Pacific Islands Monthly

The Newspaper-Magazine of the Sonth Seas

[Registered at the G.P.0., Sydney, for transmission by post as a newspaper. ] Published Once Each Month and Circulated in Australia and New Zealand and in the following Pacific Territories and Islands Groups:

Crown Colony of Fiji.

Australian Territory of Papua.

Mandated Territory (Australia) of New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago and Northern Solomon Islands.

Mandated Territory (Japan) of Marshall, Caroline and Marianna Islands.

French Territory of New Caledonia.

British and French Condominium of New Hebrides.

American Territory of Eastern Samoa.

American Territory of Guam.

Mandated Territory of Nauru.

British Crown Colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands.

Mandated Territory (New Zealand) of Samoa.

British Solomon Islands Protectorate.

British Protectorate of Tongan Islands.

New Zealand Territory of Cook Islands.

Australian Territory of Norfolk Island.

French Colony of Oceania (Tahiti, cte.) * American Territory of Hawaiian Islands.

Owned and Produced by Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., Union House, 247 George Street, Sydney.

T I Managing Director 8W5037 TELEPHONE j BuoineB s and Editorial MA7IOI

P.O. Box 3408 R

Registered Address of Telegrams, Radiograms, and Cables: “Pacpub”, Sydney.

Contributions

Articles, Stories, and Photographs dealing with Pacific Islands subjects are invited and will be paid for on publication at usual rates.

Subscription Rates

Per Annum, within British Empire, Prepaid, Post Free 8/- Per Annum, elsewhere, prepaid, Post Free 10/- Single Copies Bd.

Editor and Publisher:

R. W. Robson, F.R.G.S.

Assisted by Selwyn Hughes.

Advertising Manager: L. W. Bailey.

Advertising Office and Printing-House: 29 Alberta St., Sydney.

Advertising rates furnished on application.

Colours, etc by Arrangement Process Blocks made at Advertiser’s expense when required. Screen, 100.

Changes of Advertising Copy should reach this Office by 3rd of each month, otherwise previous advertisement may be repeated.

IN LONDON, the “Pacific Islands Monthly” is on sale at the Bookstall. Australia House, The Strand, London.

Agents

The following are authorised to receive sub scriptions for the Pacific Islands Monthly;- Islands Branches of Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., and Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

Islands Branches of W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd.

All Branches of Morris, Hedstrom Ltd.

G. Thomas & Co., Rabaul, New Guinea.

T. A. Olsson, Wau, New Guinea.

Whitten Bros. Ltd., Samarai. Papua.

Steamships Trading Co., Papua. All Branches.

P. Costello, Suva, Fiji.

J. Muir, Suva, Fiji.

N. C. Mackenzie-Hunt, Wainunu, Bua, Fiji.

All Branches and Representatives of W. H. Grove & Sons Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand.

Cook Islands Trading Co., Rarotonga, Cook Is.

A. C. Rowland, Papeete, Tahiti.

Representative in London: W. C. HARVEY, Coronation Building 4 Lloyds Avenue, London, E.C.2. from whom may be obtained copies of Pacific Islands Monthly. Pacific Islands Year Book, advertising schedules, etc.

Vol. IX. No. 7.

Sydney, February 15, 1939.

( Bd ‘ Per Copy rnce ( Prepaid: 8/- p.a.