Pacific Islands Monthly

The Newspaper-Magazine of the South Seas t ßegistered at the G.P.0., 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 French Condominium of New Hebrides.

French Co'ony 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.) £ 1 1 0 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, F.R.G.S.

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 (NG) Ltd., and Burns Phllp (South Sea) Co., Ltd. All branches.

W. R. Carpenter As 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.. Samara!. Panua.

Steele’s Central Store. Suva, FIJI.

Adams Pharmacies Pty., Lautoka. Fill 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 Cie, Noumea, NC.

Vol. XXI. No. 10.

May, 1951

( 1/9 Per Copy.

Price ) Prepaid, p.a.: 18/- Aust.

I in South Pacific.