Contents

Amalgamation Committee for N.G. 4 Death of George Arnold 4 Japanese Spies in Hawaii 5 Possible Duplication of N.G. Air-Mail 5 New Hotel, Pt. Moresby 6 Tongan Steals £1,200 7 Pacific Crossed in Outrigger ... 8 Imperial Airways Plans for Pacific Service 13 New Minister for Territories .. .. 14 Samoan Dental Clinic 15 Discoveries of Phosphate 17 Solomon Is. Gold Boom 21 “Ideal Colony” Project 23 New Guinea Residents Demand De fence 24 Copra Market in Europe 25 Sport on New Guinea Goldfield .. 26 Sir Harry Luke to Visit Western Pacific 27

Oil Search in New Guinea 29 Last of Grube Family 30 Bishop Vesters Retires 32 Tongans—“Civilisation and Progress” 33 Mosquito Pest 34 Return of U.S. Fleet to Pacific ... 35 N.G. Timber and Bureaucracy .. 36 Substitutes for Raw Materials .. .. 42 Late Sir Basil Thomson 43 New Guinea Natives and Discipline 46 Book About Hitler 48 “La Phoque” on Rocks 49 Early Colonists for N. Hebrides .. 51 Errors in Tahitian History 52 Pacific Defence Conference 56 Labour Problem in Fiji 58 Former Kaiser and “P.1.M.” .. .. 62 Earthquake in Solomons 63 Nazis in Pacific 65 Pacific Islands Travellers 1, 80