Contents

Pacific News-Review Cover 111 Statement of Australian Pacific Policy And Pacific Medical Services i New Roads, Ports and Airfields for New Guinea 2 Judge Ayson Retires 3 “Tulagi Pete” . 3 Vaccine for Japanese River Fever .. 3 Papuans’ War Effort 4 Seventeen Ministers in 17 Years — Australian Territories’ Record .. 5 Mayor of Noumea Dead 5 Queen Salote’s Jubilee 5 No American Soldier Problem in Fiji 6 ANGAU is Improving 6 Fiji Sugar Strike 6 American Post-war Pacific Plans .. 7 NG Women’s Club and Pacific Territories Association Affiliate . 8 Tropicalities 9 Fine Career of W. H. Champion of Papua 10 Australian Relations With Pacific Territories 11 Mr. R. B. Howard of Fiji 12 Dutch Rule in NEI 13 War-trapped Island Boys Do Well in Australia 15 Future of Pacific Races 16 Anthropology in Demand 17 Restless Fijians 19 Hymn of Hens and Cucumbers—New Guinea “Rediscovered” 20 How Central New Guinea Was Evacuated 23 Alice in Kangaroo-Land 26 Western Samoa and “Dollar Prosperity” 30 Stomach Ills and Sulfa Drugs ... 36 When Sapi Was Troubled 32 Shooting a Dinner in Fiji 34 Missing Men in Melanesia —Roman Catholic and Lutheran Mission

aries 39 Markets and Commercial 42