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.

C.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 o Elsewhere .. .. 3V 2 US Dollars £1 io 0

TELEPHONES: General Business, Editorial Advertising, Subscriptions; MA 9197, MA 9198; City Office: BW 5037.

G.P.O. 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, P.O. Box 5179 Wellesley St., Auckland.

Representative In London, U.K.

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

Agents:

All main trading firms and stores In the Pacific Islands.

Vol. XXIV. No. 2.

September, 1953

PRICE: 2/- Per Copy.