Contents

Pacific News-Review 1 PAA May Extend to Sydney 2 South Seas Travellers 3 Japan on the Edge of the Abyss ... 5 New Japanese Pacific Airline 6 Tonga’s New Premier 6 Drought in New Guinea 6 Copra Position 7 Canton Is. to Sydney, Non-stop ... 7 New Governor at Tahiti 7 Tonkinese Labour in N. Hebrides ... 7 Bonus for Fiji-Indian Canegrowers .. 8 The Move to Lae 8 Iron Ore in N. Caledonia 9 Tropicalities 10 Ray Parer Joins Merchant Navy ... 13 Japanese “Snooping” Near US Naval Bases 14 Boom in Islands Cocoa 16 How Eric Chater Was Killed 17 Roll of Honour is A Trader’s Tale 19 Two NG Planes Wrecked 21 Castaways Rescued in Tuamotus ... 22

Oil Prospecting in Papua 27 How to Treat Ficus Rubber 28 “Benzining” Around Eastern Papua .. 30 World’s Copra Output 32 A Week-end at Tautira 35 Samson—A Papuan House-boy ... 37 Revival of Fiji Rubber Industry ... 40 Sago Palms as Native Food 41 Beche-de-Mer Industry in Islands .. 42 Cl Native’s Escape from the Sea .. 43 Copra Marketing Plan in TNG ... 44 “Pard” Mustar, of New Guinea ... 46 A Section for Women 49 Religious Hysteria in Papua 50 Tahitian—A Vanishing Language ... 51 Islands Mining News 53 Tribute to Royal Papuan Constabulary 54 Short Wave Radio Programmes ... 57 Elections in Samoa 53 Copra and Rubber Prices 59 Islands Produce Quotations 61 Exchange Rates 32 NG Miners’ Union 63 British Post Office at Canton Is 64