In This Issue

General

The games and Guam 15 SPC plans for Aust and NZ aid 30 Archipelagos seek greater sea control 45 New regional shipping service 86 Freight rates rise again 86 NZ's quiet revolution 91 Cocoa and copra prices boom 95

American Samoa

Award for Education Director 27 Fast work by dockers 87

Cook Islands

Harbour for Atiu 49 New regional shipping service 86 Cooks to go duty free 100

Fiji

Fighting inflation 15 Burns Philp training programme ... 35 Fiji seeks greater control of the sea 45 Fiji enters the container age 85 Links to outer islands planned 87

MZ building display 91

Bill for prices control 119 Sugar barracks fire 119

French Polynesia

Jim Boyack's Tahiti Letter 14

Silbert And Ellice Islands

.egislative Council meeting 9 Stamp issue pictures 55 Framing ship doomed 87 Commercial tuna for Christmas Is 93

Nauru

Enna G —problems on new run 86

New Caledonia

Nickel slump 10 Official protest over bomb tests 11

New Hebrides

Division over political future 8 Tax haven in jeopardy 8 Australia hands back land 9 First payout from Co-op Society ... 98

Papua New Guinea

Cabinet reshuffle 7 Growth of hand-weaving industry 21 Birth of new political party 23 The Panguna pig plague 33 Burns Philp trainee in Sydney 36 PNG seeks greater control of the sea 45 Percy Chatterton's column 46 Cocoa and copra prices boom 95 Shares offered Papua New Guineans 100 Murder acquittal 119 Adultery—a criminal offence? 119

Pitcairn Island

Problems with longboat 31

Solomon Islands

Election carve-up 3 Search for Japanese soldiers 5

Anuta joins the outside world 41 Kwaisulia, AAalaita big man 53

Tonga

Motor ferry disaster 15 Aid for Methodist training farm 100

United States Trust Territory

Marianas' talks 7 PACE ending on Eniwetok 7 Fishing industry for Marshalls 93 Micronesians share in new hotel 93 Development bank for Micronesia 95 New air service for Marshalls 99 Wartime airstrip to become commercial 100

Western Samoa

End of Casino era 29 Hotel bed tax to go 29 Health tax for outpatients 31 Investigation of liquor distribution 99 Reviving the banana industry ... 100

DEPARTMENTS: Up front with the Editor, iv; Tropicalities, 12; Editor's mailbag, 16; People, 25; From the islands Press, 51; Magazine section, 53; Yesterday, 56; MANA, 55; Book reviews, 75; Pacific shipping, 85; Cruising yachts, 90; Business and develop nent, 91; Produce, 100; Shipping and airways information, 109; In a Nutshell, 119; Deaths of Islands people, 121; Advertisers' index, 124.