Pacific Islands Monthly

The Newspaper-Magazine of the South Seas [.Registered at the G.P.0., Sydney, for transmission by post as a newspaper .]

Published Once Each Month and Circulated in Australia and New Zealand and in the following Pacific Territories and Islands Groups:

Australian Territory of Papua.

Mandated Territory (Australia) of New Guinea Australian Territory of Norfolk Island.

New Zealand Territory of Cook Islands.

Mandated Territory (NZ) of Western Samoa.

British Colony of FIJI.

British Solomon Islands Protectorate.

British Protectorate of Tongan Islands.

British Crown Colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands.

Mandated Territory of Nauru

British and Free French Condominium of New Hebrides.

Free French Colony of New Caledonia.

Free French Colony of Oceania (Tahiti, etc.).

American Territory of Eastern Samoa.

American Territory of Hawaiian Islands.

Owned and Produced by Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., Union House, 247 George Street, Sydney.

n „ ( Managing Director . BW 5037 TELEPHONE £ Business and Editorial MA 4369

P.O. Box V. 3408 R

Registered Address of Telegrams, Radiograms, and Cables: “Pacpub”, Sydney.

Contributions.

Articles, Stories, and Photographs dealing with Pacific Islands subjects are invited and will ' be paid for on publication.

Subscription Rates.

Per Annum, within British Empire, Prepaid, Post Free I®/"

Per Annum, elsewhere, Prepaid, Post Free 12/6 Single Copies V-

Editor and Publisher:

R. W. Robson, F.R.G.S.

Advertising Manager; L. W. Bailey.

Advertising Office and Printing-House: 29 Alberta Street. Sydney.

Advertising rates furnished on application.

Representative In Fiji.

Pacific Publications (Fiji), Ltd . Bank of NSW Building, Suva (same office as W. H. Grove & Sons, Ltd.). Stocks of Pacific Islands Monthly and Pacific Islands Yearbook on hand.

Representative In London.

W. C. Harvey, Coronation House. 4 Lloyds Avenue, London, E.C.3, from whom may be obtained copies of Pacific Islands Monthly, Pacific Is. Year Book, advertising schedules, etc.

Agents.

The following aie authorised to receive sub scriptions for Pacific Islands Monthly:— Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd., and Burns Phllp (South Sea) Co., Ltd. All branches.

W. R. Carpenter & Co., Ltd. All branches.

Morris, Hedstrom, Ltd. All branches. Steamships Trading Co., Papua. AH branches.

Whitten Bros., Ltd., Samarai, Papua.

B.N.G, Trading Co., Ltd., Port Moresby, Papua.

J Muir, Suva. FIJI.

Miss R. Castles, Suva, Fiji.

N. C. Mackenzie Hunt, Wainunu, Bua, FIJI.

Cook Islands Trading Co., Rarotonga, Cook Is.

A. C. Rowland, Papeete, Tahiti.

Islands Branches and Representatives of W. H.

Grove & Sons, Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand.

Ed. Pentecost, Noumea, New Caledonia.

Societe Gubbay Kerr et Cie, Noumea, N. Caledonia.

Vol. Xv. No. 7.

February 17, 1945

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