 Elections 53 Noumea Games Prospects 61 Young Footballers in Australia 65 Papuan Jewellery 67 Duty Free Goods Not Wanted 71 Madang's New Wharf 105 Formosan Clam Poachers 105 New Kieta Wharf 109 Western Highlands for Tourists 121 Malarial Suppressives Needed 131 Aropa Plantation .. 142 Milne Bay Pearl Farm 143 Lae Paint Factory 143

Solomon Islands

Politicians Visit UK 12 Mrs. Hill's Pet Bina 89 Rice Factory for Honiara 142

Tonga

'Ata Castaways 17, 101 King's Coronation 18 Captain Tippett's Tortoise 45 Dateline Hotel Opened 117

Wallis And Futuna

New Administrator 136

Western Samoa

Request for US Aid Rebuffed 20 Low-Cost Housing Plan 35 Economic Planning Criticised 35 Painters in Public Eye 41 New UN Representative 136

DEPARTMENTS: Tropicalities, 17; To the Point, with Percy Chatterton, 25, Planters' Digest, 37; News in Pictures, 41; Letters to the Editors, 45; From the Islands Press, 76; Magazine Section, 85; New Books, 97; Shipping, 101 - Cruising Yachts, 111; Travel, 117; People, 135; Business and Development, 141 Produce Prices, 145; Shipping, Airways Schedules, 146; Deaths of Islands People, 154.