Mana

has been alive for four months now and some very encouraging and useful comments and suggestions have been received through letters and via the "coconut wireless" for which the editor is grateful. One critic has suggested that Islands’ writers should focus their attention more upon "protest" topics of relevance to the Pacific world. The editor believes that such kinds of writing have a place and will come, but it is better that they arise naturally rather than through direction. The proportion of these and other kinds of writing will find their own balance.

This month, MANA welcomes a new group of Pacific writers. New Guinea is represented for the hrst time by poets Ronald Angu and Walter Darius, and the New Hebrides by Jerry lakavi and Anne Stamford.

Other contributors are Konai Helu Thaman, of Tonga, Ata Ma’ia’i. of Western Samoa, and Alison Fong Sam Simpson and Makereta Sotuta, wife of a fermer missionary in New Guinea, all of Fiji. Marjorie Crocombe’s interview of Albert Wendt is continued.