Contents

Pacific News Review 1 USA and New Pacific Order 3 N.G.V.R. Disbanded 5 Tongan Prince Not Premier 5 War Insurance for Fiji 6 32 Planters Go Back to Papua ... 7 Troubles of Territories’ Residents .. 7 Japan in Stolen Empire 8 Awatea’s End 8 Call to Fiji Indians 9 Fiji Trade Figures 10 Brief Answers to Correspondents ... 11 Confederation of South Pacific Terri tories 12 Ignorance of New Guinea 12 “Dormant Commission” for West Pacific 15 Germans and Missions 16 Jealous Japanese Neighbours 17 Ordeal By Truck 19 Historic Dates in New Guinea .. .. 21 Tahiti’s Golden Age 22 Hunt for Scrap Rubber in French Oceania 23 War s Effect on Natives 24 Two Tragedies of Papua 25 "Queen of Sudest” Dead 26 Frenzied Buying in Fiji 27 History of Bank of Indo-China ... 28 Fiji Grows Own Food 29 Native Charter for Melanesia .. . . 30 Polynesians’ Gallantry 32 Atebrin and Me 33 Giraud and De Gaulle 34 Nursery Rhymes in Pidgin 35 Luck of Guinea Airways 36 Two Talented Daughters of Tahiti .. 37 Commercial Page 39 Honour Roll cov. ii., iii. & p. 40