This Month

• New Hebrides The Vanuaaku Party’s sweeping victory in the November 14, 1979 elections has a troubled aftermath an exclusive PIM report from the spot l3 • Fiji Nutritional problems examined from two widely different points of view; those of athletes who took part in the South Pacific Games, and of pre-school children 27 • Tonga - Tonga’s King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV offers some free, and rather radical, advice to New Zealanders during his State visit 32 • Tuvalu Are they introducing a rabbit problem? 32 • Travel A globetrotter discovers a hotel in a Vancouver back street housing a treasure trove of works by artist Edgar William Leeteg, late of Papeete, and portrayer par excellence of Polynesian civilisation 36 • PlM’s Pacific - At the opening of the magazine’s 50th year, Judy Tudor looks back to August 16, 1930, the day the magazine was born, and then surveys its reports covering the first four years 40 • Kiribati A new book published by the government of Kiribati shows a talented group of Gilbertese looking at their nation’s history 46 • Banking A survey of the work in the South Pacific of the Asian Development Bank through the 70s 55 • Ships Ten shipping lines serving the Pacific Islands from Australia and New Zealand form a ‘co-operative’ 65 Cover: January is among the hotter months in the Pacific Islands, so we thought this cool shot of a local Tahitian beauty by young and popular Papeete photographer, Teva Sylvain, was seasonally appropriate.

Books 46 Deaths 73 Fiji 29, 49 Guam 33 Health 27, 56 Islands Press 53 Kiribati 46 Letters 5 Micronesia 33 New Hebrides 13 Norfolk Island 32, 57 Pacific Report 11 Papua New Guinea 33, 49

People 24 PlM’s Pacific 40 Political Currents 18 Ships 65 Shipping Services 71 Tonga 32, 37 Tradewinds 55 Tradewinds Intelligence 61 Travel 35 Tropicalities 32 Tuvalu 32, 57 Western Samoa 57 Yachts 67