In This Issue:

Editorial: The Tasks and Problems of the South Pacific Commission .. 5 BP’s Store Burned at Ba, Fiji ... 7 Australian Cruiser in Pacific Ports .. 7 New Colonial Secretary for Fiji ... 7 Skymasters for Norfolk Is. Service .. 7 NG Timber Lease Report Awaited .. 7 Silly Comparison Between Fiji and Queensland Sugar Production .. 8 Makea Ariki as Godmother to Baker Infant 8 Third Trans-Pacific Service Starts in July 9 World’s Most Expensive Coffee Bean 9 Guinea Air Traders Provide Welcome Airservices 9 Arrest in Ocean Island Murder Case 9 Labour for New Caledonia from Java 9 The Hahn Family of Tonga 10 South Pacific Commission Approves Research Programme —Next Ses sion in October 11 Fiji Government Backs Down Over Strike 13 Chinamen’s Luck —Result of Rabaul Raffle 16 Murder of Mr. A. Robinson 16 Suva-Vanua Levu Run Goes to New Shipping Service 16 More Air-Services for Papua-New Guinea 18 Fiji Football Team for Australia in 1950 20 Angry Padre on the Warpath—How Church Was Tricked Out of its Site in Lae 21 Lazy Turn-Around of Ships Costs Money 23 Rain by the Foot in Fiji—All Records Broken 25 War Damage in British Pacific Islands 25

Gl’s Clamour For a New Hebrides Paradise 26 Solomon Islands Have Own Club in Tulagi 29 BSI Government’s Attitude is Unsym pathetic and Unhelpful, Says Planter 30 Excessive Cost of Shipping Stock to New Guinea 31 Peace, Prosperity and More Ships for Cook Islands 32 Tonga’s Growing Pains —A Call for Urgently Needed Minor Reforms 33 Empire Day Rally in Rabaul ... 35 He Laid the Foundations of a Better Native Policy 41 Territories’ Talk-Talk 45 Just No Trouble At All 46 Papeete Goes to the Movies 48 Private Enterprise Did This 48 The Navy Shows the Flag 48 Book Reviews 49 Tropicalities 50 Island of Pirates’ Gold 51 The KO—Short Story 52 NZ Administration in Samoa Gets Official Approval, but Much Advice from UN 37 Disease Threatens BSI Taro Crops .. 39 Why Fijians Develop TB 40 Death Follows Jungle-Juice Party in BSI 40 Native Co-Operatives in G & E Colony—Connection With Govt.

Trade Scheme 57 Young Fijian Drowned by Cupful of Water 60 Radio Receivers for Native Broadcasts 64 Honiara Now Has An Hotel 64 Indian or Fijian—Problem for the Employer of Labour 65

Special Air Fares for Island Students 67 NG Workers Get at Least £6 per Month 67 Mission Work Among Fiji Indians .. 68 American Pacific Islands Transferred to Civil Administration 68 Wardist Regime in NG Described as Negligent Trusteeship 69 Tourist —Here’s Your Guide to Norfolk Island 70 Poor Old Fiji—Victim of Woman Writer 73 More Evidence of Muddling at Manus 73 Native Co-Operatives for Papua— NSW Send Adviser 74 The Month in Moresby 76 Hidden U-boat Men—Story of 40 Germans with Island Wives .. .. 78 New Airservice and New Doctor for Daru 79 Rarotonga Golfers Conclude Success ful Season 80 Plane and Shipping Services .. .. 82 Mosquito Control —Successful Cam paign in Guiana 89 New Lutheran Church in NG High lands 89 Giant Snails a Major Pacific Problem 90 Praise for Fiji Agricultural Journal .. 90 Indonesia is Danger Spot for South Pacific 91 One Plane, 12 Horses for Rabaul Mis sion 92 Fijians Notable History in Pacific War 95 Commercial, Markets, etc 96 OBITUARY: G. V. Langdale, 6; Senator Quesnot, 6; Capt. H. Stringer, 8; R.

C. Laycock, 29; T. C. Worrall, 55; W.

H. Chance, 78.

ORGANISATIONS; New Guinea Women’s Club, Sydney, 7; Pacific Islands Society, 18; Polynesian Club, 67.

INDUSTRIES: Copra. 10; Candlenut oil, 10; Rubber, 15; Gold, 74.