Contents.

Page Copra Marketing and Exchange . . 3 Merauke To-day 5 Slip for Rabaul 5 Death of Bishop Hermel (Papeete) 6 Hurricane in N.C. and N.H 7 My Cannibal Cook 7 Salamaua: Port’s Growth . . . . 9 Death of Dick Roche 10 Making Samoa Self-contained . . 10 Marine Industries in Torres Straits 11 “Money-Making” Missions . . . . 12 Rumour of Gold in Solomons . . . . 12 New B.P. Shipping Service . . .. 12 N.G. Goldfields Rich Prospects 14, IS Marketing Australian Rice . . . . 14 South Sea Perfumes 15 Misima Gold 15 Methodist Finance 16 New Guinea Laws 16 Tauri Gold 16 Review of Tongan Conditions . . 17 Fiji Rice Mill 19 Gizo Tragedy 19 Do We Want Chinese-Polynesian Population? 20 Samoan Retrenchments 20 Premium on British Silver . . 21 Forgotten Missionaries of 1847 . . 22

Page Late F. A. Rochfort 23 Mau Movement Seven Years Old . . 24 Fiji’s Finances 25 Solomons’ Imports Decrease . . . . 25 Bananas Swamp N.Z. Markets . . 26 Increase in Samoan Duties .. . . 26 Papua Balances Budget 27 Hurricane in Samoa 27 Pacific Islands Travellers . . . . 28 N. Guinea and Papuan Gold Share market 28 Exchange Quotations 29 Market Quotations 30 Happy Tonga! 30 Shipping Services in Pacific . . 31-32 Rabaul’s Electric Light 33 Papua Honours late F. J. Berge . . 34 Commercial Possibilities of Pawpaw 34 Papuan Rubber 35 Wireless for Torres Straits . . . . 35 Motuans in Their Lakatoi . . . . 36 Radio at Morobe 38 Madang as Permanent Goldfields Port? 40 Nauru and Ocean Is 41 Sidelights on Finance 44 Chinese Labour in Fiji 46 New Books 47