Contents

Page Tahiti Treasure-Seekers 28 Solomon Islands Notes 30 How to Select a Launch Engine . . 33 Twenty-four Years on Bougainville.. 36 M. Moerenhout, of Tahiti 37 A Hot Bath—An Islands Tale . . . . 39 Dr. W. C. Klein’s Researches .. .. 43 Guinea Airways’ Annual Report . . 44 Across Primitive N. Guinea in 1895.. 46 King’s Jubilee Celebrations in Pacific 50 W. G. Lawler’s Colossal Luck . . . . 54 Fashion Hints for Islands Women . . 58 Housekeeping in the Tropics . . . . 61 Mt. Hagen Air Service 66 When the Kanakas Came 67 Pacific Mining Reports 68 N. Goldfields News 71 Mining in Papua 75 Market Quotations 77 Islands Produce and Exchange . . . . 78 Pacific Is. Shipping Services . . . . 79

Page Pacific Islands Travellers 1 New Guinea’s Opportunity 3 Parliamentarians on Sunshine Cruise 5 Ancient Tongan Ceremony 5 Fiji Gold Boom 6 Day Dawn Co. Suspends Mining . . 7 How Samoan Catechist Killed Man eating Shark in Papua 7 B.P. Service to Papua and New Guinea 8, 10 Tonga Leads Jubilee Celebrations .. 9 Tropicalities 10 Murder of R. W. Holmes 11 About Islands People 12 Fred Deckert’s Escape 16 Primage Tax on Territories’ Products 17 War Memorial at Bitapaka, N.G. . . 20 Solomon Is. Council 21 Tavua Goldfield, Fiji 22 Around World in Five-Tons Yacht . . 25 America Annexes Swain’s Is. 26