In This Issue

General

Royal tour 8 Maritime conference 25, 77 Preparing for C'wealth Games 39 Labour ministers' conference 97

American Samoa

Grisly job for Governor Haydon 15 Sedf-gov eminent ... 21 Chiefs oppose refinery 99

Cook Islands

Population fall 8 Air terminal 15 Labour ministers' conference 97 Agricultural officers study in Australia 98 Students suspended 109

Fiji

Anxious days for homeless 9 $6O million tourist town 9 Brain drain problem 11 Civil servants strike 11 Moves to stabilise copra industry 45 Fiji to take over Nadi airport ... 81 Cargo ship damaged in Suva Harbour 85 Labour ministers' conference 97 Sir George Proud's comeback 100

French Polynesia

They want self-management 10 Dancers' tour 109

Geic

Japanese invaders' threat 14 Labour ministers' conference 97 Sand for ceremony 109

Nauru

Maritime conference 77 Greater role for Air Nauru 79 Labour ministers' conference 97

New Caledonia

Budget meeting 10 Night life 14 Marksmen for Melbourne 16

New Hebrides

Tax rises forecast 10 A missionary's diaries 49 Labour ministers' conference 97 Cattle industry's growth 109

Norfolk Island

Taxation appeal 8 Higher air cargo rates 83

Papua New Guinea

What self-government means 4 Localisation creates new elite 8 The last flight 6 Percy Chatterton's Footnotes 36 C'wealth Games hopes (pic) 39 Thursday Island newspapers 47 Entrepreneurs in the Highlands 68 Air Niugini in operation 79 Labour ministers' conference 97 Tea industry hopes 99 Hydro-electricity scheme 101

Solomon Islands

Fighter-bomber court case 14 Ancient ceremony performed 51

Labour ministers' conference 97 Pulpwood industry 99

Tonga

Dan Tufui's shipping conference

speech 25

King urges expansion of food produc tion 28 Plans for future aviation 79 Labour ministers' conference 97 Government enterprises 99 Court charges dismissed 109

United States Trust Territory

Kwajalein's price of peace Soaking the Yap drinker 16 Marianas status talks 23 Competition for Japan route 83 Transpac to charter ex war ships 85

Western Samoa

Tradition versus development 21 Balance of payments deficit 43 Labour ministers' conference 97

DEPARTMENTS: Up Front with the Editor, 2; People, 13; Tropicalities, 14; Editor's mailbag, 29; Magazine section, 47; Yesterday, 52; MANA, 61; Books, 68; From the Islands Press, 75; Pacific transport, 77; Cruising yachts, 87; Business and development, 97; Produce, 102; Shipping and airways information, 103; Deaths of Islands people, 109; In a nutshell, 109; Advertisers' index, 112.