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• THE COMING OF AGE CONTROVERSY Joseph Theroux in Pago Pago fires a salvo in what promises to be a long battle between supporters and detractors of Margaret Mead’s 1928 work Coming of Age in Samoa. The row has broken out even before publication of Professor Derek Freeman’s book, Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropoligical Myth 10 • NEW ZEALAND AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA Controversy at first but a good working relationship overall mark the tour of Papua New Guinea by New Zealand Prime Minister Muldoon 23 • TOURISM IN VANUATU Dr Norman Douglas takes a close look at Vanuatu’s booming tourist industry, placing it in the context of the country’s overall economic development strategy 61 • PAPUA IN THE 1930 s A further instalment of the memoirs of the late Venerable Charles William Whonsbon-Aston, Anglican Archdeacon Emeritus of Polynesia, introduces a number of memorable characters of the Papua of the 19305, including the formidable missionary lady, Nellie Hullett 58 • VANUATU In her first “The Month” column, Christine Coombe describes the political turmoil at the top in Vanuatu as it approaches the third anniversary of its independence 35 • THE MONTH A new PIM feature begins with on-the-spot columnists reviewing the events in French Polynesia, Micronesia, Hawaii, New Caledonia and Vanuatu 31 Cover picture: It’s “To market, to market” for this family in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea noger Marchant picture.

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French Polynesia 31 . 29,’ 43, 55 Islands Press 47 Letters 7 Maori art ' 22 Marshall Islands 29 Micronesia ‘.'.‘.‘.'.'.’.'.'V/tt, 40 New Caledonia 37 Notes from the North "40 Noumea Notebook 37 Pacific Exploration 18

Pacific Report 5 Papua New Guinea 21, 23, 53, 56, 57 People 49 Political Currents 23 Postmark Papeete 31 Report from Vanuatu 35 Shipping timetables 70 The Month 31 Tradewinds . g 1 Tropicalities 17 X? nuat u 21, 35, 61 View from Honolulu 43 Western Samoa 27 Yachts 67 Yesterday ’ 57