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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1967Vol. 38, No. 11

This Issue

p. 19 · Read in the full issue

Eral

Morrison of Burns Philp 87 a Market Eases 127 rofit Rise Likely 128 enter Profit Drops 133 rniies" Do Better 136

Rican Samoa

to Nature 31 : Starts on New Warehouse ... 105

K Islands

of the Frisbies on Film 28 ging Social Conditions 30 ng the Water Problem 40 ers' Strike 21 •p Enthroned 23 ling Inquiry 23 ipion Swimmer Quits Colony ... 26 y Football 28 ;ers for Policemen 29 s Tailors 32 'sion Air Fares 59 Airways' New Plane 61 Facto" Marriages Cause Problems 75 Book by C. A. Perkins 95 i Blasted for Boat Passage 101 enter Shipping Run Ends 103 University Pictures 117

Ch Polynesia

r Ski-ing Record 28

Female Crusoe for Mehetia 30 Athletes Shape Well 70 Visit to "Typee" Valley 85 Pierre Loti Museum 91

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

Socio-Economic Survey 125

Lord Howe Island

New Book 96

Nauru

Independence Soon 18 Pictorial Series 45-47 Interest in 1969 Games Marathon 71

New Caledonia

Higher Cost of Dying 30 Tourist Quotas Double 49 New Hotel at Noumea 55 Third Nickel Consortium 136

New Hebrides

New Plane Services 61 Lost Yachtsman Safe 109 Athletics Records Broken 121

Niue

Whitewashing Alofi 29

Norfolk Island

Spinning Factory 24 Laws to Protect Islanders 37 Night Aircraft Landings Soon 57

Papua-New Guinea

Constitutional Changes 19 BP Loses Shipping Subsidy 24 Sin in Port Moresby 28 Getting More, Enjoying it Less . 38 Attractive Madang 39 Investment Opportunities 42 Aviation Statistics 61 Motel for Port Moresby 61 Hotel Kerema Opens 61 Handicapped Children's Centre 79 Book by Maslyn Williams 98 Western District's New Ship 103 Ship for New Ireland 105 Army's Landing Barges 105 Search for Oil in Papua 125 "Steamies" Employees Sacked 134 Desiccated Coconut 134

Pitcairn Island

Satellite Trackers Arrive 104

Solomon Islands

Book by Dr. Fox 20 Islanders' Association in Sydney ... 29 "The Happy Isles" 48 Small Jet-planes on Inter-island Runs 61

South Pacific Commission

Conference in Noumea 25,119

Tonga

Views on Coronation 32 Not Enough Land for All 37 Fiji Airways New Service 61 Tourist Bureau 63 Queen Salote Wharf Opened 105

Western Samoa

Peace Corps, Potlatch, Hydro Plan 41 Bright Future for Tourism 56 Sir Guy Powles on Davidson's Book 65 Soap Factory 127

APARTMENTS: Up Front with the Editor, 14; Tropicalities, 28; The Editors' \ailbag, 32; To the Point with Percy Chatterton, 38; Port Moresby Personality, 0; Travel, 41; From the Islands Press, 73; Magazine Section, 85; Yesterday, 93; ook Reviews, 95; Shipping, Cruising Yachts, 101; People in Pictures, 117; eople, 121; Business and Development, 127; Produce Prices, 135; Shipping, urways Schedules, 139; Deaths of Islands People, 148; Practical Planter, 151.