Pacific islands monthly : PIM

Call Number
HSW 1363
Created/Published
[Sydney : Pacific Publications, 1931-2000
Issue
Vol. XX, No. 8 (Mar., 1950)
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Contents

PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly 1
Advertising 2 , 3 , 4
Index to Advertisers 5
Advertising 5
IN THIS ISSUE: 6
Advertising 6
Pacific Islands Monthly 7
DUTCH NEW GUINEA : A VITAL ISSUE 7 , 8
G. and E. Colony’s Headquarters 8
Moturiki Development Project Preliminary Survey Being Made 8
LATE NEWS 8
DEATH OF VON LUGKNER’S CAPTOR 8
UK COPRA OFFER ACCEPTED 9
Growers To Get More For Cone Result of New UK Offer to Fiji Sugar 9
SUVA CRUSHERS TAKING MORE OF FIJI’S COPRA 9
NEAR-HURRICANE IN FIJI Five missing; Four rescued 9
High Commissioner at Honiara 9
MINISTER’S VISIT TO PAPUA-N. GUINEA Policy Statement After Inspection 9
EIGHT HUGE BOMB BLASTS Destruction of Half Million Pounds’ Worth of Munitions In N. Guinea 10
EXPEDITION WILL EXAMINE N. GUINEA CANE Boosting Queensland Sugar Production 10
SUBSIDY FOR AORANGI? Difficulies of Maintaining Service 11
LANDING TRUCKS ON MANGAIA FULL OF THRILLS 11
Oil Exploration In Papua 11
Guadalcanal's Undiscovered People Just Another Tall Tale 11
N. Guinea Memorial Scholarships Three Awarded for 1950 12
PACIFIC ISLANDS SOCIETY 12
CORRECTION 12
RABAUL ROUNDABOUT 12
TEAL to Operate NZ-Suva Service 13
Skymasters on Sydney-New Guinea Service 13
NEW AIRLINERS FOR TRANS PACIFIC SERVICE CPA Will Have Jet Planes in 1952 13
Birthday Celebrations For Tonga's Queen She will be 50 on March 13; 32 Years on Throne 13
HYDRO-ELECTRICITY FOR MORESBY 13
First Oil From Dutch New Guinea More Suitable for Lubricants Than Petrol 13
Advertising 14
PLAIN TALK ABOUT PAPUA-NEW GUINEA Roy Kendall’s Address To Australian Senate 15 , 101
Advertising 15 , 16
PASSENGERS BY NAC TO SUVA 17
GRANTS FROM NG COMFORTS FUND 17
Advertising 17
HOW ‘DYNAMITE MAC’ MISSED TAHITI Amusing Angles of a Boat Theft In Samoa 18 , 19 , 99 , 100
Advertising 18 , 19 , 20
SOUTH PACIFIC COMMISSION Important Conference In Suva 21 , 22 , 23
Advertising 21 , 22
DEATH OF E. G. THEODORE 23
Coconut Husking Machine 23
Sandy Creek Gold 23
Advertising 23
NAURU’S NEW ADMINISTRATOR NOW ON DUTY 24
RISE IN FIJI TROGHUS 24
Advertising 24
MIGRANT DOCTORS LEAVE FOR NEW GUINEA 25
Advertising 25
YONKI GREEK 26
Australian Exchange Rate Causes Uncertainty in Goldmining Industry 26
Advertising 26
Cocos Likes its Isolation Hold Up in Plans for Australia-Africa Air Route 27
DEATH OF C. L. B. WILDE 27
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION FOLLOW “BORROWED” LORRY From Our Own Correspondent 27
COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND “WELFARE SCHOLARSHIPS 27
Advertising 27 , 28
IN SUVA., 45 YEARS AGO 29
Advertising 29
BSI PLANTERS’ ASSOCIATION 30
Australia s Air Beef Plan Originated 30
Advertising 30
FUTURE OF SOLOMON AND GILBERT ISLANDS Suggestion That Western Pacific High Commission Should Be Terminated 31 , 33 , 34
Advertising 31 , 32 , 33 , 34
BSIP Called A “Tragic Mess” 34 , 35
DO YOU WANT TWO USELESS ENAMEL DISHES? 35
SCHOOL OF PACIFIC STUDIES FOR CANBERRA 35
HIGH COST OF LIVING 35
Advertising 35 , 36
NEWS PICTURES FROM VANUA LEVU 37
Advertising 37
Answer To A Correspondent 38
Advertising 38
DEATH OF OWNER OF PALMYRA 38
PRAISE FOR AMP’S Products of Suva Medical School 39
Niue Island Stamps 39
Advertising 39 , 40
PLANT COCOA NOW! West African Troubles Help Pacific Planters 41
FIJI ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS TRUST IN ACTION 41 , 42
Advertising 41 , 42
Few Rennellese Leave Home 42
Attack On Price Control System in Fiji 43
NEW CALEDONIA’S FISH 43
Advertising 43 , 44
PLANTER VERSUS SOLDIER Fiji’s Economic Condition In Relation to Defence of NZ Letter to the Editor 45 , 46
Advertising 45 , 46
TO REFINE OIL IN NC 46
NEW HEBRIDES’ NEW VOLCANO 47
Advertising 47 , 48
WHAT IS WRONG WITH NEW CALEDONIA? Leading French Journalist Brutally Names the All-Powerful Nickel Company 49 , 50 , 51
Advertising 49 , 50
PUBLIC SERVANTS STRIKE IN NOUMEA 51
Advertising 51 , 52
MAGAZINE SECTION Territories Talk-Talk 53 , 54
Cool Thatch— Or Hot Tin? 54
Artist Dobell Finds New Guinea 55
Tropicalities 56 , 57
PIM Crossquiz – No.3 57
NORFOLK ISLAND LANDINGS 58 , 59
Pidgin As She Is Wrote 59
Solution to Crossquiz, page 53 59
fashion ... 60
MATINEE QUEUE 60
Advertising 61 , 62
POLYNESIAN SOCIETY JOURNAL 62
HIGH COSTS “WILL KILL NG PRIVATE ENTERPRISE” 62
LAND BOUGHT FOR FIJIANS 63
Health Stamp Prizes Criticised In Fiji 63
Japs Want to Fish in Pacific Waters 63
Advertising 63 , 64
WHEN GEORGE TUBOU II WAS MARRIED Tongan Incidents of Long Ago 65 , 66
Advertising 65 , 66
Levuka Urges Speed-up of Long-Awaited Jetty 66
LIFE ON A SEPIK BACKWATER Some Notes on Water-Babies, House-Building and Mosquitoes 67 , 69
Advertising 67 , 68 , 69
MV AMBON CHANGES HANDS 69 , 70
Advertising 70
"FRANKNESS WANTED" Fair Deal Urged for Fijian Education 70 , 71
Advertising 71 , 72
NEW SERVICEMEN'S CLUB FOR RABAUL 73 , 74
Advertising 73 , 74
AIR SERVICE TO VELLA LAVELLA SUGGESTION 74
Book Review: Post-War Problems and Rice Production Report of Institute of Public Relations 75
Advertising 75 , 76
Dollar Shortage Hits West Samoa 76
Australian Beach Girls In Fiji 76
Question of Court Sentences Raised in Fiji 77
MILLION DOLLARS FOR TORRES STRAIT PEARL-SHELL 77
Advertising 77
NEW CADET OFFICERS FOR BSI 78
Advertising 78
RADIO NEW ZEALAND POPULAR IN ISLANDS 78
SECOND ROBBERY FROM MORRIS HEDSTROM’S, NADI 78
OLD AND NEW IN THE S. W. PACIFIC 79
Another Mercy Flight By RNZAF In Fiji 79
Advertising 79 , 80
NO DECORATION, SIR! Australian Bureaucrats Have the Last Word 81
New Weather Officer For Nadi 81
Advertising 81
ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT 82
Advertising 82
NAUSORI WEDDING 82
Rabaul Revisited 83 , 85 , 86
Advertising 83 , 84 , 85 , 86
W. SAMOA HAS WET AND STORMY WET SEASON 86
MICRONESIA UNDER AMERICAN RULE Annual Report to Trustee Council 87 , 88
Advertising 87 , 88
Death of Sgt-Major Vilisi 88
New Guinea's Native Delegates To SP Conference In Fiji 89 , 90
Advertising 89
AIR-COOLED DIESEL ENGINES A SUCCESS 90
Javanese Labour is Costly 90
Advertising 90
SHIPPING AND PLANE SERVICES SHIP SERVICES 91
Advertising 91
AIP SERVICES 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 96
Advertising 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 96
INCENDIARY? Alarming Series of Fires In New Guinea 97
HONIARA WEDDING 97
BSPs Big Building Programme 97
Advertising 97 , 98 , 99 , 100
IT WAS A PRODUCT OF COCONUT RADIO 100
THE MONTH IN MORESBY 103 , 104 , 105
Advertising 101 , 102 , 103 , 104 , 105
Fiji Publicity Board 105
Misima’s Six Months’ Lag 106
Advertising 106
“SLAVERY” IN NEW GUINEA! 106
PRE-FABS FOR THE ISLANDS? 107
W. SAMOA’S ROAD SCHEME Another Section Opened 107
New Club For Honiara 107
TE RAPUNGA IN HOBART 107
Advertising 107 , 108
BP LAUNCH NEW CUTTER IN APIA 108
WHY FIJI’S YACHT WAS FAILURE AT AUCKLAND 108
VEGETABLE SUPPLY FOR MORESBY From Australia or Central Highlands 108
A POLYNESIAN EARACHE CURE THAT WORKS 108
MYSTERY OF SUVA AMBULANCE SERVICE 108
NUTFALL PROBLEM Fiji Official's BBC Talk 109
Advertising 109
ISLANDS PRODUCE 110
Advertising 110
PRICE OF GOLD 110
Exchange Rates 110
Advertising 111 , 112

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