Pacific Islands Monthly

VOl 49 NOl Jan 1978

Publisher: Stuart Inder

Editor: John Carter

Pacific Report 5

— news from everywhere

Letters 8

— Palauan land claim; PIM & yachties etc.

Preview 1978 10

— what’s in store for the Islands

Australia & The Islands 14

— the policy of aid

Ussr & The Pacific 15

— deeds not words

Fiji’S Burning North-West 17

— wooing the Hindu rain-god

Apprentice Prime Minister Wanted 19

— Ratu Mara and retirement

Tropicalities 23

— four pages of all-sorts

Percy Chatterton’S Back 27

— afterthoughts on citizenship

Political Currents 28

— in Micronesia, PNG and A. Samoa

Nauru's Election 31

— legalising a revolution

People 34

— those who make the news

Islands Press 37

— the things they print!

In Irian Java 39

a long look at Jayapura

Road To Link Two Islands 51

with good and bad patches

Niue’S Copra 51

such a bright idea

Travel 53

Guam worries, the Japanese tour & a fruity nightclub swings

Tongan Tales 57

an island of fat folk and a colonial fossil

Books 58

new slant on coastwatchers, violence in Papua’s mountains and joy from Sogeri High

Png’S Travelling Theatre 63

a seat for a sweet potato

Fiji Marine Court 65

the million dollar wreck

Yesterday 67

a costly error in Suva harbour and ghosts in Papua New Guinea, plus the Pandora horror

Trade Winds 71

blowing through the business world

Cruising Yachts 76

who’s afloat in the Pacific

Transport 78

—cheap air fares and a showdown with Fiji shippers

Pacific Islands Monthly was founded by R. W Robson in 1930 It is published monthly by Pacific Publications (Aust) Pty Ltd, 76 Clarence Street, Sydney 2000 Post Address GPO Box 3408, Sydney, NSW. 2001 Telegraphic Address PACPUB, Sydney Telex: 21242 Telephone; 29 6693 Publisher; Stuart Inder Manager; John Berry Advertising Manager; Steve Gray SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Pacific Islands Monthly” is airfreighted to the majority of subscribers and agents m the Pacific Islands and the USA Australia (including Norfolk Island) $10 SO Aust New Zealand $11 50 NZ ($10 50 Aust), Fiji $10 75 Fijian ($10 50 Aust) Papua New Guinea K11.50 ($10 50 Aust) New Hebrides, Tonga, Cook Islands, Western Gilbert Tuvalu Niue Nauru and Solomon Islands $10 50 Aust American Samoa. Northern Marianas, Micronesia, Guam and Hawaii, $15 00 US or $12 00 Aust US Mainland and Canada $1 7 00 US or $14.00 Aust New Caledonia and French Polynesia 1.600 CFP or $13 50 Aust United Kingdom £9.50 or $12 50 Aust Japan 4,500 Yen or $12.50 Aust Elsewhere $14 00 Aust Note: Overseas remittances in Australian dollars should be by bankdraft payable at Sydney Australia n c liwa REPRESENTATIVES. Fiji; Distribution and subscriptions — Desai Bookshops, PO Box 160, Suva, Fiji Telephone Suva 23036 Advertising, Fiji Times & Herald Ltd 20 Gordon Street buva Telephone 312 111 Telex FJ2124 Papua New Guinea; Advertising and Distribution — PNG Post-Courier, P O. Box 85, Port Moresby Inquiries: Post Newsagency, Telephone 24 2148. Frencn Polynesia; Distribution — Hachette Pacifique, 10 Ave Bruat. Papeete New Caledonia; Distribution — Depot Centre de Presse Michel Pentecost, B.P.C2 Noumea United Kingdom; I he Hera_a ana Weekly Times Limited 8-10 Clifford's Inn, Fetter Lane, London EC4A1BU Telephone; 01 831 6041 Telex: London 21989 Japan; Advertising — Universal Media Corporation, C.P_0 Box 4b_ lokyo Telephone 666 3036 New Zealand: Pacific Publications C P O. Box 2229, Auckland Advertising inquiries International Media Representatives Ltd, P O Box 3880 Auckland Tel 73 88U eiex NZ21157 (Auck 40) Hawaii and U.S. Mainland only; PIM Hawaii, 2812, Kahawai St, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822 Second class postage paid at Honolulu, Hawaii US Advertising Representative Joshua B Powers Jr, Powers International Inc 551 Fifth Ave, New York, New York 100 01 7 Telephone: 867 9580 Telex 236514 Pub 952480 Victoria; Advertising — Pacific Publications (Aust.) Pty Ltd, Herald and Weekly Times Building 2nd Floor 61 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000 Telephone 652 1565 Brisbane: D Wood, Anday Agency. Box 1918 GPO, Brisbane 4001 Telephone: 44 3485. 44 1546

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