In This Issue

General

Shipping strike causes havoc ... 28 Bill Carney departs 29 Cheaper air fares? 43 Wilkes expedition 92 Islander crews for BP's ships 107 Crown Agents look at Pacific 118

American Samoa

War fort found 35 Book on history 96 New ship for fish 103

Cook Islands

First bus service does well 36 Artist with unique blue style 67 Avatiu harbour —work goes on 105 More coconut plantings 117

Fiji

Will seek Dominion status 26 Upset over tax 31 Woman trade unionist 34 Real yaqona ceremonies or nothing . 40 New art gallery Suva 41 Yaqona cup goes plastic 41 Drug scare 46 Early Fiji 86 Musicians in Canada 100 Beauty queen 100 Biggest ship to be built 105 Aquarium invention 107 New gold find 116 Seabed search 119

French Polynesia

Missionaries to New Guinea 81 New US ship? 103 Albert Cowan dies 123

Gilbert And Ellice Islands

New Resident Commissioner 31 Two thousand seamen? 103 Mrs. Marne Murdoch dies 123

Guam

Increased air services 65

Nauru

Air Nauru soon 31 Majuro air link 65 To compete in New Guinea 109

Niue

New stamps 97

New Caledonia

Willie Johnston 35 Golf course coming 36 Bush fire menace 67 Tourist chief speaks 68 Drydock ready 110 Big Australian steel sale 115

New Hebrides

New Resident Commissioner 31 Picture of Kents 98 "Havanah" dispute 110

Norfolk

Tree of knowledge may return 41

Papua-New Guinea

Busy political month 21 Flu epidemic wanes 23 Transport and education reports 30 Pidgin in the news again 34 Agricultural man goes home 35 Tourism future 36 Human sacrifice story 36 Early missionaries from Tahiti 81 Another handbook 96 Ships from Nauru 109 Huge copper contract 115 Japanese beer interest 117

Pitcairn Island

Island life today 51 Mrs. Alice Warren dies 129

Solomon Islands

Timber venture 57 Eight-mile swim 85

Tonga

Princess and the commoner 25 Independence in 1970 27 Beauty gardens 35 Captain Cook murdered 58 Rise in road accidents 68 Taitusi's law 85

United States Trust Territory

More island hopping 37 Nauru air link 65 Scrap West Coast US line? 108

West Irian

UN debate 25 Medicine men in charge 71

Western Samoa

Budget report 29 Aggie of Aggie Grey's 83 Book on history 96 Bank makes more profit 119 Investment from Hawaii? 119

DEPARTMENTS; Up Front with the Editor, 15; Letters to the Editor, 32; Tropi calities, 34; To the Point with Percy Chatterton, 37; From the Islands Press, 72; Magazine Section, 81; Brett Hilder Profile, 83; Yesterday, 89; Book Reviews, 92; People, 101; Shipping, 103; Cruising Yachts, 111; Business and Development, 115; Produce Prices, 122; Deaths of Islands People, 123; Shipping, Airways Schedules, 125; Practical Planter, 137; South Seas ir> a Nutshell, 143; Advertisers' Index, 130.