This Issue

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"Should Do More in Islands" ... 39 ds from the Air 41 Pearl's Book on Morrison 91 ping Freight Rates Rise 97 Japenese Ship for the Islands .. 107 a Market Report 125

Ik Islands

i on Rarotonga's Airstrip 49 osition Walk-out 19 sterial Government 20 is Have Head for Soccer 21 Island Conference 22 ike Rotan Writes 23 University 26 •logical College 31 isit to the Lau Group 45 il Workers' Training Scheme ... 49 il Manager Returns 50 i's Bumper Share of Sunshine 50 Airways to Change Schedules 53 itastic" Flowers 69 i's Harry Charman 75 es Cleared from Suva 101 iuva Yacht Race 11l ght Steel Plant 125 ir Profits, Output Down 127 k Starts on Copper Mill 127

Jch Polynesia

rea Ferry Wrecked 99 fain Darr to Reopen Plantations . 103

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

Gilbertese for Australia 22 Tourism Report Stresses Air Link 53 Touring Vessel "Tautunu" Arrives ... 105 "John Williams VM's" New Master 105

Nauru

Independence 23

New 6,000-ton Ship Ordered 112

New Caledonia

Walpole Island's Mysterious Relics . 65 Objection Lodged to Election Results 75 US Research Ships Visit Noumea 97 Interest in Old Wrecks 107 Trade Meeting in Noumea 125

New Hebrides

Wall at Big Bay 37 Census Figures 39 Pentecost's Land Divers 86 Familiar Vila Hulk Sunk 101

Niue

Decimal Currency Changeover 31 Chief Medical Officer 53 Stricken Japanese Ship Abandoned . 99 Unusual Ship's Call 105

Norfolk Island

Disappearing Wildlife 55 Frank Clune's History 94 Fishing Boat Swept on Rocks 103

Papua-New Guinea

Biggest-ever Budget 18

25th Anniversary of War 25 Anglican Church Conference 25 University Opens 26 Mount Hagen Show 26 Rabaul Earth Tremors 28 Moresby's Political Upheavals 29 House of Assembly Elections 29 Australia's First Submarine 30 Schoolboy Rugby "Test" 32 Malaria at Moresby 38 Judges for Games Emblem 40 Air Services Rates Up 5 per cent. 51 Army Base Near Lae 59 Percy Chatterton on Unity 61 1937 Rabaul Earthquake 81 New Coastwatcher Book 95 South Korean Trade Possibility 101 Modern Freighter to Call in 1968 101 Test on Native Grasses 125 Lysaght Steel Plants 125 Bougainville Copper Deposits "Huge" 127 More Tea Land Available 128

Solomon Islands

US Marines Remember 24 Death of Alec Wickham 27

South Pacific Commission

"Mini" Conference 27 Meeting on Trade 125

Tonga

Census Figures 26 US Money in Bottle 30 King's Trilithon Theory 56 Another Crayfishing Venture 99 First Anglican Bishop 117 First Vanilla Exports 128

Western Samoa

Matai Racket 18 Women's Fashions 32 Brewery Possibilities 40 New Owner for Casino Hotel .. 49 NZ May Lose Cases Trade 128

DEPARTMENTS: Up Front with the Editor, 14; Tropicalities, 30; Port Moresby Personality, 31; Travel, 45; To the Point with Percy Chatterton, 61; From the Islands Press, 76; Magazine Section, 81; Yesterday, 89; Book Reviews, 91; Shipping, Cruising Yachts, 109; People in Pictures, 113; People, 117; Business and Development, 125; Produce Prices, 129; Shipping, Airways Schedules, 131; Deaths of . Islands People, 138; Practical Planter, 143.