Sixteen Pages

Growth of The Pacific Islands Monthly

With this issue—its eleventh—The Pacific Islands Monthly is enlarged to 16 pages. Much additional reading matter is published, both in news and in special articles. The larger size, and the extra service given to our readers, have been made possible only by the steady, con sistent support we have received from adver tisers.

With the next issue (July) the Monthly will have completed its first year of life. Although it was established in the middle of the worst economic depression Australia has known, and at a time when an unprecedented price for copra and other tropical products created a spirit of pessimism throughout the South Seas, its circulation and its advertising connection have grown month by month, No other journal in this part of the world can claim sucn a record.

It is our aim to make The Pacific Islands Monthly of real service to the long-neglected, much-suffering communities of the South and Central Pacific. The journal, therefore, has been conducted with a due sense of responsi bility, so that its utterances have been received with respect in the places where decisions of importance to the Islands communities are made; and the increasing revenue has been turned back into the paper, so that it may give ever-growing service to its readers. In that respect, we have been fortunate in securing the services of a very competent corps of correspondents throughout the Islands, whose contributions have helped materially in the sound establishment of the Monthly. We now have regular correspondents in Rabaul, Wau, Port Moresby, Tulagi, Vila, Norfolk Island, Suva, Nukualofa, Thursday Island, Rarotonga and Tahiti. Correspondents are wanted for Samoa and New Caledonia.