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:

ficles, Stories, and Photographs dealing ;h Pacific Islands subjects are invited md will be paid for on publication.

Subscription Rates:

Australia and New Zealand, and Australian, NZ, and British Pacific Islands . .. £ 1 4 0 w Caledonia, Tahiti .. .. £1 7 0 ewhere .. 3Va US Dollars £1 10 0

TELEPHONES: General Business, Editorial Advertising, Subscriptions: MA 9197, MA9198; City Office: BW 5037.

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. Short all, P.O. Box 5179 Wellesley St..

Auckland. (Temporarily In Fiji.)

Representative In London, U.K.

J. T. Wallis, 13 Rood Lane, London, E.C.3., England.

Agents:

All main trading firms and stores tn the Pacific Islands.

il. XXIII. No. 12.

July, 1953

PRICE: 2/- Per Copy.