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VHEN Brendon Burns’ usual mployer, ihe Christchurch press, published articles from (is recent visit to New Calc lonia, his work was fbot oted: “Brendon Burns trav lled to New Caledonia with be assistance of the French bvernment”.

Readers of PIM would aye been more readily able > identify the perspective he r as presenting had you ap ended a similar footnote to

is recent (PIM, January

392) article on New Cale donia.

David Small Kanaky-Aotearoa Solidarity Network

erving the Islands

HANK you for your article i the South Pacific Project icility by lan Williams, to reduce dependence i aid’", PIM, November •91.

International Finance Cor tration - (IFC), the private :lor affiliate of the World ink, initiated the establish ment of the South Pacific oject Facility (SPPF) in'

August 1990 following the successful operation of similar facilities in the Caribbean and Africa. SPPF was set up to serve the seven Pacific island members of IFC (Fiji, Kiri bati, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu and Western Samoa). SPPF’s office in Syd ney opened in August 1991.

SPPF’s budget for the initial 5-year period is about USS 7 million, of which IFC will contribute USSI million.

Other donors are Australia, Canada, Japan and New Zea land. IFC is the executing agency.

As with the Caribbean and African facilities, steps are under way to make SPPF a UNDP project to extend its reach to other South Pacific island countries which are not members of IFC.

Raymond Chiu

South Pacific Project Facility

Time to share

THE 9th South Pacific Games held in Port Moresby was an historical era for the people of South Pacific to be one people united in the sense to share with each other cultural, political and econ omic affairs, changing the lives of the people in the 20th century.

Apart from the nation’s political sovereign dealings, we the people should now take our initiatives to begin making pen friends. This way will bring us closer to know ing more about the lives and to have (a) feeling of family unity.

I am a male, age 32, light brown skin, single, height five feet eight inches, 75kg weight, good health. My hobby is watching rugby, football. I live in Port Moresby now and come from the Cheinfu prov

ince in the Highlands of PNG.

I have been to tertiary insti tutions and am working in Pt Moresby. I am involved in writing stories about tradition and other aspects to share with others, especially (of) Christian faith.

I would like to make a pen friend with a single girl, man, and interested married people from any Pacific country. If interested please write and start with some cjuestions which I could answer for you.

Give others their names who have common feelings to share, ideas, feelings etc.

Paul T. Dage

PC) Box 3167 Boroka,

Tuvalu, where art

thou?

WELL over a year ago you published an article describ

ing a passenger-freight ship

service that travelled a sched uled voyage to the nation of Tuvalu. As a tourist, and a subscriber to PIM. I was anxious to take this ship on a visit to Tuvalu and wrote the shipping company you men tioned in your article. Now, a year later, my six letters, two cables and one phone call have all gone unanswered.

Does Tuvalu want visitors, or does the country even exist?

James Stuart Bruce

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