Contents

Pacific Islands Travellers 1 What Will Happen If Japan Over- Runs China? 3 Papua Prospers 4 All Quiet on the Western Samoan Front 5 •Memories of Chas. Savage in Fiji 5 Copra Market Nervous 5 South Pacific Air-Mail in December 6 Hides Party on Lower Fly 7 N.G. Miner’s Conviction Quashed 7 English Capital for S.I. Gold Co 7 New Fiji Legislative Council 7 Was. Oil Found in New Guinea? 8 Eruption in Bougainville, T.N.G 9 New Bulolo Dredges 9 Rabaul’s Future 10 Death of Tahiti Bishop 10 Sydney—Rabaul Air Service 10 Tropicalities ... 11 About Islands People 12 R.L.S. In Pacific 13 Stir in Fiji Civil Service 14

“Old Jew” —A Frank Pryke Poem 18 N.G.’s Juryless Court 21 Pacific Planes as Germ Carriers 23 Anthropologists! 25, 54, 62 A Dog-Lover’s Nightmare 26 Gold Royalty for Papua 32 A Torrid Affair in Fiji 33 Old Stone Idols in Fr. Oceania 34 Mixed Marriages in Polynesia 36 One Very Dead Whale in 8.5.1 39 Origin of Name of Papua 40 World War on Malaria 42 The “Giant Pahua” of Reao 48 Tragedy of the “Moaroa” 50 “Uncle Sam” Means Business 55 Cook Islands Fruit Industry 57 Historic Tongan Letter 59 Gentlemen, the President! 63 Mining Notes ... 69 Premature Reports About New Hebrides ... ... 71 Radio Programmes for W. Pacific 73