The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 23 April 1937Vol. VII, No. 9

Contents

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Pacific Islands Travellers 1, 80 Why U.S.A. Might Seek Possession of French Oceania 3 Japanese Clash With 8.5.1. Natives 4 P-A. Airways Clipper Spans Central Pacific 5 Samoan Administratorship 6 Future of New Hebrides 7 Boom in Papua 7 Hurricane in Tonga 8 Ivan Champion in Unmapped Papua 9. 72 Big Copra Fire in Fiji 10 Cattle Raising in N.G. 10 Tropicalities 11 About Islands People 12 Guinea Airways Increase Capital 14 Another Patrol Through Unknown Papua 16 Pacific Is. Club Formed 17 Hand Tahiti over to U.S.A.! 18 New System of Marketing C.I. Fruit 20

Nor’-West Season in 8.5.1 21 Sydney—N.G. Air Mail 23 Road Round Viti Levu 24 Pages from the Past Navosa Mas sacre in Fiji 26 Public Question in N. Guinea 31 Tahiti’s Punctured Heroes 34 Memorial to First L.M.S. Missionaries in Tahiti 38 Search for Oil in Papua—Part 111. 42 Tahiti’s Tourist Hopes 47 Native Trading in N. Guinea 51 N.G. and Solomons Compared 54 Fashion Hints for Islands Women 59 Passing of Old Tahitian Tunes 63 Japan’s Shadow over the Pacific 64 Islands Mining Notes 68 B G.D.’s Equipment Lost When Fijian Sinks 74 Islands Produce and Exchange 76 Copra and Rubber Prices 77 Shipping in the Pacific 78