Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1985Vol. 56, No. 9

Islands

pp. 1-3 · Read in the full issue

Page 11Page 22Page 33

Pacific

Monthly

September, Ill

tig 10 For PNG Flosses French Festival

Fiji’s Mara

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American Samoa USsl.7s Australia *A$l.5O Cook Islands NZ$l.5O Fiji - F 51.50 Hawaii USsl.9s ' Kiribati A 51.75 Nauru A 51.75 New Caledonia CFPI9O

New Zealand NZS2.SO Niue NZsl.7s Norfolk Island A 51.50 Papua New Guinea K 51.50 Solomon Islands SSI .50 Tahiti CFP22O Tonga Pi .50 Tuvalu A 51.75

Usa U 552.25

USTT and Guam USSI.9S Vanuatu VT1.50 Western Samoa T 2.10 ■Recommended retail price only Registered by Australia Post Publication No. NBPI2IO

The Cover

This year’s Forum meeting in Rarotonga was judged the most hectic, and pos sibly the most important of the 16 so far held. Fiji’s Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, in many respects now the elder statesman of the Is lands, took a central role.

He is pictured for our cover by Kim Gravelle.

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