Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1974Vol. 45, No. 11

Pacific Islands Monthly

pp. 1-3 · Read in the full issue

Page 11Page 22Page 33

News Magazine Of The South Pacific

November, 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

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Judging by his solemn ex pression, this young GEIC lad could be heralding something im portant—perhaps the result of the recent referendum on whether the Ellice people should separate from the Gilbertese? (See p 8.) Or maybe he’s just demonstrating his tech nique for the cameras in a scene from Karl-Heinz Stellmach’s film Sailing in the Trade Winds . . .

The conch shell, which the lad is blowing, figures in many cere monies in the Islands.

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