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“Pacific Islands Year Book”?

REVISION has started on the Who’s Who section of the next edition of the Pacific Islands Year Book. Some months ago proofs of all biographies from the last edition were sent to the persons concerned for revision. Most of these have now been returned, but a number have not.

If you have not yet returned your corrected biography; or if you did not receive a proof sheet for correction, WOULD YOU PLEASE LET US HAVE CORRECTIONS, BY AIRMAIL, AT ONCE.

In many cases, failure to get corrections back is the result of retirements of expatriate personnel who have returned to live in their home countries, presumably without leaving forwarding addresses.

Judging by our experience, “return to sender” mail that comes out of all Islands territories must constitute something of a record —although it is not always easy to understand how a man who has given 30 years of his life to a specific Territory, and who reached the head of his organisa tion, can sometimes be completely “unknown” to that organisation a few months after his retirement.

Because the first Who’s Who section in the 9th edition of the Pacific Islands Year Book was experimental, it was not as comprehensive as we would have wished. We hope to make it more so in the next edition, to be published this year. We will, therefore, be happy to consider suggestions for additions—just send the correct name and address and some indication of who the person is. We will take it from there.

The first Who’s Who contained about 1,400 biographies of people of all races living or working in the Pacific Islands, plus persons not normally living in the Islands who had contributed politically, scientific ally, culturally or through commerce to the Islands.

All communication should be addressed to The Editor, Pacific Islands Year Book, GPO, Box 3408, Sydney, New South Wales.