Contents

Pacific News Review i Editorial: Indentured Labour, ’ *tlie King’s Cross Minister and America’s Future in the Pacific 3 Basis of Future Government in the Territories 5 Sydney H. Chance Retires 5 on Fi j i>s Communities 6 NZ Trade Regulations for Samoa . 7 Ebb-tide in New Guinea—Two and a Half Year’s Campaign . r Tropicalities * ’ ‘ 9 Where Are Copra Pool Funds? ” 10 New Guinea Gold—Hopes for Re sumption of Industry ... n Tonga—And Its Queen ‘ ’ 22 Fiji For Mixed Farming .. .. * ’ 13 Rescued by the Americans ... 15 Introduction to the Jungle—Wew’akl Aitape District “Along Before” . 16 Rarotongan Food Position Unsatis factory 19 Fiji Trade Report for 1943 .’. V. " 21 Unilever Menace 23 Black Markets in Tahiti .. . . V. 25 Lieutenant Isireli Korovulavula— Fijian Makes American History .. 27 Tarawa Was a Grim Lesson for Tojo 29 Harking Back—A Decade in Fiji 31 Los Negros Nostalgia 34 Last Patrol ’ 35 Fate of Siota Cathedral 35 The Future of the Polynesians .. ’37 One Short-Lived Strike 33 Pomare’s Bible 40 New Australian Representative for Noumea 49 Culture Clashes in the Pacific—The Rev, Burton Makes Another “Brown versus White” Study 41 Commercial and Markets 43-44