This Issue

Eral

h Pacific Conference 4 t SP Arts Festival venue 23 nesians in Auckland 35 oving Islanders' education in NZ 39 itoring Pacific currents 45 (location of Pacific air routes 79 of the sea 81

onal shipping plans 82

Ik Islands

h Pacific Conference ... 4 ions 19 newspapers 10 ion celebrations 12 icus Festival (pics) 17

Talanoa 18

sts' complaints 24 > for tea-drinkers 27 short-lived Polynesia Company 57 -up for Uluilakeba replacement 82 ares up 89 (n at celebrations 104

Ert And Ellice Islands

• votes for separation 8 id politics 47 RU c servants unhappy 93

Caledonia

b demonstrations 10 Island casino 11

New Hebrides

London talks 9 New newspapers 10 Rescue procedures tightened 83 Air fares up 89 Cambridge Credit continues 104

Niue

Population figures 41 Self-government celebrations 104

Norfolk Island

Charter air service 81 Companies on tax charge 93

Papua New Guinea

The budget 7 Amateurs in the courts 10 Money in cassowaries 10 New newspapers 10 Niugini Arts Festival 15 Irian Jayans at Festival 16 Filipino recruits answer back 26 Concern at public service exodus 43 Bougainville re-negotiations 89 Air fares up 89 Receiver for tea growers 93 Search fails 104 Woman driver killed 104 Urban wage fixed 104 Bougainville buys airline 104

Solomon Islands

Chief Minister takes control 6

Tonga

South Pacific Conference 4 Drug taking ... 9 Stowaways in Sydney 104

United States Trust Territory

Drug taking 9 Arrival of new inter-island ship 81 Massive Transpac suit 83 Drought disaster 104 Governor leaves 104

Western Samoa

Strike by nurses 33 Air fares up 89 Trouble at WSTEC 91 Hussey's new job 104 Ocean rower arrives 104

iRTMENTS: Up front with the Editor, 3; Topicalities, 10; Editor's Mailbag, 29; the Islands Press, 48; Magazine Section, 57; Yesterday, 59; MANA, 60; Books, s acific Transport, 79; Cruising Yachts, 84; Business and Development, 89; Shipping Airways Information, 96; Deaths of Islands People, 101; Advertisers' Index, 103; Postscripts, 104.