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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1972Vol. 43, No. 12

In This Issue

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Jeral

rist film 23 ice and the SPC 59 >ther move for Islands line 85 ana expands 87 ricane Bebe hits shipping 87 communications costs 104 companies buy 'planes 105 trade documents ... 109 d year for WRC company 109

:Rican Samoa

ernor to be elected 60

)K Islands

:k death of Nekeare 9 linor crisis 26 lier Henry remains silent 39 hyn's forgotten grave 77 olics borrow from Diwali 19 valu is new Governor-General 22 h penalty gets vote 23 lan chairman of Consumer Assn 24 ie footballers reject guesthouse 25 icils on common roll ... 26

icane report . 29-32

book g 1

ie industry expands 85

seas industry welcomed 101 -' saves potato imports 101 luation hits planters 105 icane-battered budget 120

French Polynesia

James Boyack's Tahiti Letter 14

Gilbert And Ellice Islands

Separation movement 17 Funafuti hurricane 29

Lord Howe

Airstrip decision call 121

Nauru

Aust. High Commissioner 120 Gifts to disaster funds 120

New Caledonia

Helen Rousseau's diary 20 Tourist film 23

New Hebrides

Tourist film 23 Queen to visit? 125 $2 million wharf opens 85 Warning to developers 108

Norfolk Island

Quarantine rejected 121

Papua New Guinea

House of Assembly meeting 11 Famine report 13 What's in a name 17 Tourist film 23 Father Ross' golden jubilee 23 Localisation for Anglicans 25 Percy Chatterton's column 43

First missionaries 69 Wuvulu problem settled 107 Expatriate workers ban 121

Solomon Islands

Constitutional proposals 7 Tourist film 23 Mail for Admiral Halsey 26 Oil palm project . no

Tonga

Change brings problems in Vavau ... 53

U.S. Trust Territory

Eniwetok, et al 9 Marianas want US bases 37 Review: Unity problems 79

Wallis Island

Bishop Poncet's history 81

Western Samoa

Liquor import controversy 22 First novelist 25 Airline squeeze 121

47. L !L^ P 4O r °M Wlth th c e Edit ° r ' 5; Tr °P icalities ' 22; Footnotes, 43; Islands ? • 49; x J Aa 9 az,ne Section, 69; Yesterday, 77; Book Reviews, 79; Pacific n e 9/ p^ e rU m 9 It ' 9 ° ; l° AC jGt NeWS ' 97; Business and Development, 101; Knees, 113; Shipping and Airways Information, 115; In a Nutshell 120- Deaths, 123; Advertisers' Index, 128.