Contents.

Pacific Islands Travellers . . . . 1 New Zealand and the Mau 3,4, 11 Copra Market 6 King Cakobau’s War Club . . . . 7 Tropicalities 8 Tung Oil Industry 9 About Islands People 10 Aviation in Papua 12 New Guinea Administration . . 14 Medical Science in New Guinea .. 16 Review of Larkin Case .. .. 17-21 Story of the “Seeadler” . . .. 22, 23 Missions and Trade 24 France and the Pacific . . . . 25, 26 Memories of Papua and Polynesia 27 “Doc.” Vernon of Thursday Is. . . 28 Praise for N.G. Public Servants . . 29 Norfolk Island News 30

Land Transfers in Tahiti . . 31 Samoan Election 32, 44 Pacific Islands Association . . . . 33 Tongan Investiture Ceremony 34, 35 News from Fiji 36 Papuan Public Service 37 Papuan News 38 Samoa Balances Budget . . . 39 Radio in the Pacific 40 Australia Admits Fiji Bananas . 41 Fiji Airways, Ltd 41 Thursday Is. Notes 42 “Pestilential Rabaul” 43 Samoan News 44 Market Quotations 45 Exchange Quotations 46 Shipping Services 47, 48

The Nauru Island Agreement Bill, which is now being passed through the Commonwealth Government, is a machinery measure of a technical and legal character. It appears that an Act of the Commonwealth Parliament was necessary to authorise ordinances for the government of Nauru made by the Administrator, under the Mandate of the League of Nations. A Bill was duly

presented in 1924, but was not com pleted, and in some manner the neces sity for its passing was overlooked until 1932. The purpose of the present measure is to remedy the oversight of 1924 and to formally validate all the ordinances put into operation by the Administrator since the Mandate was taken over by Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand.