The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1976Vol. 47, No. 2

In This Issue

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General

hanging history 18 attle for tourist dollar 29 Jrline moves 56 egional shipping talks 57 iloomy future for copra 65 lobe-trotting Islands agent 66 acific women speak up 67

Lew Zealand Feature

x>king for two-way trade 31 erial grocery run 31 / ski-plane to glaciers 33 ourses for Polynesians 35

Ook Islands

egional shipping talks ... 57 Jl lan to use empty acres 15 ir Nauru flies in 56 egional shipping talks 57 lil power to save money 59 loomy future for copra 65 to tuna fishing 65 g profit for Post Office 66 acific women meet 67

Lench Polynesia

uund Tahiti race 18

Gilbert Islands

Regional shipping talks 57

Nauru

Air service to Fiji 56 Regional shipping talks 57 German ship borrowed 59 Satellite communications system ... 68

New Caledonia

Confrontation in Noumea 13 Private flyers 17

New Hebrides

That absurd condominium 11 Independence demand 12 First for Pacific Princess 57

Niue

Big fish caught 17

Papua New Guinea

Somare accused of dictatorship ... 8 Citizenship worries 9 Air Niugini's wings may be clipped 55

Regional shipping talks 57

Gloomy future for copra 65 Smooth currency change 66

Solomon Islands

Tear-gas used to quell riot 16 US Marines return to Guadalcanal ... 37 Regional shipping talks 57

Tonga

Royal thoughts on shipping 56 Regional shipping talks 57 Ship chartered 59 Fishing industry 63 Japanese cold on oil 65

Tuvalu

Separation day 17

Us Trust Territory

Bastion of US strategy 10 Japan air route battle on again 55

Western Samoa

Blind children's treat 19 Regional shipping talks 57 Shifting Apia's port 57

EPARTMENTS: Up Front with the Publisher, 5; Tropicalities, 17; Editor's Mailbag, 21; ilands Press, 36; Magazine Section, 37; Yesterday, 44; MANA, 46; Books, 51; Pacific ransport, 55; Cruising Yachts, 59; Business and Development, 63; Produce Prices, 68; hipping and Airways Information, 69; Deaths of Islands People, 74.