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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1985Vol. 56, No. 7

Contents

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Australia 27,60 Books 55 China 30 Deaths 81 Fiji 19,21,27, 29,30, 55 French Polynesia 9, 24 Hawaii 61 Indonesia 16 Irian Jaya 16 Islands Press 69 Japan 31-54 Kiribati 30,61 Letters 9 Micronesia 26, 59,63 New Caledonia 10,13 New Zealand 29, 63 Pacific media 22

Pacific Report 7

Png 16, 58,59, 63,65,67

People 71 PIM Opinion 5 Political Currents 65 Polynesia 60 Service page 82 Shipping Schedules 77 Sparteca 27 Stamps 68 The Month 21 Thurston, Jack 59 Tonga 25 Tradewinds 27 Tropicalities 62 Unesco 59 Western Samoa 57,66

Yachts 73

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