Contents

Pacific News Review i Editorial: The Indians in Fiji Is Reversal of Government Policy Forecast? i Two Trans-Pacific Airlines to Operate Soon 2 The Unexpired Term of Papua’s Ad ministrator 3 Mr. E. J. Ward’s Visit to New Zea land 7 Progress of Rehabilitation in New Guinea and Paoua—All Classes Crippled by Lack of Shipping and Labour 4 A Hint of a Strange Coincidence — The Hell-ship “Yoizuki” and the Abandoned Rabaul Civilians ... 5 Yes—We Have No Copra! Australian Bureaucrats’ Indifference to Trade 5 Elected Town Councils for Fiji ... 6 How Solomon Islands Planters Re turned to the Solomons 8 Modification of NG Labour Laws Expected 8 Tropicalities 9 Shangri-la 10 Piii Copra Price Guaranteed 11 Will Deported Enemy Aliens Return to New Guinea? 12 Fiji Refuses Rule-bv-Regulation ... 13

Pacific Shipping War? Report from Tahiti 16 Brass-hats Blunder Over Murphy Court-martial 16 ‘ Blue” Allen Leaves PIR Job Wanted for Staff Man 17 Less Experimentation Wanted in Fiji Agriculture 18 Alarming Incidence of TB in Port Moresby 21 Communist Busy in BSI 22 UNO Trusteeship for W. Samoa ... 25 Skymaster in Fiji—Trans-Pacific in 39 Hours 25 You Wouldn’t Know the Old Town— Post-war Moresby 26 The Story of Rabaul—Second Instal ment of Gordon Thomas Story .. 30 “PIM” Short Story; “Oysters and the Law” 32 Jap Ceremony to Australian Dead— Extraordinary Episode in Rabaul in 1942 36 The Unlucky “Glide” Early Ship wreck in Fiji 39 Pam Millar Tells a Story 43 Captain Cambridge Will Bring the “Tahitienne” Home 45 World Copra Situation Reviewed ... 46 "Bulolo’s” War Record 48 New Caledonia—Aerial Crossroads of the Pacific 50 Indians Want Sugar Industry Nationalised 54 How Chinese Fared in Occupied Rabaul —Murder of Kwong Chong Brothers 58 Shipping and Plane Services :: Paci fic Travellers 59 Commercial, Markets, etc 64 Roll of NGVR Wanted—But Bureau crats Won’t Hein 66 Territories “Talk-Talk” 66