This Month

• Norfolk Island Australia has new legislation planned for its Pacific territory. In the long term, will the people of Norfolk be Islanders or Australians?

PIM survey 31 • Seabed International seabed miners are leaving minerals nodules where they are until the Law of the Sea Conference makes a move 67 • The Region When four Pacific leaders addressed the UN general assembly last year a surprisingly common line emerged 9 • New Hebrides A change in leadership, George Kalsakau out, Fr Gerard Leymang in, in the Anglo-French condominium brought a quick result in negotiations with the Vanuaaka Party 21 • Torres Strait Papua New Guinea and Australia have at last signed a Torres Strait Treaty. Now it has to be ratified on both sides and made to work 13 • Defence New Zealand is pulling in its horns. For ward defence is diminishing. Islanders can expect to see more of NZ’s military men, Asians less..ll • Sport Fiji is hard at work preparing for the biggest South Pacific Games ever 12 • New Caledonia Land ownership in this French colony, thanks to traditional ties and Western laws, remains a problem 71

Afterthoughts 30 American Samoa 17, 29 Books 57 Deaths 65

Fiji 9,12,17,29,54,61,74

French Polynesia 17 Gilbert Islands 23 Guam 21,77 Islands Press 63 Letters 5 New Caledonia 27,71 New Hebrides 21,54,61 New Zealand 11 Niue 51 Norfolk Island 31-49,59,61 Pacific Report 7

Png 9,13,17,30,57,61,69

People 17 Pitcairn Island 61 Political Currents 21 Shipping Services 85 Solomon Islands 9,21,61

Spec 74

Thursday Island 53 Tonga 17,21,54,61,77 Tradewlnds 67 Tradewinds Intelligence 78 Troplcallties 51

Ttpi 21,29,53

Tuvalu 17,25,61 Western Samoa 9,27,53,54,61 Yachts 81

Father Gerard Leymang, New Hebrides chief minister . . .

George Kalsakau, out as leader but in as speaker