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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1969Vol. 40, No. 12

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pp. 1-24 · Read in the full issue

Pacific Islands Monthly

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

December, 1969

News Magazine Of The South Pacific

• AUSTRALIA, 40,. • NEW ZEALAND, 4Sc. • U.S. PACIFIC TERRITORIES, 70c. • FRENCH PACIFIC ISLANDS, JtS FRCS. CFP. • P.-N.G., FIJI AND ALL OTHER

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Our Cover

The market scene was taken by a photographer with the Australian Depart ment of External Terri tories at Mt. Hagen in New Guinea, but it could equally well have been taken in a hundred New Guinea centres.