Contents

Pacific News-Review l Making Post-War Plans? 3 Rabaul’s Anniversary 4 Prosperity in All Pacific Territories 5 Copra Values 5 Jap Penetration of New Caledonia .. 6 Politicians’ Reluctant Statements .. 8 New Demand for White Taro 9 Legislative Council for Western Samoa Meets 10 Three Islands Joined With Pitcairn 11 Papua’s Lost Rubber n Quarterly Meeting of Pacific Terri tories Association 12 Solomon Islands Battles 13 BP Manager Marooned on Wallis Island 14 Second Battle of Solomons 14 Dominion of British Oceania ... 16 Territories’ Forgotten Men 18 Massacre of Rabaul Missionaries .. 21 Nordhoff-Hall’s “Botany Bay,’’

Reviewed 22 Letter to the Editor: Origin of Polynesian Club 23 Two Related Tragedies of Papua .. 24 How Judge Robinson Died .. \ 24 Higher Taxes in Fiji 27 New Caledonia is Prosperous ... 28 Murdered by N. Caledonian Natives 29 Gira and Yodda Goldfields’Discoveries 30 How a Mission Party Escaped on Guadalcanal 31 Roll of Honour 32 Letter to Editor—Breathing Spell for Papuans 36 German Harry 37 “John Williams’’ Sails Again ... 38 Fiji’s Honour Roll 38 Noumea Under War 39 New Caledonian Imports 40 New Zealand Troops in New Caledonia 41 About Islands People 42 Markets 43