This Month’s Features

• HOW THE RIM VIEWS THE ISLANDERS Professor Ron Crocombe makes some predictions on likely attitudes of the Pacific Rim countries to the Islands in this address to students at the University of the South Pacific, Suva 11 • NEW CALEDONIA Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam urges Islands nations to move to get New Caledonia on the agenda of the UN’s Decolonisation Committee 17 • POSTMARK PAPEETE Marie-Therese and Bengt Danielsson write on a successful experiment on the island of Borabora in the production of electricity using coconut husks as fuel and Bengt Danielsson has the last word on ‘the last splash’ of Terrible Baron Arnaud de Rosnay iq • NOUMEA NOTEBOOK Daniel Tardieu on New Caledonia’s economics and an aspect of its politics 21 • WESTERN SAMOA A conservation trail is blazed with a unique experiment in the creation of national parks 22 • PAPUA NEW GUINEA Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan’s government easily survives an opposition onslaught centred on the performance of its police minister 31 • YESTERDAY Joseph Theroux, after much detective work, finds the ‘l2th man’ whose name is missing from the memorial plaque to the victims on one side of a mutual massacre’ which occurred on A’asau Beach, Eastern Samoa, in 1787 47

Australia in the Pacific 11, 14, 29, 43 Books 43 Deaths 74 Fiji 25, 29, 45, 55 French Polynesia 55 Islands Press 41

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Lord Howe Island 29 New Caledonia 15, 21 New Zealand in the Pacific 32 Noumea Notebook 21 Pacific Report g Papua New Guinea 24, 29, 31, 43, 55, 58

People 33 Political Currents 31 Postmark Papeete 18 Shipping Schedules 71 Ships 61 Tonga 25, 32, 55 Tradewinds 55 Tradewinds Intelligence 59 Tropicalities 24 Vanuatu 24, 31, 55 Western Samoa 57 Yachts 65 Yesterday 47