The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1982Vol. 53, No. 3

Pacific Island Monthly

pp. 1-3 · Read in the full issue

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Cover picture: Papua New Guinea has long been famous for its Highlands Show, alternately held in Goroka and Mount Hagen. Photographer Roger Merchant was in Mount Hagen when he took this picture of a highlands woman decorated for the show.