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Pacific News-Review i Editorial: Mr, Leonard Murray, General Morris—And the Barry Report 3 POW Fund—Latest Contributions .. 4 Papua Government May Be Awaiting Return of Dr. Evatt 5 Death of Edouard Ahnne * 5 Administrative Impasse in Papua in January - February, 1942 The Barry Report g Trans - Pacific Air Services PAA Promise Early Start 7 Australian Press Does Not Do Justice to Leonard Murray ... g Tropicalities 9 Fifteen Months with the Japs— Missionary’s Experience 12 Fiji’s VE-Day 13 Tahiti Has “Remote-Control” Curio Boom 15 School for Training Officials—End of First Class 17 Story of Lincoln Bell 21 Fiji for Retired People—Settlement at Sigatoka 25 Japs at Abemama —How Captain Smith Kept His Head 27 Search for King of Cocos Islands .. 29 “PIM” Short Story: “A Sale of Chrome” 30 Lady of the Ramu ..!... 33 The Tabu on the Shortlands ... 35 Australia and the New Hebrides .. .! 38 Rarotonga Has Anti-Filaria Drive .. 48 Rich Oil Reported in Dutch New Guinea 49 Population Analysis of Fiji .. ." ” 51 Trader’s Tale: “Let There Be Light” 54 Commercial Markets 50