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Pacific News-Review i Death of Well-known Tahiti Man .. 1 The Pacific Faces Grim Months of Endurance and Sacrifice 3 Back to Rabaul? 4 Catholic Sisters Safe in Gilbert Is. 5 Exploitation of New Caledonian Metals 5 Copra Position 5 PAA Airmail Suspended 6 G. & E. Residents Cut Off by Jap Attack 6 Bombs on Rabaul 7 World War in the Pacific—Progress of Events and What They Signify 7-12 Re-planting Rarotonga’s Valleys .. 13 Free France in the South Pacific .. 14 Plane Wrecked in New Guinea ... 16 Fiji in the Front Line 16 Ketch “Golden Hind” Nearly Wrecked 17 Roll of Honour 18 Life on the “Lousy Islands” 21 Can Gold Hold its Value? 28 Jeeves of Cathay—A Trader’s Tale .. 29 Demand for Copra When War Ends 30 Is Treasure Buried on Moorea? . 31

Page, Fiji’s Taxes 32, 49 A Maritime Farce in Papua 33 Rossel Island’s Wrecks 34 Capt. I. R. Handley, of the Gilberts 36 New Laws in Fiji 37 High Court Upholds Papuans’ Appeal 38 Beekeeping as an Islands Industry 39 Passing of Mr. A. G. Wilkinson (Cook Is.) 40 Trans-Pacific in a Leaky Old Junk 41 Ceylon-Type Copra Driers 42 Rarotonga’s Three Pests 44 New Books 45 The Patons of New Hebrides .. .. 46 Islands Mining News 47 Ocean Island Rats! ! 51 Short Wave Radio Programmes .. 51 Centenary of Henderson & Macfar lane Ltd 52 Geoffrey Henry, RA at Puka Puka 53 Islands Produce Prices 54 Copra and Rubber Quotations .. .. 55 Pacific Exchange Rates 56 The Plane That Came Out of the East 57 About Islands People 58 The Land of the Pharaohs—Verse .. 58