Contents

Page Pacific Islands Travellers 1 Britain, America, and Airways in Pacific 3 Pacific Islands Year Book, 1935-36 . 4 Papua Rubber Bounty 5 Administratorship of Samoa 5 Unrest in Solomon Islands 5 Iron Ore Deposit in New Britain ... 5 Fiji Rock Carving 6 S.I. Tribal Clash 6 Fa’a Samoa —A Quaint Custom ... 6 Storm in Suva’s Teacup 7 Lone Voyager’s Death in S.I 7 Growth of Sydney-Tahiti Business . 8 Late Islands News 8 Another Strike at Wau 8 Future of Solomon Islands 9 English Party to Explore Central N.G. 10 Tropicalities 11 About Islands People 12 Tragic Death in New Guinea 15 “John Williams, No. 2” 18 G.E.L. Westbrook’s New Book 19 “Blackbirders” and Their Crimes ... 20

Pa#« Natives as Medical Practitioners ... 22 A Plea for Better Regulation of Mission Activity in N. Guinea ... 25 Aero Club in Tahiti 27 The Old Track in from Salamaua ... 28 Levers’ Experiments on Suwarrow Is. 34 The Waves That Lap Our Shores .. S 7 Men Who Knew Yesterday—No. 3.

Stephan Savage (Cook Is.) 40 Developing French Tourist Traffic in South Seas 43 Fiji’s Three Communities 44 Richest Mine in Papua 49 Gen. McNicoll on Sepik Tour 56 Fashion Hints for Islands Women . . 58 The New Guinea “Mummies” 60 Samoa’s Conditions 63 Housekeeping in the Tropics 66 Pacific Mining Reports 68 ’Plane Crash at Salamaua 74 4PM Broadcasting Station Opened . 75 Islands Produce and Exchange 76 Market Quotations 77 Pacific Shipping Services 78