The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1984Vol. 55, No. 3

Pacific

pp. 1-3 · Read in the full issue

Inlands

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'Babaul Prepares for £&? Big -Bang!

Historic Pictures Inside

American Samoa US$l 75 Australia *A$l 50 Cook Islands Nzsi 50 --- Fsl-50 tl a .wa" US$l95 K |ribatl Asl 75 Nauru ... aj-j 75 New Caledonia " CFPI9O

New Zealand <nzs2 00 Niue NZ$l.5O Norfolk Island A si 50 Papua New Guinea K 5 1.50 Solomon Islands ssl 50 Tahiti I' CFP22O Tonga P 1.50 Tuvalu A 51.75

u fA U 552.25 USTT and Guam US$l,95 Vanuatu VTI 50 Western Samoa T 1.95 'Recommended retail price only Registered by Australia Post Publication No. NBPI2IO

The Cover

Australian O.D.F. soldier in training at Tully, Queensland (see story page 13).

Australian Army Public Relations photo.