Contents
Pacific News-Review 1 South Seas Travellers 3 ■ Grim Prospect for Copra Producers 5 The Course of the War 6 The “Peaceful” Germans of N. Guinea 6 Islands Roll of Honour 6 U.S.A. Naval Strength in Pacific .. 7 Higher Fares & Freights in W. Pacific 7 Fiji Taxation Changes 7 Proposed P.A.A. Yacht Link Between New Caledonia and Australia .. 7 War’s Reaction on Pacific Industries 8 N.G. Road Still Held Up 8 Tahiti Buys More Australian Goods 9 Administrator of Panua 9 Future of Dutch East Indies 9 Flying-Officer Gofton, of N.G., Missing 10 Islands Men Eager to Join Up ... 10 Tropicalities n About Islands Peonle 13 Workers’ Compensation Act in Fiji .. 14 The “Pandemonium” 16 Death of Hon. W. E. Grose, of T.N.G. 16 Port Moresby Water Suoply .. .. 17 Japanese in Carolines & Marshalls .. 18 Crush Copra in the Islands? 19 Possibilities of Shark-Fishing Industry 20 Australian Politicians & Mr. E. G.
Theodore 20 Samoan Child-Murderer Sentenced to Death 22 With Dechert’s Bitser to Edie Creek 23 Whence Came the Polynesians? ... 27 New Bishop Museum Publications .. 29
Those N.G. Native Labour Guarantees 31 Pacific Territories & Copra Price .. 32 “Jimmy” Preston’s Lost Gold Reef .. 33 How the “Maungaroa” Came and Went 34 R. D. Frisbie’s New Book on Puka puka 37 One Night at Sea—A Papuan Tale 38 Native Producers in New Guinea ... 39 First Printing Press in Polvnesia ... 40 Things You Need Not Take; to Tahiti 42 Native Population of N. Guinea ... 43 Papua’s Western Division 44 Use Coconut Products in the Islands! 45 Death of Captain A. Middenway ... 46 Health of G. E. Natives 48 Work of Dr. S. M. Lambert in South Seas . .. 49 Exploring Central New Guinea—Sec tion 4 (Conclusion) 50 A Post Office in Rural Fiji 55 Papuans Will be Boys 56 Tribute to Papua’s Early Missionaries 57 The Innocent Abroad—A New Guinea Epic 58 A Section for Islands Women 61 Pacific Is. Mining News 63 Short Wave Radio Programmes ... 67 Produce & Exchange Rates 68 Copra & Rubber Quotations 69 Death of Miss Florence Young, Founder of S.S.E. Mission .. .. 70 Shipping Services in the Pacific ... 71 Progress of Fiji’s Gold Mines 72