Articles to Appear in Septem

ber Issue.

The following are some of the articles which will appear next month :—

The Future Of Salamaua: And

The Goldfields Road.

It is absurd to suggest that the Port of Salamaua should be abandoned. The erosion can be stopped. If it cannot, there are two sites for a town and deepwater wharfage within a mile of the present anchorage.

German Competition In New

Guinea.

The “Bremerhaveu” interests; (mostly N.D.L., from China) are organising and are now definitely challenging the big Australian firms in the New Guinea copra and general trading market. The Australians are not going to “take it lying down,” and very interesting developments are expected at an early date. It is also reported that a New Zealand firm of copra-buyers is coming into this market.

Australian Currency Causes

Chaos In Polynesia.

Australian silver has been circulating at par with British silver in Fiji, New Hebrides. Tonga, etc., with disastrous effect on the finances of those administrations. The article will review the whole position and point out the obvious remedies.

The Half-Caste Problem In

Western Samoa.

There are 2,300 half-caste Europeans and 1,500 half-caste Chinese in Western Samoa —nearly all people of a superior and desirable class. What is to be done with them? Has the Adminis tration any definite policy, so far as they are concerned ?

A “Crown Colony Of New

Guinea.”

Is it possible to visualise a Crown Colony of New Guinea, which would include Papua, the present Mandated Territory, and the British Solomons? Is there any other solution of the existing administrative problem ?

How Australia Loses Islands

Trade.

A Solomons Islands writer has something very pertinent to say about the careless, slipshod methods of Australian agents, merchants and manufacturers, whose motto has been “Anything is good enough for the Islands!”

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