In This Issue

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i Business in Stamps 11 mds Policemen (pictorial series) ... 21 w Year Honours List 33 OPA Prizes 69 :>ks for Islanders Learning English .. 97 dy of Rainfall in Pacific 97 ;earch on Cone Shells 109 3t. Cook Memorial Expeditions ... 11l |her Copra Prices 142 3t. Gillespie Pty. Ltd. Sold 142

Lerican Samoa

happy Samoans (letter) 51 re Tourists 131

Ok Islands

>ert Henry in Hospital 15 dy of Tuna Possibilities 61 >dmer" Breaks Down 107 I I Swimmer's Success 16 jor Problems for Government ... 25 w Suva Buildings 27 prentices', Managers' Courses ... 65 dent Charcoal 69 rine Department Functioning 107 ight, Passenger Rates Up 107 uman Gets First Sea Certificate ... 109 mging Face of Suva (pictures) ... 117 iw Zest Needed in Tourism 121 m Plane for Fiji Airways 127

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

Resident Commissioner's Functions ... 19 Training Vessel 105 Ship Sold to BSIP 107 Tourism Study 125

New Caledonia

Nouville Prison Scandal 15 New Aircraft for Transpac 133 Interest in "Niaouli" 142

New Hebrides

Red Cross (letter) 51 Vanua Lava Sulphur Deposits 85, 86 Hiu's Prehistoric Michaelangelo 91 Captain Athol Rusden 101

Niue

New Steps Forward 39

Norfolk Island

Noted Yachtsman's Nostalgia 17 No Nobbs in Nobbs Store Now ... 33 "Morayshire" Picture Sought 39 Duty Free Shops 135

Papua-New Guinea

New Administrator 9, 19 1969 Port Moresby Games 16 Disillusionment Over Pensions 16 Famous Patrol Post Closes 17 Back to Days of St. Francis 19 Worsening Road Toll 33

Wartime Plane Wreck Found 35 Hands Off the Parish Pump! 45 Book by J. P. Sinclair 95 13 Die in Rabaul Tragedy 103 Japanese for Shipbuilding 105 Award for Moresby Seamen 107 Formosan Ship Wrecked 109 Jet Service for Port Moresby 133 International Bank Mission 142 Oil Search in New Britain 142 Income Tax for New Guineans 143 Bougainville Copper 143

Solomon Islands

Study of Sea Bed 59 Local Airways Record 67 Mendana's 400th Anniversary 89 Bosun's Night of Adventure 105 Ship Bought from GEIC 107 Crayfish Industry 107 Secondary Industries 141

South Pacific Commission

Crisis Year Looms 54

Tonga

London Trip for King 10 Swamp Land Reclaimed 33 More Tourists 131

United States Trust Territory

New Air Services Proposed 133 New Deputy High Commissioner ... 136

Western Samoa

Parliamentary Election 13 Economic Situation Improves 37 Five-year Development Plan 37 Minister Dead 37, 154 Move to Develop Hotels 125 Tourism Conference 125

DEPARTMENTS: Tropicalities, 16; To The Point, with Percy Chatterton, 45; Letters to the Editors, 51; Planters' Digest, 71; From The Islands Press, 76; Magazine Section, 85; New Books, 95; Shipping, 101; Cruising Yachts, 113; Travel, 121; People, 136; Business and Development, 141; Shipping, Airways Schedules, 146; Deaths of Islands People, 153.