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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1978Vol. 49, No. 2

Pacific Islands Monthly

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vol 49 NO 2 Feb 1978

Publisher: Stuart Inder

Editor: John Carter

Pacific Report 5

- the 'hard news in a few lines

Letters 9

- Tuvalu independence, a denial from the Gilberts etc

Education Special 10

- problems, faults and dilemmas and a tilt at the S P Com mission

Travel 15

- up the mighty Sepik

Political Currents 18

- upheaval in Nauru, Somare in Tokyo and tears in the New Hebrides

Tropicalities 23

- yellow journalism

Afterthoughts 27

- Popular Percy Chatterton on the erosion of freedoms

Tuvalu Testament 29

- a hundred years a'coming

People 31

- Sir Kanaka Jack, an ideal mother and other honoured peo pie

Obituary 33

Dr Fox goes home

Books 44

Marsden, child of light or Mammon, workshop on the co op, Pacific paradox

Islands' Press 49

all sorts of snippets

Yesterday 51

Von Luckner, sea raider - an historical mistake?

Trade Winds 55

a Yank in a Tongan bank, Niue and the affects of sin, tra ding zephyrs

Cruising Yachts 59

life on the ocean wave

Transport 61

Germans return to Samoa; there's a headache in the Solo mons; getting together in Tokelau

Shipping 65

what's sailing where

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