Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1998Vol. 68 No. 5

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Cover Story: Professionalism: The future for Pacific Rugby

Briefs 4 Editorial 5 From the Archives 6 Fine-tuning Samoa's fishing industry 12 Weather Relief efforts continue in PNG 14 The Marshalls' drought of the century 17 Rumours of Yazaki pull-out worries Samoa 19 Millennium's first child 20 Advertising features 22 Currency Ups and downs of the vatu 28 Politics New hopes of stability in Vanuatu 30 Cover story: Rugby becomes big business 32 Has Bari burned his bridges? 36 Making SSEx internationally compliant 38 Construction Art centre with a difference 39 Weed money: Pacifica's underground industry 48 Gambling Outlawed in the Marshalls 44 In the name of charity 48 Yachting 52 Opinion 55

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