Contents

Pacific News-Review l Islands Travellers !. 3, 72 The Curtain is Rising on 1940 .. .. 5 Petrol Prices in Fiji 6 All Ready for Trans-Pacific ’ * Air Service . 7 Nazi Broadcast About Samoa ... 7 Curse of the Mandate System ... 7 World’s Copra Production 7 Japanese Ship “Nosing Around” in Tongan Waters g New Hebrides Hurricane ... 8 Cocos Is. Treasure Reported Found 8 Suva’s Famous Medical School 9 Increase in Copra Price .. 10 Tropicalities * * 4 4 About Islands People .. 43 Deep Drilling for Oil in Papua ’ 14 Moonlight in Tahiti ... " 15 Plans for T.N.G. Held Up .. ] 45 America’s Watch on Nth. Pacific 17 Timber Resources of Vanua Levu Fiji .. 20 New Bird of Paradise First Reported by Jack Hides .. . 21 Casual Labour—A Problem in Rabaiil 22 Papua’s New Lands 23 U.S. Submarine at Tahiti .. .. * 24 Consecration of N. Hebrides Bishop 25 Samoa and N.Z. Nazis 26 A Ship that Would not Launch .. 26 Papua and the Gold Tax 27

“Vaite” Lost in Pr. Oceania 28 Mixed Drinking in Rabaul .. ." '' 29 Taupou’s Grave—An Incident of the 1906 Samoan Eruption ... 31 Double Murder in New Caledonia ’ 32 Parasites to Check Crop Pests . 33 Fiji Governor’s New Vessel 35 Lay of the Lazy Labourer 36 Salalas—Merry Moments in Fiii 37 £topk Is. Tragedy of 40 Years Ago 39 Fighting Words” from Japan .. .. 40 leaves New Guinea . . 42 Bath-Tub Gardens” on Wake Island 42 Early Asiatic Navigators . 44 Ten Days on Wild Sea in Tonga 45 Dalo—A Valuable Food Crop 47 Development of Dutch New Guinea 48 Is Tahiti a Pacific “Funk-Hole”? 49 Maori Tabu in Cook Is. Schools 51 Copra Prices and the Middlemen . 52 Water Supply for Pt. Moresby .. .. 53 A French Escapee in Papua .. 54 Chance to Develop Rubber Industry 56 Asiatic Labourers in N. Caledonia 57 Bora Bora’s Place in History 5^ A Trip to Suva 59 Fashion Hints for Islands Women !’ 61 Islands Mining News 63 Short Wave Radio Broadcast 67 Copra and Rubber Quotations ... 68 Produce Prices & Exchange Rates .. 69 Pacific Shipping Services 70