Contents

Page Pacific Islands Travellers 1 Effect of Canberra Control in New Guinea 3 New French Governor in Pacific . . 4 Search for Oil in Papua 5 Pacific Mail Contract 5 Careless Whites and Native Crime !! 6 Prosperity Returns to South Seas . . 7 Rabaul Citizens’ Protest 7 Anxiety for Champion Patrol . . . . 8 Late Islands News 8 Census in Samoa 9 Kava for Tongan Prince 10 Tropicalities n About Islands People 12 British Shipping in Pacific 15 Fiji Limericks 16 N.G. Air Services 17 Fiji’s Trade Increases is Solomon Islands News 20 U.S.A.-N.Z. Air Service 21 Polynesians and Christianity .. .. 22 “Old Red Bill” 2 4

Page Riding to N.G. on a Bullet .. .. .. 26 Malayan Dwarf Coconuts 30 Death as a Joke 33 Murder of N.G. Recruiter 36 How “Lord” Hill Governed Pitcairn Island , 37 When Von Luckner Came to Fiji .. 39 The “Two Miles’ Limit” 41 One Wild Night in Wau 44 Chinese Labour Question Agitates Western Samoa 46 Care of the Feet i*A the Tropics .. .. 48 Capt. Dow’s Last Voyage 50 Fashion Hints for Islands Women . . 53 Tough Voyaging in the South Seas . 56 Fijian Spelling “Reform” 59 New Governor Reaches Fiji 61 A.W.D. Mullins, of Lae, T.N.G 63 Epic of the Open Sea .. , s .. . . 65 Islands Mining Notes 68 Produce Prices and Exchange Rates 76 Copra and Rubber Quotations . . . . 77 Pacific Shipping Timetables 78