The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 August 1989Vol. 59, No. 19

Pacific

pp. 1-5 · Read in the full issue

Islands

Month Y

American Samoa US$2.5O Australia A 52.50 Cook Islands NZ$3.OO Fiji F 51.75 FS. of Micronesia US$3.OO Guam US$3.OO Hawaii US$3.OO Kiribati As 2 50 Nauru A 52.50 New Caledonia CFP2SO New Zealand (incl GST) $NZ3.45 Niue NZ$3.OO Norfolk Island A 53.00 Nth Marianas..! US$3.OO Papua New Guinea K 53.00 Rep. of Marshall US$3.OO Solomon Islands A 53.00 Tahiti CFPS3OO Tonga P 3.00

Usa Us$3.Oo

Vanuatu VT2OO - Samoa T 2.75 •Recommended retail price only

August 198 S

Facing the odds If

Wingti’s new plot to topple Namaliu

Sailing out of the red

Cover photo: Namaliu by Matthew McKee