[?]n This Issue

Eneral

* hotel interests 26 irate expert 57 : e on the Big Pond 65 ' film South Pacific 71 st Islanders in Sydney 91 ur new cargo runs 97 Oriental Queen" as floating uni ... 99 tair buys Stol 118 ►pes for sugar agreement 119 ijibi Holdings profits up ... 120

African Samoa

w tug named 105

•Ok Islands

pulation explosion fears 33 w hotel 47 I ; state of the nation, 1968 26 >tball results 28 ikemba" loss 29 'a Civic Centre project 27 lind the hotel figures .. . 49 iry Gibson, karate expert 57 f a, city of cars 64 terete tug 101 ean fishing ship on reef ... 105

i interests H 9

French Polynesia

H tests: biggest if not best 34 Chile-Tahiti air service 51 Gauguin Museum 117

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

New air service connections 29 Funafuti girl marries in Nauru 117

Nauru

New air service 29

Island-style wedding 117

New Caledonia

Win for autonomists 32 Grand old lady 35 Complaints about Australian Press ... 67 Prison warder sentenced 68 "Nickel II" grounded ... 101 Trying to refloat the "Matipo" 103

New Hebrides

Holm Line withdraws service 31 New shipping service .. 97 Good year for copra H 9

Norfolk Island

New Administrator 28 Football pools development 28 Stories the tombstones tell 85 Stamp honours "Morinda" .. 105

Papua-New Guinea

Party politics at last 22 New Ministerial Members 24 How they elected the Speaker 25

Port Moresby personality 29

UN Mission report 32 Plans for new hotel 43 Trobriands: Best tourist value 41 Unity for P-NG? 52 Fly River journey .. 61 Bougainville's copper boom 81 Book: "Asmat of New Guinea" 95 New "Thorsgaard" run 101 "Deanel" sinks 105 Marine complex planned 105 New chairman for Tourist Board ... 117 Patair buys Stol .. ng New Carpenter chief executive 119 Kinjibi Holdings profits up 120

Solomon Islands

Extra grant from Britain 119

Tonga

Hopes for jetport 30 Closer to independence 30 Shipping changes possible .. 99 Seaman lost .. 1q 1

Us Trust Territory

Air service to Nauru? 29 Air Micronesia starts 49

Western Samoa

Optimistic about the future 31 PanAm plans services 50 Visit by NZ surgical team 117

DEPARTMENT S : Up Front with the Editor, 15; Topicalities, 33; Travel 37- To h e : ti r , W t , 7 FTOm ,He ' sla " ds 72; Magazine W Peodl il ? r , day ' Reviews, 91; Shipping, 97; Cruising Yachts, Irl'f f P ,no ? ,c ! ures ' 114 '- Pe oP'e, H 7; Commerce, 118; Shipping, Airways chedules, 123; Index to Advertisers, 129; Deaths of Islands People, 131; The Practical Planter, 137.