Reports On Pacific

Port Towns

PUBLICATION by Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, of the results of a symposium presented at the Tenth Pacific Science Congress, on Pacific port towns and cities, is of special interest to the many people confronted with the problems of urbanisation.

The nine papers were edited, with a foreword, by Alexander Spoehr, Chancellor of the East-West Centre, University of Hawaii.

The papers include: Pacific Island Towns and the Theory of Growth, by Cyril Belshaw (University of British Columbia); Noumea, New Caledonia, by Jean Guiart (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne); the Urban Fijians of Suva, by R. R. Nayacakalou (London School of Economics); Papeete, Tahiti, by Douglas L. Oliver (Harvard University); Aspects de la Con figuration Ethnique et Socio economique de Papeete, by Michel Jullien (Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d’Outre- Mer); Urbanisation in the Tahitian Household, by Paul Kay (Harvard University); A Preliminary Report on Chinese Social and Economic Organisation in the Society Islands, by Richard Moench (Harvard University). The price is $3.50.