Contents

Pacific News-Review i South Seas Travellers 1, 73 America’s Epoch-Making Declaration of Pacific Policy 3, 5 U.S. Fleet at Hawaii 5 Anti-Opium Measures in Fiji ... 5 Cook Is. Ariki Visits Tonga & Samoa 5 Exasperating Condition of the Copra Market 6 Japanese in Tonga .. .. .. .. 7 Matson Liners to Call at Tahiti in August 7 Oil in Dutch New Guinea 7 New Planes for New Guinea ... 8 The Morobe Goldfields Road ... 8 Pacific Is. Club’s New President .. 8 Administratorship of Papua .. .. 8, 74 Tropicalities •• 9 B.P.’s Annual Report 11 Trans-Tasman Air Service Inaugu rated 12 Gold Search Unsuccessful in Dutch New Guinea 14 Mr. Georgius Wright—A Fiji Pioneer 15 New Caledonia’s Beef Industry .. 16 Curious Legal Case in Papua .. .. 17 Conditions in the Solomons 18 New Books 19 Why Not a Pacific Confederation? .. 22 “Dictators” and Bananas 25 Suva Medical School’s Report .. .. 26

Teleradio in the Islands ... 26 Papuan Death Feast in Honour of Late Sir Hubert Murray 27 Tahiti—Then and Now 29 Pioneers in the Solomons 31 Exploring Unknown New Guinea — Section 3 32 Death of “Jimmy” Inman (Papua) . 37 New Ways of Pishing ■ 38 How Papuans Can Endure Pain .. 41 Wan—A New Guinea Tale 43 Plea for Revision of Islands Liquor Laws 44 Missionary Humour 45 Which was Cook’s Marae in Tahiti? 46 “Blackbirders”—A Cook Is. Incident 49 N.G. Judge Joins Air Force 51 Tonga’s Trade in 1938 52 Cure for Leprosy Claimed • • .. .. 54 Cocoa Production in South Pacific . 55 A Section for Islands Women .. 61 Are Papuan Officials Over-paid? .. 63 Pacific Is. Mining Notes 64 Radio Programmes 67 How Muddling Lost a Bonanza ... 68 Growth of Guinea Airways 68 Islands Produce &' Exchange Rates . 70 Copra & Rubber Prices 71 Search for Cocos Is. Treasure .. .. 71 Shipping Services in Pacific 72 Plight of C.I. Fruit Industry .. .. 74