Contents

Editorial: “Uncertain Future for ts Inarticulate Europeans in the i Pacific” 5 ’

Two Air-services in Operation Across the Pacific 7 G & E Islands Colony hit by Copra Export Tax 8 Fiji’s Progress Impressive Pro gramme 8 Fiji Copra Price up again—But Aus tralia Holds Price at £22/10/- ... 9 Col. J. K. Murray’s Term as NG Administrator Extended 9 Gaol Escapees Destroy Rarotonga’s Biggest Store 10 WRC Ship “Rabaul” 11 Indian Cry For Land Fiji’s Problem H The Australian Taxpayer Pays For This 12

[Fiji Civil Service Conditions 12 jFire Destroys 1250 tons Samoan Copra 13 ’Plantation School for Fijians 14 Cargo-Cult is Born 16 Death of Capt. E. Twenty man 17 USA Abandons Manus to Australian Pinheads 18 Angry Samoans Kill Child-Slayer .. 21 South Pacific Health Services—First Meeting of Controlling Board ... 23 Ample Provision for European Educa tion in NG Territories 25 Niuafo’ou is Now Another Lost Island —Full Evacuation of Population .. 28 Passing of Fiji Pioneers 29 Successful New Guinea Ball Held in Melbourne 31 '‘BSI Planters and British War Com pensation 32 Decline and Revival of Fijian Race .. 35 Territories’ Talk-Talk 37 deeper s! 38 Night Landing on Palmerston ... 39 On the Roof of New Guinea 40 How the Late R. F. Brechin Pioneered the Cinchona Plantations 42 Book Review: “The Coast Watchers” 44 N. Caledonia Cannot Find Labour .. 47 Dodging the Japs Behind Finschhafen 49 Rice Production in Fiji 51 Other Side of the New Guinea Picture 55 Shipping and Plane Services —Pacific Travellers 60, 61, & 78 Lae and Salamaua are Shadows of their Former Selves 63 Getting away from it All—American Yacht in Rarotonga 68 NG Administration Confers with Mis sion Representatives 72 Unhappy Rabaul—Native Labour and Food Shortages 76 Gilbertese May Settle in Tonga ... 79 Commercial, Markets, etc 80