Pacific Islands monthly

The Newspaper-Magazine of the South Seas L Registered at the Sydney, for transmission by post as a newspaper l

Published Once Each Month and Circulated in Australia and New Zealand and in the following Pacific Territories and Islands Groups:

Australian Territory of Papua.

Trustee Territory (Australia) of New Guinea.

Australian Territory of Norfolk Island.

Trustee Territory of Nauru (Aust , NZ and UK).

New Zealand Territory of Cook Islands, New Zealand Territory of Niue Island.

Trustee Territory (NZ) of Western Samoa.

British Crown Colony of Fiji.

British Solomon Islands Protectorate.

British Protectorate of Tongan Islands.

British Crown Colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands.

British and Frer.cf Cnuidominlum of New Hebrides.

French Colory of New Caledonia.

French Establishment of Oceania (Tahiti, etc.).

American Territory of Eastern Samoa.

American Territory of Hawaiian Islands.

American Trust Territory of Micronesia.

Owned and Produced by Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., Union House, 247 George Street, Sydney.

Telephones: General Office and Advertising,

Bw 5037, Bu 4938.

P.O. Box 3408

Registered Address for Telegrams, Radiograms, and Cables: “Pacpub,” Sydney.

Contributions.

Articles, stories, and Photographs dealing with Pacific Islands subjects are Invited and will be paid for on publication.

Subscription Rates.

In Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua and New Guinea. Western Samoa, Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga, British Solomon Is., Gilbert and Ellice Colony, Nauru, New Hebrides, and Norfolk Island 18 0 New Caledonia (Fr.) and French Oceania (Tahiti, etc.) £llO United Kingdom, British Com monwealth, United States of America, US Pacific Territories, and Foreign Countries .. .. $3.50 £1 10 0

Editor and Publisher:

R. W. Robson, P.R.0.8.

Assistant Editor: JUDY TUDOR.

General Office: Union House. 247 George Street, Sydney. Telephones; BW 5037, BU 4938.

Business Manager: SELWYN HUGHES.

Representative In London.

J. T. Wallis, Coronation House. 4 Lloyd’s Avenue, London, E.C.3. from whom may be obtained copies of Pacific Islands Monthly, Pacific Is. Year Book, advertising schedules, etc.

Agents.

The following are authorised to receive sub scriptions for Pacific Islands Monthly;— Burns Phllp (NO) Ltd., and Burns Phllp (South Sea) Co.. Ltd. All branches, W. R. Carpenter & Co., Ltd. All branches.

Morris. Hedstrom. Ltd. All branches.

Steamships Trading Co., Papua. All branches Colyer Watson (NG) Ltd. All branches.

Mrs. Jean Fraser, Lae. New Guinea.

R. F. Smith. Rabaul, New Guinea.

A. H. Bunting. Ltd.. Samaral. Papua.

Steele’s Central Store. Suva. FIJI.

Adams Pharmacies Ptv.. Lautoka. Fiji.

Cook Islands Trading Co.. Rarotonga. Cook Is.

United Island Traders. Ltd.. Rarotonga. Cook Is.

A Vercoe. Apia, Western Samoa.

Oscar Nordman. Papeete. Tahiti.

Islands Branches and Representatives of W. H.

Grove & Sons. Ltd., Auckland. New Zealand.

Ed. Pentecost. Noumea. New Caledonia.

Societe Gubbay Kerr et Cle, Noumea, NC.

Vol. XXI. No. 9.

April, 1951

< 1/9 Per Copy.

Prj(-p ( Prepaid, p.a.: 18/- Aust, / in South Pacific.