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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1998Vol. 68 No. 11

November

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What’S Happening?

1998

American Samoa - Election Day (3rd) - Thanksgiving (26th) Cook Islands - Yachting: National Champion Championships (1 st & 8th) - Cook Islands Music Composers Competition (13th) - International Food Festival (24th) - Tiare Festival of Flowers (24th-29th) - Miss Tiare Pageant (25th-28th) - Tiare Festival Floating Parade and Miss Tiare Crowning (29th) - Cook Islands Trust Company’s corporate triathlon (28th)

Fiji

- The rising of the Bulolo Worms

- Celebration of Oceans Dive Festival - The Fiji Primary Schools Athletics Championships New Caledonia - DREHU Cultural Week in Lifou - Music Festivity at Lifou Island (sports, music etc.) - International Triathlon - Dance Festival by Kanaks Group Niue - Philatelic Bureau AUPEX stamp exhibi tion (NZ) Niue first time participant (12th-16th) Papua New Guinea - Morobe Cultural Show Samoa - Week of prayers and fasting (lst-8th) - Arbour Day (6th) - Upolu Palolo rise (19th-20th)

Tahiti - All Saints day (1st) - Hawaiki Nui Outrigger Race (4th-7th) - Golf & Rugby at Moorea (14th-15th) - Special Austral Islands Festival (19th 22nd) - Day of the Tipanie flower - Tuvuka O Te Henua Enana Marquesas Arts and Craft Exhibition - Stonefishing

Tonga

- Constitution Day (4th) Tuvalu - Heir to the Throne’s Birthday (9th) Vanuatu - Youth Festival Source: South Pacific Calendar of Events 1998. TCSP