In This Issue

Vol. 41. No. 1. January, 1970

General

New SPC boss starts 39 Concordes in the Pacific 55 American Airlines to start soon ... 61 Early Pacific travel guides 79 Capt. Cook's explorations 87

American Samoa

Public Works director 95 Pago wharf container plan 97 New utility tugs 105 Better deal for yachties 106 Supermarket friendship 112

Cook Islands

Tidal wave havoc 48 Personalities 92,93 Mr. Marama Nicholas retires 95 Trade ideas with Fiji 114

Fiji

Budget story 20 Tourist advantages 23 Search for oil 29 Drug taking 35 Indian Commissioner 38 Four Travelodges by 1970 39 Leper hospital moves to Suva 40 'Peacock' spenders 41 Tropic Sands resort 59 New name for Fiji Airways? 65 Tribute to Elizabeth Hennings 67 Development plan for university ... 69 US bank to open 11l

Geologist to look for minerals ... 113 Higher meat prices? 115

French Polynesia

Politician's complaints 14 Tourists lose by devaluation 37 Series of booklets 90

Gilbert And Ellice Islands

The Corrie family 35 The Bible in Ellice language 39 Rough justice in the 1880's 75 The Rev. Ranford leaves 95 "Moanaraoi" doing well 97 Australian bank to open 112

Nauru

Company registrations 25 Air services 25, 63 Headmaster's departure 96

New Caledonia

Top men die in air crash 27 Sports subsidies 41 Noumea picture series 51 New book 90 Father Brousseau leaves 95 Traders buy their own ship 99

New Hebrides

Budget report 26 Language survey 95 P&O to call 97 Ship looking for oil 105

Norfolk Island

New Caledonian tourists 38 Former matron's MBE 95 Paradise Hotel re-development 113

Papua-New Guinea

Trade figures for 1969 16 Miss Territory 21 Worry over Rabaul trouble 30 Percy Chatterton's new column 31 New joinery and welding shop 37 Developing Bougainville's west coast 38 Drug laws 38 Tom Cole, croc shooter 43 A great year for Pidgin 45 High flying 55

Agricultural problems 87

"Pigs, Pearl shells and Women" 90 Bougainville pipeline completed ... 101

Solomon Islands

Attack on tourism 23 "Search for the Is. of Solomon" ... 87 Biggest yet trader in service ... 105 Bauxite decision soon 126

Tonga

Family planning 15 Growing crime problem 20 Sunday observance clamp-down ... 22 Oil delays 29 Princess' marriage annulment ... 32 Hotel's drainpipe defaces beach ... 38 Stamp and coin issues ... 45 Ten year old mathematical genius 67

Us Trust Territory

Japan-Micronesia tourist flow 63 Mill denies being a "front" 105

Western Samoa

Harry Moors starts new job 39 Travelodge may not build 59 Tribute to churches —stamp series ... 91

DEPARTMENTS: Up Front with the Editor, 14; Footnotes with Percy Chatterton, 31; Letters to the Editor, 35; Tropicalities, 37; Brett Hilder Profile, 43; From the Islands Press, 70; Magazine Section, 75; Yesterday, 83; Book Reviews, 86; People, 95; Shipping, 97; Cruising Yachts, 106; Business and Development, 111; Produce Prices, 117; Shipping, Airways Schedules, 119; Deaths of Islands People, 124; Practical Planter, 129; South Seas in a Nutshell, 133. Advertisers' Index, 126