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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1961Vol. XXXI, No. 7

Pacific Report

p. 19 · Read in the full issue

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month’s news: Roncador Reef Claims Another Victim—117. French Minister to Visit Tahiti: Advice on Pago Pago; Suwarrow Copra white anted—117; Cooks’ Authors Call Home; Malaytown Shanties In vestigated—119.

West Samoan Newspapers’ Court Action—121. PIR Will be Per manent; W. Samoan Independence a Step Nearer—121; A Wire Across the Pacific —122; P-NG’s New Hospitals; Cooks’ Pilot Medical Project—123; They’re Seeing Submarines Again; Tonga Can’t Dynamite Its Whales—125; P-NG Native Elections—131. US Samoa Doesn’t Want to Unite— 131; New Caledonian Shortages Overcome; New Hebrides Makes Tourist Bid; This is What a Tidal Wave Can Do; Suva Plans New Civic Centre: Airlift of Chorus Girls—133.

New Hotel Idea for Port Moresby —134. Tourist Ideas for Raro tonga—134. Noumea’s Haircuts Go Up; Island Ball a Flop—135; Kuru Quarantine Breaks Down— 136; New Cook Islands Com missioner; Ansett Talks Business With TEAL—137; Suva Airport Debate; Stone Throwing—138.