Pacific Islands Monthly

News Magazine Of The South Pacific

June, 1971

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

No, it's not a jungle, although two men appear to be dwarfed by the leaves. It's a much more prosaic affair —a taro patch in the Gilberts onto which Bruce Adams turned his camera. Growing anything on coral atolls can be difficult when there is little soil, so the produce gardeners, like these fellows, dig a pit in the coral, fill it with soil, sow the seeds and, presto, giant-sized taro.