Contents

Pacific News-Review i Pacific Islands Travellers 2, 64 This is Not a Merry Christmas .. ’ 5 New Peoples of Central New Guinea 6 Copra and Shipping Shortage ... 6 Chance for Pacific Timbers 7 Market for Suva 7 Tahiti for Free France 8 Cotton Growing in New Guinea .. 8 Japanese Expansion in Polynesia .. 9 Australia’s Pitiful Record in NG .. 9 About Islands People li Tropicalities 12 Is There Oil in Papua? 15 Schooner Launched in Tahiti .. .. 16 Recent Bishop Museum Publications 17 “Polynesia” and “Melanesia” 18 An Artist in Tahiti 21 Copra as Food for Pigs 23, 63 A South Seas Reverie 24 Notes on New Caledonia 25

Phosphate as War Factor 31 What Japanese Nazis Are After .. 32 Landing a Car on Coral Island ... 34 Captain H. Low Retires 36 Sunday Is. Now Weather Station 37 Memories of Loma Loma 38 A Murder in Old Papua 41 When Jorgensen Visited Tahiti ... 42 De Gaulle Flag in Pacific 44 Why Easter Is. is Chilean 45 How de Rochefort Escaped from Noumea 48 A Section for Women 50 Catholic Missions in NG Defended 52 How Carpenter Ship Was Lost ... 54 Islands Mining News 55 Short Wave Radio Programmes .. 59 Copra and Rubber Prices 60 Exchange and Market Quotations .. 61 Fiji Yacht Tragedy 62 Pitcairn Is. Stamp Issue 64