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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1976Vol. 47, No. 1

Solomons'

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Pacific Islands Monthly

News Magazine Of The South Pacific

Uary, 1976

Solomons'

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She's beautiful, she's eight years old and she’s named Lea.

She comes from the village of Faaopore, on the island of Tahaa, which is one of the Society Group, north-west of Tahiti. Captain J. R. Williams, who knows the village and its people well, captured the lovely Lea in colour for us.