Contents

Pacific Islands Travellers 1, 76 The Hitler War—And a Greater Danger ... 3 Defence Photos Offered to Japanese 4 Pacific Shipping Re-arranged .. .. 5 Matson Line and U.S. Neutrality Act 5 “Morinda’s” Mishap 5 War-Time Precautions by Islands Ships 5 Copra Prices Higher 6 Plans for Immediate ’Frisco-Sydney Airmail by P.A.A 7 Tongans Catch Whales for Food .. 8 Tropicalities 9 Review of the Copra Industry ... 10 Three Ways Pull in N. Hebrides . . 14 Aeroplane Lost in New Guinea ... 15 Plight of New Hebrides Officials .. 16 Copra Grading in Fiji 18 A Ripley Story of Torres Strait ... 20 Rabaul’s Future 21 Change in Suva’s Appearance . . .. 22 White Settlement Possibilities in Central New Guinea 25 Levers £12,000,000 Profit 26 German Mission Plane Escapes from New Guinea 27 N.G. Cocoa Assisted by War 29 111-Treatment of N.G. Natives .. .. 31 Who Owns Little Central Pacific Islands? 32

A Trader’s Tale 33 Rubber Exported from New Britain 34 Church of the British Navigators .. 35 “Jehovah’s Witnesses” in Fiji .. .. 36 Need for International Copra Organi sation 38 America’s Maginot Line in Pacific .. 40 Brother Jones Among 8.5.1. Head hunters 43 Future of the Philippines 45 How Von Luckner Was Taken in Fiji 46 Will N.G. Mandate Last Much Longer? 47 How War Came to Central Pacific .. 48 N.G. Association Formed 50 Fashion Hints for Islands Women .. 53 I Go A-Fishing—A Memory of New Ireland 54 Who is an “Enemy Alien”? 57 New Caledonia’s Rebellion in the ’7o’s 58 Danes in the South Seas 60 Treatment of Pacific Germans .. .. 61 New Book by Papuan Anthropologist 62 Trials of Housekeeping in the Tropics 64 Pacific Mining Notes 66 Islands Short Wave Broadcast ... 69 The Capture of Fort Nukualofa ... 70 Islands Produce and Exchange Rates 72 Copra and Rubber Prices 73 Shipping Services in the Pacific .. 74