Pacific Islands Monthly

News Magazine Of The South Pacific

September, 1974

AUSTRALIA, N.Z., P.N.G., FIJI, N, HEBRIDES 60c

Tonga, W. Samoa, B.S.I.P., G.E.I.C. 60C

Cooks, Norfolk, Niue, Nauru 60C

Am. Samoa, Hawaii, Micronesia, Guam $1.00

NEW CALEDONIA AND FRENCH POLYNESIA 100 GFP

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Four attractive youngsters look out on to the outside world from their atoll home in the Tokelaus.

Some day they will have to make a decision—to stay at home and follow the peaceful and, some times, difficult life of the atoll dweller, remote from the bustling world, or join that world, follow ing thousands of their kinfolk to New Zealand. Laurence Bracken, of Pago Pago, who took the picture, writes on page 39 about the “almost forgotten ” Tokelaus.