In this issue

General

South Pacific Forum 13 French nuclear tests 30 Ocean canoe trip 30 NZ’s tourist gesture 31 Tongan princess married 36 Travelodge takeover bid 40 Air Pacific’s silver jubilee 65 Regional airline talk 70

American Samoa

Regional airline talk 70

Cook Islands

House of Henry examined 8 Chiefly row 30 NZ traveller tax 31 Regional airline talk 70

Fiji

YWCA troubles 16 Banabans’musical protest 18 A dog’s life 25 Marine ordeals 25 Too many shoeshiners 27 Strikers arrested 30 BaTown Council underfire 30 Rough Rugby 31 NZ traveller tax 31 New Queens Road 57 Carpenter enterprise 61 Air Pacific’s silver jubilee 65 Charter flight licence 67 Regional airline talk 70

Gilbert Islands

Banabans’s musical protest 18 Ocean canoe trip 30

Nauru

Regional airline talk 70

New Caledonia

Americans remembered 24 New newspaper 31 Wooing Australia 33 Hostile neighbours 39

New Hebrides

Air Melanesiae’s new livery 24 President Coolidge salvage 33

Niue Island

NZ traveller tax 31

Norfolk Island

At the crossroads 11 New administrator 29

Papua New Guinea

Forward-looking budget 15 Bougainville agreement 15 Head tax on science survey 24 Kina—a nuisance! 24 Sly-grogging at schools 25

Currency revalued 63 Container shipping services 67 Dock strike threat 70 Landing rights for Indonesia 73

Pitcairn Island

Big blow 30

Solomon Islands

New Chief Minister 14

Tokelau Islands

NZ traveller tax 31

Tonga

Oil search 31 Church celebration 31 NZ traveller tax 31 Royal wedding 35 Bank does well 63 Regional airline talk 70 JAL offers DC9s 73 New passenger launch 73

Us Trust Territory

H-bomb clean-up 31

Western Samoa

Tupuola’s administration .. 19 Inquiry into police 30 Rugby tour of NZ 31 NZ traveller tax 31 Regional airline talk 70

?q E R ™ EN T. S: Up Front With the Publisher - 5; Editor’s Mailbag. 21; Topicalities 24 People 29, News in a Nutshell. 30; Magazine Section. 46; Islands Press, 51; Books. 52- Business and ShiD^nnT^A 571 PaC 'i fl ? Transport - 65: Cruising Yachts. 73; Deaths of Islands people 77- Shipping and Airways Information, 78; Produce Prices, 83. p ’ ’