The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1973Vol. 44, No. 11

In This Issue

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Eneral

landers at Opera House opening 6 airport strike 11 >uth Seas labour trade 71 irlines agreement 11l jic raft voyage 11l

Merican Samoa

ov Haydon's trial 8 idigenous medicine 16 jmoan named Director of Public Safety 35

Ook Islands

ooks go duty free 29 Z grant for agriculture 102

ifluenza epidemic 11l

Jl nti-inflation moves 9 tew stamps (pic) 14 mguage difficulties 15 iary Edwell-Burke's career 51 ollecting Marine Dept debts 83 leak outlook for sugar 97 <-postmaster dies 109 tan on currency charge 111 ew Parliament House 11l SR record 11l 5 million hotel deal 112

Ord Howe Island

ust army to build airstrip 83

Nauru

Enna G leaves Wellington 81

New Caledonia

The nickel crisis 7 Lost revenue compensation 13 Double anniversary celebrations 14 Wooing the customers 15

New Hebrides

Church backs independence 11 Coral reefs recovering 11l Plane crash 112 Bishop appointed 112

Norfolk Island

Income tax bill 13 Mr Buffett returns 33

Papua New Guinea

Special adviser sacked 10 West Irian development 11 Migrant regulations 11 Restricted drinking hours 12 Distinctive PNG currency 14 House of Assembly meets 21 Percy Chatterton's Footnotes 24 Eruption of Vulcan Island 47 Local playwrights 73 New airport for Lae 77 Japanese for Madang 81 Dockworkers' gains 83 New Britain mountain erupts 111

Pitcairn Island

The Bomb and revaluation 15

Solomon Islands

Strange fish caught 16 Solomons' fleet earnings 83 Development money available 97 Siamese twins born 112

Tonga

Search for Spanish bottle 5 Arrival of the jet age 77 Tonga's ships in the red 78

United States Trust Territory

Autonomy move rejected 8 Return to Bikini Atoll 14 Repaying loans 15 Future status talks 27 and 112 Support for Continental Airlines 78 Transpac under fire 79

Western Samoa

Tusitala's trainee manager 10 Hopes for C'wealth Games marathon 33 Visitors' permits extended 11l No revaluation 112

EPARTMENTS: Up Front with the Editor, ii; Tropicalities, 14; People, 33; Editor's mail ag, 37; From the Islands Press, 45; Magazine section, 47; Yesterday, 52; MANA, 61; ooks, 71; Pacific transport, 77; Cruising yachts, 85; Business and development, 97; reduce, 102; Shipping and airways information, 103; Deaths of Islands people, 109; In a nutshell. 111; Advertisers' index, 116.