Contents

“Montoro” Passengers 2, 3 & 5 Burns Philp & Co. Make Usual Profit 5 Editorial: “The Economic Sun Shines in Some Places in the Pacific” .. 7 Trapping Japs in Bougainville ... 8 Mr. Ward’s Model Village—Denial of Port Moresby Report 9 More Prosperity for Western Samoa 9 New Guinea-Papua now all Civil Government 10 New Guinea “Foreigners” to be Given Limited Naturalisation 11 Showing the Flag—British Submar ines for Central Pacific 11 Nausori or Nadi?—Proposed Aero drome Site 12 NG Labour Policy 13 PTA Holds Last Meeting in Australia 14 Rehabilitated Lae 15 Pensions for NG Widows 17

Tropical Planting Experts for NG .. 18 Planters’ Grievances in French Oceania 19 Australian Government Will Not In quire Into Rabaul 21 Political Jottings from Fiji 24 Australia’s Defence Plan Still Secret 25 NZ Magistrate Investigates Cook Islands Conditions of Employment 26 Birthday Honours 27 French Collaborators Deprived of Their Rights 29 Mr. Osborne in Cook Islands 30 Morris Hedstrom’s Financial Year .. 31 Trocas Market 31 Kauri Timber in Pacific Islands ... 33 Sugar Labourers’ Agreement with

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Territories’ Talk-Talk 35 Te Rangi Hiroa—Maori Knight ... 36 Tropicalities 37 Radio and Paper Bombers 39 Short Story : “Lease-Lend Lochinvar” 40 When Fiji Sugar Was Poured From a Jug 41 Jail is out at 4 p.m 42 Memories of the Black Days of 1542 How Japs Came To New Guinea 43 Cargo-Cult 45 Soil Problems in Fiji 47 Tongan Nobles Go To Court 50 Labour Unrest Continues in Cook Islands 52 New Price Control Bill in Fiji ... 53 NG Scholarship Fund 54 Shipping and Plane Services; Pacific Travellers 56 More Investigators for Cook Islands 62 Fair Play for Cocoa Growers 65 Meeting of New Guinea Women’s Club in Sydney 68 Commercial, Markets, etc 72 Index to Volume XVI 75