Contents

Page Pacific Islands Travellers 1 An Awakening in the Pacific 3 Cook Is.-Tahiti-’Frisco Line to Cease 4 Late News in Brief 4 Piquant Memories of a Voyage on the Tiafau 5 Beachcombers of 8.5.1 5 “Mick” Leahy Back from World Tour 6 O. F. Nelson to Return to Samoa ... 6 N.G. Aerial Services 7 Fiji Goldfield Mystery s Sampans Swarm in Western Pacific 8 How Ludwig Schmidt Went to Gallows 9 B.P. & Co. Ltd.—Attack and Defence in Federal Parliament 10 Archbold Expedition in Papua 10 Tropicalities 11 About Islands People 12 Japanese Outrage at Manus, T.N.G. .. 16 Cook Is. Fruit War 17 How* Brown and Joske is Linked with Early History of Fiji 18 Burns Philp (S.S.) Co.’s Annual Report 22 Sale of Hotel Bulolo, at Wau 24

Page No Official Marriages for N.G. Natives 27 Death of High Chief Mataafa, 0.8. E. 30 Jebwar of To-day 36 Thriving Township of Wau 39 “Disgraceful”—Shipping Facilities in Central Pacific 40 Pages from the Past—The Fall of Thomas Lewis in Tahiti 41 Pigges—An Amusing Sketch of Native Life 45 How “Handsome Harry” Died 48 Capture of Von Luckner in the Pacific 49 N.G.’s Embarrassing Revenue Surplus 50 Work of Dr. Solf in Samoa 52 New Guinea in the Limelight 55 Debates on New Guinea Affairs 57, 68 Fashion Hints for Islands Women .. 61 Housekeeping in the Tropics 63 Scanty Accommodation at Suva Hos pital 65 Pacific Islands Mining Reports 71 Islands Produce and Exchange Rates 76 Market Quotations 77 South Seas Shipping Services 78