The Month

• NEW CALEDONIA — Helen Fraser reports from Noumea on latest develop ments in the troubled French territory, and on the promise by High Commissioner Nucci that it will have a new statute embodying more powers of self-government by mid-1983 15 • NOUMEA’S CLARKE CUP FOR GUINNESS? — An Australian jockey who died early this year won Noumea’s premier horse-racing evpnt seven years running — and on the same horse! His daughter reckons the feat should be recorded in The Guinness Book of Records — and a top Australian racing writer agrees 21 • MURDER AT THE STEAM WORKS — Over the past year or so three men have died in mysterious circumstances at the Steam Works, a Honolulu meeting place for male homosexuals. The circumstances cry out “murder” in at least two of the cases, but Honolulu cops face special difficulties in their efforts to solve the cases 21 • 13th SOUTH PACIFIC FORUM — Stuart Inder reports on what was — and what was not — decided at the August Forum meeting in Rotorua, and has a few words to say about the security arrangements for the meeting 44 • NEW ZEALAND IN THE PACIFIC — A closer-than-usual look at the manifold links between New Zealand and the Pacific Islands 35 • WESTERN SAMOA — The (now ousted) of Va’ai Kolone faced massive public opposition over its deal with the New Zealand Government on the citizenship issue 51 • TRAVEL — Dr Stephen Weinstein concludes a two-part series on his off-the beaten-track holiday in the Hawaiian islands 63

Books 59 Churches 59 Deaths 81 Fiji 31, 32 French Polynesia 17, 53 Hawaii 63 Islands Press 57 Letters 9 Micronesia 53 New Caledonia 15, 21, 31 New Zealand in the Pacific 35, 69 Niue 9 Pacific Forum 9, 44 Pacific Report ...; 5 Papua New Guinea 23, 31, 61

People 31 Political Currents 51 Postmark Papeete 18 Shipping Services 76 Solomon Islands 13, 18 South Pacific Conference 55 Tonga 71 Travel 63 Tradewinds 69 Tropicalities 21 Tuvalu 21, 26 U.S. in the Pacific 13, 55 Vanuatu 9, 21 Western Samoa 51 Yachts 73