Book reviews

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A Time for Building—Australian Administration in Papua and New Guinea, 1951–1963. By Paul Hasluck. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1976. x, 452 pp. $A15.50. Leadership in Fiji. By R. R. Nayacakalou. Edited for publication by r. g. crocombe. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1976. viii, 170 pp. Cloth $14.00; paper $6.50. The Past and Future People: Tradition and Change on a New Guinea Island. By Romola McSwain. Preface by Peter Lawrence. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1977. xix, 213 pp, maps, tables, figures, notes. $16.95. The Inseparable Grief: Margaret Cargill of Fiji. By Mora Dickson. London, Dennis Dobson, 1976. 174 pp. $A.11.90. Nāahi'ena'ena, Sacred Daughter of Hawaii. By Marjorie Sinclair. Honolulu, The University Press of Hawaii, 1976. 177 pp. $US8.95. The bloodthirsty Laewomba? Myth and history in Papua New Guinea. By Peter Sack. Canberra, Australian National University Press (Dept of Law, R.S.S.S., Australian National University and Morobe Province Historical Society), 1976. 121 pp. $A4.95. Documents on Australian Foreign Policy 1937–49, Volume II: 1939. Edited by R. G. Neale. Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1976. xlvi, 548 pp. The Decolonisation of Niue. By Terry M. Chapman. Wellington, Victoria University Press and New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 1976. 106 pp. Directions in Pacific Traditional Literature: Essays in Honor of Katherine Luomala. Edited by Adrienne L. Kaeppler and H. Arlo Nimmo. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication 62. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1976. XVII, 352 pp. $U12.00.