Contents

Pacific News Review 1 Islands Travellers ;. .. 3, 76 International Affairs : Three Ugly Pictures 5 New 8.5.1. Resident Commissioner 7 New Caledonia Has Five Governors in Five Montjis 7 Copra Prices Expected to Hold ... 7 Gold Tax May Be Ultra Vires ... 7 No Flies in Tahiti! 8 Future of Native Labour in T.N.G. 8 War Dislocates Shipping Services .. 9 Prom Notes Made in New Guinea .. 9 Tropicalities n N.G. Road Plan Affected by War .. 12 About Islands People 13 Pacific Air Service Expected Soon .. 15 Japan’s Pacific Plans in Relation to the European War 16 U.S.A. Amends Neutrality Act .. .. 21 Dedication of New Papuan Cathedral 22 German Raider in the Pacific? ... 24 “Yunnan” Replaces German Vessel “Priderun” 25 Salaries of Tongan Officials 27 Tongan Prince Addresses P.I. Club .. 28 Scientific Expedition for the Pacific 29 I Come “Angery”—The Sufferings of an Islands Trader 30

Native Conditions in New Guinea .. 31 Fighting Pests with Parasites .. .. 32 Papua’s Early Goldfield 34 Islands Luxury Liners 36 Another Bond-Selling Plan for Papua 38 New Guinea’s Finances 40 The “Romantic South Seas” 41 John Williams—Missionary Autocrat of Raiatea 42 Japan’s Invasion of the Philippines 45 Wealth in Fiji’s Soil 50 Rise and Fall of Polynesia .. .. .. 51 Bulolo Co.’s Profit Over a Million .. 51 Planter Murdered in New Hebrides 53 Illuminated Address for Queen Salote 54 Bite of the Social Bee—A Sidelight in Polynesia 55 Shot-Gun Matrimony Another Trader’s Tale se How U.S.A. Feels Towards the War 58 Japanese Trade Envoys in Papua .. 59 German Opinion in Samoa 61 Islands Display at N.Z. Exhibition .. 62 Another N.G. Plane Lost 64 Pacific Mining News 66 Short Wave Radio Programmes ... 69 Copra and Rubber Quotations .. .. 72 Islands Produce and Exchange ... 73 Shipping Services in the Pacific ... 74