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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1985Vol. 56, No. 3

Contents

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Australia 20 Bikini 49 Books 39 Computers 33 Deaths 65

Fiji 14,20

French Polynesia... 10,29,36,55 Guam 50 Hawaii 30,37,49 Islands Press 57 Japan 20 Kiribati 38 Lapita project 47 Letters 9 Nauru 50 New Zealand 9, 39

New Caledonia 24, 50 Pacific Report 7 Pacific stamp box 54 Papua New Guinea 11,20,42 People 58 PIM Opinion 5 Political Currents 55 Service page 66 Shipping schedules 61 Soloman Islands 51 Tonga 48 Tourism 9 Tradewinds 33 Tropicalities 47 Vanuatu 50 Western Samoa 44

Yachts 59

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