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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1971Vol. 42, No. 4

April, 1971

pp. 1-23 · Read in the full issue

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Australia, Nz, Geic, Bsip 50C

P NG, FIJI, COOKS, TONGA, W. SAMOA, N. HEBRIDES 45c

Nauru, Norfolk, Niue 45C

AMERICAN SAMOA 70c HAWAII 80c MICRONESIA 90c NEW CALEDONIA 65 CFP FRENCH POLYNESIA 75 CFP

Our Cover

He's not a Pacific big-wig.

He's not even well known in his own territory. But he has a happy smile and that counts for a lot. He's Phillip Kabeb, 27, clerk in charge of all trucking in Lae, New Guinea, for KSS Transport. He comes from Tamigudu village, in the Morobe district, and until re cently was a truck driver him self with KSS's parent com pany, Booij Bros.