The Month

• THE BOUNTY FILMS Dr Norman Douglas surveys the history of films on the theme of the Bounty mutiny, and finds that the whole business started in Australia as far back as 1916 11 • SOLOMONS HISTORY Jonathon Fifi’i, a prominent Solomon Islands figure for many years, talks to Barry Shineberg about the significance of the much misunderstood post-World War II ‘Marching Rule’ movement in the Solomons, and throws new light on the background to the murder in 1927 of a British official in that country 15 • FRENCH POLYNESIA’S ELECTION Marie-ThSrdse and Bengt Danielsson report in detail on the upset result in the May 23 poll in French Polynesia, and the reasons why such a revered leader as Francis Sanford suffered a defeat 22 • BEFORE VANUATU Secret French official documents reveal how Paris planned to arrange things so that the French presence in the New Hebrides would last forever 31 • BELAU’S PRESIDENT INTERVIEWED President Haruo Remeliik of Belau discusses his country’s future with Michel Bongiovanni and Dasha Ross 37 • CHANGE IN NEW CALDEDONIA Helen Fraser reports from Noumea on the dramatic political developments which culminated in the election of a new Council of Government ‘of Reform and Development’ in New Caledonia on June 18 40 • YESTERDAY E. A. Harvey completes his four-part series on a 1938 voyage around the New Hebrides archipelago in an inter-island trading vessel 47

Australia in the Pacific 51 Belau 37 Books 51 Bounty mutiny films 11 Deaths 73 Early sailing contact 27 Fiji 51, 59 France in the Pacific 22, 31, 51 French Polynesia 22, 25 Islands Press 19 Japan in the Pacific 61 Letters 7 Maori Voice 55 Mariana Islands 29 Micronesia 41 New Caledonia 40, 51

Pacific languages 30 Pacific Report 5 Papua New Guinea 53, 58, 59 People 41 Political Currents 31 Postmark Papeete 22 Shipping Services 70 Solomon Islands 15 Tonga 57 Tradewinds 57 Tropicalities <25 Tuvalu 61 Vanuatu 31, 35, 47 Western Samoa 28, 59 Yachts 65 Yesterday 47