In This Issue:

EDITORIALS: The Pacific Pact and World War II :: Socialism among the Nuts :: What is the Future of New Caledonia and French Oceania? 3-4 Sir Brian Freeston May Retire this Year 5 Lautoka Up on Vila Reef 5 Aorangi Off Pacific Run 5 TOA Solent Crashes at Malta 5 Growing Anger of British-Pacific Copra Producers 6 Stranding of Ivor Jenny—Second Mate Suspended 7 Local Beer for P-NG 7 South Pacific Commission Scope of Work Now Being Done 8 Fiji’s Minor War Benefits Fijians .. 9 The Month in Moresby 9 Demand for Inquiry on Mount Lamington Disaster 10 Those Who Perished and Those who Escaped 10 Full Story of Lamington Eruption 11 Anniversary of Pall of Rabaul 15 America’s Micronesian Medical Students Come to Suva 16 Petu-Moana Crew Leaves Brisbane in New G & E Ship 21 Madang Newsletter 23 Huge Deficit in Tahiti 25 Events in Bougainville 26 Tonga’s 50 Years Friendship With United Kingdom 27 UK Firm Will Air-Map Fiji 27

Hoodoo on G & E Ships—Nimanoa Wrecked 27 Fiji News in Brief 29 IMD is Out —Rejuvenating Fiji’s Banana Industry 31 Mangrove Bark Industry in Papua .. 31 Last Days of Otto Soltwedel in Germany 35 New Weekly Newspapers in Islands 35 On Bougainville in World War I .. .. 37 Dr. Evatt’s Blunders in South Pacific 41 New Guinea Sulphur Deposits are Worthless 42 New Air Services Planned for South- East Pacific 44 Hot Water from the Sun’s Rays ... 45 War Fears and Rubber Substitutes .. 49 NZ Research Team at Work in Samoa 50 Rain and Gales Break W. Samoan Records 50 Scheme to Overcome Noumea’s Acute Housing Shortage 51 Territories Talk-Talk 53 Spinners of Pacific Tales 54 Mother Agnes of Makogai 55 This, too, is a Pacific Island 56 Tropicalities 57 Rabaul Steps Out 58 Let’s Visit the Western Solomons ... 59 Fashion Children’s Section 60 News from Santo 63 Concerning the Pua 64

Do you Know the “Atua” 64 Polluted Water from Samoan Villages 67 Not Even Scratching the Ground- Problem of Native Education in

P-Ng 69

Guadalcanal Club Nears Completion 76 Influenza Epidemic in Lower Cooks 81 Is Black Equal to White? 83 Isolation Can Mean Tragedy in Polynesia 85 Dutch Ships May Come Back to Pacific 86 In French Oceania 87 In Pursuit of the Mokolkols 91 New Job for Captain Bunny Hammond 93 Plane and Shipping Timetables ... 95 Damage to Mount Lamington Rubber Plantations 103 Rabaul Roundabout 106 60-ft. Trawler Delivered to Santo .. .. 110 Lae Town and District News 11l Commercial Markets, etc 114 OBITUARY: Leopold Blackman, 4; Robert Prideaux, 4; W. R. Humphries, 13; Mark Pitt, 22; R. McG. Anderson, 30; F. Rostier, 34; Douglas Carter, 64; C. C. Palmer, 85; Jack Donald, 90; L.

C. Palmer, 93; Andre Lehartel, 113; Albert Frogier, 113; R. A. Laws, 8.

ORGANISATIONS; New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney.

INDUSTRIES: Copra, 6,8, 73; Rice, 9; Cocoa, 15, 63; Gold, 23; Rubber, 49; Coffee, 84.