Pacific Islands Monthly

The Newspaper-Magazine of the South Seas Distributed in AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND and the following PACIFIC ISLANDS:

Australian Territories: Papua. Norfolk Is.

Cocos Is.

Aust. Trustee Territories.

New Guinea. Nauru.

British Protectorates: Solomon Is. Tonga.

British Crown Colonies: FIJI. Gilbert & Ellice.

New Zealand Territories: Cook Islands. Niue.

N.Z. Trustee Territory: Western Samoa.

French Territories: New Caledonia. French Oceania.

Anglo-French Condominium: New Hebrides.

United States Territories: Eastern Samoa. Hawaii.

U.S. Trustee Territory: Micronesia (Caroline, Marshall and Mariana).

Dutch Territory: Western New Guinea.

A Product of Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., Union House, 247 George Street, Sydney.

Contributions:

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

Subscription Rates:

In Australia and New Zealand, and Australian, NZ, and British Pacific Islands . .. £ 1 4 0 New Caledonia, Tahiti .. .. £ 1 7 0 Elsewhere .. .. 3V 2 US Dollars £1 10 0

TELEPHONES: General Business, Sub scriptions and Advertising, BW 5037; Editorial, MA 7101, MA 4369.

0.P.0. Box 3408, Sydney.

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

Editor and Publisher: R. W. ROBSON.

Assistant Editor: JUDY TUDOR.

Business Manager: SELWYN HUGHES.

Representative In Auckland, N.Z.

J. P. Shortall, Room 6, 2nd Floor. 22 Swanson St., Auckland, N.Z. (P.O. Box 5179 Wellesley St., Auckland). Tel.: 43.307.

Representative In London, U.K.

J. T. Wallis, Coronation House, 4 Lloyd's Avenue, London, E.C.3., England.

Agents:

All main trading firms and stores in the Pacific Islands.

Vol. Xxiii. No. 9.

April, 1953

PRICE: 2/- Per Copy.