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Pacific Islands Travellers 1. 74 Anxious Humanity Awaits Lead from

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New B.P. Freighter 3 Another Governor for N. Caledonia 3 N.G. Patrol Officer Kitted ... 4 Morobes £2,000.000 Gold Output . 4 “P.1.M." Is Nine Years Old 4 Fiji Hemp Smuggler Caught 5 £l.OOO Lighter Adrift 5 PA.A. Station in Noumea 5 Seaplane Base at Canton Island ... 5 Chinese and Samoan Women .. .. 6 White Man Battered by Native Police 6 N.G.s Search for Labour 7 “Makambo" Sold to Japanese ... 7 Banno Bros. Trade in Tonga 7 Queer Incidents Near N. Guinea .. 8 Another Freighter for W.R.C. Line .. 8 Tropicalities 9 Guam Students for Suva Med. School 10 About Islands People .. . . 11 Morobe Road Hold-up Likely . . . 12 Modern Radio-Telephones in N.G. .. 13 Value of Fiji’s Gold Industry . . .. 15 Japan’s Naval Spy System in Pacific 16 Future of the Solomons 20 Abolish N.G. Gold Tax 22

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Tongan Escapee Captured 23 Fate of the “Matunga” 24 Pacific Governors on Official Visits 27, 31 Solomons Earthquake Damage . . .. 23 Obstructive Rabaul Natives 30 Garden of Eden in Pidgin 31 Fiji Copra to be Graded 32 Sir Harry Luke —First Impressions .. 34 Origin of 8.5.1. Protectorate 35 Sisal Hemp as Alternative Crop ... 37 Ways of Catching Plying Fish .. .. 38 New Catholic Bishop of Rabaul ... 40 Japanese in New Hebrides 41 Memories qf Old Samarai—No. 2 .. 42 Divided Opinion on Amalgamation .. 47 How Police Captured Apolosi. Founder of the Viti Company 51 New Books 55 Epidemic of Cruising Canoes 57 Ketch “Lands End” Wrecked 58 Mining Notes 59 Radio Programmes * 63 Exchange Rates and Islands Produce 65 Market Quotations 66 Boeing Planes for New Guinea ... 67 Pacific Shipping Timetables 68 Index to Volume IX (Aug., 1938-Julv. 1939) .. .. 75