Contents

Pacific Islands Travellers 1. 80 Significance of New Pacific Aerial Services 3 Australia’s Interest In Fate of New Guinea 5 Death of Pioneer Papuan Planter 5 N.Z.’s Samoan “Policy” 6 Measles Kill 1,000 G. &E. Islanders 7 Quick Moves in Trans-Pacific Air-mail Argument 7 Japan’s Invasion of Pacific Shell Industry 8 Samoa’s Beautiful Waterfalls 9 H.M.S. Leith Lands Party on Christ mas Island 10 Tropicalities 11 About Islands People 12-14 Whale Oil Menace 16 Fiji’s Sound Trade Position 17 Lost for 65 Days In Pacific 18 Moonlight in the Vale of Wau 20 Unconventional Scientist in the New Hebrides 22 Japanese Eyes on D.N.G 25

Salamaua Versus Lae 32 Wooing the “Maidens of the Deep” 24 Navigators of Eastern Polynesia 39 Search for Oil in Papua—Part II 40 Norfolk Is. Administrator Returns 41 Pages from the Past —Capt. Good enough Visits Cook Group 49 Rarotonga’s Woes 53 Population of W. Samoa 54 Tahiti’s Chinese 55 Defaulting Recruits in 8.5.1 57 Fashion Hints for Islands Women 59 Mixed Marriages in Polynesia 62 Closed Districts in Solomons 64 Lord Moyne Looks Over N.G 616 Pacific Islands Mining Notes 68 Our Cousins in the North 71 Tongan Prince’s New Name 72 Guinea Airways Upset Australia’s Aviation Calm 74 Administrator Criticises N.G.G. Ltd. 75 Islands Produce and Exchange Rates 76 Copra and Rubber Prices 77 South Seas Shipping Services 78