In This Issue

NEW CALEDONIA ELECTIONS Sue Williams -| 2 reports from Noumea on the September 29 poll in New Caledonia which saw the pro-independence FLNKS party win control of three of the territory’s four newly created regional councils. But, as she writes, they’re far from out of the woods yet ...

FIJI’S TOURIST INDUSTRY Dr Norman Douglas -| g has been in Fiji to make a close study of the country’s important tourist industry. He gives his views in a report which is notable both for its critical spirit, and readiness to offer constructive suggestions for possible new avenues of the growth of the industry.

ALCOHOL IN THE ISLANDS Sue Williams reports 21 on a South Pacific Commission-sponsored conference on the growing problem of alcohol in Pacific Island countries. The experts were there, they talked serious ly about the problem and admitted that solutions are as far away as ever.

TELEVISION IS COMING TV is coming to the 23 islands and, following recent agreements between the Fiji Government and Australian TV interests, it’s coming faster than many expected.

PACIFIC FISHERIES A South Pacific Commission- 3*] sponsored conference on Pacific fisheries faced the intractable problem of getting the big fish-taking nations to come clean on the extent of their catches.

Kathy Johnston reports.

GRAPPLING WITH THE ART OF THE FIRST 42 ENCOUNTER In the second part of a three-part series, Professor Bernard Smith discusses the prob lems faced by the artists on Cook’s voyages in depicting first encounters between Europeans and people of whose existence they had not even been aware previously.