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Pacific Islands Monthly, 18 August 1944Vol. XV, No. 1

Contents

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Pacific News-Review 1 Editorial: How America Will Police the Pacific 3 Pacific Publications, Ltd. —New Com pany to Operate in Fiji 4 “Charley” Blake Wins the Military Medal 5 Death of Arthur Jewell, of Papua 5 Good-bye, Mr. To jo! 6 Stanley Greenland Retires From Papuan Service 7 Free Grant of £90,800 for Western Pacific ... 7 Scholarship Fund for Fijians 8 Tropicalities 9 ANGAU Increases Grip on Papua . . 10 Road to Wau—Engineering Feat in Markham-Wampit Valleys .. .. 11 Reunion in New Guinea .. 12 Where Two Races Mingle Happily— The Cook Islands 15 The Solomon Islander Wants to be Sophisticated 17 Father Tremblay’s Jubilee 18 Sister Susies From Fiji 19 Psalm-singers go to Town—Joy of Living in the Cook Is 21 “Govern or Get Out”—An Authorita tive Voice on ANGAU and Papua 22 Forgotten Vanua Levu—Development in Post-war Period 24 Evacuees and Australian Income Tax 28 Indentured Labour Again—Professor’s Attack 29 How War and the Americans Came to Tonga ... 30 The Cause, Prevention and Cure cf Filariasis 33 Tripping on the “Vai”—The Launch With the Reputation 36 Alice in Angauland 39 Men Who Made the Pacific—New Booklet Supplies Background 41 Papua’s Education System 43

Markets and Commercial 44 Honour Roll .. cov. ii, iii, and page 37