Pacific Islands Monthly

The Newspaper-Magazine of the South Seas [Registered at the G.P.0., Sydney , for transmission by post as a newspaper ]

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

Australian Territory of Papua.

Frustee Territory (Australia) of New Guinea.

Australian Territory of Norfolk Island. trustee Territory of Nauru (Aust., NZ and UK), tfew Zealand Territory of Cook Islands, few 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 Colony of New Caledonia.

French Establishment of Oceania (Tahiti, etc.).

American Territory of Eastern Samoa.

American Territory of Hawaiian Islands.

Trustee Territory (USA) of Micronesia.

Owned ond Produced by Pocific Publications Pty. Ltd., Union House, 247 George Street, Sydney.

Telephone: General Office and Advertising,

Bw 5037. Bu 6082.

1.P.0. Box 3408

leglstered Address for Telegrams, Radiograms, and Cables: ‘Tacpub,” Sydney.

Contributions.

rticles. Stories, and Photographs dealing with Pacific Islands subjects are invited and will be paid for on publication.

Subscription Rates.

n 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 ew Caledonia (French) 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 PnbUsher:

R. W. Robson, F.R.G.S.

Assistant Editor: JUDY TUDOR.

General Office: Union House. 247 George Street, Sydney. Telephone: B\y 5037, BU 6082.

Business Manager: BELWYN 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, Philp & 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.. Samarai. 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 I* A. Vercoe, Apia, Western Samoa.

Oscar Nordman, Papeete. Tahiti Islands Branches and Representatives of W. H Grove <fe Sons. Ltd., Auckland. New Zealand Ed. Pentecost, Noumea. New Caledonia.

Societe Gubbay Kerr et Cie. Noumea, NC.

V. E. White, Brisbane, Qld.

01. Xxi. No. 12.

July, 1 951

f 1/9 Per Copy.

Price ] Prepaid, pa.: 18/- Aust.

I In South Pacific.