Contents

Pacific .News-Review 1 Confusion and Lack of Planning in Australia’s Pacific Territories 3 Civil Administration in Papua—Res toration Early in New Year ... 5 US is Paying for Cutting Coconut Trees 5 Civilians Are Not Wanted —Bureaucracy and Brasshattery in Con trol in Papua 6 Pacific Frenchmen Celebrate Libera tion of Mother Country 7 New Hopes for French Oceania ... 8 No “Dollar Prosperity” in Pukapuka 9 Results of Fiji Election 9 Arrival of New Resident Commissioner in Tarawa 10 Tropica lities 11 For New Settlers in Papua—Possibili ties of Tropical Crops 12 From Cannibal to Commando ... 14 New Guinea’s Primitive Natives .. 16 Further Recollections of a Decade in Fiji 17 Post-war Plans for Noumea 21 A School for Castaways 22 This is the Solomon Islander in Peace 24 New Caledonian Soldiers Return .. 27 Nautical Interludes—Meandering With the “Threesis” 28 The Pacific Islands as They Will Be in 1950 29 “Dollar Prosperity” Now—Headaches for the Future—Report of the Methodist Mission 33 Trader’s Tale—Portrait of a Gentle man 34 Post-war Malaya 36 The Cook Islands and the American Occupation *,. 37 “Jesuits’ Bark”—The History of Quinine 41 “Exploited Natives” 45 Markets and Commercial 43