Contents

Pacific Islands Travellers 1 Tropical Administration and Austra lia’s “Ragtag” System 3 Dutch Line Extends to N.Z 4 Mysterious Moves in Central Pacific 5 Solomon Is. Goldfield 6 New B.P. Ship 6 Samoa in Grip of Mau 7 Sydney—N.G. Air Service 7 Copra Market 7 Guinea Airways Extend to Australia 8 N.G.G. Shareholders ask Questions 9, 73 8.5.1. Off Track of Air Services 10 New Caledonian Shipping Services 10 Tropicalities 11 About Islands People 12 Bounty for Papuan Rubber 14 Passion Fruit Rescues Norfolk Is 16 Resources of Dutch and Australian New Guinea Compared 17 Japanese Poaching Grows Worse 22 Transforming “Disappointed War riors” into Useful Men in Papua 25

Better Compensation Urged for N.G.

Field Officers 28 Australia’s Native Policy in N.G. 30 Fiji in the Good Old Bad Days 33 Future of N.G. Copra Industry 36 Soya Beans as an Islands Crop 39 The Uncontrolled Rai Coast (N.GD 42 B.P. Services Renewed until 1943 44 First Crossing of Na Viti Levu 45 Search for Oil in Papua 49 Bounties for Islands Products 56 A Letter from Morobe 57 Islands Fashion Hints 59 Retirement of Rev. Wood (Tonga) 61 Stolen Yacht Found in Lau Group 63 Misima’s Gold 64 Cook Is. Notes - 65 Pacific Islands Mining Notes 68 Future of Europeans in Samoa 71 Threat of N.G.G. Ltd 74 Romance of Pearling 75 Produce and Exchange Rates 76 Copra and Rubber Quotes 77 Pacific Shipping Timetables 78