New Guinea

Handbook

Has It All

The third edition of the Hands, book of Papua and New Guinea wa l published in May and is now available from booksellers in the Territory or direct from Pad fit Publications Pty. Ltd., GPO Bo: 3408, Sydney, NSW.

PUBLICATION was a little late: than anticipated but thii allowed the front sections of thd book to go to press correct as at i month previously, and for such poll tical innovations as the reconstitute* Legislative Council to be adequate!) covered.

All statistics have been brough up to date; all sections have beet revised and at times rewritten in thd interests of conciseness and reada bility; some maps have been re drawn and others are new.

With 304 pages, this edition is 1( pages larger than the last and somii of this extra space is taken up witl a new section—a “Tourist Guide”

No great effort has been made it P-NG to develop a tourist industry but as the Territory is one of thd few primitive places on earth where the traveller can still be certain a not becoming involved in war a riots, more and more visitors are be coming interested in it. The “Guidd is designed for their assistance.

As in the previous editions w\ have had the co-operation of the Ad ministration of Papua and Nev Guinea in collecting and revisinj material. The Assistant Adminig trator, heads of Departments am District Commissioners have aJj helped to make the task easier.

This edition has a full-colour dust, jacket on which a couple of Highland gentlemen are shown—the Mt. Hagei: citizen in working garb, and thr Chimbu in full fur and feathers.

Who's Who in the South Pacific: Those who have given up hope o seeing Who’s Who in the Sout Pacific, questionnaires for which wen sent out last year, should take frese heart. We haven’t abandoned thl project. Before we began it we ag preciated the difficulties of collectim data from people scattered all ov© the Pacific, from the Marianas in thl North to Norfolk Island in tbi South; and from Tahiti in the Eaa to Netherlands New Guinea in tbi West; people who, moreover, spoW

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m English, French, Dutch, many Polynesian dialects, in Fijian, in several Indian and hundreds of Melanesian languages. But we didn’t appreciate it enough, and in this task, therefore, we came close to biting off more than we could chew. However, we are now chewing it, in the belief that when published it will be a valu able work of reference.

IJ7 P ue to these difficulties, Who’s Who will take a slightly different torm than originally intended. Liter ary efforts of this sort are a bit like having children—it is the first time that s difficult. Subsequent editions Tudor™™ 1 n ° trouble at all .—Judy