Contents

Pacific News-Review 1 Survey of N.G. Gold Industry Urged 2 News in Brief 2 South Seas Travellers 3,68 Axis Interest in Future of Pacific Territories 5 Election in Fiji 6 Aeroplane Mishaps in N. Guinea . . 6 Carpenters Buy Two Steamers ... 6 Difficulties of French Pacific Gov ernors 6 Paralysis of Copra Industry 7 U.S.A., Australia, and N.Z. Linked by Trans-Pacific Air-Mail 8 Copra as Food for Pigs 9 Administratorship of Papua 9 French Colonies Carry On 9 About Islands People 11 Tropicalities 12 J. M. Salmon, of Rarotonga 18 Will Salamaua-Wau Road Plan be “Forgotten”? 18 Death of Captain David Robbie (Fiji) 19 Rubber Tax for Papua 21 High Tongan Officials Impeached in Parliament 21 New Caledonia Being Run as an Independent Country 22 How Airmen Found Wau (T.N.G.) .. 24 A Trader’s Tale 28

Tonkinese Labour for British Plant ers in Condominium 29 Hurricane Damage in New Hebrides 31 Fiji Buys Bombers for Britain .. 32 Mission Festival in Rarotonga ... 33 An Islands Elopement 34 Fiji Sugar Crop is Smaller 39 How Native Labourers Damage Cargo 40 C.I. Fruit-Growers Up in Arms at Government “Control” 42 Origin of the Polynesians 43 New “Bureau of Missions and Colonial Planning” 46 Japanese Caught Smuggling in Tonga 49 Judgment of a Solomon 50 Pitcairn Is. To Have New Constitu- ‘ tion v .. .. 51 F. W. Cuthbert: The Man Who Could “Smell Gold” 51 Yachting in Fiji 53 Pacifism in Islands Seen as “Fifth Column” Activity 54 Memories of a Papuan Pioneer ... 57 A Section for Islands Women ... 58 Mining News 60 Short Wave Radio Programmes . . 63 Book Reviews 63 Exchange Rates 64 Islands Produce Prices 65 Copra and Rubber Quotations ... 66 Pacific Shipping Services 67