Contents

. Page Pacifiit News-Review 1 Editorial: Plea for the “Small Man” in the Future of the Pacific ... 3 Mysterious Papuan Inquiry Into Events of February, 1942 5 Return to New Guinea 6 Papua and TNG to be One? .. 7 Airmail to Cook Islands 8 Conference on Indentured Labour System Urges Slow and Gradual Reforms g Tropicalities ’ ’ ' ” 9 Fiji at War—The Fighting and the Home Fronts 10 “Some Measure of Success’’—Quar terly Report of PTA H Reorganisation of Fijian Affairs— What it Will Mean 14 New Zealand Wants Bananas ... 16 The Story of Corporal Sefanaia, VC 17 Are They to be Forgotten Men?— Papua’s Pre-1942 Volunteers ... 20 Progress in Rarotonga 21 Noumea’s Coconut Telegraph 22 British Expert Plans New Planting Policy for British-Pacific Territories 23 My South Seas Christmases ... 25 “Terepo”—The Story of Alain Ger bault 30 Military Set-up in New Guinea—is it Within the Law? 33 W. Samoa’s Cocoa Industry—Euro pean Planters Being Driven Out 34 New Guinea’s Gallant Women—Mel bourne Women’s Assn. Reports on Busy Year 33 Three Years in the Wilderness—Have They Taught the Territorian Any thing? 41 There is an “Indenture” System in Polynesia 44 Commercial and Markets ...!!! 48 Honour Roll ... cov. ii., hi., and page 37