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...growth of the South Pacific edition has been especially heartening to TIME. In 1932, we sold 76 magazines a week in Australia and 22 in New Zealand, all of them copies of the U.S. edition, which took about four weeks to get there by boat. In 1946, when TIME International was created, the new Pacific edition went to 3,600 Australians and 900 New Zealanders. Today our circulation in Australia is 74,000 and in New Zealand is 30,000. This week Publisher Davidson begins a tour of both countries to visit our printing plants and advertising offices and, above...
...Middle East. For five years the magazine was prohibited in Indonesia, but that ban was happily lifted ten months ago. Since we had maintained a list of our subscribers there, we immediately resumed sending them their copies. Fortunately, such problems do not arise in Australia or New Zealand, where Publisher Davidson and all of us hope for continued, expanding demand and interest...
...bulkier the monarch, the greater his subjects' blessings and prosperity. This has been the comfortable philosophy of the 77,000 Polynesian islanders of Tonga, a British protectorate 850 miles northeast of New Zealand. The stately figure of their beloved Queen Salote (6 ft. 3 in., 280 Ibs.) was widely admired during Queen Elizabeth's coronation procession in London in 1953, when Salote rode proudly erect in the pouring rain without benefit of hat or umbrella; Tongans do not cover themselves in the presence of superiors. Salote died in 1965. Last week her son, Taufa' Ahau Tupou...
Fully two-thirds of Nauru contains deep deposits of phosphates that are used for fertilizers. These are being dug up and exported at the rate of 1,500,000 tons a year by the British Phosphate Commission, run jointly by Britain, Australia and New Zealand. In return, the commission has installed many facilities on the island and pays the natives a royalty that has just been raised to $15,400,000 a year...
...France had given the winsome Edward a rare chance as Prince of Wales to mingle with all manner of his future subjects - and they with him. After the war, he traveled the world on a series of triumphal grand tours from Africa to India to the U.S. and New Zealand - representing his father, who ruled the mightiest empire ever assembled...