Contents

Pacific News-Review 1 South Seas Travellers 3 ‘ P.l.M.’s” Tenth Birthday and the Shape of the New World ... 5 Copra Market Faces Crisis 6, 27 Liner “Niagara” Mined 7, 14 What Japan Means by “South Seas” 7 Boom in Rubber 7 French Surrender Causes Chaos in N. Hebrides 7 Makea Title in Cook Islands ... 7 Financial Strength of Pacific “Big Firms” 8 Will Gold Hold Its Value? 8 N. Hebrides Plantation Blown to Pieces 8 Record Gold Output in T.N.G 9 Future of N. Caledonia and French Oceania 9 South Pacific Airmail Inaugurated . . 10 New Industries in Norfolk Is 10 Tropicalities 11 About Islands People 13 Growth of Islands Radio Network .. 16 Salary for Papua’s Administrator .. 17 Atiu As She Is Wedded 18 Samoan Banana Production 20 With a Camera in Central Pacific .. 22 New Japanese Shipping Service ... 23 How Civilisation Changes Native Manners 25 Cook Is. Fruit Troubles 26

Tonga’s Chief Justice 27 Changes in Administration of Papua 28 A Papuan Sinabada’s Diary 30 Verse —To a Lady Seen on a Ship 33 Which Was Cook’s Marae? 34 Tuberculosis in Papua 36 Half-Caste —A Memory of Mauke, C.I. 38 The Salmon Family of Tahiti 39 The Judgment of Moati 40 Late R. W. Gosset, Authority on Cook Islands 43 History of Teva Clan in Tahiti ... 44 Insect Stowaways on Pacific Airliners 46 Jottings From Rabaul 47 France’s Collapse Destroys World’s Balance of Power 48 A Trader’s Tale 52 Tonga’s Trade for 1939 53 When D.O. Bell Was Killed in 8.5.1. 54 Reign of the Combines 56 Is Tahiti’s Peace Legendary? 57 Pioneers of the N.G. Goldfields ... 58 Tribute to Mrs. A. C. Rowland, of Papeete 59 An Islands Girl in War-time London 61 Pacific Mining Reports 63 Short Wave Radio Programmes ... 65 Islands Patriotic Funds Mount .. .. 65 Copra and Rubber Prices 67 Produce and Exchange Rates 68 Count von Luckner —A Nazi Spy . . 70 Index to Volume X 71