Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 August 1973Vol. 44, No. 8

In This Issue

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Page 33

General

SPEC's director in Australia 15 Tarros class ships sail 85 Sydney strike hits Islands 87 PI PA tO' wind up 97 Islands' stamp issues 116

American Samoa

Family planning 7

Cook Islands

Relations with NZ 14

Propping up agriculture 93

PI PA to wind up 97

Fiji

Corporal punishment 7 Ratu E. Cakobau's funeral 10 SPEC's director in Australia 15 Seamen strike in NZ 87 Sydney strike hits Islands 87 PI PA to wind up 97 Fiji-1 ndian for deportation 115

French Polynesia

Nuclear bomb blast (with picture) ... 8 Pan-Am jet crash 115

Gilbert And Ellice Islands

End of the Teraka 85 PIPA to wind up 97

Lord Howe Island

Flying boat reprieved 100

Nauru

NZ unions' attack (Up Front) 3 Enna G strikebound in NZ 87

New Caledonia

Hotel losses through test ban 9 Farmers demonstrate 16

New Hebrides

Shipping company formed 85 Airline growing (with picture) 97

Niue

Bottled beer ban 115 Population falls 116

Papua New Guinea

House of Assembly meets 4 Port Moresby riots 4 Papuan movement 5 Chinese security fears 6 Dugongs dwindling 16 Percy Chatterton's Footnotes 28 On the eve of independence 41 The White exodus 51 Father Ross —Highlands pioneer 53 Bougainville—awakening giant 77 Elephant for Mt Hagen show 87 Budget's effects 99 Own currency coming 99 Localisation goes ahead 115 Investment Corporation's purchase 116

Pitcairn Island

Bounty cannon recovered 15 Melville Christian dies 117

Solomon Islands

Govco meets 7

Tonga

SPEC's director in Australia 15 Tongans in Australia 31 Tongans in Sydney court 31 Enna G strikebound 87 King supports containers 88

Tokelaus

Juvenile delinquency 15

United States Trust Territory

Japanese search for war dead 16 Shipping grumbles 88 Transpac staff changes 88 Saipan company accused 97 Mercy flight disaster 115

Western Samoa

Parliament meets 13 Shipping company formed 85 Tarros class ships in port 85 Canners lose market 93 Film ban withdrawn 115

DEPARTMENTS: Up front with the Editor, 3; People, 11; Tropicalities, 15; Editor's mailbag, 21; From the Islands Press, 36; Magazine section, 53; MANA, 65; Yesterday, 75; Book reviews, 77; Pacific shipping, 85; Cruising yachts, 89; Business and develop ment, 93; Produce, 100; Shipping and airways information, 109; In a Nutshell, 115; Deaths of Islands people, 117; Advertisers' index, 120.

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