Pacific Islands Monthly
The Newspaper-Magazine of the South Seas
L Registered at the G.P.0., Sydney, for transmission by post as a newspaper ] Published Once Each Month and Circulated in Australia and New Zealand and in the following Pacific Territories and Islands Groups:
Australian Territory oi Papua.
Trustee Territory (Australia) of New Guinea.
Australian Territory of Norfolk Island.
New Zealand Territory of Cook Islands.
Trustee Territory (NZ) of Western Samoa.
British Colony of Fiji.
British Solomon Islands Protectorate.
British Protectorate of Tongan Islands.
British Crown Colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
Trustee Territory of Nauru.
British and French Condominium of New Hebrides.
French Colony of New Caledonia.
French Colony of Oceania (Tahiti, etc.).
American Territory of Eastern Samoa.
American Territory of Hawaiian Islands.
Owned and Produced by Pacific Publications Pty., Ltd., Union House, 247 George Street, Sydney.
Telephone: General Office and Advertising, BW 5037.
P.O. Box 3408
Registered Address for Telegrams, Radiograms, and Cables: “Pacpub,” Sydney.
Contributions.
Articles, Stories, and Photographs dealing with Pacific Islands subjects are invited and will be paid for on publication.
Subscription Rates.
Per Annum, Pre-paid, Including Postage.
In Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, New Guinea, Papua, Western Samoa, Cook Islands, Tonga, British Solomons, Gil bert and Ellice Colony, Nauru, and United Kingdom 15 o Elsewhere <£3 18 0 Single Copies 1 6
Editor and Publisher:
R. W. Robson, P.R.G.S.
Assistant Editor: JUDY TUDOR.
General Office: Union House, 247 George Street, Sydney. Telephone: BW 5037.
Advertising Manager: W. E. Rogers.
Representative In London.
J. T. Wallis, Coronation House, 4 Lloyds Avenue, London, E.C.3, from whom may be obtained copies of Pacific Islands Monthly, Pacific Is. Year Book, advertising schedules, etc.
Representative In U.S.A.
Pacific Islands Trading Co.,
244 California St., San Francisco, U.S.A
Agents.
The following are authorised to receive sub scriptions for Pacific Islands Monthly:— Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd., and Burns Phllp (South Sea) Co., Ltd. All branches.
W. R. Carpenter & Co., Ltd. All branches.
Morris, Hedstrom, Ltd. All branches.
Steamships Trading Co., Papua. All branches.
W. M. Caldwell, Suva, FIJI.
Cook Islands Trading Co., Rarotonga, Cook Is.
Oscar Nordman, Papeete, Tahiti.
Islands Branches and Representatives of W. H.
Grove & Sons, Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand.
Ed. Pentecost, Noumea, New Caledonia.
Soclete Gubbay Kerr et Cie, Noumea, New Caledonia.
Vol. Xix. No. 5
December, 1948
r 1/6 Per Copy Price ] Prepaid, p.a.: 15/- Aus. ( In USA, p.a.: $3.