NEW MAGAZINE FOR THE PACIFIC WORLD

Te Ao Hou, June 1960, Page 50

NEW MAGAZINE FOR THE PACIFIC WORLD Pacific Viewpoint, published twice yearly by the Department of Geography, Victoria University of Wellington, £1 per year. Vol. 1, No. 1, March 1960 This Magazine covers a wide area, not only the Pacific Islands and New Zealand but also South East Asia and China. The first issue has not much New Zealand material, but there is an article ‘The Maori in Town and Country’ by J. Booth which brings together some results of recent research, and incidentally mentions Te Ao Hou's Auckland issue in some detail. The editor, Prof. Buchanan, contributes an excellent article on ‘The Changing Landscape of Rural China’ which gives an objective and most illuminating description of the way Communist China solved its enormous economic problems. I understand that future issues will have a slightly more New Zealand flavour; I certainly hope so. Although the first issue is of very high quality, there are many interesting local problems that can be studied by a paper of this kind which, although edited by a geographer, is much broader in its interests than the typical productions of the geographic professionals. E.G.S.