Pacific

Islands

Monthly

Vol. 62 N 0.4

The News Magazine

April 1992

Sover Stories:

ixpo, Let’s Go! iyes on the Pacific 42 Vhat’s in it for us 43 JZ, something unique 43 Duality furniture grows on trees 45 J NG hopes pinned on war relics 46 *icture special; Fiji, Vanuatu, Kiribati, the Solomons and PNG starts 48 i the Garden of the Sleeping Giant 64 anuatu, a land of opportunity for investors 50 tover photo; Expo team fashions by Tanya Whiteside photographed at Orchid Island near Suva.

Inion Threads

rom plantation strikes in the colonial era to a planned national rike as an election looms 6 f ho’s who in the region’s unions, and what they think 9

He Region

merrymaker’s plans for a troubled University of Papua New Guinea 15 imine in Irian Jaya: was it the result of manipulation? 19 wiving ancient mariners’ skills for the Pacific Arts Festival 74

3Urism

boom in the cruise industry, but it’s not all smoothe sailing 33 ichting: a travelling trumpeter touring on his 46 foot ketch 77

Usiness

anganese mining revival set to boost Vanuatu 27 •lomons’ honey a sweet success story 34 onomic jumpstart for American Samoa, and a push for investment 31 -kel profit for New Caledonia’s Sofinor 32 defying logic on the stock exchange 32 sakthrough in New Caledonia trade 32

Headlines 6 Sport is Books 76 Letters 5 Shipping 72

Columnists:

Futa Helu 14 Alfred Sasako, the Forum 71 Jemima Garrett, Australia 21 Margot O’Neill, Washington 23 David Barber, Wellington 37 Bill McCabe. Trade 39

Mhhai Gene Swinstead Blatant Editor: Beryl Cook idor Wrften Martin Tiffany 'respondents: Al Prince, Angela Sarthy, David North, David Robie, na McManus, Dykes Angiki, Frank ma, Franck Madoeuf, lan Williams, e Nisbet, John Hunter, Karen ignall, Lovenia Enari, Lito Vilisoni, :el Manua, Nicholas Rothwell, Pesi ua, Richard Dinnen, Ulafala Aiavao, ly Hiambohn umnists: David Barber (Welling , Futa Helu (Tonga), Jemima

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Pacific Islands Monthly is published monthly by Fiji Times Limited, a division of Nationwide News, 2 Holt Street, Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW 2010.

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Cover picture: Asaeli Lave Today's union man: Mahendra Chaudhry