Contents

Page Pacific Islands Travellers 1 Fourteen Isolated Administrations .. 3 O. F. Nelson’s Appeal 4 Coconut Oil Extraction 5 New Guinea Administratorship .. .. 7 Fijian Rock Inscriptions 8 Tropicalities 10 About Islands People 11 N.G. Air Mail Contracts 12 Matin’s Husbands 13 New Guinea Notes 15 Death of Mrs. Svensen (B.S.I.) .. .. 16 Fiji News 19 Natives’ Criminal Offences 21 Aerial Transport in New Guinea .. 23 Purari-Ramu Area, N.G 24 Miracle of the Hurricane 26

Page What About the Poor Planter? .. .. 29 Whale Oil Developments 30 C’est Le Condominium! 33 “Co-habiting” in Cook Is 34 Marsters Family (Cook Group) .. .. 35 Fund for Review of Larkin Case .. 37 Morris, Hedstrom Ltd.—Annual Report 39 Leahys or Detzner? 41 Fashions for Islands Women .. .. 42 Cocoa-Planting in the Tropics . . .. 45 Tung Oil Cultivation 47 Progress of N.G. Goldfield 49 Islands Gold Mining Notes 50 Market Quotations 52 Exchange Rates 53 Shipping Services in the Pacific . . .. 54 Index to Volume IV 56