Contents

Pacific Islands Travellers 1, 80 Japan Faces a Year of Crises 3 Drought in Many Islands 4 Fiji’s Defence 5 Carpenter and Co. May Extend to Papua 5 Fiji Governor Visits Tonga & Samoa 5 Nazi Activities in Samoa 6 Development Plans for N.G. & Papua 7 Shrewd Comment on N. Guinea .. 8 Pt. Moresby May be Big Naval Base 9 Sir Walter Carpenter Visits U.S.A. and Britain 9 Papuan With Six Toes! 10 Tropicalities 11 Finances of New Guinea 11 N.G. Airmail Overtaxed 12 About Islands People 13 Economic Condition of Fiji Indians 14 Earl & Countess Beatty in Samoa 15 Need for Practical Plan to Aid Copra 15, 51 Men Who Knew Yesterday—R. W.

Gosset (Cook Is.) 18 Trans-Pacific Airmails 23 Native Labour Conditions in T.N.G. 24

N.I. Revives Whaling Industry ... 26 Dwindling Labour Supply in N.G. 27 Are There Nazis in New Guinea? . 31 Tahiti’s Ancient Hospitality 34 Land of No Locks or Clocks 35 Quick Rescue Saves Lives in Tahiti 37 How N.G. Government Treats Pros pectors 38 Archbold Party in Dutch N. Guinea 40 Chinese Stores as Social Centres .. 42 New Samoan Councillors 47 Fiji Pineapple Industry 53 New Hebrides Planter’s Outcry ... 55 Fiji Shipping Service Criticised ... 57 Escape to the South Sea Islands .. 59 New L.M.S. Church on Nauru .. .. 61 U.S. Yacht Wrecked in Fr. Oceania 63 Fashion Hints for Islands Women . 64 Former Union Leader Pleads Case for Japan 67 Pacific Mining Activity 69 Islands Radio Programmes (Short Wave) 73 Produce and Exchange Rates .. .. 74 Market Quotations 75 Shipping Timetables 76