Contents

New Guinea Natives for Suva Medical School 5

Problems Of Early Future:

Socialist-controlled Sea and Air Transport in the Pacific 7 Confusion and Unhappiness in Papua- New Guinea: Industry Paralysed by Lack of Labour and Trans port 9 Chinese in the Solomons: Comment by Leslie F. Gill 10 Two Trans-Pacific Air Services Running; But Serious Disabilities Owing to Government Controls .. 11

DODGING THE JAPS Around Vitiaz Straits in 1942; Rev. A. P. H.

Freund Continues Account of What Was Done by New Guinea Men 13 Rice Being Grown in the Solomons .. 15 TROPICAL ULCERS: Results of Tests with Penicillin 16 World Prices of Copra Interesting Events in Europe, Manila, NEI and South Pacific 24 Western Samoan Census 29 Hydroponics Grow Your Salad Vegetables in Crushed Coral ... 30 Vive la Condominium! —Captain Brett Hilder Replies to Mr. Rentoul on New Hebrides Subject 31 MAGAZINE SECTION: Territories Talk-Talk—When the Jap Was the Victor in Rabaul—Trans-Pacific, in a Chinese Junk—The Kerma decs: A Forbidding Paradise— Tropicalities Short story .. 35-42 Progress of Candlenut Oil Industry in Fiji 43 Rotuma’s Alligator: Undesirable Im migrant of 33 Years Ago 46 Tahiti is Getting Ready to Welcome Overseas Visitors; Some Reas suring Words from M. Jay .. .. 50

Valour In Melanesia: Fine

Record of the Native Soldiers of New Guinea 55 12,000 American Dead in Finschhaven Cemetery—Australian Cemeteries at Lae and Port Moresby 59 Dutch Make Slow Progress in Restoring Order in NEI 62

Mixing The New Year Cock

TAIL: Story by Alma Gross ... 72 Japanese Snail Menace in New Guinea 76 How Colonel Chalmers Was Murdered in Nauru 77