Excerpt from Survey Graphic, Vol. 33: January 1944-December 1944 As it turned out, we were to build our service club under the ame trees of the town square in the little city of Nou mea. The town itself is charming - built on hills overlook ing a deep blue harbor and the houses settling in with some of the artistry of the French settlers. It was hard to face the fact that there was no existing building we could acquire. True, from the Free French governor down, it was agreed that we were to take over a small moving picture house with a dance floor attached. At the last moment, how ever, the owner brought up a small proviso not mentioned hitherto - that of course we would supply another building for the present tenants! This was at the end of a week of steady negotiations and after canvassing almost every other building in the place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.