This Month’s Features

• New Hebrides A Santo community leader tells the story of how do-nothing official attitudes fuelled recent strife on the condominium’s big northern island lO • Pacific Press Births: A new daily on Guam, a new weekly on Nauru. Death: New Caledonia’s daily France Australe 9, 55 • Auckland, Polynesian City James Tully takes a close look at the New Zealand city which holds the world’s largest concentration of people of Polynesian origin l7 • Obituaries Tributes to Sir Jack Murray, first postwar administrator of Papua New Guinea, and to Tom Smith, former secretary-general of the South Pacific Commission 22, 73 • 50 Years of PIM Judy Tudor writes of PIM in the thirties, and calls the time ‘the end of an era’ 40 • Books Sir John Gunther and Dr Leonard Goodman review new works on aspects of Islands medical history, and Bengt Danielsson takes a tilt at a new American work on Tahiti 47 Cover: A group of young Small Namba men so-called from the type of penis covering they wear and to distinguish them from the Big Nambas travelled from the island of Malekula to take an active part in the highly successful National Arts Festival held in Vila in December.

Despite some attempts at sabotage, the festival turned out to be an impressive display of the growing sense of national unity as the New Hebrides approaches independence. It was the first time in history that people from the various islands of the group had got together to display their various arts, crafts and customs in a range of activities which took in everything from dancing to cooking. Photo Christine Coombe.

Books 47 Cook Islands 14, 59 Deaths 73 Fifty Years of PIM 40

Fiji 30, 47, 63

French Polynesia 24, 35, 51 Guam 55 Health 14, 30 Islands Press 29 Letters 5 Nauru 57, 59 New Hebrides 5, 10, 15 New Zealand 17 Niue 63 Pacific Report 9 Papua New Guinea 7, 15, 22, 27, 47, 55

People 21 Pitcairn Island 63 Political Currents 24 Ships 63 Shipping Services 69 Stamps 15 Tonga 13, 24 Tradewinds 55 Tradewinds Intelligence 61 Travel 35 Tropicalities 13 Tuvalu 55, 63 US Trust Territory 5 Western Samoa 25 Yachts 65 Yap 63