Handbook
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'Who's Who' Next Year
New Fiji Handbook Is Out
he new “Handbook of Fiji” is now liable. This newest addition to the ific Publications family is designed i running-mate of our “Handbook y apua and New Guinea” and both complementary to the “Pacific nds Year Book”.
IE two Handbooks cover the two biggest and most important Is is areas in the South Pacific and produced especially for business 1, tourists, etc., who want more iled information about Fiji and ua-New Guinea than they’ll find he Year Book. he Handbook of Fiji has a stiff, •colour cover which is an integral of the book; a better proposition, think, for a handbook that is used t, than a separate dust-jacket, he 224 pages of information cover ■y aspect of Fiji affairs: Geo )hy, history, races of people, 'eminent, the Public Service, legal hinery and taxation. There are e sections on commerce, trade and istry. Communications and trans ;, land tenure and housing, agri ure, health, education and Mis is are some of the other matters It with. here are classified trade and pro ional directories for Suva and toka and directories for other ns; the full Customs tariff; and of registered companies, dthough not specifically written tourists, it contains all the infor ;ion an intelligent tourist will want, s a chapter on the tourist industry a guide to hotels, agencies, places interest and other useful infor tion.
Captain S. B. Brown, of Suva, has plied an article especially for ising yachtsmen. Fiji, he says, is aradise for them and he tells how *et the best out of a stay there, liere are street maps for the city Suva and for five of the largest 'ns; maps of individual islands; [ a coloured folding map of the ale Group, fhe chapters are attractively laid so that the vital piece of infor tion that you want is easy to find, o pages of “Contents” and a leral index help in this department, fhe Handbook was compiled and ted by Judy Tudor; and as it was
only about four months in prepara tion it is more up-to-date than hand books have a way of being. Price is 15/- plus postage (2/3 to non-British countries); or $2 US, including postage.
New Edition Of Year Book
Revision has now started on the Pacific Islands Year Book and the 9th edition will be available about the middle of 1963. As this book contains about 500 pages, covering 30 main Island groups in the North and South Pacific and individual smaller islands, it is a major operation.
In the next few months, Mrs.
Tudor will visit most of the main Groups on this revision work.
Who's Who In Pacific Islands
After considerable delay, the work of putting biographies into type has begun and Who’s Who will be pub lished, in the first instance, as a separate, additional section of the 9th edition of the Pacific Islands Year Book.
Plans to publish Who’s Who as a separate book were made about two years ago; but as the questionnaires began to come back, it became ob vious that the task was a most formidable one.
It has been decided that it will be published as part of an enlarged Pacific Islands Year Book. The Year Book has an established place in the world as a standard reference work and a large proportion of each edition is sold before production; so the Year
Book will bear the initial cost of setting up Who’s Who. It is antici pated that, in time, after the cost of compilation has been met, Who’s Who will be published as a separate volume.
In the months ahead, it is intended, where possible, to send a proof of each indvidual biography to its subject for checking and for any necessary additions. People who have changed their addresses since they sent back their questionnaires would be helping the work if they would let us have their new addresses without delay.