Contents

How Evacuee Problem is Handled in Australia Overleaf What is Japan Trying to Do? .. .. 5 Demand for Copra ... 7 World-War in the Pacific 7 US Blow at Jap. Bases 8 Territories Now Under Martial Law .. 8 Grim Preparations in N. Caledonia . . 8 Lucky Escapes from Japs 9 Carpenter Airliner Crashes 9 Military Call-up in Papua & NG . . 10 NG Administrator Seriously 111 ... . 10 Fiji Farmers —Growth of Co-operative Movement 11 New Britain Lost and Papua Menaced 13 How Japs. Came to Morobe Goldfield 16 Roll of Honour 18 Plea for Education Reform in Tonga 23 Beekeeping as an Islands Industry . 24 Timor Occupied by Australian Troops 26 How Rev. Chalmers Was Murdered . . 27 BP Manager Retires .. . . .. . . . . 28 The Future of Copra 30 How Hawaii Was Caught Napping . . 32 Tugi, of Tonga 34 New Guinea and Papua Residents in Australia . . .. 37-52 Copra and Rubber Quotations ... 53 Islands Produce Prices 54