Contents

Page Pacific Islands Travellers 1 The Bedevilment of Pacific Trade ... 3 Death of Tongan Prince 4 About Islands People 4, 12 A Casino for Noumea 5 Influenza Sweeps Northern Cook Is. . . 5 Splendid Work of Native Medical Practitioners 6 Uneasy Samoa 6 Y r oung Priest Gets Five Gaol . . 7 N. Caledonia’s Exports Rise 8 Australian Firms Fight to Hold Islands’ Trade 9 In Odd Corners of the Pacific 9 Tropicalities 10 Air Transport in New Guinea 14 Burns, Philp & Co.’s Annual Report . . 16 Confessions of a Fiji Cannibal 17 What Malayan Canal May Mean to North-west Pacific 20 N.G.’s Feeble Record in Native Edu cation 21

Pape America Bridges North Pacific 25 Cook Is. Growers Refuse to Pick Crop 28 How Low-Class Whites Contribute to New Guinea’s Native Problem ... 30 Tahiti’s Waterloo 33 “Puritans in the South Seas” 35 Pages from the Past —The Tragic Story of Rosa Cruickshanks 37 “Lawrence of Manchuria” to Settle in Tahiti 45 How Papuans Killed Chinese in the 50’s 47 Western Samoa’s Trade Recovery ... 51 Picturesque Ceremonies Mark Instal lation of New Fijian Official 58 Fashion Hints for Islands Women ... 63 Peace Comes to the Ramu Primitives 65 Pacific Islands Mining Reports C 8 Islands Produce and Exchange Rates 76 Market Quotations 77 Shipping Services in the South Seas 78