In This Issue

PAPUA NEW GUINEA’S new parliament house is the y most splendid edifice in the Pacific. Our report on its features, and a special color section, start on page.

AUSTRALIA’S aid to the Pacific has been reviewed by -1 -1 the Jackson committee set up by Foreign Minister Bill Hayden. Its many important and wide-ranging recom mendations are the subject of our report beginning on page.

NEW CALEDONIA’S Independence Front is re- oc examining its strategy following the adoption by the French Parliament of the government’s plan for the political evolution of the territory.

PORT-VILA’S TAX HAVEN status is bringing real 35 financial benefits to Vanuatu. Julie-Ann Ellis reports on the success of the country’s Finance Centre.

DAVID S. NORTH in Washington suggests a new and gg original line of Pacific Islands business open to an enterprising spirit.

THE HISTORIC OPENING in June of an air link g*| between Micronesia and Melanesia was marked by the Hawaii House of Representatives with a formal session honoring the man primarily responsible, George Wray, president of South Pacific Islands Airways.