Pacific Islands Monthly

[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:

Australian Territory of Papua.

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

Australian Territory of Norfolk Island.

New Zealand Territory of Cook Islands.

Mandated Territory (New Zealand) of Samoa.

British Colony of Fiji.

British Solomon Islands Protectorate.

British Protectorate of Tongan Islands.

Mandated Territory of Nauru.

British Crown Colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands. , British and French Condominium of New Hebrides.

French Colony of New Caledonia.

French Colony of Oceania (Tahiti, etc.).

American Territory of Eastern Samoa.

American Territory of Hawaiian Islands.

American Territory of Guam.

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

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Contributions.

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

Subscription Bates.

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

Editor and Publisher:

R. W. Robson, P.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 90.

Changes of Advertising Copy should reach this Office by Ist 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.

Islands 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.

B.N.G. Trading Co., Ltd., Port Moresby.

J. Muir, Suva, Fiji.

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

Islands Branches and Representatives of W. H.

Grove & Spns, Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand.

Cook Islands Trading Co., Rarotonga, Cook Is.

A. C. Rowland, Papeete, Tahiti.

Representative in London: W. C. HARVEY, Coronation House, 4 Lloyds Avenue, Loudon, E.C.3, from whom may be obtained copies of Pacific Islands Monthly, Pacific Islands Year Book, advertising schedules, etc.

Vol. X. No. 2.

September 15, 1939.

Prir#> f Bd ' Per c °Py rntc Prepaid: 8/- p.a.