This Issue

lAL re cuts still possible 26 or W. Pacific post 28 meeting report 30 omes of age 31 ler's letter 36 to leave NZ? 51 lOAC jets in 1969 53 for sea current 105 -ine ships to stay 107 Carpenters profit 121 ''s Fiji Restaurant 153

Can Samoa

on newsletter 39 urism future 45 got to be impressed 60 >hanel, radio DJ 150 chief's problem 151

iitcher on sailing 153

Islands

ing of Aitutaki airstrip 51 to Penrhyn 89 Chambers dies 159 Serna dies 159 tensions ease 27 agreement 27 3f "Tui Lau" loss 29 en" inquiry ... 29 new traffic scheme 38 uinea air services 51

Big Walu caught 57 Sugar cargo record 107 Reef blasting continues 107 Work for "Taranui" 107 Yacht race—record entries 108 Decimal preparations 121 Trade figures up .124 Rice growing efforts 145

French Polynesia

Statue for Pomare V? 37

Gilbert And Ellice Islands

Air services next year 55 Shipping future promising 101 Japanese ships next year 103 Ocean Island phosphate talks 116

Lord Howe Island

Site found for airstrip 39

Papua-New Guinea

Breakaway parties 25 Bougainville moves ... 26 Carpenters buy plantation 26 Moresby's trade union "war" 37 ANGAU picture—who are they? 38 New aircraft arrive 49 Fiji air services opposed 51 Bibliography released 97 Papua's $4 million timber deal 121 P. L. James dies in Brisbane 159

Nauru

Football pools—the details 32

New Caledonia

Nickel exports 122 Record trade hampered 124

New Hebrides

New novel by Thea Astley 97 Tonga to build Vila wharf? 103

Norfolk Island

New petrol plant operating 107 Fryer industry approved 123

Solomon Islands

New aircraft next year 49 Rice grown in 1934 57 Boatbuilding school's future 103 Filei, master of Southern Cross ... 116

Tonga

Miss Nukualofa marries 26 Vavau airstrip wrong place? ... 55 Wharf work in Vila? 103 Captain Filmer—a profile 105 Daniel Tufui in London 116 Oil has potential 122

Us Trust Territory

Small ship travel suggested 53 Self rule possible 59 Bob Halvorsen retires H 6

Western Samoa

Letters of Harry Moors 85

West Irian

Peter Hastings' report 69

Up Front with the Editor, 19; Tropicalities, 37; Travel, 41- To ? mt o r h D r n y Chatterton ' 34 '- Otters, 57; Magazine Section, ' 85; Brda y 93; Book Reviews, 95; From the Islands Press, 115; Shipping 101smg Yachts, ,08; People, 116, Commerce, ,21; Produce Page p-ng. Airways Schedules, 127; Practical Planter, 143; Deaths of Islands People, 159; Index to Advertisers, 134.