Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1974Vol. 45, No. 2

In This Issue

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General

SP Commission meeting 3 Fuel crisis 7 Air Pacific development 8 Mail thefts 8 Guam Games date 15 American Airlines withdraw service 73

American Samoa

Looting after government building fire 18 Samoans win army enlistment rights 18 Unsafe fishing dories 79 Air fares rise 83

Cook Islands

UFO sighted over Mauke 8 Premier as a boy (pic) 11 Totalisator opens 11 Japanese ships worry minister 15

Fiji

Fuel crisis 7 Air Pacific moves 8 $1,500 haircut 9 Indian marriage customs 9 Bad omens for 1974 10 Lauans isolated 77 Qantas charter flights 77 Taveuni estate development 91 Company to use coal 93 Negotiations with EEC 93 Death of Mr Madhavan 100

French Polynesia

Nuclear tests 8 Eddie Lund dies 11

Gilbert And Ellice Islands

Census figures 8

Lord Howe Island

Army sappers to build airstrip 83

Nauru

President's daughter married 8

New Caledonia

Beating petrol restrictions 7 A second nickel factory? 37 Free petrol for shoppers 47 Bank's expansion plans 90

New Hebrides

Advisory Council 5 Shell fossils found 12 Tax haven benefits 43 Japanese investments 89 Bank's new subsidiary 90

Norfolk Island

Death of Mrs M. Forbes 100

Papua New Guinea

Moving to independence 5 Development of Arawa 19 Port Moresby's fashions 23 Memories of Tommy Grahamslaw 27 Coast freight rates rise 77 Shipping pool 79 Landing craft for Defence Force ... 83

Pitcairn Island

Election day 13

Solomon Islands

Bride price control 12 The road to independence 33 1974 budget 35

Tonga

Mail thefts . ... 8 Air fares rise 83 Bank's secret accounts 92 Approach to EEC 93

United States Trust Territory

Marianas-US talks 6 War dead recovered 8 Transpac in freight rates wrangle 75

Western Samoa

Fiery budget debate 39 Economic hari-kari 39 Air fares rise 81 Approach to EEC 93

DEPARTMENTS: Up Front with the Editor, 3; In a Nutshell, 8; Tropicalities, 11; People, 17; Bulletin Board, 21; Editor's Mailbag, 27; From the Islands Press, 48; Magazine Section, 57; MANA, 60; Yesterday, 67; Books, 68; Pacific Transport, 73; Cruising Yachts, 83; Business and Development, 89; Produce, 94; Shipping and Airways Infor mation, 95; Deaths of Islands People, 100; Advertisers' Index, 104.

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