Contents

Pacific News-Review .. i Anzac Plan for the South Pacific Territories 3 New Guinea Gold Losses .. . * * 4 Is Jap Breaking in N. Guinea? .! 5 Four Young Fiji Residents Drowned in Nukualofa 5 Fewer Dollars—Samoa Returning to Normal 6 Wreaths for Rabaul’s Dead ...! 6 Well-known Men Missing in the Gilberts 7 Fiji Sugar Troubles—May Drive CSR Out of Colony g Revision of Administrative System for Fiji Natives 9 Hidden Snake in Paradise—Elephan tiasis in Oceania 9 Fate of the Pacific Mandates .. 10 Tropicalities u N. Guinea Labour—And Amateurs .. 12 Idle Fijians Sent Home 12 Are the Japanese Last-ditch Fighters? 13 Cyclone in Noumea 15 Übiquitous “PB”—Good War Record 17 Fiji Timbers 18 Assault on Buna 19 Caledonian Mines—Another Wartime Casualty 20 Japan Fights for Negotiated Peace 21 Plan to Provide Trade Unions for “Fuzzy-Wuzzies” 23 Anglo-French Co-operation 25 A Deserted El Dorado 27 No Pareu—Wartime Tragedy in Poly nesia 28 Scouting the Hard Way 29 Samoa as a “Bed of Roses” 31 Future of the Solomons—Melanesia’s Inspiring Bishop in Australia .. 32 New Guinea Women’s Club Wants Hospital Visitors 33 Lost Treasure of Tahiti—Capt. Cook’s Portrait 35

Tulagi’s Scars Fast Healing 36 Commercial and Markets 40 Honour Roll ... cov. ii, iii, and page 37