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.

Anst. Trustee Territories: New Guinea.

Nauru.

British Protectorates: Solomon Is. Tonga.

British Crown Colonies: Fiji. Gilbert & Ellice.

N.Z. Territories: Cook Is. Niue.

N.Z. Trust Territory. W. Samoa.

French Territories: N. Caledonia. French Oceania.

Anglo-French Condominium: New Hebrides.

U.S. Territories: E. Samoa. Hawaii.

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

Dutch Territory: W. New Guinea.

A Product of Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., Technipress House, 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (29 Alberta Street Is 10 yards from the intersection of Gonlbnrn Street and Wentworth Avenue.)

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 .. .. 3 Va US Dollars £1 10 0

TELEPHONES: General Business. Editorial, Advertising, Subscriptions; MA 9197, MA 9198.

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 Polynesia:

J. P. Shortall, Room 3, Ist Floor, 22 Swanson St., Auckland, N.Z. (P.O. Box 5179, Auckland.) Tel.: 43.307.

Representative In London, U.K.:

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

MELBOURNE OFFICE; Newspaper House, 247 Collins St.—Tel.: Cent. 2053.

AGENTS: All main trading firms and stores in the Pacific Islands.

Vol. 'XXIV No. 12.

July, 1954

PRICE: 2/- Per Copy.