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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1985Vol. 56, No. 1

Contents

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American Samoa 42 Australia 41,42 Books 39 Deaths 65 Fiji 25,30, 37, 44,47, 53 Hawaii 39 Islands diet 51 Islands Press 57 Letters 10 Micronesia 24,31 Mosquito control 33 New Caledonia 14 New Zealand 42 Pacific Report 7

Papua New Guinea .18, 26, 30, 36 People 56 PIM Opinion 5 Political Currents 53 Service Page 66 Shipping Schedules 61 Solomon Islands 22 Stamps 55 Tourism 47 Tradewinds 31 Tropicalities 47 United States 42 Vanuatu 49 Western Samoa 42,43

Yachts 58

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