Contents

Page Pacific Islands Travellers 1 Could Solomon Is. Be Administered from Rabaul? 3 Baffling Copra Market 4 Romantic Story of Fanning Is. and Washington Is 5 Papua Reduces Primage Tax . . . . 5 Queen Salote’s Visit to Australia . . 6 Bigger Dredges for New Guinea .. .. 6 Fiji Gold Licenses 6 Marking Bluejackets’ Graves in Solomons 6 Islands as Landing Grounds 7 Gold on Bougainville Is. (N.G.) . . . 7 Samoa’s Next Administrator . . .. 8 Hides’ Expedition Crosses Papua . . 8 Day Dawn’s Troubles .. 9 New Guinea Coins 9 Papua’s Gold Tropicalities About Islands People 12 Mummies Found in N.G. Cave . . . . 15 How Rarotongan Royalty Was Established 17 Judge Ayson’s Record in Cook Is. .. 19

Page Synthetic Rubber Productions . . . . 22 Next Move in Western Samoa . . .. 25 Graves of Early L.M.S. Missionaries in French Oceania 28 Conspiracy Exposed in New Guinea . . 33 Career of late G. W. Partsch, Samoa 35 More Strange Fiji Rock Carving .. 38 1,000 Miles in Small Boat 40 Incidents of Early Pt. Moresby . . .. 42 Roads That Lead to Edie Creek . . 46 Kwato Mission’s Reply to Criticism .. 50 Prosperous Fiji 52 The Franchise in Fiji 53 Garden Magic in Samoa 54 Fashion Hints for Islands Women . . 60 Cruise of Cook Is. Leper Ship .. . . 64 Life on Isolated Puka Puka Is 65 N.G. Goldfields News 67 Pacific Mining Reports 68 Housekeeping in the Tropics . . .. 73 Dyott Expedition Postponed .. . . 75 Market Quotations 76 Islands Produce and Exchange Rates 77 Shipping Services in the South Seas 78 Index to Volume V 80