In This Issue:

Editorial: “Future of Dutch NG, Solomons, New Hebrides” ... 5 NZ Frigates Conclude Successful Cruise 6 No Friendly Hand Yet for Inhuman Japs 6 Tongan Premier Retires 7 Unhappy Planters in BSI 7 Last Two Japs Give Themselves Up in New Guinea 7 First Trans-Pacific Flight Was Made 21 Years Ago 8 Rabaul Echo of Jap Brutality ... 8 Mr. Ward Under Fire 8 Chinese Deported from Australia to New Guinea 9 Night Air Service from NZ to Fiji 9 Military Training in Fiji 9 Fiji Taro Disease under Control .. 9 No Danger from Rabbits in Fiji .. 10 Manus Base under Inspection ... 10 Third BP Shin for P-NG Run ... 10 UK War Damage Decision Hits Missions The Month In Moresby 13 An Annexation that Britain Repudi ated—Chester Incident in Port Moresby in 1883 13 TEAL Loses £A4,000 per Week ... 15 Question of Fiji Sugar, Copra Export Tax Comes up Again 19 No compensation for BSI War Damage—Planter Comments ... 21 Adi Rewa to be Retired 21 Indians Hanker to be Called “Mr.” 23 Police Travel over 10,000 miles in Ocean Is. Murder Case 25 Australian Rice for Pacific .. .. .. 25 PIM Goes Into Prince Bismarck s Museum • : • • • • 26 Moderate Fiji Indians Criticise In dependence Day Extravagances 27 The “Missing” s,ooo—Latest Devel opment of Press-Made BSI Mystery 29

Tourists Are Not Impressed With Papua-New Guinea 30 Papain—Valuable African Product 32 Do You Wish to Enter Papua-New Guinea 33 Search for Oil in Papua—“Strike”

Denied 35 Pitcairn’s Hectic Morning When New Stamps Issued 36 Making Life Difficult for Shipowners —Stowaways are a Public Nuisance in Fiji 37 Airport facilities m Samoa and Cook Islands 37 News Items from W. Samoa ... 39 Pacific Islands Trading Co. Changes Hands 39 Radio Stations for Torres Islands .. 39 Gloomy View of W. Samoa’s Future 40 Western Samoa Needs More Doctors 41 Less Aid for BSI from UK 41 Cause of BP Fire at Ba Unknown 41 Honiara is Growing—but Slowly .. 43 New Stamps for W. Samoa, Tonga 43 South Pacific Commission 43 Fiji Launches all-out Drive Against Tuberculosis 44 The Administrator, According to Osmar White 45 Fiji Mails Jettisoned at Sea ... 48 Co-operative Societies Boom in Fiji 48 Talk Talk 49 The Navy Shows the Flag—Rotuma and Tonga 50 Octopus-Fishing is Women’s Work 51 Is Much-Praised Tahiti a Disap pointment? 52 Tropicalities 54 Dominie in Difficulties 55 Mr. Blonk 56 Norfolk Island Notes 58 Soil Erosion in Fiji 58 Growing Hold of Indians on Fiji’s Economic Life 59

W. Samoan Finances Still Sound In Spite of Sliding Cocoa Prices .. 6C Recommendations for Suva’s Dairy Industry 6J Western Samoa Trade, 1948 ... 6J PMG Men’s Notable Achievement in Papua-New Guinea 61 Lack of Amenities in Papua-New Guinea 6( South and East Africa —and Ground nuts 6!

Mixed Blood in Polynesia—Unusual Social Problems 7' Western Papua Notes 7 Tarawa Memorial—22 Victims of Jap Atrocity Commemorated .. 7 Godeffroy and His Influence on Early Pacific 7 Report of Liquor Bill, Constitution Change in Fiji 7 Showing the Flag in the Atolls ... 7 Dollars are Troubling W. Samoa Now 8 Mr. Ward is Politically Unhappy .. 8 US Tackles Pacific Health Problems 8 Order of the Crown of Tonga ... 8 Heirs of Jonas M. Coe—Memories of Queen Emma 8 “Smithy” Memorial for Suva ... 8 Plane and Shipping Timetables .. 8 Fuss on Makatea £ Rabaul Roundabout £ Rabaul Residents Say Good-Bye to Popular Official 10 Growth of Southern Pacific Insur ance Co .••• 1( New Mobile Clinic for Fiji Child Welfare 1( ORGANISATIONS: Planters’ Assn. < NG, 44; PI Society, 89; NG Women Assn, of Melb., 100; New Guint Club, Rabaul, 103.

INDUSTRIES: Oil, 7,9, 35; Copra, 11 Sugar, 19; Rubber, 37.

OBITUARY: Miss Lea Carlson, 11; Md Baas Becking, 16; Georges Ahne, 3 p G. F. Harrison, 40; Hugo Quintal, 5