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Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 October 1944Vol. XV, No. 3

Contents

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Pacific News-Review 1 Editorial: This Talk of Exploitation of Natives 3 Sir Philip Mitchell for Kenya ... 5 ANGAU Hangs on in Papua 6 Dr. H. W. Jack—Outline of Career 8 Mr. Alderman’s £6,000 —For Adjust ing Territorlans’ Claims 9 Tropicalities 10 Flight-Sgt. Innes Fights With the Maquis 10 Another Appeal to Canberra —Quarterly Meeting of PTA 11 Damien Parer Killed 12 Pacific Cross-roads—Lonely Canton Is 12 War’s Withering Blasts Reach Spice Islands 14 Further Recollections of a Decade in Fiji * 17 McArthur and Handley—An Apprecia tion 21 Hamstrung—Papuan Trading Co. .. 22 Malua Centenary 24 For New Settlers in Papua 27 Moresby Memories 28 Shipwreck on Pitcairn 32 Eddie Ward’s Sympathetic Considera tion 36 Wild Road to Wau 39 How “Yankee Doctor” Saw Austra lian Native Welfare 42 Edible Oils in the Post-war World .. 44 When Vichy Tried to Rule New Caledonia 45 With a Canoe in Rotuma 46 Prospects of Natural Rubber 46 Commercial and Markets 48

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