Contents.

Page Asiatic Immigration in Pacific . . 3 "Old Bill” of Papua 5 Polynesia 5 New Administrator for Norfolk Is. 6 Fiji Bananas! 7 Tropicalities 8 Satisfactoy Results of Bulolo Dredging 9 Inter-Island Shipping 9 Samoan Campaign Against Yaws . . 9 Capt. Moody’s Aerial Tour 10 Death of D. M. Forsyth 11 Copra and Exchange 12 Death of Frederick O’Brien 13 About Islands People 14 Douglas Fairbanks in Tahiti . . . . 15 Thursday Island Notes 16 Opening of New Bulolo Dredge 17, 18, 19 Elephantiasis 20 Samoan Reparation Estates . . 21 Rabaul’s Tourist Appeal 22 Papuan Sugar 23 Obscene Books in Fiji 24 Missions and Trade 25

Page Problem of Native Debtor . . .. 27 Not Held Up! 28 Samoan Settlers’ Difficulties . . . . 28 Aerial Freight War 29 Solomon Islands News 29 Norfolk Island News 30 Samoan News 31 Gold in the Solomons . . . • • 32 Samoan Trade 32

Anthropological Research .. . . 33

Cook Island Notes 33 Pacific Islands’ Association ... 34 Economic Depression in Tonga 35, 36, 37 Expenditure in Samoa 38 Road or Aeroplanes for Morobe? 39 “Maui Pomare” Service 40 Tahiti News 41 Tragedy of Campbell Island . 42 Pacific Islands Travellers . . 43 Samoa Banana Shipment . . .44 Exchange Quotations 45 Products of the South Seas . . . 45 Shipping Services in the Pacific 47, 48