Pacific Islands Monthly

Publisher: Stuart Inder

Pacific Report 5

[ the news in brief

Letters 8

l — three pages of readers' views

Special On Island Aid H

— as two islanders see it

Easter Island 14

mysterious and lonely no longer

Sir Albert Henry 18

did he read Machiavelli?

New Caledonia’S Indonesians 20

shadow over a silent community

Tropicalities 23

variety is the spice

Afterthoughts 27

Percy Chatterton and the unmelanesian way

Political Currents 28

Niue’s elections, a new era in New Hebrides and a new party in the Solomons

People 34

names make news

Milan Brych 36

Cook Islanders call it a brych-yard

Islands Press 47

what the papers say

Books 48

from Maui to Cook, Britain in the Pacific War and banana ships

Archaeology 51

stone treasures

Trade Winds 53

development in the New Hebrides and that Tongan bank

Yesterday 59

last days of the Runic

Transport 63

a king's dream ship

Yachts 69

calling all yachties

A Boat Baby-Sitter 70

about Fiji's Sayandra and others

Shipping 73

getting around the Islands

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