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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1974Vol. 45, No. 7

In This Issue

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Eneral

uam gets Games 24 lew church province 32

egional airline wrangle 77

/dney shipping delays 83 PEC headquarters (pic) ... 99

Imerican Samoa

nglish phased out, school TV , 11, 33 ukewarm on referendum 12

Ook Islands

mother ship for Cooks/Niue run 81 Vanganese on sea-bed 98 lo tourist flood 99

Iji

iflation 7 M's visit to PNG 9 lungry tourist industry 10 Ipposition calls for unity 11 lathedral completed 15 hortage of yaqona 32 egional airline wrangle 77 ossible dockworker redundancy 79 hip withdrawn 81 leplacement for Tui Lau 83 )eath of Prime Minister's mother .. . 110 letaliation on air rights 11l

Rench Polynesia

Juclear tests resume 13

Gilbert And Ellice Islands

louse of Assembly meets 12

Lord Howe Island

Last regular flying-boat ... 81 Progress on strip (pic) 83 Middleton Reef rescue 11l Flying-boat salvageable 112

Nauru

Parliament meets 32

New Caledonia

Japanese nickel talks 101 Trimaran rescue 112

New Hebrides

Putting snails to work 15 Joint law and order rules 32

Niue

Another ship for Cooks/Niue run 81

Norfolk Island

Factory burned down 32 End of Newsletter 33

Papua New Guinea

Inflation 7 Fiji PM's visit 9 Mr Somare at the hustings 10 New district 14 PNG's women 21 Bank membership 32 NZ teachers for PNG 32 Manus to get pub ... 33 Water processing plant for Moresby .. 33 Citizenship proposals controversy ... 35 Plans for rice industry 100

Civil aviation changes 11l Knighthoods in honours list 11l

Solomon Islands

Antidote to inflation 14 Bleak future for tourism 16 Leaf house for EXPO 47 End of Australian currency? 101

Tonga

UK loan 10 Basketball riot 16 Colour TV set for King 32 Boxer's win 32 Plans for airline 77

United States Trust Territory

Moves to independence 13 Micronesian "non-citizens" 14 Bikinians' return postponed 16 Public Defender's fight 16 Japanese tracking station 32 Another TT district 33 Compensation for bomb victims ... 47 Saipan's housing problem 49 Unusual disease rate 51

Western Samoa

Coping with tourism 45 Regional airline wrangle 77 Govt plans for economy boost 97 Duty free zone study 101

)EPARTMENTS: Up front with the Editor, 3; Tropicalities, 14; In a Nutshell, 32; Editor's Aailbag, 36; From the Islands Press, 52; Magazine Section, 61; MANA, 64; Yesterday, r l; Books, 73; Pacific Transport, 77; Cruising Yachts, 85; Business and Development, 97; ‘roduce, 102; Shipping and Airways Information, 103; Deaths of Islands People, 110; Postscripts, 111; Advertisers' Index, 112.