Contents

Page Pacific Islands Travellers 1 Indentured Labour in the Pacific ... 3 Copra Prices Improve 5 New Alluvial Field in N. Guinea ... 5 Governor-Designate of Fiji 5 N.G. ’Plane Flies to Australia 6 James Larkin Released 7 Sydney-’Frisco Line to Cease 7 How Treacherous N.G. Natives At tacked A. D. O. Nurton 8 Manam Volcano Erupts 9 Air Service from N.G. to Sydney 10 Tropicalities 11 About Islands People 12 Fortunate Fiji Shows Another Surplus 14 Increase in N.G.’s Trade Turnover ... 17 King Cakobau, of Fiji 19 Journalistic Ethics, Judge Wanliss, and Mr. Mullaly 23 “Once Aboard the Lugger—” 26 Useful Medical Book for Islands 29

Page Pygmies of Ramu River, N.G 31 .Samoa’s Little Ships 32 Tahiti’s Woes 34 Woodlark Island 36 Pre-European Papuan Engineers ... 39 Men Who Knew Yesterday—Mr. Paul Hoeflich (Western Samoa) 41 Threat to Papuan Rubber Growers ... 42 Search for Oil in Papua 47, 75 Samoan Mau Harasses N.Z. Prime Minister 49, 61 Tragi-Comedy on Galapagos 55 Fashion Hints for Islands Women ... 59 Valuable Plants of Fiji 62 Fijian Chiefs and Native Land 63 Pine-apple Industry for Fiji 65 Islands Mining Notes 68 Language as Key to N.G. People ... 74 Islands Produce and Exchange 76 Copra and Rubber Quotations 77 South Seas Shipping Services 78