This Month’s Features

• Letters Britain’s Resident Commissioner in New Hebrides takes issue with Australian press treatment of the country’s problems 5 • New Hebrides, Papua New Guinea Two authorities look at the problems of two troubled lands and come up with different conclusions 10 • Micronesia An American anthropologist differs sharply with a recent cor respondent in PlM’s letter columns 17 • Western Samoa Felise Va’a surveys the prospect for new-look politics in his country in the 1980 s 19 • Telecommunications A recent Honolulu conference reviewed and some surprising problems uncovered 32 • Travel ‘Dr Geoff takes us to darkest Erromango 35 • Books Offbeat Pacific travel from an ex-G-G, NZ 40 • PlM’s Pacific Judy Tudor recalls the bitter and the sweet of Islands rehabilita tion post-World War II 47 • Tuvalu Exit Sidney Gross, enter Barclays Bank 56 • South Pacific Traders Profit hikes for the Big Two, BP and WRC 57 • Ships $5 million plans for fishing boat, ports development in Solomon Islands, Tonga 61 Cover Section of one of the main posters being used throughout the Islands to promote the Third South Pacific Festival of Arts. The festival is to be held in Papua New Guinea in June-July, and has already aroused tremendous interest in participating countries.

Books 40 Deaths 73 Fifty years of PIM 47 Fiji 22, 24 Islands Press 45 Letters 5 Micronesia 17, 58 New Hebrides 5, 10, 35 Pacific Report 9 Papua New Guinea 11, 25, 41, 57, 58 People 27 Pitcairn Island 25

Political Currents 17 Ships 61 Shipping Services 69 Solomon Islands 24, 61 Telecommunications 32 Tonga 15, 22, 25, 61 Tradewinds 56 Tradewinds Intelligence 58 Travel 35 Tropicalities 22 Tuvalu 56 Western Samoa 17

Yachts 63