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...Although more than 200 New Zealanders lost their lives alongside their American allies in the nightmare of Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, most Kiwi casualties were incurred far from home. Australia, in contrast, lost twice as many men in the Pacific as in Europe. During 1942 and 1943, the Imperial Japanese Army was moving south; in New Guinea, then an Australian territory, the Japanese might have expected an easy time against the relatively untrained and under-equipped Australian Militia - all that could be spared in the early days of the jungle campaign...
...While physical beauty abounds in the wilds of Solomon Islands' Western province, a more realistic eye also settles on the depredations of malaria, the ruinous idleness of youth, the vandalism of greedy loggers, and the frustrating isolation caused by impassable roads. No one lives in this environment without some hardship. Curragh and her Tongan colleagues, Seteone Polutele and 'Isileli Vei Koso, volunteered to be part of the country's Participating Police Force (PPF). Composed of officers from 11 Pacific nations, it's the law-and-order arm of the intervention force known as ramsi, the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon...
...Polutele, 43 - each 100 kg and counting - bring to mind two industrial refrigerators, one set at cool, the other at ultra-cool. Vei Koso exudes calm, Polutele is all charm. From the Ha'apai group of islands, they each have five children and have spent nine months in Solomon Islands. Vei Koso is a senior corporal who specializes in prosecutions. He spends most of his time with the Solomon Islands police officers in Munda, pursuing new leads on old cases and imparting his accumulated knowledge of investigations. Polutele is from Tonga's Royal Protection Squad, which guards the king...
...site in New Caledonia where it was first found and dated in 1952, Lapita pottery, with its distinctive dentate, or tooth-shaped, designs across a red surface, is the signature of the people - believed to be ancestors of today's Polynesians - who began moving east of the Solomon Islands about 3,200 years ago. Their pottery, found in fragments at numerous occupation sites scattered from New Guinea's Bismarck Archipelago in the west, to Samoa in the east, is like a trail of breadcrumbs across the Pacific, left by these colonizing explorers as they moved with their retinue of plants...
...Solomon Trujillo NEWCOMER DOWN UNDER...