Contents

Pacific News-Review i Editorial: The Invasion—As Seen From the Pacific 3 Copra—Higher Rates in Fiji 4 Fate of NG Missionaries 5 Gold and Fight—Lewis Lett’s New Book on Early Papua 6 Fiji Sugar Planting Reduced—Gover nor’s Plain Warning to Planters 7 $25 Per Coconut Tree! y What Now in New Guinea? PTA Continues the Fight 8 Was Discourtesy Intended—Australia and Events in BSI 9 d’Argenlieu—Good Service to French Pacific Colonies 9 Tropicalities 10 Henry Paid to His Memory n This Was Rabaul—But What of the Future? 12 Harking Back—A Decade in Fiji .. ..' 17 Polynesian Club Visitors 18 The Future of ANGAU 19 Art in W. Samoa—Two Local Painters 21 Tahiti Restored 22 New Caledonian Casualties 22 Publicity for Suva Medical School .. 23 Bougainville Patrol With the FMF .. 26 One-day Campaign—A Fijian Goes to War 28 Neighbours! A Wail From Polynesia 30 “Ecole Pastorale”—Missionary Record of the Verniers 31 Life on Mysterious Easter Island .. 32 Medical Care of NG Natives 35 A New Guinea Friend 36 Papua in Prospect and Retrospect .. 38 Tarawa—American Shrine of Valour 39 Will New Caledonia Have a Nickel- Chrome Economy After the War? 40 Samoan Patriot 42 Making Way for the Army 43

Commercial, Markets, etc 44 Honour Roll covs. i, iv. & page 37