Contents

Pacific News-Review 1 Editorial: Air Transport Will Open New Era in Pacific Islands ... 3 Melanesian Missions’ Task of Recon struction 4 How Old-timers Are Helping Cause in New Guinea 5 Pacific Problems—Plea for Co-opera tion 5 Scrub Typhus 5 War Damage Claims 6 Fiji Remembers American Dead .. 6 Eruption on Niuafoou 7 G, E. Hemsworth Reported POW .. 7 Co-prosperity Sphere Not Doing So Well —Japan Has Her Troubles .. 8 Japanese Need Phosphates 9 “Village Churchill” Goes to War .. 10 Bishops and Anthropologist to Rescue of Fuzzy-Wuzzy 10 Mr. Ward—A “Yes or No” Man—PTA Report at Quarterly Meeting .. 11 Dutch Rule in NEl—Second of Three Special Articles 13 War Comes to Atolls—And What Happened in Tarawa 16 Governor Sautot Marries in Africa . 19 New Guinea Seen Through Ameri can Eyes 20 Oversea Birds for Birdless Tahiti .. 23 Soldier’s Story 25 Fame—And Tahiti 27 South Pacific Confederation 28 Blissful Isles —Memories of 170 Years Ago 32 Gold in Sudest—How it Was Found 36 Medical Work in the New Papua .. 37 Commercial and Markets 40 Fiji’s Army—Praise by Brigadier Wales cov. ii.