This Month’s Features

• NEW GOVERNMENT IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA - PIM Editor Angus Smales, a veteran of more than 20 years of journalism in PNG, outlines the hows and whys of the fall from power of Michael Somare and the rise of Sir Julius Chan 10 • TONGA There is strife at the top in Tonga’s Free Wesleyan Church. For some, the man in the eye of the storm is a man of the highest principle, for others an irresponsible boat-rocker 15 • TRAVEL Bob and Dinah Halstead share with us the exhilaration of a scuba diving safari in Papua New Guinea’s Milne Bay, and David Robie takes us to a treasured ‘home away from home’ he has found on Tonga’s main island of Tonga tapu 35 • BOOKS Reviews of new books on the career of the Cook Islands’ remarkable former leader Sir Albert Henry, the history of Samoa, and the century-long experi ence of the Indian population of Fiji 44 • PlM’s PACIFIC Judy Tudor continues her series on the 50th anniversary of PIM with an account of the 1950 s which, she says, came in like a ‘puling infant’ and made their exit like a ‘snarling tiger’. Read why on page 51 • NAURU Interpretations differ on how long it will be before Nauru’s crucial posphate reserves are exhausted 61 • SHIPS West Germany’s Columbus Line has announced a big extension of its services to the South Pacific, and the Pacific Forum Line has withdrawn from a recently formed shipowners’ association 68 Cover: Dinah Halstead explores the under-water glories of Milne Bay. Full report begins on p 35.

American Samoa 29 Books 44 Cook Islands 44 Deaths 81 Fifty Years of PIM 51

Fiji 17,47,63,65,69

French Polynesia 17,27,71 Island Press 49 Kiribati 29 Letters 5 Micronesia 63,71 Nauru 61 New Caledonia 19,29 New Hebrides 65

Pacific Report 9 Papua New Guinea 5,10,35,63,65,69,70 People 31 Political Currents 21 Samoa 45

Ships 68

Shipping Services 79 Tonga 15,19,41 Tradewinds 61 Tradewinds Intelligence 67 Travel 35 Tropicalities 17 Western Samoa 18 Yachts 73