Contents

Pacific News-Review i.

Anzac Agreement Under Fire 1 To Govern New Guinea—New Set-up for Present and Post-war Period 3 Mata’afa as Third Fautua ... 3 Dictator—or What? Delicate Position of Mr. Tojo 4 The River Call 4 Employers of N/Labour Defended by Papuan Administrator 5 Beware of “Puff Fungus”! 5 How New Guinea Missionaries Escaped the Japs 6 Butaritari and the Japanese 7 Lambeti How Solomons Planter Returned Home g Evacuees Are “Befogged”—Quarterly Meeting of PTA 9 Death of Mr. O. F. Nelson, of Samoa 10 Sowing Seeds of Brotherly Love .. 10 Tropical! ties 11 The Goldminer True 13 No “Dollar Prosperity” in Mangaia .. 17 New Caledonia’s Post-war Claims in French Set-up ig Isa Lei 19 Has Polynesia a Future Without a “Copra-economy”? 20 Total War 23 Strange Case of the Sewing Thread— Tahiti’s Thieves and Black Marketeers 25 Evolution of a Fiji Commando ... 2 r ?

Cost of a Rubber Estate 28 Papua in 1888 29 The War Against Mosquitoes .. .. 31 Father Rougier 32 Battle of Marovo Lagoon 34 Army Picnic—NZ Garrison on Nor folk Island 36 Commercial and Markets 42 Honour Roll cov. i., vi., and p. 37