Pacific

Islands

Monthly

May 17, 1944

Vol. Xiv. No. 10.

Established 1930

[Registered ot the OJ*.o.> Sydney, for -transmission post as a ]

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In The News

The little port of Hollandia, on Humboldt Bay, just over the border, in Dutch New Guinea, became front-page news throughout the world in April, when it was occupied by American forces, who drove out the Japs. The Americans now are spreading rapidly westward, along the north coast of Dutch New Guinea...

The above photograph was taken 20 years ago, when Hollandia was a prosperous centre of the Bird-of-Paradise trade.