The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1969Vol. 40, No. 11

Monthly

pp. 1-6 · Read in the full issue

Pacific Islands Monthly

Registered at G.P.0., Sydney, for transmission by post as a newspaper.

November, 1969

News Magazine Of The South Pacific

• AUSTRALIA, 40c. • NEW ZEALAND, 45c. • U.S. PACIFIC TERRITORIES, 70e. • FRENCH PACIFIC ISLANDS, 65 FRCS. CFP. • P.N.G., FIJI AND ALL OTHER

Pacific Territories, 35C. Local Currency.

Our Cover

Making a colourful— and attractive—display are these pupils from the fourth form of the Elaine Bemacchi High School at Bikenibeu, Tarawa, in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.

The school is named after the wife of a former Resi dent Commissioner for the GEIC. The photograph is by Bruce Adams.