This Month’s Features

• POLITICAL CHANGE IN MICRONESIA Although this year is the target for ending the US trusteeship in Micronesia, there are indications of further delay.

Donald M. Topping writes about the final stages of the various negotiations and the problems facing the new mini-states 13 • MAORIS IN SPORT New Zealand doesn’t qualify for participation in the South Pacific Games which are essentially a Pacific Islander event, but what about the Maoris who are very much a part of the Island scene? H. R. Broughton puts the case for Maori participation 23 • IN THE WAKE OF CAPTAIN COOK Barry Rolett, a US researcher, follows the Pacific route taken by James Cook more than 200 years ago. His task? To discover how truthfully the artist travelling with Cook, William Hodges, depicted the scenes he saw 53 • A CHORUS OF FEMALE VOICES Marie-Therese Danielsson describes a women’s conference in Fiji, part of the growing voice which women are exercising in the affairs of the Pacific 19 • GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY, KIDGLOVE STYLE An Australian cruiser played a crucial role in installing a Free French administration in New Caledonia in 1940, stabilising a potentially dangerous World War II situation. PIM Associate Editor Malcolm Salmon tells the story 59 • UNIONISM AND THE ANTI-NUCLEAR MOVEMENT A Pacific Forum of Trade Unions, to be inaugurated in May in Vanuatu, sees anti-nuclear campaigning as a major part of its activities 67 Cover: Mary Ta'ake, daughter of the Rev and Mrs Ben Ta’ake, starts the new year for PIM on this month’s cover. The Ta 'ake family, living in Solomon Islands where this picture was taken, are from Gilbert Islands, Kiribati. Picture B. Gray

Belau 27 Books 47 Chile 29 37 Cook Islands 31 71 Deaths 81 Fiji 19 28 37 39 51 67 Islands Press 26 Letters 7 Maori Sport 23 Micronesia 13 27 New Caledonia 59 Niue 36 Nuclear waste 28 67 Pacific Report 5 Papua New Guinea 9 31 69 73

People 41 Political Currents 27 Postmark Papeete 18 Samoa 49 Shipping Services 79 Ships 71 Solomon Islands 39 Tonga 33 39 Tradewinds 67 Tradewinds Intelligence 70 Travel 53 Tropicalities 33 Tuvalu 36 Vanuatu 21 Yachts 74

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