FOREWORD

This is a double issue (number 11 and 12) of the Oceania Newsletter.

In December 1992 the Centre organised the First European Colloquium on Pacific Studies and this Newsletter opens with a comprehensive report of this successful event. In addition, the Newsletter includes various research reports, announcements, short articles and a great number of bibliographic references.

We welcome editors of other newsletters reporting on Oceania to send us copies of their newsletters in exchange for the Oceania Newsletter from the Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Nijmegen.

We also invite all readers again to send us any information they think relevant.

Contributions to future issues of this newsletter should not exceed 800 words.

The deadline for the next newsletter is 1 December 1993.

Finally, we wish to thank those who have left the editorial board of the Oceania Newsletter: Arnold Bohl, Paul van der Grijp and Ton Otto. We thank them for their many contributions to the Newsletter.