The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1972Vol. 43, No. 1

Pacific Islands

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FOUNDED BY R. W. ROBSON IN 1930.

Owned And Published By

Pacific Publications (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.,

29 Alberta St., Sydney, N.S.W., 2000.

Postal Address: G.P.O. BOX 3408, SYDNEY

N.S.W., 2001.

Telegraphic Address: PACPUB, Sydney

Telephones: 61-9197, 61-7101, 61-4369.

Chief Executives: Managing Director: R. W. Robson.

Executive Director/Publisher; Judy Tudor.

Executive Director/Business Manager: Selwyn Hughes.

Executive Director/Chief Editor: Stuart Inder.

Pacific Islands Monthly

Editor: Stuart Inder.

Assistant Editor: John Carter.

Advertising Manager: W. A. Gasnler.

Representatives

Fiii: Pacific Publications (Fiji) Ltd., Fiji Times Building, 20 Gordon Street, Suva. Tel.* 25601 Fiji Times Office, Mayfair Building, Namoli Ave., LAUTOKA. Telex; 1144. Tel.: 60-422.

Papua New Guinea: LAE, P.O. Box 227; RABAUL, Mr. Steve Simpson, P.O. Box 433 c/- Rabaul Photographic. Tel.: 2677).

French Polynesia: Distribution—-Hachette Paci fique, 10 Ave Bruat, Papeete.

New Zealand: Pacific Publications, C.P.O. Box 2229, Queen St., Auckland. Tel.: 485-155.

United Kingdom: S. R. Warman, Park House 22 Park Street, Croydon, CR9 3NP. Tel.i 01-6884177.

Overseas Newspapers (Agencies) Ltd., Cromwell House, Fulwood Place, London, W.C.l. Tel.: 01-242-0661. Cables: WESNEWS, London, DS4.

Japan: Advertising—Universal Media Corpora tion, C.P.O. Box 46, Tokyo. Tel.: 666-3036.

Victoria: Advertising—Wilke & Co. Ltd., 37 Brown's Road, Clayton, Vic., 3168. Tel.: 544-8222.

Queensland: Advertising—Beale Media Services 232 St. Paul's Terrace, Fortitude Valley, Qld 4006. Tel.: 51-5827.

Subscription Rates:

"Pacific Islands Monthly" is air-freighted to all subscribers and agents in the Pacific Islands; copies to other areas go by surface mail.

Australia (including Lord Howe and Thursday Is.), B.S.I.P., Gilbert and. Ellice Is.: $5.50 Aust.; Papua-New Guinea, Norfolk Island, Nauru, Tonga and New Hebrides: $5.00 Aust.; New Zealand: $5.50 NZ; Fiji, Cook Islands, Niue and Western Samoa; $5.00 (local currency); American Samoa: $8.00 US; U.S. Mainland Micronesia (including Guam): $10.00 US; Hawaii: $9.00 US; New Caledonia: 750 French Pacific francs; Tahiti and French Polynesia: 850 French Pacific francs; United Kingdom and elsewhere; £3.25.

Copyright ©, 1972,

Pacific Publications (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

For the editorial contents of this issue, see p. 21