Tagata o te Moana. 2009-09-26

Tagata o te Moana is a weekly round up of news from the Pacific from Radio New Zealand International, broadcast on Radio New Zealand National on Saturdays at 5.30pm. This week's edition is presented by Don Wiseman and the items are:

American Samoa's cash-strapped government wants to buy a tuna cannery;
In French Polynesia, Gaston Flosse's political career is close to being finished by legal action; New Zealand is called on to act over deteriorating levels of maternal health in some Pacific countries;
Tonga police make a big drugs bust;
Papua New Guinea considers how to rein in corruption;
The Mayor of the Solomon Islands capital, Honiara, bewails a growing crime problem but the police commissioner says it is not a huge concern compared with many overseas places;
Samoa plans to raise awareness about worsening levels of rape and incest.