This Month’s Features

• THE CONSOLIDATION OF VANUATU POLITICS After a troubled independence process, reconciliation is needed between the country’s political factions 13 • ALBERT HENRY, DEATH OF A PACIFIC LEADER Stuart Inder writes of the man who led the Cook Islands to a national identity 17 • MISAPPROPRIATION ALLEGED IN WESTERN SAMOA A public accounts committee report tabled in parliament alleges that a politician, four senior government officers and a businessman were involved in a scheme to defraud the government 31 • TRAVEL In the wartime Solomon Islands of 35 years ago every one had a weapon, but Bruce Adams describes today how ‘only Vincent can use the gun’ 51 • A MEETING, BUT NOT OF MINDS Marie Therese and Bengt Danielsson describe a conference to discuss the study of Pacific cultures, but question the worth of what happened 18 • SHIPS A tourist operator in Fiji tries a modern version of an old idea by rigging a power cruiser as a staysail schooner to use sail and power 65 Cover: Eliana Torea of Tahiti is the girl on this month’s PIM cover. Martin Jeffery of Sydney took the picture in Tahiti.

Books 44 Cook Islands 45, 17, 73 Deaths 73 Fiji 66, 29, 31, 65 French Polynesia 32, 18 Hawaii 49 Honours lists 5, 43 Islands Press 23 Letters 7 Maoris 25 Micronesia 29 New Caledonia 21 Noumea Notebook 21 Pacific Report 4 Papua New Guinea 29, 32, 65

People 35 Political Currents 31 Postmark Papeete 18 Shipping Schedules 71 Ships 65 Solomon Islands 31, 51 Stamps 57 Stuart Inder’s Pacific 17 Tonga 25 Tradewinds 59 Travel 51 Tropicalities 25 Vanuatu 13, 44 Western Samoa 27, 31 Yachts 67