In This Issue

General

Australian soccer withdrawal 55 Writer's recollections 79 Container ship service 83 French trade drive 85 Freight rate increases 87 Nimos" switch to Melbourne 87 "Taiyuan" departs Pacific .. 89 Next arts festival 123 Tofua s" old captain dies . 127

American Samoa

Industrial area development 47

Clothing factory .. 108

Ship blaze tragedy 121

Cook Islands

Profitable election campaign 23 Archaeological field work 26 Government victimisation 29 Faster shipping service 85 Bulk Scotch supplies ... 107

French Polynesia

Bomb tests 14 Tahiti letter 15

Fiji

3reed for New Hebrides ... H Janabans claim $2l million 20 ourism 27 alanoa column ... 4 8 obacco-growing efforts 57 earning the language 77

Regional shipping 85

’hip repair ... 89 obacco market ... 105 imber exporting 108 developers buy Wakaya Island 109 government landlord to canefarmers 111

CSR Red China transaction ill Melbourne hotel closes 123

Gilbert And Ellice Islands

"Keteti" arrives QS

Nauru

"Enna G" has engine trouble 85 President in shipping talks 121 Aust.-Nauru Association 123

New Caledonia

Helen Rousseau's diary 42 Messmer's hint on income tax 101

New Hebrides

Mr. Messmer's speech 11 Hotel at Blacksands Beach 111

Niue

Cultural revival 53

Norfolk Island

Whaling industry ended 20 Administrator resigns 123

Papua New Guinea

Triple festivities 17 War relic fatal explosion 20 Appendicitis patient dies ... 20 Kokoda Track adventure 22 National Coalition generosity 23 Percy Chatterton's column 24

Bougainville road link 60 Aviator Grabowsky 69 Aviation anniversary 7] Memories of Queen Emma 73 Land rights study ... 77 Improved coastal shipping 87 Costly law lesson g 7 Oil palm plantation 1] ] Emanuel trial ends 121 Speaker resigns 121 Wuvulu Island hold-up 123 "Cappy" Fitch dies 124 Chief minister loses father 127

Solomon Islands

Cyclone Ida havoc ... 21 Constitutional development 59 Suspended timber operations 111 Gov. Council members' tour 121

Tonga

Air charter service IQ7 Minerva Reef claimed 121

U.S. Trust Territory

Sunken fleet peril 19

Western Samoa

Judicial resignations 17 Diplomatic relations with NZ 47 Ferry service 89

p1 P ?™o! NT c S: Up L Fron ! with the Editor ' 5; Editor's Mailbag, 7; Tropicalities, 17; pie, 26; the Islands Press, 45; Magazine Section, 69; Yesterday, 75; Book cv'ews, 77; Pacific Shipping, 83; Cruising Yachts, 91; BOAC Jet News, 97; Business and Development, 101; Produce Prices, 113; Shipping and Airways Information, 115; In a Nutshell, 121; Deaths, 127; Advertisers' Index, 127.