In this issue

General

SP Games in Fiji in 1979 Busy Rugby teams East-West Centre Festival for posterity SPC changes forecast Pacific art in Sydney Regional ships face storm Polynesian canoe's voyage

Cook Islands

Rugby team in NZ Business waltz New business flurry

Fiji

Host to 1979 SP Games Soldier in trouble Rugby tour of Australia Prime Minister warns about western culture Altair refloated Waterfront strike looms Maritime brain drain

French Polynesia

News blackout

Gilbert Islands

Drifting fishermen rescued House of Assembly meets

Nauru

Cargo rates up

New Caledonia

12 Budget juggling 11 13 Lobster industry 53 30

33 New Hebrides

33 Election results annulled n 45 Political hammer blows 25 59 Battling to fill hotel beds 51

67 Norfolk Island

Buffett resigns 13

13 Papua New Guinea

53 Villagers' problems 10 53 Chimbu control 12 Living low 12 Sliding death 12 12 Students' morals 12 13 Filipinos' lament 12 13 Watersiders’ award 13 Pidgin as national language 14 54 Burial customs 14 61 “Orgies'' in the Highlands 14 61 Cargo cultists gaoled 17 63 Torres Strait talks 18 Adultery law 20 Hiri Motu 48 9 Commercial cardamon 57 Air Nuigini buys more planes 61 Death of David Fenbury 68

]G Solomon Islands

Civil servants' rents 17

Tonga

63 Church still in 19th century 8

NZ gift creates industry 53 Salary gap bridged 53

Us Trust Territory

Typhoon terror 12 Coleman's adventures 15 Talks on future 20 Micronesia: Trust betrayed (review) 47 Passion in Palau 49 Round to Continental Air 63

Wallis Island

Pilioko’s works hand in Sydney 45

DEPARTMENTS: Up Front with the Publisher 5; Tropicalities, 14; People, 17; Editor’s mailbag, 21; Islands Press, 31; Magazine Section, 39; Books, 47; Business & Development, 51; Pacific Transport, 59; Cruising yachts, 65; Deaths of Islands People, 68; Shipping and Airways information, 70; Produce Prices, 75.