Pacific Islands Monthly is Well Received

We acknowledge with grateful thanks, letters received from all directions congratulating us on, the establishment of The Pacific Islands Monthly. We also acknowledge very welcome support in the shape of new advertising contracts. We are thus encouraged to proceed, in spite of the temporary depression, with our effort to assist and stimulate trade relations between Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific. Following are extracts from letters received:

Mr. Lewis Armstrong, general mana ger, Messrs. Burns Philp & Company Limited, Sydney: “The first issue of The Pacific Is lands Monthly was read through with a great amount of interest.

“The journal contains quite a lot of good and entertaining reading matter, with the addition of valuable infor mation, all applicable to the Pacific Islands, and I have no doubt that so long as the high standard of the first issue is maintained your publication will be eagerly looked for each month by all subscribers.”

Rev. J. W. Burton, M.A., general sec retary of The Mdthodist Missionary Society of Australasia:— “I am very interested in the venture.

I think the first issue is an excellent production, and it ought to meet a need, particularly in bringing the dif ferent Island groups into some sort of relation. The trouble at present is that each group faces its problems individu ally, not realising how common they are to every other group. I hope the journal is a success.”

Mr. U. R. Ellis, private secretary to Dr. Earle Page, M.P.:— “May I congratulate you on your en terprise in producing The Pacific Is lands Monthly and its general make up? I believe you have opened up a journalistically lucrative proposition which will be of untold value to Aus tralia. It is remarkable that the Pacific has remained so long neglected from the Australian side, while the Phil lipines and Hawaii have been so swiftly developed commercially, and in a tour ist sense. The tourist angle alone is one which must ultimately bring us untold wealth.”

Mr. Harold James, East Brunswick, Melbourne:— “Being interested generally in the Pacific Islands, it gives me much pleas ure to congratulate you after reading; the first issue of the Monthly. I feel sure it is going to provide much needed publicity for the Islands.”

The Daily Mail, Brisbane;— “The first issue furnishes a great deal of useful information about trade pros pects in the islands, and contains also much interesting reading matter of a general character about the Pacific.

Many of these island communities are without their own newspaper, and The Pacific Islands Monthly should find a considerable circulation in them, as well as amongst the business community of Australia.”

Mr. W. A. Freeman, of Sydney, who is deeply interested in New Guinea devel opmental activities:— As a director of the Placer Develop ment and Bulolo Gold Dredging Com panies, operating in New Guinea, I have been pleased indeed to receive the first issue of your paper. The name, The Pacific Islands Monthly, is, I think, well chosen. I have been much struck by the literary and journalistic merits of the paper, by the wealth of matter given, and by the general reach of the publication. In fact, it is one of the most interesting publications of the sort that I have ever seen. I shall be in terested to see whether you can main tain the standard you have set. The amount of territory and interests cov ered by these Island possessions and Governments, I find rather an eye opener, and I feel sure that this will be the case with most people who read the publication for the first time.

Major Clive B. Joske, M.C. (Messrs.

Brown & Joske Ltd., merchants), Suva, Fiji:— I congratulate you upon the first number of The Pacific Islands Monthly.

May it increase with each issue in health, wealth and prosperity!

Mr. J. Horne (managing director, Messrs. Walter Horne & Co. Ltd., mer chants, and vice-president of the Suva Chamber of Commerce), Suva, Fiji:— I have read with great interest the first issue of The Pacific Islands Mon thly, and I am, sure it will find a ready sale, and will be read with great in terest all over the Pacific, especially by people in the outlying islands. I wish you every success.

Dr. J. P. Thompson, C.8.E., general secretary of the Royal Geographical So ciety of Australasia (Queensland): — “I have read your Pacific Islands Monthly with much interest, and hope your enterprise will succeed. There is room for such a publication if con ducted on progressive lines.”

Mr. F. S. Boyce, K.C., MLC, At torney-General in the N.S.W. Cabinet, and a director of New Guinea com panies:— As one who has some acquaintance with the field covered I have been in New Guinea, Fiji, and Norfolk Is land, though, of course, not for long I appreciate the fullness of the infor mation which the publication gives.

Wishing you every success.

Hon, Henry Marks, C.B E,, Mayor of Suva: I have read with much pleasure the first number of The Pacific Islands Monthly, and feel that such a journal, including in its influence the whole of the Pacific, should provide a medium of a closer union and a greater sympathy among the peoples of the Pacific. I wish it every success.

Sir Henry Scott, K.C., Member of the Legislative Council and Executive Council, of Fiji: I have read with interest a copy of the first issue of The Pacific Islands Monthly. I have little doubt that the object of this much-needed journal will be achieved; that it will serve the in terests of the Pacific communities by not only improving knowledge and communication between the various administrations of the Central and Southern Pacific, but will also convey to Australia and New Zealand reliable information concerning the Pacific Is lands and their peoples. If the stand ard of the first issue of The Pacific Islands Monthly be maintained, I am optimistic as to the success I wish the publication.

Mr. Alan O. Mackenzie, of Suva (vice-president of the Suva Chamber of Commerce): The proprietors of The Pacific Islands Monthly are to be congratu lated on the high standard of their initial issue. This journal will fill a long-felt want as a medium of exchange of inter-island news and, provided the high standard is maintained, its success and permanence will be assured.

Mr. David W. Amos. F.A.I.I., manager of the Pacific Insurance Co., Ltd., Suva: I hasten to congratulate you upon your enterprise in publishing The Pacific Islands Monthly. This paper will embrace within its ambit all the

different administrations of the Pacific and should no doubt in time have great influence in creating a greater harmony amongst the various islands communi ties. It will not be an easy work to establish this paper at least that is my opinion but it will be possible, and it will be well worth while. I con gratulate you upon the general lay out of the paper and character of the news provided.

The Advertiser, Adelaide: The Pacific Islands Monthly should prove a valuable publication to resi

dents and traders of the Central and South Pacific.

Colonel A, J. Bennett, Administrator of Norfolk Island (through his private secretary, Mr. C. A. Leonard): The Administrator has read, with pleasure, the first number of The Pacific Islands Monthly. His Honour congratulates you on the attractive reading matter and appearance, and expresses his good wishes for continued success of so useful a publication.