In This Issue:

Editorial: “A New Factor in the Copra Market” 5 Threat of Unrest in Fiji Sugar Industry 6 New Governor for French Oceania .. 7 Marshall Aid Coal for New Caledonia 7 New Guinea Timber Lease Case Drags On 7 Press Bill Creates Stir in Fiji ... 9 Forged Dollars from New Caledonia 9 South Pacific Commission Moves to New Caledonia 9 Outline of Australian Policy in Papua- New Guinea 10 Indian Organisations Suggest Changes m Fiji Constitution 11 Generous Grant for Queen Victoria School 11 War Gratuities for BSI Natives ... 11 Maori’s-Head Notes Cause Panic in Fiji 13 Bothersome Falcon Island Ap. ears Again 13 American Professor Causes Fiji News paper Storm 15 Silly Criticism of W. Samoan Admir is tration by Russia and Philippines 16 Detention of Tongan Prisoners in Suva Gaols 16 Pacific Science Congress Concludes Successful Session in NZ .. .. 18 W. Samoa’s Flag Approved in NZ .. 20 New Stamps for Cook Islands 20 Qantas on Sydney-BSI Run .. 21 Background of Islands Admin s ra tion —Interesting New Book ... 23 Colonel Voelcker Goes to SPC— Changes in Government of W.

Samoa 25 New Ship for NZ-Islands’ Run ... 25

Information Sought About the Gode ffroys 27 Native Co-ops in New Guinea ... 27 Norfolk Island Notes 28 Control of Rhinoceros Beetle 29 New ABM Chairman 29 Maikham Patrol Returns to Lae .. 30 That Old Tongan Photograph .. .. 31 Flow of NZ Currency Restricted in New Zealand 32 Marching Rule Still Active in Solo mons 32 Centenary of Protestant Church in Apia 33 BSI Natives Give Liberally to Church 33 Mysterious Drop in Cocoa Prices Shocks W. Samoa 34 Tuna Fishing in Tahiti—Hawaiian Coy’s Vessels Arrive 36 Memory of Old Tahiti 36 Noted Tahiti Residents Visit New Zealand 37 No Tea Seed for New Guinea Venture 37 Sir Hubert Murray Memorial Fund .. 39 Biological Control of Pests in Fiji .. 40 Territories “Talk-Talk” 41 More About the Land of Moonlight .. 42 Back to School to Learn How to Fish 43 Well—We Leave it to You! 44 Pacific Nature Notes 46 Tropicalities 47 Short Story: “The Floating Lei” ... 48 Monumental Work on Hawaiian Insects 50 Plea Against Sentimental Eyewash About Brown and White Relations 51 The Story of a Leper 52 Two Nights With a Duk-Duk 55

Cyclone of 1906 Recalled 56 Tonga’s First White Settlers Were Highly Undesirable 57 Luxury Yacht for Suva SDA Mission 58 Burdened with Writs—“ Cheng Ho” in Honolulu 59 Natives and Whites in New Hebrides 61 US Progress in Micronesia 61 “Tiare Taporo” in Auckland 62 Monthly Journal for British Colonial Office 62 White Norfolk—New Development of Australian Immigration Policy .. 63 Islands’ Education —Plane-Load of Samoans forNZ 63 NZ’s Earliest Inhabitants 65 Samoan Products for America .. .. 66 Strange Epidemic of Wrist-Watches in Papua 66 Dr. Burton’s Ideas About the Fiji of 1911 67 The Indiscriminate Cutting of Coco nut Leaves 69 Wrathful BSI Planter Speaics Out About Lack of Shipping 70 New Building in Santo, New Hebrides 70 Sir Peter Buck Outspoken About Care of Pacific Races 71 Jap Eyes Still on New Guinea? ... 72 Tahiti News Items 73 Plane and Shipping Timetables ... 75 Service Section 80 Notes from Kavieng 84 Commercial Markets, etc OBITUARY: Mrs. H. M. Hides, 8; T.

P. Skiffington, 20; W. J. Belcher, 20; Victor Poole; Lieut. Jean Gilbert.

ORGANISATIONS: New Guinea Women’s Club, Sydney. 6; Pacific Islands’

Society, 9: NG Scholarship Fund, 16; RSSAILA, Port Moresby, 31; NGVR, 87.

INDUSTRIES: Oil, 8. Copra, 5, 6. 9. Gold, 9, 50. 73, 87. Cocoa, 35.