In This Issue

Meral

* students' tape recording 15 ober 10—red letter day 15 mging role of missionaries 19 (ional transport conferences 73 ge coconut potential 89 rision on Air Pacific 91

Erican Samoa

/ Haydon resigns 7 seum gets French coat 12

Ok Islands

mier and independence 9 y free robberies 44 r in Rarotonga 44 >roved shipping service 77 ating a new elite 13 brain drain 21 ling for crime 44 jrch protests Sunday trading 44 ice's October visit 44 lional transport conferences 73 \ interested in Air Pacific 75 'ol bomb at Suva wharf 79 mp down on money export 91 rists' complaints 94 itrolling profits 102

Nch Polynesia

ich navy ship banned in GEIC 8 ond launch for Tahiti service 77

Bert And Ellice Islands

test against nuclear tests 8

Id Howe Island

I of flying-boats 77

Nauru

Gift to Western Samoa 45 Regional aviation conference 73 Upgrading phosphate 94 Consul-General appointment 102

New Caledonia

Assembly demands self-government .. 11 Documenting the Caldoche vernacular 15 Full container service soon 77 Latest plans for nickel 91

New Hebrides

Security risk gaoled 45 Wreck of the Trudy 78

Norfolk Island

Council's protest 3 Increase in tourists 92

Papua New Guinea

Volcano erupts (pic) 7 Bougainville copper talks 9 Parliamentary clashes 10 Investment Corporation's profits ... 12 The primitive art business 17 Changing role of missionaries 19 Talks on better shipping service ... 79 Extensions at Moresby airport 80 Rural workers' wage increase 94 Giregire gaoled 102

Pitcairn Island

Windmills for energy 12

Solomon Islands

Drug runner appeals 5 Chief Minister's election 8

Strikers win more pay 44 Plane services cut 45 Woodford of the Solomons 59 BSIP ship sold to Fiji company 78

Tokelau Islands

The almost-forgotten islands 39

Tonga

Cost of living rises 6 Regional transport conferences 73 Hopes for shipping expansion 75 1973-74 trade deficit 89 King's Saudi Arabia talks 93 Princess's appointment 93

United States Trust Territory

Micronesian status draft agreement . 6 Changing the drug laws 13 Saipan's last battle 57

Western Samoa

Local Watergate 11 UNDP sacking 32 Paying the inflation bill .. 33 Regional airline conference 73

•ARTMENTS: Up front with the Editor, 3; Tropicalities, 12; Editor's Mailbag, 23; a Nutshell, 44; From the Islands Press, 47; Yesterday, 48; Magazine Section, 57; NA, 60; Books, 67; Pacific Transport, 73; Cruising Yachts, 81; Business and Develop it, 89; Produce, 95; Shipping and Airways Information, 96; Deaths of Islands People, 102; Postscripts, 102; Advertisers' Index, 104.