In This Issue:

Editorial: “Manus, the Pacific, and the Developing Struggle between USA and Red Russia” 5 Slow Revival in New Guinea 6 Oil Strike Reported in Papua ... 6 Fiji Birth and Death Rates—lndians Increasing 4,000 per year .. .. 7 New Mayor for Noumea M. Henri Sautot Guinea Airways Prospects of Restart ing in NG J Mr. Ward Goes Abroad 7 Floating Dock for Rabaul 8 Fijians Success in Trades and Profes sions 8 Fatal Motor Accident in Fiji 8 Conference of Pacific Wharf Labourers 8 Suva-Auckland Air Service To be Run by NZ National Airways Corp. .. 9 Progress of Buka Bougainville Re habilitation . • • • 9 Tongan Double Royal Wedding Post poned 9 Trade Agreement between Australia and New Guinea Little Bene fit to NG •• •• 10 Qantas Airways to be Nationalised .. 10 Pan-Air Cut Day off Trans-Pacific Flights 10 W. Samoa’s Future Inquiry by UNO Mission 11 Half Million War Damage for Mis sions 11 Mishap to “Alone” Feared 11 What is Wrong With the New Guinea Administration Colonel Allen Deals With Muddled Situation .. 13 Piracy on the Tropic Seas Canberra is Robbing NG Copra Producers 15 Catholic Missionaries Lost at Vuna pope 16 Regional Set-up in S. Pacific 16

Nukulau Again a Quarantine Station 17 Fiji Campaign to Raise Copra Price 18 Cook Is. RC Reports to Island Council 19 Bravery of Fiji Nurse 20 Australian Copra Price Planter’s Views 21 Sixth ASPA Course Concluded ... 22 LMS Missionaries in G. and E. Colony 22 Mr. White and Mr. Ward Interest ing Parliamentary Argument About Conditions in New Guinea 23 New Wages and Conditions for Fiji Seamen 25 Rights of Citizenship in Guam and American Samoa 26 Overcrowding in Suva 26 Fiji’s “Acting” Officials Constitute a Record 27 Eventful Voyage of the “Melanesia” 27 New Hebrides Trade Latest Figures 28 Anzac Day on Nauru 29 April 25 as “Remembrance Day”

Plea from Tonga 29 Tragedy at Rotuma Derelict Bomb Kills Nine 30 Background to Troubled Samoa Events in History of Pacific’s Stormiest Territory 33 Territories Talk-Talk 37 Fanning Island Memories 38 Tropicalities 39 South Pacific Gold 40-41 The Late Mr. Bolton of Tahiti ... 43 Short Story: “The Buli’s Foot” ... 45 Tahiti Oranges May be Heard of Again 45 Bank Accounts Replace Sepik Head hunting 46 Cook Islands Legislative Council »New Zealand Parliamentary Measures 46 Northern New Guinea Notes ... 47 Where are the Hawaiians? A

Reader’s Answer 48 Random Notes from Flnschhafen .. 49 “170 East” Dividing Line Between Disease Zones 51 Alarming Lag ih New Guinea Plant ation Resumption Report of War Damage Commission 56 Fiji is Maintaining Trade with New Zealand 60 When Manus Was Invaded How Europeans Escaped 63 “Sabotage At Finschhafen” 65 “Shipping and Plane Services ;: Pac ific Travellers 66-69 Silver Wedding Anniversary of Mad ang Residents 69 Elliot Smith Leaves Papua 70 Recent Events in Port Moresby ... 73 Recent Weddings, etc 74 Another Education Conference in Port Moresby Missionaries and Ad ministration Confer on Native Welfare 75 What Australian Government is Doing to Islands Trade 77 Wau has a Picture Show Again ... 78 New Guinea Scholarship Fund Passes £3,000 Mark 79 Commercial Markets, etc 80 OBITUARY: V. Gentles. 8; Mrs. A. Rob erts, 10; Geoffrey White, 28; A. A. C.

Hall, 20.

Organisations: Rss & Aila (Ng),

17; Melb. NG Assn., 79; NG Scholar ship Trust, 79.

Mrs. Claudine Butler, mother of , Mr, A.

G. Andrews, formerly of Fiji, is proceeding to America this month by plane from Auckland to visit her son and his family at Berkeley, California.