This Month

• Tattooing This ancient Pacific art is flourishing in the Samoas but in the Carolines only one small group still practises tattooing 13 • West Irian Percy Chatterton’s afterthought traces three decades of callous indifference to the people of Indonesia’s Melanesian province 17 • Fiji-A young Fiji Indian woman tells of the degradation confronting girls who wish to be of independent means 14 • New Hebrides A long-time colonist has lost faith and gone home to France. His parting words provide a reveal ing insight to the attitudes of yesterday’s ‘masta’ 18 • Guam Spotlight on a lively young personality, Frankie Sanchez singer, martial arts exponent, writer, charity worker 21 • Cook Islands New Premier Tom Davis seeks economic self-sufficiency before political independence 23 • Pacific War Staff writer Malcolm Salmon, aboard the HMAS Australia when it became victim of the first Japanese Kamikaze attack, tells of his most vivid ‘Yester day’ 49 • Aviation Why not set up an air space barrier between the Americas and Australia? asks Polynesian Airlines’

Arthur Anae 61 • Tonga ‘Progress’ in Tonga is destroying many clues to Pacific origins. Archaeologists are worried 31 • Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Somare’s leader ship code is back on the shelf and the coalition looks shaky 53 • Solomon Islands Governor-General Baddeley Devesi takes a frank look at Solomon Island priorities 54

Afterthoughts 17 Books 58 Cook Islands 23 Deaths 60

Fiji 14

Guam 21 Islands Press 25 Letters 8 New Hebrides 18

Pacific Report 11 People 26 Political Currents 53 Shipping 69 Tradewinds 61 Tropicallties 29 West Irian 17 Yachts 60 Yesterday 49

HMAS Australia’s Captain Dechaineux ... Kamikaze victim

Percy Chatterton ... an after thought on West Irian

Frankie Sanchez ... a Guamanian of many parts

Cooks Premier Tom Davis . . . economic independence first