Contents.

Page Pacific Islands Travellers 1 Future of the New Hebrides . . 3 General Wisdom Retires 5 Copra’s Future 6 “Pat” of the Trobriands 6 Kuku 7 Tropicalities g About Islands People 9 Tongan Exchange 9 Fiji’s Trade Position 10 Pacific Is. Association 10 Early Papua n “La Victoire” 12 New Guinea Advisory Council . . 14 Legislative War in Fiji 15 Massacre in Papua 15 New Ships for New Guinea Trade 16 Rev. F. J. Paton 17 N. Guinea Plantation Costs . . . . 18 Phosphate Commissioner Visits Nauru 19 Crime in New Guinea 19 Samoan Products and Prices . . . . 20 Colonel Bennett and Norfolk Is. . . 21 O. F. Nelson Replies 22 Papua’s Finances 23 Norfolk Island News 24

Page Papuan Sugar and “Wild Cats” .. 25 How Fortunes Were Made and Lost in New Guinea 26, 27 The New Papuan 28 Samoa and “Polarity” 29 Tongan Notes 30 Cook Is. Shipping Arrangements .. 30 Samoan Settlers and Reparation Estates 31 Bligh and the Darnley Islanders . . 32 New Guinea Gold Value 33 The “Morinda’s” Itinerary . . .. 34 Asiatics for Solomons 35 Banana Cultivation 36, 37 Guinea Airways’ Balance-sheet .. 38 Reparations and War Debts .. . . 39 Power Fuel Distribution in Pacific 40 Cook Islands Sportsmen 41 Solomon Islands News 42 Burns, Philp & Co. Balance-sheet . 43 N. Guinea and Papuan Share market 44 Java Beans 44 Market Quotations 45 Products of the South Seas . . . . 46 Exchange Quotations 46 Shipping Services 47, 48