Contents

Pacific News-Review 1 South Seas Travellers 3 There Need Be No War in Pacific 5 Coconut Shell —New Islands Industry 6 Shipping Services Wanted for French Territories 7 Career of M. Henri Sautot 7 Red Cross Carnival at Suva .. 7, 15, 66 Copra Market Lifeless 7 Conditions in Fiji 7 French Pacific Colonies for de Gaulle 8 Copra as Food for Pigs 9 Japanese in Samoa and Tonga ... 9 About Islands People 11 Tropicalities 12 Missions Hard Hit by War Conditions 16 Death of C. H. Karius: Man Wiio Conquered N, Guinea 17 Another Territories Minister Passes 19 Seaplane Base at Suva 20 No New Administrator for Papua .. 22 Canberra Bureaucrats Sound Asleep 23 New Colonists in Phoenix Group .. 25 Death of Mrs. R. A. M. Vieusseux (Papua) 26 “Director” Expedition in Pacific .. 27 Who Discovered Rarotonga? 28

Norfolk Island's Industries 29 Early Ships at Pitcairn Island ... 30 In Path of Pacific’s Worst Hurricane 31 C.I. Banana Trade Languishes ... 32 N.G. Legislative Council Meeting .. 33 New Light on the Rossel Is. Horror 34 Does British Pacific Administration Method Show “Decadence”? .. 38 J. M. Salmon, of Rarotonga 39 A Tahitian Interlude 40 Rise in Islands Freight Rates 41 Pro-Germanism &N. Guinea Missions 42 N.Z. Labour is Strangling Rarotonga 43 Strange Record of Expert Committees .in T.N.G 44 “Any Ruck?”—A Tale of Mangaian Magic 46 The “Percy Edwards” Expedition .. 48 Story of “Uncle Parkin” Christian .. 49 Danes in the Pacific 50 Growth of Fiji Goldfield 50 A Section for Islands Women 58 Mining Notes 60 Short Wave Radio Programmes ... 63 Produce Prices &’ Exchange Rates .. 64 Copra and Rubber Quotations ... 65 Shipping Services in Pacific 67