In this issue

General

Benefits from EEC 13 SP Games designs rejected 20 France's South Pacific 25 Low ratings for airports 65 Deaths of Charles Sullivan & Fred Archer 70

American Samoa

Superfluous permit for buoys 21 Low rating for airport 65

Cook Islands

New Stamps 20 Manganese nodules 21 Cancer hope, or hoax 23 Floating drinking party 29

Fiji

Political problems 12 Benefits from EEC 13 Tussock grubbers lose jobs 20 NZ discrimination charge 20 Too many surveyors 21 Store employees gaoled 21 Strikers not guilty 21 An "intrepid" author 52 Sugar marketing co 59 Nausori Airport's low rating 65 Ship's officer suspended 65 Money needed for wharf 67

Gilbert Islands

Be generous to Banabans, church urges 12 Costs of Banabans'case 21

Nauru

Melbourne building opened 16, 17

New Caledonia

Political circus 11 Helen Rousseau's Pacifique Sud . . . . 25 Tired, successful boxers 27

Niue

Entry to stamp market 20 Mining probe 59 'Quake fears! 59

Papua New Guinea

Official views on media 14 Terrorism threat 15 Campus crime 20 "Sorcerer" death sequel 20 Married priests question 21 Learner motor cyclist's death 21 Lome aid 21 Information posters 21 Sport before politics 21 People of Karkar 49 Wantok moves house 51 Coffee boom 55 Coffee thieves 57 Unclaimed dividends 57 Papuan Chief launched 63 Death of Fred Archer 70

Solomon Islands

Simple meaning of independence 8 Thirty-two 'quake deaths 9 Census 10 Nius survives 27

Henderson battles recalled 33 Ex-Marine remembers Henderson 35 Archbishop's visit 46 Songs and games 53 Rice for PNG 57 NZ welcomes trade missions 57

Tonga

Benefits from EEC 13 Tussock grubbing in NZ 20 Wire mesh industry 59 Low rating for Fua'amotu 65

Tuvalu

Consultation on future 13

Us Trust Territory

Bridge ''accidentally” opened 20 Newspaper for Truk 21 Dry municipalities 21 Islanders return to Enewetak 31 Japanese route decision 63

Western Samoa

Benefits from EEC 13

DEPARTMENTS Up Front with the Publisher, 5; News in a Nutshell, 20; Editor's Mailbag, 22; Tropicalities, 27; Magazine Section, 33; Islands Press, 45; Books, 49, Business & Development, 55; Pacific Transport, 63; Cruising Yachts, 67 Deaths of Islands people, 70; Shipping Information, 72; Produce Prices, 77