Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 16 May 1942Vol. XII, No. 10

Contents

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Pacific News-Review 1 Australian Industry and Govern mental Extremism 3 A Square Peg in a Round Hole ... 4 Some Problems of the Evacuation .. 4 Asiatic Labourers in New Caledonia 5 Pacific Territories Association Formed in Sydney 5,44 Comment on PTA Meeting 6 The Battle of the Coral Sea 7 Copra in Demand 7 How Japs Came to Tarawa 8 Australian Rice Needed in Territories 8 Should Lost Goods be Covered by War Insurance? 8 War and the Big Firms 9 Pilot Gurney Killed on Active Service 9 American Troops in French Pacific Colonies 10 Curiosity About Wallis and Futuna Islands 11 Looking Into the Future 11 The Battle of Rabaul 12 Mr. H. A. Markham, of BSI .. .. 13 Substitute for Tung Oil 15 The Visit of an Author—A Cook Is.

Interlude 16 Banno Brothers Firm is Sold 17 Why Hitler Did Not Invade England After France Fell 19 A Trader’s Tale 21 The Miracle of Pawpaw 22 “Blue” Allen Gets the OBE 23 The Islands of Western Samoa ... 24 Discovery of Tahiti 26 High Prices in Samoa 29 We Love to Listen-in 30 Some Old-time Tahitian Customs .. 32 New Free French Pacific Stamps .. 36 He Flew Home Around the World .. 38 Territories Residents in Australia .. 41 The Melanesian as He Really Is ... 42

Death of “Dick” Ede (Papua) ... 46 Islands Produce Prices 48

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