[?]Our Faces
pp. 7-9 · Read in the full issue
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IHE first issue of the Pacific Islands Monthly was in news paper format and so were the issues that followed. The size s about that of a modern tabloid ivspaper. It had no outside cover it has to-day. One of the pictures, re with, shows how it first pre ited itself to the world. rhe reason why it took news jer form was a matter of expedi zy rather than design. In the le of December, 1931, PIM was iuced to a size known as demy irto —that is, approximately by 111 in. It had a smart full our cover and now looked like magazine. This is how it had n originally planned.
Tiis cover, however, was more istic than authentic. Although palms undoubtedly were bearing onuts, to the initiated they ked like betel-nut palms, not onut palms. More to the point cover in four colours was ex isive, and this particular “face” ;ed for only two issues. a March, 1932, a cover in green I black, very much like the one I used, made its appearance. A ?le palm tree, instead of the rent double palms, was used, and ind it was a native house in zk. The size remained unchanged, I this coconut tree was authentic ugh. his particular cover—with a dif ;nt picture for each month —was i until November, 1934, when the
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ABOVE: Pacific Islands Monthly, No. 1, Vol. 1. BELOW: The three other covers of the magazine. That of February, 1932, was a PIM faux pas—the scene was Samoa —not in the mountainless Ellice Islands.
cover at present in use, with the double coconuts that have virtually become the trade mark of Pacific Publications, was used for the first time. No one in the company now, not even its founder, can remember why the first green coconut was scrapped in favour of the present double palms.
PIM underwent one further change, but this time in size only.
In August, 1951, it was reduced to its present size (known as crown quarto) although otherwise the face it presented to the world remained the same. Post-war paper shortage, and the incerased cost of labour, raw materials and postage were the reasons behind the change to the slightly smaller size.
H Mr. J. W. Lister, an Administra tion Officer in Gambia, has been appointed to be an Administrative Officer, Grade I, Fiji, where he and his family are due in August.
II A group of Hollywood actors, including Jon Hall and Bing Crosby, was expected to visit Tahiti this Winter.