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 ot 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 EUlce Islands.

Trustee Territory of Nauru.

British and French Condominium ol 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 Fty., Ltd., Union House, 247 George Street, Sydney.

Vol. Xix. No. 9.

April, 1949

r 1/6 Per Copy Price Prepaid, p.a.: 15/- Aus. ( In USA. p.a.: $3.