In This Issue

General

South Pacific Forum 6 Transpac sued 83 Shipping lines go metric 85 Foreign investment in Hawaii 95 Australia and NZ drive for trade 99

Feasibility study of fishing industry 101

Pacific air fare cuts 101 Air Pacific to fly to Brisbane 103

American Samoa

Mew legislation 8

frade with Western Samoa 105 Jan on kegs of beer 105

Zook Islands

Judget plans for 1973 25

view Bishop for Rarotonga 33

When the Cooks nearly became French 57 view Fishermen's Co-operative 101

: Iji

Lnti-strike legislation 5, 43

nflation 6 Witchcraft in sport 9 erries to replace barges 85 imber industry recovers from Bebe 99 Liming for sugar record 103 axation shake-up 103 Lir Pacific comes to Brisbane 103 uva-Nadi road costs more 105 earch for copper 105 lotel expansion on Coral Coast 108

French Polynesia

James Boyack's Tahiti Letter 10

Gilbert And Ellice Islands

Fishermen adrift 13 Ellice recovers from hurricane Bebe 21

Nauru

Nauru Pacific Line alters service 87 Diver recovering 126

New Caledonia

Territorial Assembly game 26 Pacific supremacy 27

New Hebrides

Loss of inter-island trader 87 Dolphin mystery 125

Norfolk Island

Quarantine station upset 37

Papua New Guinea

Village justice 13 Kokoda Trail 15 Land Commission 15 Percy Chatterton's column 38 Morrison on PNG's future 47 Freight rates rise repercussions 83 First Papuan second mate 83 Japanese tourists 85 Japanese investment 93 PNG on show at Japanese trade fairs 97

Duty-free shopping plans 105

Instant coffee processing factory ... 105

Pitcairn Island

Census figures ... 23 Afforestation programme 105

Solomon Islands

Council ends in the blues 8 New voters in general elections 23 Discovering AAalaita 53 Dr Fox leaves 126

Tonga

Tonga Visitors Bureau rep in Australia 33 Latest royal baby 35 Running out of land 41 New copra market 100 Oil drilling postponed 105

United States Trust Territory

Micronesia's pin-up 12 War compensation 14 Navigational aid stations to close 85 Fishing permits revoked 105

Western Samoa

Compensation landmark 12 Film censorship 13 Japanese business boom 95 Trade with American Samoa 105

•EPARTMENTS: Up front with the Editor, 3; Topicalities, 12; Editor's mailbag, 29; eople, 33; From the Islands Press, 51; Magazine section, 57; Yesterday, 60; Mana, 9; Book reviews, 79; Pacific shipping, 83; Cruising yachts, 91; Business and evelopment, 93; Produce, 108; Shipping and airways information, 117; In a Nutshell, 125; Deaths of Islands people, 127; Advertisers' index, 128.