Pacific Islands Monthly

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

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 Pocific Publications Pty. Ltd., Technipress House, 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (29 Alberta Street Is 10 yards from the Intersection of Gonlburn Street and Wentworth Avenue.)

Contributions:

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

Subscription Rates;

In Australia and New Zealand I and Australian, NZ, and I British Pacific Islands . .. £l4 0 New Caledonia, Tahiti .. .. £ 1 7 0 Elsewhere .. .. SVa 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. XXV. No. 1.

August, 1954

PRICE: 2/- Per Copy.