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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1977Vol. 48, No. 12

Pacific Islands Monthly

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Vol 48, 12, Dec, 1977.

General

"Ugly Kiwi" image 8 NZ attitude to Islanders 9 American claim to 25 Islands 17 Pacifique Sud 20 Cholera in Gilberts 22

American Samoa

Gubernatorial candidates questioned 31

Cook Islands

Liquor in the old days 29 First TEAL flight recalled 42 Incentives for growers 57

Fiji

"Ugly Kiwi" image 8 Joy at election result 10 Tammany Hall in Suva .|„j 12 Union leaders gaoled ?... 19 Health Secretary retires 33 First TEAL flight recalled 42

French Polynesia

Pacifique Sud 20 First TEAL flight recalled 42

Gilbert Islands

Death of Reuben Uatioa 14 Cholera outbreak 22

Guam

Police cleared - but 17

Nauru

To polls again 13 UK High Commissioner 33

New Caledonia

Pacifique Sud 20

New Hebrides

Bank of NSW manager 34 Constitutional expert's visit 35 Poll doubt 36

Niue Island

Muldoon's visit 35 Uranium hunt 35

Norfolk Island

Poll godsend 36

Papua New Guinea

Cloak and dagger on campus 13 Former minister gaoled 27 Egg on minister's face 29 Somare-Johnson meeting in Athens 31 Death jump 32 UK High Commissioner 34 Qantas manager 34 Missionary activities probed 35 Goroka land compensation claim .. 35 Aircraft tragedy 35 Bid to sack Somare fails 36 Rubber factory planned 61 Deaths of pioneers 82

Solomon Islands

Hidden cache of diamonds 29 Teachers' strike threat 29 Australian High Commissioner 34 Union's appeal 36

Tonga

"Ugly Kiwi" image 8 Medical check for King 13

King's visit to Taiwan 27 Cigarette company's raffle 32 No Soviet offer on airport 35 Oil hopes 59 Chicken processing 59 Copra crushing mill 61 Burns Philp's new store 61

Tuvalu

''Amin speech" jibe 15 Australian High Commissioner 33

Us Trust Territory

Compromise on fishing zone 17 TV concealment charge 31

Western Samoa

"Ugly Kiwi" image 8 Elephants pull in crowds 27 Murderous cricket 32 Airline hostess wins US tennis 33 New judge named 33 First TEAL flight recalled 42 New brickworks at Apia 61

Transport-Mainly Small Boats

"Off the beach" revolution 63 Boaties' Bookshelf 71 Testing fisherman's cruiser 73

DEPARTMENTS: Up Front with the Publisher 5; Tropicalities 27 Peoole 33- News in a Nutshell, 35; Editor's Mailbag, 37; Islands Press 40 Magazine section 42 : Bus,ness & Development, 57; Pacific Transport, 63; Criisino ya?hts 74 ShiDPino Information, 77; Deaths of Islands People, 82; Produce Prices, 86. ' ' 9