Contents

Pacific News-Review 1 South Seas Travellers 3, 72 One Year of War—And What Now? 5 Vital Pacific Talks Going On ... 6 No Market for Copra 7 New Motor-Ship for Fiji Governor 7 Fateful Days in French Colonies .. 7 Was Gaol Sentence on N.G. Miner Improperly Imposed? 8 Coconut Oil to Run Engines 8 Where is Von Luckner? 9 P.A.A. Air Service in Operation .. 9 Raider in Pacific 9 Mysterious Balloons in N.G 10 About Islands People 11 Tropicalities 12 Seeking Solution of Copra Problem 16 Nipa Palm for Motor Fuel .. .. 20,56 Death of Pitcairn Is. Leader 22 Administrator of Papua 23 Extraordinary Charge Against N.G.

Officials 25 Government of Papua and T.N.G. .. 26 How Canton Is. Got its Name ... 29 New Caledonia and Australia .. .. 31 Climbing in Tahiti 32 How to Skin a Shark 33 Cook Islands Fruit Industry 34 When Captain David Robbie Fooled the Fiji Police 35

Matson Tourists in Tahiti 37 Copra Factory Ship Advocated by Papuan Planter 39 W. R. Carpenter’s Annual Report .. 42 Romance in Stamps 43 Britain’s Claim to Pacific Atolls .. 45 The Blathering of Jim 46 Death of Central Pacific Pioneer .. 47 Papuan Pigs, Tuberculosis, and Whatnot 48 “Takibo” An Ancient Tongan Ceremony 51 When Germans Flogged a Missionary 52 A Papuan Tragedy of 1901 53 Fiji Planters Urged to Grow Food stuffs 54 No Demand for Glycerine from Copra 55 1 Aid Needed for 8.5.1. Planters ... 56 , What Shall We Do With Our Copra? 57 Sharks & Game Fish in Trobriand Is. 59 The Local Store 60 A Section for Islands Women ... 62 Pacific Mining Notes 64 New Books 65 Short Wave Radio Programmes .. 67 Islands Produce Prices & Exchange 69 Copra & Rubber Quotations 70 Shipping Services in Pacific 71