Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1974Vol. 45, No. 1

In This Issue

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General

The rise of Hellabys 24 Putting the SP Games record straight 33 The fight for Saipan-Japan air route 75 Sofrana's new ship for NZ-PNG run (pic) 75 RAN and RNZN make new charts 81 Burns Philp report 92

American Samoa

No-vote for electing governor 41

Cook Islands

The jet age at last 77 Expansion of taxi company 82

Fiji

Big death toll in cyclone 5 MP's expulsion 6 Budget session 7 South Pacific Games debt 35 Waterside Workers' Union fails regis tration 77 Air routes agreement with UK 81 Australian interest in Fiji cruise com pany 81 Air charter licence refused 81 Maroro to be scrapped 81

Gilbert And Ellice Islands

Ellice may separate 4 Budget details 5

Nauru

Elections and shipping writ 11 Expansion of shipping services 82

New Caledonia

Regret over Guam Games date 10 Search for Japanese submarine 25 Mystery of beached aircraft 81

New Hebrides

British Resident Commissioner arrives 5 Church calls for change 43 Cruise ship boom 82

Niue

Praise for NZ administration 23

Norfolk Island

Development plan rejected 4] Burns Philp may pull out 92

Papua New Guinea

Quiet beginning of self-government 8 Plan to wipe out freeholds 9 Gala's appointment, and new Lord Mayor 9 Politicians to appoint public servants? 17 Assembly's last 'colonial' session 26 Working with the Land Commission 37 Climbing a volcano on Bougainville 57 New ship for NZ-PNG run (pic) . 75 Guide for investors 89 Bank of NSW optimistic about PNG 90

Pitcairn Island

Dentures' adventures 4

Solomon Islands

One political party planned 10 The birth of family planning 45 The Albatros expedition 58 New cargo ship 82 Guide for investors 89

Tonga

Tonga-Japanese airline 81 New airstrip opened 82 Greater Tonga-Japan co-prosperity 91 Bank of Tonga date set 91

United States Trust Territory

French regret over Games date 10 Collapse of status talks 21 New houses on Bikini Atoll (pic) 23 Airlines wrangle over Saipan-Japan route 75

Western Samoa

Albert Wendt's novel reviewed 68

DEPARTMENTS: Up Front with the Editor, 3; People, 11; In a Nutshell, 11; Topicalities, 12; Editor's Mailbag, 28; From the Islands Press, 48; Magazine Section, 57; MANA, 60; Yesterday, 67; Books, 68; Pacific Transport, 75; Cruising Yachts, 83; Business and Development, 89; Produce, 94; Shipping and Airways Information, 95; Deaths of Islands People, 100; Advertisers' Index, 104.

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