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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1974Vol. 45, No. 6

Pacific Islands Monthly

pp. 1-3 · Read in the full issue

News Magazine Of The South Pacific

June, 1974

AUSTRALIA, N.Z., P.N.G., FIJI, N. HEBRIDES 60c TONGA, W. SAMOA, 8.5.1. P., G.E.I.C. 60c

Cooks, Norfolk, Niue, Nauru 60C

Am. Samoa, Hawaii, Micronesia, Guam $L.Oo

NEW CALEDONIA AND FRENCH POLYNESIA 100 CFP

Our Cover

A heart-warming study by roving English photographer Steve Vidler of a Tongan girl all set for the wettest weather that Tonga can produce. Mean time, surveying the passing scene at the market at Nukualofa, she concentrates on her ice-cream cone. Judging by the evidence around her mouth she’s just taken a big lick. No, we don’t know her name!