Oceania
p. 41 · Read in the full issue
THE latest issue of Oceania —which is published by the Australian National Research Council and, incidentally, now costs 7/6 per copy—carries its usual quota of articles of interest to those seek ing knowledge of Pacific peoples.
There is a long article on travel and com munication on Tanga, a group of five small islands off the coast of New Ireland —including a table of gong signals which are sent out by the slit-gong peculiar to that region; and an even longer one on the junior marriage systems of the Cape
York Peninsula. This latter article is highly technical and makes no sense at all to the average layman.
Professor A. P. Elkin reviews Lewis Lett’s book on the life of Sir Hubert Mur ray of Papua.
Mesdames L. Page, B. Frouin and W.
Young were joint hostesses to a large gathering at the home of M. and Mme. L, Page in Vila, New Hebrides, during April, in honour of Miss Billie Love of Vila who will marry Mr. R. Kerr, of Tangoa, in.
June.