Contents

Pacific Islands Travellers iii Rabaul Bickerings and Tropical Ad ministration 3 Carpenters get Sydney-N.G. Airmail Contract 4 Future of New Hebrides i. ■ 4 No Subsidy Yet for Pacific’Shipping 5 New -C.I. Resident Commissioner 6 Tent Town at Kokopo 8 Volcanic Eruptions Compel Evacua tion of Rabaul ... 9, 71 About Islands People 15 Tom Harrisson’s Exploits in New Hebrides ... ... 17 Those N.G. Pygmies ... ... ... 19 Loss of Fijian in Marshalls 21 Guinea Airways Ltd 22, 74 Early Fijian Navigators 23 Thomas Lewis’s Polynesian Wife ... 25 Men Who Knew Yesterday—William Blacklock, of Samoa 28

Judge Ayson, C.M.G.—An Apprecia tion 31 ! ake Kutubu in Unknown Papua 33 New Caledonia’s Trade 35 The Significance of Colours 37 Tragic Death of Rev. W. V. Milne 38 How the Pacific Cable Was Laid 40 The Boy-King of Tahiti 45 N.Z. Controls Cook Is. Fruit 50 What is Happening in Japan’s Man dated Islands 52 A New Mountain and People in Dutch New Guinea 55 Fashion Hints for Islands Women ... 59 ’Fiji's Representative Describes Cor onation Procession 61 Morris Hedstrom’s' Annual Report 64 Pacific Islands Mining Notes 65 Islands Produce and Exchange 79 Copra and Rubber Prices 80 Shipping Services in Pacific 81