Contents

Pacific News-Review i Fiji Men for RAF ii We Now Are Under United States Protection 3 Late News 4 A Copra Marketing Board —But No Solution of Shipping Problem .. 5 Re-arrangement of BP Ships ... 5 Hesitations of Japan 6 French Colonies’ Finance and Exchange 6 Hunt for Pacific Raiders 7 Troubles of China and Japan ... 8 Miners’ Strike in New Guinea ... 9 Another Matson Cruise to Tahiti .. 12 Tropicalities 13 When Tonga Built Great Canoes .. 17 Japanese Pearlers in DEI 18 “Lord Haw-Haw” and the Copra Planters 19 Memories of “Queen Emma” 20 Japan’s Mandated Islands 25 Copra Factory Ships 27 Cassava Mill in New Guinea 28

Australia’s Record in the Territories 30 Hurricane Damage in Fiji 36 America’s Pacific Tourists 41 New Caledonia Knocks at Australia’s Door 42 A Tongan’s 102 Years 44 Deep Drilling for Oil in Papua ... 45 Jubilee of New Guinea Mission ... 46 The Tara-La-La—One Evening in Suva 47 Making Money Talk in BSI 48 How Were Nazi Raiders Helped? .. 51 A Section for Women 54 Comparative War Efforts 57 The Bamu River Mission (Papua) .. 57 Mining News 58 Short Wave Radio Programmes ... 61 Islands Produce Quotations 62 Pacific Exchange Rates 63 Copra and Rubber Prices 64 Overland Droving in TNG 65 New Caledonia’s Fifth Column ... 65 Islands Displays at Royal Show ... 66