From the Islands Perss

FIJI is feeling the effects of in flated costs and prices over seas, especially in Australia, and imported goods are becoming more expensive. So there could well be a period of belt-tightening ahead, calling for reduced spending and greater efficiency on the one hand, and greater effort to bring in income on the other.

A general survey should come when the 1967 Budget is pre sented by the new Government [in November]. There should be no glossing over of problems and no attempt to convey any illusion that constitutional change solves economic difficulties. Fantasy of this kind belongs to the anti colonialists.

The people of Fiji will prefer to hear the truth, and if the

other parts of Australia, but there will never be support in these pages for a regulation that allows a vote but not the right to be voted for. Instead of giving “out siders” the right to vote after 12 months, but never the right to nominate, why not the right to vote and nominate after three years’ residence?— Editorial in “The Lord Howe Island Signal”.

EVERYONE, or so it seems, is aware of the economic dif ficulties created by our system of land ownership with respect to the development of an adequate food supply; yet officials still say that most [American] Samoans have subsistence plantations from which they derive much of their food. . . .

of 400 made by Canberra under its four Acts passed for our “peace and good government” on the advice of our various council lors since 1919, even the good Lord’s 10 laws will soon be 390 times over-ridden and exceeded by those eight lovers of freedom [the Norfolk Island Council] who advise the building of a communal prison without bars. Reader's letter in the “Norfolk Islander THE territory [of Papua-New Guinea] cannot afford to dis courage Conzinc Riotinto from in vesting money here in its explora tion of the copper deposit potentials in the Bougainville area.

But it appears that a minority group with a Catholic Mission background is doing its best towards this end. If, as this group might hope, Conzinc is ousted from Bougainville, the Admini stration and the Australian Gov

[ifficult to companies a handful lie should r deposits Australian I lector and j territory, and Aus- Lte owner- Territory. icrals find itory and ditorial in ist”, Port