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Pacific News-Review i Islands Travellers i Is it Too Soon to Visualise a New World? 3 Roll of Honour 4 Mr. A. C. Tuitnbull, “Acting”- Administrator of Western Samoa 4 Gallant Maoris in Greek Campaign 5 Remarkable Achievements of Sir Walter Carpenter 5 NGG Ltd.’s Strike is Fizzling Out .. 6 Australian Minister to Visit the Territories 6 De Gaulle Official Now in the Pacific 6 Official Dithering Fatal to Copra Plan 7 New Dictionary for Fiji 9 Tahitian Ship Lost 10 Tropicalities 11 Burns, Philp and Co.’s Balance Sheet 12 Pacific Radio Network 13 NG’s Useless Legislative Council ... 14 Lockheed Plane for Sydney-NG Service 15 Copra Conference Recommendations 16 American Naval Squadrons Call at Papeete and Suva 20, 66 The Salmon Family of Polynesia .. 21 Rarotonga’s New High Chief 22 “Blackbirding” in Last Century ... 24

How Rev. James Chalmers Was Killed 25 Happy Days in Takaroa 27 Australia’s Record in Papua and NG 30 Mission Cutter Lost in Tuamotus .. 34 Ficus Rubber in New Guinea 35 Matson Ships Now Can Carry NZ Cargo 36 A Wander in the Trobriands 37 Dodging the Gorgons in Tahiti ... 40 Search for Oil in Papua 42 New Caledonia’s Place in Pacific Defence 44 A South Sea Bubble of the ’Twenties 47 Kuru Kuru Grass Trial Now in Sydney Police Court 48 Battle of the Hotels in Pt. Moresby 51 Free France’s Pacific Men March to War 52 Charles J. Bucknell —A Fiji Pioneer 54 Mining Reports 56 Short Wave Radio Programmes ... 59 Islands Produce Prices 60 Pacific Exchange Rates 61 Copra and Rubber Quotations ... 62 New Workers’ Compensation Law in

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Papuans Receive £2,000 for Their Coffee 64 18 Missing in Fiji Launch Wreck .. 65