In This Issue:

Editorial: “Fiji Governor Puts it Into Plain Words” 5 Travellers and Currency in New Caledonia 6 Unilever’s Profits 6 Remarkable Report About Fiji-Indian Scholarships for Fijians 7 M. Lasalle-Sere Represents Tahiti in Paris 7 No War Compensation for Property Owners in BSI and G & E Islands 7 Madang as it Is To-day 8 Paris Robbery Leads to New Caledo nian Court 8 Sausages for Rabaul 8 Governor Warns Fiji Indians of Over population Peril 9 Cost of Repatriating Indo-Chinese from French Pacific Territories .. 9 How Fiji Bananas are Sold in NZ 9 Australian G-G’s Visit to Papua-New Guinea 10 Australian Warship Shows Flag in Pacific 10 Papeete Admires the “Eridan” —but Sydney does not 11 Fiji Establishes New Army Forces .. 11 New Native Timber Industry on the Sepik River, NG 11 New Hotel for Rarotonga? 13 Fiji Governor at Labasa 13 Uneasiness in Relation to Copra Market —Assault on Sterling Seen as Threat to British Guarantee .. 15 South Pacific Languages—Dr. Capell Undertakes An Interesting Task 16 Chrome, The Key to N. Caledonian Economy 18 Another Cure fcr Malaria 18 Silver Jubilee of Bishop Scharmach 19 More Taxes for Fiji—Governor’s Grim W T arning 20 Papua Planters’ Difficulties Reviewed 22 Civil Service Staff Shortages in Fiji 23 RNZAF Helps Lau Islands Again .. 23

Australia’s Million Natives a Potential Headache 25 Dependents of Rabaul Victims— Ministers Squabble over Respon sibility 28 Conference of Native Peoples to be held in Fiji, in April 29 W. Samoa Considers Abolition of Empire Trade Preference 30 Operation Whoop—New Role for Qantas Plane 31 Coolie Discharged in Ocean Is. Case 32 Fiji has a Communist Party 32 French Market Disappears for Hebridean Copra 33 Unwanted Atolls—NZ Warship Finds a lot of Coconut Palms .. 35 BSI War-Scrap for Sale 35 £8,300,000 Allegedly Spent on Terri tories By Australia 35 Was Sentence on P. J. McDonald Harsh? 36 Twist Tobacco in New Guinea ... 37 Problems of Repatriating Tonkinese in New Hebrides 38 First Canadian Airliner at Nadi .. 39 New “King” Crowned on Mangaia Is. 41 Fiji’s Hydro-Electric Scheme —Another Expert Pays the Colony a Visit 41 Hinduism in Terms of Religion ... 42 Rabbits in Fiji—Report Being Investi gated 43 CIPA is in the Inter-Island Trans port Business Now 45 What Makes Manus Natives Grow? 46 TB Menace in Fiji—Plan to Use War Memorial Fund to Fight the Disease 46 “Talk-Talk” 47 High Society in the Bachelors’

Quarters 48 Thrills, Spills and Copra at Washing ton Island 49 The Navy Shows the Flag 50

Tropicalities 51 Echo of “Deep Water and Shoal” .. 53 How Rabaul Lost its Rain-Trees .. 53 The Malolo Lagoon 54 American Journalists'Expose Betrayal of Dutch in Indonesia 56 Rapid Fiji-Indian Population Increase 61 Australian Strike Causes Samoan Shortages 61 Where the Japs were Stopped ... 62 Fire Brigade Wanted in Western Samoa 62 Australia Builds an Oil Refinery .. 63 Cook Islands RC Visits Mangaia Is. 64 Exploitation of Native Boxers in Fiji 65 The Fiji-Indian Problem —Readers Offer Solutions 69 Serious Agricultural Pest on Norfolk Is 70 July 14—Tahiti’s Week of Revelry .. 71 Payment By Results —NG Reply to Mr. Ward's New Indenture System 74 The Month in Moresby 75 Small Ship Wrecked on New Britain Coast 79 Samoan Girl’s Successful Business Career 81 Plane and Shipping Timetables ... 82 NG Native Constables Provide Most of the Criminals 89 Cinema Shows in Pacific Islands .. 89 Metropolitan France’s Ignorance of Her Colonies 91 Rabaul Roundabout 94 Native Copra Industry in Fiji .. .. 97 In Defence of the Fijians 99 OBITUARY; Mrs. R. Chugg, 19: D. W.

Amos, 27; Mrs. Bertha Betham, 36; MRS. W. Cottrell-Dormer, 72; N.

Johnston, 81.

ORGANISATIONS: Planters’ Association of Papua, 22; New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney, 92; New Britain Ladies' Club, 95.

INDUSTRIES: Gold, 9, 20; Copra, 15, 33; Rubber, 13; Oil, 43, 63, 98.