Contents

Page Pacific Islands Travellers 1 Germany, Japan and the Pacific .. 3, 4 Late News from Islands 5 Developing Dutch N. Guinea 6 Indian Leaders In Fiji 7 Carpenters Buy Out On Chong & Co. (Gilbert Is.) 7 French Recruiter Tied Up 8 Bad Condition of Salamaua ’Drome . 8 Missionaries Killed in N. Guinea 9 Samoa’s Administrator 10 Tropicalities 11 About Islands People 12 Why Suva Council Was Abolished . . 14 New Caledonian-Australian Trade . 16 Can Planters Organise Against Com bines? 17 Copra Market Rises 19 Economies in French Oceania 21 N.G. Pilot Crashes in Jungle 22 Tung Oil Cultivation 23 The Polynesian Origin 25 “Personality” of Dr. Lawes (Papua) 27 Evils of Native Barracks System .. 29

Page Solomon Islands News 30 A Cheap Hot-air Drier 31 N.G. Goldfields Tardy Mail Service .. 33 Cohabitation in Cook Is. 36 Evolution of the Fijians 37 N. Guinea Cocoa-Beans 38,60 Prince Henry in Polynesia 40 Pacific Varieties of Tung Tree .. .. 45 White v. Chinese Traders in B.S.I. 47 Papuan News 49 New Guinea Notes 52 Samoan Notes 53, 68 Fashion Hints for Islands Women . . 54 N.G. Goldfields News 56 Holden’s New Ford ’Plane 57 Torres Strait Notes 59 Missionaries and (or) Anthropologists 61 Value of N.G. Trade 64 Research in Eastern Polynesia .. .. 65 Pacific Mining Notes 66 Market Quotations 69 Islands Produce Prices 70 Pacific Shipping Services 71