This Month

• Resources There’s plenty of equipment to police the Pacific’s resources. But can any one Island group afford to buy it? 15 • Religion Mormons have moved into Tonga in a big way, not without some criticism. But it looks as if they are there to stay 21 • The Region Sparks flew at the October South Pacific Conference in Noumea. But it’s clear this grouping still has a major development role to play 26 • Yesterday James Sinclair’s history of aviation in Papua New Guinea to 1943, Wings of Gold, has just been pub lished. An extract 63 • Tradewinds Transport, by land and sea, is giving Solomon Islands Government some headaches 73

Afterthoughts 24 Aviation 63,75 Books 59 Cook Islands 9,10 Cruising Yachts 77 Fiji 8,31,33,55 Guam 31 Hawaii 35 Islands Press 56 Letters 9 Nauru 55 New Caledonia 9,32 New Zealand 53 Niue 31,32,33

Pacific Report 12

Png 24,36,63,70

People 69 Political Currents 36 Resources 15 Shipping 75,79 SP Conference 27 Tahiti 22 Tonga 21,60 Tourism 24 Tradewinds 25 Tropicalities 31 Tuvalu 32 W. Samoa 31,32,36,55,70

Yesterday 63

Niue’s Young Vivian ... the job ahead of him

Tonga’s basket-toting Mor mon missionaries . . . there to stay?

Sir Keith Holyoake ... in Niue to see his people (page 42)

PNG’s Brigadier-General Ted Diro . . . looking for an air patrol

American Samoa’s Palauni Tuiasosopo . . . star of the SP Conference