Editorship Of Pacific

Islands Monthly

THE founder and editor of the Pacific Islands Monthly, Mr.

R. W. Robson, has spent some time recently in Fiji, in connection with a reorganisation of The Fiji Times (recently purchased by Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd. and associated interests —see article opposite page this issue). It is ex pected that his immediate task there will be completed in April; and he has made plans for a lengthy visit to Papua and New Guinea in May.

Mr. Robson continues to write frequently for the Pacific Islands Monthly, but last year, while he was abroad, and this year, while he is absent in Fiji, New Guinea, etc., the editorship of the PIM has been, and will be, carried on by the Assistant Editor, Mrs. Judy Tudor.

It may interest old friends of the original Pacific Islands Monthly to know that Pacific Publications Pty.

Ltd., either directly or through associated companies, now controls and directs: Pacific Islands Monthly.

Pacific Islands Year Book.

Handbook of Papua and New Guinea.

The Fiji Times.

Shanti Dut (Fiji-lndian weekly newspaper).

Power Farming in Australia and New Zealand.

Australasian Baker.

Australasian Confectioner.

Better Farming Digest and three other old-established technical journals.

The large publishing and printing organisation which Mr. Robson now supervises, therefore, is fairly evenly divided between nroviding news paper services for all the South Pacific Islands, and technical in formation services for large in dustries in Australia, New Zealand, and the Islands.