Contents

Nut-Fall in the Solomons 1 Pacific News-Review 1 Remarkable Career of New French Pacific High Commissioner ... 2 South Seas Travellers 3 Cassava as an Islands Crop 3 All is Not Well in New Guinea ... 5 In the Third Year of War 5 A Protest Against Use of “Coon” .. 6 Triplets on Pitcairn Island 7 Copra Marketing Plan Under Fire .. 7 Cost of HMFS “Viti” 8 Squadron-Leader Clive Brewster, of Fiji 8 Militant Unionism on NG Goldfield 9 PAA’s Call at Suva 11 How Vichy Ordered Arrest of British Consul at Noumea 12 Golf in “Fiji 12, 25 Tropicalities 13 Clearer Sky in French Pacific Colonies 14 Sugar Industry in Fiji 15 Prospecting for BSI Gold 17 Roll of Honour 18 Tribute to “Aunt Mary” of Suva .. 20 NG Murder Still Unsolved 22 Cl Fruit-growers Want Better Prices 24

“Elementary, My Dear Watson”—A Fiji Tale 27 “Marrying” the Vanilla Plant .. .. 28 NG Men in Tobruk 29 A Cook Is. Comedy of Love 30 Taureka, of Papua 31 Who Was the Outlaw? 32 “Victims” of Free France 33 A Cockroach—and a Moral (Verse) 34 New Books 35, 47 Reflections About Oil ’37 Death of Stephen Savage (Cook Is.) 38 The “Royal Tar” 39 Making History in Rotuma ... 40 A Radio Operator’s Heroism 41 History of Pacific’s Equatorial Islands 42 Prospecting on the Fly River, 1875 44 American Air Strength in Pacific .. 46 Catholic Bishop’s Death in Fiji ... 48 A Section for Women 49 Training Polynesian Nurses 50 Native Degeneracy in New Guinea 51 Islands Mining News 54 Short Wave Radio Programmes ... 57 Copra and Rubber Prices 58 Produce Quotations 59 Delayed Radio Messages 61 NG’s Capital to be Moved to Lae .. 63