In This Issue
Vol 45 No 3 March, 1974
General
Bouth Pacific Forum Conference 11 |The Commonwealth Games 11 ■Queen's visit 14 ■New Melanesian Tourist Federation I chief 45 [Opposition to regional shipping line 77 [American Airlines may continue SP I routes 79 [Further freight surcharge hike 79 More DClOs for Air NZ 81 [Australia's new tariff preferences 93
American Samoa
Air disaster 7 US delegation in Pago 13 Ex-navy boat for Samoa service 77
Cook Islands
New flag flying 23
Fiji
New political party 5 Rescue system to be examined 7 Dockers' leader on theft charge 7 Prince Charles' visit (pic) 14 Civil Service shortcomings 21 Fiji rugby popular with BBC 21 The tipping business 31 Dockworkers' leader fined 79 Korean fishing ship rescued 79 iNew terminal building at Labasa 79 Airline rights talks break down 81 New airstrips for small islands 81 Better earnings for Rotuma 98
French Polynesia
Jim Boyack's Tahiti Letter 16
Gilbert And Ellice Islands
Ellice Islanders to vote on secession 6 Latest census figures 27 How the US almost got Christmas Is. 57
Lord Howe Island
Hanging on to air link 81
Nauru
Workers' complaints 15
New Caledonia
Tough talk in Noumea 9 In search of tourists 19 Plane crash 21 Aircraft carrier's visit 23 Thirsty swimmers 23 1973 nickel figures 93
New Hebrides
Independence foreshadowed 9 Airstrip toll 19 Is a tax haven paradise? 39 French to give back land 39 The budget 43 Demonstration for legal reform 45 Co-op Federation's new project (pic) 93 New abattoir 93
Norfolk Island
Queen's rough ride 14
Papua New Guinea
Greater share of copper profits wanted 3 New stamps (pic) 5
DEPARTMENTS: Up front with the Editor, iii; Editor's Mailbag, 15; Tropicalities 19- Ao° m D lslands PreSS ' 48; Ma 9 azine Section, 57; MANA, 61; Yesterday, 67; Books', or cu- C . Transport ' 77; Cruising Yachts, 83; Business and Deveolpment, 89; Produce, 8; Shipping and Airways Information, 99; Deaths of Islands People 104- Advertisers' Index, 108.
PNG's new constitution 5 PNG's new High Com. 14 Call for duty free shopping 23 Riddle of the Laughing Death 23 Objection to bad publicity 47 Madang's new department store 95 Minister's takeover call 95 Development plan for tobacco 97
Pitcairn Island
Population increase 19
Solomon Islands
Changes in WPHC 13 Schoolboy paints for Queen 21 March on rising prices 25 New charter service 79 Utah ceases minerals search 97
Tonga
Tribute to Father Tremblay 33 King sideswipes Fiji Government 89
United States Trust Territory
Bikinians claim USTT mismanagement 19 Transpac blasted by congressmen 77 New type of fishing boat 79 Free-for-all investment in USTT 89
Western Samoa
Opposition leader speaks out 29 Ex-navy boat for Samoa service 77