Contents

Pacific News-Review 1 Editorial; Lon? Wait Before Normal Conditions Return 3 Papuans Speak Plainly to Mr. Ward —And Mr. Ward Doesn’t Likt It 5 Hedstrom Scholarship Winner ... 5 Bronze Star for Pacific Navy Men .. 6 How W. Samoa Begins 1945 7 Fifty Years Old—Nelson and Robert son, Ltd 7 Fall of Rabaul—Defenders Honoured in Australia g Some Women May Return to Papua —Certain TNG Planters, Too .. 8 Tropicalities 9 Those Who Went South in Ships .. 10 New Guinea Gold—Prospects of Re opening Industry at Wau 12 To Restore Murray Administration- New Papuan Association 13 South Seas Regional Commission— Urged Upon United Nations by NZ and Australia 14 What the Samoans Want—Fono Tells Mr. Fraser 17 War Came to Guadalcanal—Part Played by Major Clemens 18 Missionaries and Contract Labour .. 22 The Loss of the Coolie Ship “Syria” 24 The Mysteries of Army Administra tion 27 Election Skirmishes in New Caledonia 28 Apology to Lutheran Missionaries— Australian Publishers Correct an Injustice 28 New Guinea Journey Samara!

To-day 33 Why No Return to BSI? 35 Vale, Johnny Gooding, of Tahiti .. 36 The Magic Bottle 37 Stilwell’s Road Feeds the China That Rejected Stilwell 39 Island Fruit Production .. . 41 The Decline of ANGAU 44

Contract Labour in BSI 45 Commerce, Markets, etc 48 Honour Roll .. cov. ii., lii., and page 42