The Month

• AUSTRALIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC A conference in Canberra hears Islanders speaking of their hopes —and their fears — concerning their countries’ present and future relationships with Australia. PIM Associate Editor Malcolm Salmon reports 11 • THE MELANESIAN RENAISSANCE In the keynote address to the Canberra conference on Australia and the South Pacific, Vanuatu PM Father Walter Lini appeals for understanding from Australians and others of the resurgence of traditional social and cultural values now underway in Melanesia 25 • TIKOPIA, THE VERY LAST PARADISE Marie-Therese and Bengt Danielsson recently visited Tikopia, Solomon Islands, and found that it has lost little of its unique character as an oasis of ancient Polynesian society 32 • NEW CALEDONIA Jean-Marie Tjibaou, member of New Caledonia’s Territorial Assembly, and a leader of the pro-independence party Union Caledonienne, talks to Barry Shineberg of how he sees his country’s future 35 • BURNS PHILP, PAST AND PRESENT Judy Tudor reviews a new history of Burns Philp, and the company’s chief executive, P. C. Best, speaks of its present activities and future plans in the Pacific 38, 43 • WESTERN SAMOA Felise Va’a writes of high hopes held in his country that hydro-power will provide the key to its future economic development, freeing it from the present crippling costs burden of imported fuel 50 • YESTERDAY E. A. Harvey writes of his 1938 voyage on an inter-island trader around the islands of the New Hebrides. First instalment of four 51

Note on 'Noumea Notebook': Daniel Tardieu's regular column on New Caledonian affairs unfortunately was not received in time tor publication.

Australia and the South Pacific 11 Books 38 Deaths of Islands People 65 Fiji 5, 49 Islands Press 17 Letters 7 Micronesia 5, 23 Nauru 7, 42 New Caledonia ’.35 Pacific Report 5 Papua New Guinea 15 People 29

Political Currents 25 Postmark Papeete 32 Shipping Schedules 61 Solomon Islands 18, 32, 47 Tonga 5, 19 Trade unionism 47 Tradewinds 43 Tropicalities 18 Vanuatu 25 Western Samoa 5, 50 Yachts 55 Yesterday 51