one handy reference
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All the Fiji answers in one handy reference
What are the territorial limits and the areas of ocean and land in the Dominion of Fiji? In what year did a measles epidemic wipe out 40,000 islanders? When did the first inden tured Indian labourers arrive? What is the latest list of registered com panies in Fiji (and the year of their registration)? What businesses and professional people operate through out Fiji? Who are the public servants (by department)? Who are the jus ices of the peace? What is the Fiji mstoms tariff on man-made con inuous fibres, organic chemicals, flectrical machinery? What and when ire the most important Fiji festivals?
Yho are the leading missionaries?
Yhat shipping and air services are ivailable? What hotels, motels, bun galows, etc., can be found on the Queen’s Road, or the King’s Road, md what are their tariffs?
Regular travellers and businessmen vill know there is only one book in vhich all those questions on Fiji will ie answered—and that’s the Hand ook of Fiji, whose fourth edition tas just been published. And not be ore time, as the third edition, released i October, 1968, has been out of rint for some months and there has een a general clamour for its suc essor.
But the compilation of such a andbook is not a job to be dashed ff at the weekend as so many touristy” publications appear to be. he fourth edition is not only com letely revised, but in many sections has been rewritten because of the ast number of changes in a country hich has become independent since ie previous Handbook of Fiji ap eared. And, of course, the informa on in it has to be detailed because ie handbook is meant to be all lings to all men—a pocket bible for jurists (the tourist and accommoda on guide has been enlarged), for □sinessmen and salesmen wanting ) plan their assault on the Fiji larket, for students and researchers, id for anybody at all who needs ictual, up-to-date information on aspect of the Dominion of Fiji.
Editor and compiler Judy Tudor •he has edited all the handbooks nee the first in 1962) pays tribute the foreword to the “patient co leration” of the many government id local-government officials, “with it whose help a reference book of is kind would have been impos-
sible”. The sheer weight of informa tion supplied in the handbook in dicates the truth of that.
Locality maps throughout the text, plus two large fold-out maps showing the Fiji group and the road system on the main island (with distances), enhance the handbook’s practical value. (HANDBOOK OF FIJI, Fourth Edition.
Pacific Publications (Ausf) Pty Ltd. $3.50).
Paperback Cartoon Series
Playboy Magazine readers, familiar with the cartoons of Howard Shoe maker, will be delighted with a slim anthology of his pen drawings that has been released as one of a series of Cartoons From Playboy in Pan paperbacks. It is called Goodbye Cruel World, and contains 128 pages of Shoemaker’s views of life, many of which are caught as a mirror re flection via a comment on suicide.
The macabre element does not hide the self-trained but thoroughly profes sional cartoonist’s love of life. He prefers the captionless cartoon, which he believes makes the greatest demands on both cartoonist and reader and therefore offers the richest rewards.
Two more of the cartoon series are titled Not Until You Take Off That Silly Hat and We Can’t Go On Meeting Like This. These are drawings by a variety of artists, the latter being hilarious proof that there are absolutely endless variations to the theme of the eternal triangle. As befits Playboy, the cartoons include an amazing variety of nude female forms. The books sell for 80c each.