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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1969Vol. 40, No. 2

In This Issue

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American Samoa

ea voyage to Pago 55 ootball competition 75

:Ook Islands

litch in jetport plans 29

Iji

he weather 5 ’-Da/ ’ 25 lew portfolios 30 ootball trials and tribulations 69 estaurateur arrives 76 lew command for Don Wendt ... 103 rayfishing in Fiji? ... 105 Hung Feng" freed from reef 105 langanese, logging developments ... 123

Rench Polynesia

ew Governor soon 35

Ilbert And Ellice Islands

ouse of Representatives meeting ... 32 ir services doubled from Fiji 32 msion between islands 33 ie causeway controversy 36 ip through the outer atolls 45 arawa's top hotel ... 53 Jucation crisis 57 lerchant scheme "too expensive" ... 101 ew deal for phosphate workers ... 107

Lord Howe Island

What's killing the cows? 34

Nauru

First year of independence ... 4, 128 New phosphate head 35 "Eigamoiya" arrives 109

New Caledonia

New swimming champion 28 Car safari 34 Attempt to free "Matipo" 107 Cyclone hits Noumea 157

New Hebrides

Bigger and better Advisory Council .. 35 Litter on beaches 115

Norfolk Island

Frantic Phil the DJ 37

Papua-New Guinea

Games progress 27 Leo Morgan on Bougainville 30 How mixed up can you get? 34 Lessons from a high school 38 Plain speaking from MHA's 40 Japanese honour their dead 85 Danish Royal blood? 93

Hubert Murray biography 97 Wilkinson's Misima yarns 91 Kuwait fishing scheme 110 Carpenter's tea to the US 123 Aid for NG timber 123 New rice price tipped 123 Competition for pyrethrum 124 Copra market report 125 Fish poachers: tougher treatment ... 125 Death of Norman Whiteley 128 Bougainville copper announcement by June? 157

Solomon Islands

Vouza's visit 5 Tourist promotion programme 58 Spirited Legco meeting 64 Rice manager in Sydney 116 Big timber operations 121 Problem for rice exports 124

Tonga

Vavau airstrip—a costly mistake 28 Protest against banana bonus 36 Peace Corps dismissals 73 New scheme for "Niuvaki" 105 Cigarette factory opened 123 Still hopeful about oil 125 Fish poachers: tough treatment 125 Death of H. W. A. Riechelmann 129

Us Trust Territory

Ponape's "Tungaru" goes south 103

Western Samoa

Potlatch, teacher crises 28 Sea voyage to Pago 55 More Peace Corpsmen 7]

DEPARTMENTS: Up Front with the Editor, 3; Letters, 5; Tropicalities, 36; To the Point with Percy Chatterton, 38; Travel, 41; Magazine Section, 85; Yesterday, 95; Book Reviews, 97; Shipping, 101; Cruising Yachts, 111; islands Press, 115; People, 116; Commerce, 121; Produce Prices, 127; Deaths of Islands People, 128; Shipping, Airways Schedules, 131; Practical Planter, 141; Index to Advertisers, 160.