The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 August 1985Vol. 56, No. 8

Pacific

pp. 1-3 · Read in the full issue

Islands

Monthly

August, 1985

Pacific women speak out

tew CaL sting China extends for Forum influence

American Samoa US$l.75 Australia *A$l.5O Cook Islands NZ$l.5O F'i' F 51.50 Hawaii US$l.95 Kiribati A 51.75 Nauru A 51.75 New Caledonia CFPI9O

New Zealand ... NZ$2.5O Niue NZ$l.75 Norfolk Island A 51.50 Papua New Guinea Ksl 50 Solomon Islands 551.50 Tahiti ...—... CFP22O Tonga PI .50 Tuvalu A 51.75

Usa U 552.25

USTT and Guam US$l.95 Vanuatu . VT1.50 Western Samoa T 2 10 •Recommended retail price only Registered by Australia Post Publication No. NBPI2IO

Islands women In confer ence In Sydney (report p 7). TOP ROW, left to right: Aneuea Eritaia (Kiribati), Vereara Maeva (Cook Islands), Monalisa Tukuafu (Tonga), Flo Kennedy (Torres Strait).

BOTTOM ROW: Papiloa Foliaki (Tonga), Louise Aitsi (Papua New Guinea), Temaletl Vaka sluola (Tonga), Kathy Solomons (Vanuatu).

Photos Bill Coppell.