Oddments About

Polynesia

Tahiti Et Ses Archi

LS’: This has been around te time and managed to get led under the heap on the \orial desk. It is an excellent ection of photographs and a ■y by E. Aubert de La Rue. las a full coloured cover, but black and white photographs rvery aspect of French Pbly ian life take more than half book. The photographs have l ,s in English as well as nch, but the story is in nch. Not tourist stuff — but ranteed not to dissuade pie from seeing how the nch Polynesians live. (Pub ed in France).

West Of 170 Degrees”:

s small book is produced by Islands’ Education Office, Wellington, New Zealand, icially for use of schools in Pacific territories admin red by the Dominion but it ild do equally as well for nds’ schools under other ninistrations. : tells in simple English suit 5 for people with a limited ibulary in this language, of \tain James Cook and his ts to the Polynesian islands nd particularly Cook Islands i—during his second and d voyages. he text is vividly written by R. V. Blanc, and in the wledge that the picture tells n more of the story, lavishly strated by Conrad Frieboe. he well-produced little book not on general sale but nds organisations who are nested in adding it to their \ted reading lists for Islands’ pie should contact the nds Education Office, Well- Ion.