Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol 49 No 5 MAY 1978

Publisher: Stuart Inder

Editor: John Carter

Pacific Report 5

from all over

Letters 8

Solomons education, the Coral route and a high-handed Britain

Micronesian Dilemma 11

the threat of a split

The Good Life 14

away from it all on Samoa’s Savaii

Irian Jaya 16

pants for penis gourds

People 20

Barbecued investiture, almost a bishop

Tropicalities 23

tourism, the PNG cowboy, a brochure of errors, slit drum orchestra

Afterthoughts 27

Percy Chatterton and the Purari monster

Political Currents 29

new moves on Norfolk, French test forever?

Oceanic Art 36

a niggle in New Zealand

Captain Cook’S Collection 37

exhibition in Hawaii

Islands Press3B

clippings from all over

Books 47

strangers in Fiji, anatomy of war and cooking

Tradewinds 52

message to Australian firms, Niue’s fishing revolution

Yesterdays 9

life on Malden Island with numbers instead of names

Transport 63

end of an era, shipping firms’ war

Cruising Yachts 69

Father George has moved

Shipping 71

a cargo to anywhere

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