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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1985Vol. 56, No. 10

Stamps 56

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Contents

Australia 31 Books 39 Cook, Captain James 42 Cook Islands 24,46,47 Deaths 65

Fiji 10,49,52

France 12, 27 French Polynesia 49 Hawaii 29 Islands Press 57 Kiribati 7 Letters 9 Micronesia 41,45 New Caledonia 27 Niue 9

Pacific Report 7 Papua New Guinea 23, 24, 50 People 53 PIM Opinion 5 Political Currents 51 Service Page 66 Shipping Schedules 61 Soviet Union 7, 51

Stamps 56

The Month 27 Tradewinds 31 Tropicalities 45 United States 9, 29 Western Samoa 10, 29 Yachts 59

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