In This Issue

General

Queen's visit in pictures 53 Canberra remembers Capt. Cook 67 Theo Brown on sharks 97

American Samoa

Political status report 26

Cook Islands

Child malnutrition 102 New Holm charter 109 Pukapuka reef blasting 11l Hurricane damage 123

Easter Island

LAN-Chile's jets begin 41

Fiji

Royal visit 22 Education report 25 CSR decision 25, 117 Workers' trouble in NZ ... 27 Islanders in real estate 63 New tourism commission 65 Frank Fleming, aviator 85 Rhinoceros beetle menace 101 Brokerage house? 121

French Polynesia

Jet service from Chile 41 Attack on starfish 101

Silence on independence 103 Floods in Tahiti 145 More H-bombs 145

Gilbert And Ellice Islands

Constitutional and economic report 24 Line Islands "nationalised"? 24

Lord Howe Island

"Cobby" Robbins' golf course 37

Nauru

$3 starfish bounty 28 Half a hotel 39 Air Nauru begins 39 Bank comment on company 44

New Caledonia

Dramas in Noumea 38 Johnston-Huyghe wedding 39 Another plane crash 41 Tourists decrease 71 Trader's manuscript 86 Politician on TV 103 New tugboat 107

New Hebrides

Independence call 28 "Havanah" reprieve 107 Film in festival 143

Norfolk Island

July elections 29

Papua-New Guinea

Assembly report 26 Two shippers merge 27 Rabaul revisited 30 Kieta, boom town 31 Votes for 18-year-olds? 41 Moresby today—Denis Fisk 47 Megaliths of the Trobriands 81 $l3 m. for harbours? 105 Cocoa production down 119 Sir Edward Hallstrom dies 132 Coconut sulphur deficiency 137

Solomon Islands

Progress report 34

Tonga

Royal viist 22 Independence, July 4 23 Royalty stamps 27 Tourists lost 67 "Ata" refloated 108 Copra board shakeup 121

U.S. Trust Territory

Truk's "Agent 007" 37 Jets start to Ponape 57 Learning languages 96

West Irian

Fishing project 11l

Western Samoa

Progress work on Asau reef 16 Hurricane stamps 27 New Cabinet examined 51

DEPARTMENTS: South Seas in a Nutshell, 15; Tropicalities, 36; Letters to the Editor, 42; Footnotes with Percy Chatterton, 45; From the Islands Press, 72; Magazine Section, 81; Yesterday, 89; Book Reviews, 91; Shipping, 105; Cruising Yachts, 112 Business and Development, 117; Produce Prices, 123; Shipping and Airways Schedules, 125; Deaths of Islands People, 132, Practical Planter, 137, Advertisers' Index, 132.