In This Issue

General

New Look for PIM 14 "Journal of Pacific History" 14, 36 Books on Pacific War 101 Exploration of Pacific Basin 103 New "Kon Tiki" Voyage 107 New BOAC Service 139 W. R. Carpenter Report 149 Record Burns Philp Profit 149

American Samoa

Readers' Views on Article 59 Coconut Culture Conundrum 97 Canoe Endurance Test 107

Cook Islands

Increased Taxes 10

Fiji

Legco Gets Down to Business 9 Development Slower, Taxes Up 11 Dismay Over New Chief Secretary ... 11 Electronic Computer 11 Trevor Withers' Bure 17 Games Team's Chances 29 Seeds of Conflict in Constitution 36 1963 Suva Games Flashback 45 Legislative Council Elections 61 Place Names 63 Women Enter Politics 73 Launch for Beetle Patrols 115 UK Trade Mission 148

French Polynesia

Tahiti's School Centenary 80 Sarka the Artist 93

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

Tarawa Stamp Proposals 69 New Training Vessel 113 Fourteen Whales Sighted 115

Nauru

Manager for Co-operative 140

New Caledonia

South Pacific Games Mystery 14 Preview of Games Prospects 18 Matthews Island Eruption 115 Pictorial Series 121 For the Tourist 125

New Hebrides

Victim of Cone Shell 43 Boy Yachtsman Reaches Vila 119 For the Tourist 125 Santo Advisory Town Council 140

Niue

Population Figures 37 New Secretary 78

Norfolk Island

Pirate Radio Station 17 Personality—Gordon Findlay 91

Papua-New Guinea

Population Statistics 12 Army Cadets in March 12 Shares Plan for New Businesses 13 Bigger Salaries for MHA's 13 Best Wishes to Mr. David Hay 15 Rabaul's Religious Tolerance 17

Marking of Border 17 Teacher Training Colleges 17 Preview of Games Team's Chances .. 23 Death of "Jock" Maclean 35 Percy Chatterton's Column 39 Poet of the Papuans 66 Highland Weavers Flourishing 79 Ivan Champion's Book Re-issued 105 Malcolm Wright's New Book 105 Lae Wharf Congestion 113 Formosans "Out of Bounds" 113 New Rabaul Wharf 115 Air Link Delays 137 New Tourist Cruiser 139 New Supreme Court Judge 140 New Education Director 140 Cocoa Troubles 145

Pitcairn Island

Christmas Variety Show 17 New Commemorative Stamps 89

Tonga

King Drives in Mini-moke 11 Young Artist 140 First Loans 147

Solomon Islands

Cyclone Reveals War Relics 13 Trading Vessel Aground 107 Chief Education Officer 140

United States Trust Territory

Petrol Storage Contract 115 Copra Marketing Plan 148

Western Samoa

Russian Editor's Visit 15 Timber Plan Approved 37 "Miserable Future Unless . . ." 38 Canoe Endurance Test 107 Beauty Plan for Apia 135 New Job for Chief Justice 140 Coca-Cola Plant 148

DEPARTMENTS: Tropicalities, 14; To the Point with Percy Chatterton, 39; Planters' Digest, 51; Letters to the Editors, 59; From the Islands Press, 65; Magazine Section, 89; Yesterday, 99; New Books, 101; Shipping, 107; Cruis ing Yachts, 117; Travel, 121; People, 140; Business and Development, 145; Produce Prices, 151; Shipping, Airways Information, 152; Deaths of Islands People, 159.