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Pacific Islands Monthly, 16 June 1941Vol. XI, No. 11

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Pacific News Review l South Seas Travellers 3, 64 We Now Face Stark Realities ... 5 Japan Seeks Pacific Copra 6 Roll of Honour 6 New Caledonia Re-affirms Her Freedom 7 NG Soldier’s Lucky Escape 7 Samoans Tied Up Like Pigs 7 Relief For Copra Producers 8 Salamaua-Wau Road 8 Fire-Walkers in Fiji 9 Death of Rev. M. Frater 9 Synthetic Rubber Menaces Papuan Industry 9 Sydney-Rabaul Air Service 10 USA Ships to Replace British in Pacific 11 How Cure for Hookworm Was Found 12 Tropicalities 14 New Books 17 How Australia Double-Crossed Fiji .. 18 Memories of Old Tahiti 20 A Yankee Doctor and His Million Patients 21 Maku and His Missus —A Cook Is.

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Samoa’s Trade in 1940 27 How War is Twisting Copra Markets 29 Memories of a Papuan Miner ... 30 “Queen Emma”, of New Britain ... 32 USA Defends the Philippines ... 34 Process Copra in the Islands 35 A Trader’s Tale 37 Cockroaches—A Tropical Household Pest 38 Captain George Vancouver, RN ... 39 What is a Good Price for Copra? .. 40 111-Judged NG Strike is Over ... 41 A Deal in Pearls 42 A Hurricane in Fiji 46 NG’s Display at Sydney Show 49 Fate of a “Grand Old Pioneer” ... 50 Rabaul Volcano is Active 51 A Section for Women 52 How Central Pacific Manages Without Copra 54 Guinea Airways Annual Report .. 55 Mining News 56 Short Wave Radio Programmes ... 59 Pacific Exchange Rates 60 Islands Produce Prices 61 Copra and Rubber Quotations ... 62 A New Guinea Bonanza 63