In This Issue

General

Fencing in the tourist 49 Around Western Pacific islands ... 81 TNT-Columbus shipping tie-up 101 BP boss retiring 115 Aust.-US airline row 116 Chilean Airline's ambition 117 Regional trade talks in Noumea ... 117

American Samoa

Samoans move closer 33 Shrine for William Willis 77 Governor's rough tour 93 Flag Day celebrations televised live .. 95

Cook Islands

Water in petrol 24 Avatiu Harbour blasting 103 Hotel plans 113

Fiji

Immigration Bill debated 17 Coalition government suggested ... 22 Witchdoctors, good and bad 22 How young offenders fare 23 Secret anti-missile stations 24 Birth-rate drops 24 Dock strike ends 29 Strike's aftermath 31 Mara's Australian visit 32 Police hunt man smugglers 33 Concern over drunkenness 35 Strike's effect on shipping 99 Korean ship on reef 101 Hotel building boom 113

Southland's mining operation 115 Islands leaders' NZ meeting 127 Ministerial changes 127

French Polynesia

Autonomists' election win 14 Self-government fears 14 How self-government would work ... 15

Gilbert And Ellice Islands

Dr. Turner's 1878 tour 73 Centenarian dies 127

Nauru

New appointment 125

New Caledonia

Helen Rousseau's diary 20 Pechiney's moves in mining 114

New Hebrides

Civilisation's impact on Nambas ... 54 Moutouh's exhibition in Sydney ... 86 One-day dock strike 101 Vila's new wharf 101

Niue

Teacher retires 86 Air service likely 117 Credit restrictions 118

Norfolk Island

Company legislation 9-16

Papua New Guinea

UN 1 mission report 19 Cargo cult causing concern 22

Sydney centre opened 23

Price of a bride 24 Percy Chatterton 36 Survey of an old fleet 97 Bougainville mining shares 114 Shift system for schools 127 Urban lawlessness growing 127

Solomon Islands

Council debates development 12 School teacher back from the dead .. 17 Mining agreement with Japanese ... 127

Tonga

Passports run out 13 Tourist boom ... 64

United States Trust Territory

Critical period for Micronesia 18

Western Samoa

NZ community centre planned 22 Two Samoas move closer 33 Hotel plans 113 Death sentences commuted 127

DEPARTMENTS: Up Front with the Editor, 9; Tropicalities, 22; Editor's Mailbag, 38; From the Islands Press, 63; Magazine Section, 73; Yesterday, 79; Book Reviews, 81; People, 86; Pacific Shipping, 97; Cruising Yachts, 105; Business and Development, 113; Produce Prices, 119; Shipping and Airways Information, 121; In a Nutshell, 127; Deaths of Island People, 127.