Contents

Pacific Islands Travellers 1. 80

Idealists, Americans, and Proposed

Pacific Pact 3 Fiji’s Governor to Tour Pacific 4 New Bulolo Dredge 4 Relapse of Copra Market 5 Gov.-General’s Visit to Papua & N.G. 5 French Line for Tahiti 5 Sampans Seized in N. Caledonia 6 Early Tahiti Documents 6 Solomon Islands Gold 6 Air-mail Routes in Pacific 7 Missionary Murdered 7 Samoa’s Future 8 Gold Search in Strickland Area 8 Pt. Moresby Jottings 9 Queer Papuan Artifacts 10 Tropicalities 11 About Islands People 12 Those N.G. Pygmies 14 Legal Tangle over Ffrost Case 16 Judge Ayson Returning to N.Z. 17

Rabaul’s Aerodrome 18 Late Mr. R. P. Whitten (Papua) 19 Seaplanes in Western Papua 21 White Prestige in Danger in N.O. 22 Von Luckner’s Sextant 25 Vanilla Beans in Fr, Oceania 28 The Work of the N.M.P 30 The Search for Oil in Papua—Part IV 35 The Ethics of Cannibalism 43 Land Wanted in New Guinea 46 Valuable Plants of Fiji 47 Tonga’s Only Anglican Bishop 50 C.I. Oranges 51 Aimahle Josephine Massacre 53 Fashions for Islands Women 59 Pacific Missionary Conference 63 New Buildings for Suva 65 Pacific Is. Mining Notes 68 B.P.’s Annual Report 75 Produce and Exchange Quotations 76 Copra and Rubber Markets 77 South Seas Shipping Timetables 78