In This Issue

Eneral

FA on air fares 41 antas, PanAm clash 43 eekly Canadian air services 45 jstralian foreign policy 89 >ok for stargazers 91 story of Gippsland Shipping , 93 e Quinn loses court case 105

Aerican Samoa

67: a record year 67 nnery head leaves 110

>Ok Islands

Hie Watson; 40 years a trader 29 i| mb haze? ;j King contest H w dollar notes ;;; >men police on the way iv ra's little "Opera House" 21 u Mara on self-government 21 ans in NZ 23 lind the by-election 24 nese drift to Solomons 25 lustrial developments 30 i Lau" off to Lau 39 m members for Fiji Airways 43 1 islands in the sun 55 ng club airborne 61 1 Yadali" trading to Vanua Levu 101 ter rice results 116

Meat: another setback 117 Australia's "lack of interest" 118 Customs system changes 118 Mr. C. E. Best dies 129

French Polynesia

Tahiti-Moorea air services 45 Tureians travel to Papeete 63

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

Call for airline operators 45 Christmas Island's brighter future 65 "Moana Raoi" in Sydney 97 Robert Narruhn dies in Suva 129

Lord Howe Island

Shipping freight rates up 101

Nauru

Aussie Rules catches on i v Plans to register ships 95

New Hebrides

Economic progress 19 Census details released 20 British shipping regulations 99 Pastor Wimbong in Sweden 110 Mr. E. Ohlen dies in Sydney 129

Niue

A Spring "bush" day 67 New administrator 110

Papua-New Guinea

Kuru disease caused by cannibalism ii Students protest at apartheid 27 Papuan tourist resort 47 Moresby's unemployment troubles 59 Papua's last cannibals 70 Memories of L. Wilkinson 79 Bougainville's "German times" 81 Political future discussed in book 89 BP's ships leave Bougainville 97 Lae shipping terminal opened 101 Another brewery for Moresby 110 Bright future for pearls 115 PNG Motors go public 117 Nickel, copper found near Sepik 118 Big crocodile skins sale 118 Copra growers' payout 118

Solomon Islands

Captain Ladd: no narrow shaves! ii Chinese castaways from Rotuma 25 "Coral Queen" returns • 99 GPL's new general manager 110

Tonga

August Hettig profile . 83 Shipping services for NZ? 101 New hotel manager arrives 110 Vavau copra does best 118

Us Trust Territory

Bikini people to go home ii

Wallis, Futuna Islands

Road accidents galore 65

Western Samoa

Bomb haze? |j Traders and their meat problems iii Privies to go 28 Airline staff stood down 29 Tourist increase 45 More Asau wharf delays 95

DEPARTMENTS: Up Front with the Editor, 15; Tropicalities, ii; Port Moresby Personality iv; Travel, 39; To the Point with Percy Chatterton, 52; Letters 49- YaXrtoS Fr°o n ' th'’ Book Shipping/95 Cruisfng Pnioa the glands Press, 109; People, 110; Commerce, 115; Produce Page, 119; Shipping, Airways Schedules, 121; Deaths of Islands People, 129; Practical Planter, 135; Index to Advertisers, 128.