Pacific Island Collection - Tagata Atu Motu 1987-07-04

Kerry Burke, New Zealand's Minister of Immigration, speaks to the Auckland Ethnic Council on the policy for Fiji Indians wanting to migrate to New Zealand as a result of the recent coup.

Pacific News:
Fiji's sugar cane crop harvest is delayed. Ioane Perese reports from Suva.
Caspar Weinberger visits Australia and discusses Soviet expansion in the Pacific.
Protest in support of a referendum on independence in New Caledonia
A domestic satellite system to link outer Cook Islands. Report from Nga Edwards.
Tonga seeks to reverse ban on melon imports after fruit fly discovery
Niue issues its first coin as a collector's item

Nigel Purdie, a Rarotongan motel owner is interviewed about the damage caused by Cyclone Sally, which destroyed his property and washed televisions and refrigerators out to sea. Six inches of sand was left inside the rooms by the high waves. However, 15 days after the cyclone he was able to reopen.

An interview with Auckland University's Professor Tony Hooper about New Zealand's first Pacific Studies course, which will be run in the second half of this year. Dr Hao'ofa, professor of sociology at the University of the South Pacific will be lecturing for several weeks about Tonga, Iosefa Maiiava, a PhD Political Science student from the East-West Centre in Honolulu will lecture on Samoa and Nick Lewis from the Cook Islands will do most of the tutoring.