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Publisher’s Note

Managing Director / Publisher
Samisoni Pareti
Group Editor-in-Chief
Samisoni Pareti by Samisoni Pareti

Design Consultant
Dick Lee A wee bit expensive
Main Correspondents
Fiji Anish Chand
It is with regret that as from this edition,
Australia Nic Maclellan It will also be AU$6 in Australia and
your own copy of this magazine becomes in all the other islands of the Pacific
Cook Islands Helen Greig a little bit more expensive. Prices are going that use the Australian dollar like Kiri-
Kiribati Taberannang Korauaba up by 66.6 per cent to 150 per cent. The bati, Nauru and Tuvalu. Price has also
last time we have had a price rise was 13
French Polynesia Nic Maclellan gone up to $6 for our readers in New
years ago, in January 2005. Zealand as well as in the other islands
New Caledonia Nic Maclellan
that trades in NZ$ namely the Cook
New Zealand Jason Brown Much has happened then of course. In- Islands, Niue and Tokelau.
Niue Naea Michael Jackson ternet has had an explosive growth in the
world of which the islands of the Pacific Papua New Guinea gets a price raise of
Papua New Guinea Sam Vulum
have not been immune to its ramifica- 100% with the new magazine price of
Patrick Matbob tions and implications. Cost of paper and 10 Kina, and Islands Business maga-
Samoa Taina Kami-Enoka printing have equally skyrocketed. Airmail zine in Solomon Islands costs SBD$20
Solomon Islands Priestly Habru postage has not been cheap either, not from this month.
to mention the weakened state of island
Tonga Iliesa Tora
currencies pegged against the major cur- We know some of our outlets have
Vanuatu Bob Makin rencies we trade with. been using these new prices for some
time, judging from our occasional vis-
So to our readers in French Polynesia, New its to some islands in the Pacific over
Caledonia and Vanuatu, we have increased the past year, so we are rationalising
Islands Business is published monthly by our price by 66.6% to CPF500 for those our pricing now. It fits in well too with
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117 Amy Street, 500 in Vanuatu. Neighbours Samoa and of Islands Business. Work on this is
PO Box 12718, Suva, Fiji Islands. Tonga get a 150% price hike from 4 Tala well in advanced and we shall be mak-
Tel: +679 330 3108 or Pa’anga, Islands Business will now ing some announcements soon.
costs 10 Tala and 10 Pa’anga respectively.
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Subscriptions: subs@islandsbusiness.com
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well as American Samoa to the east and continued patronage is very much
the US mainland including the island state appreciated.
Printing:
PrintHouse, Suva, Fiji. of Hawaii will now pay US$6 a copy, up
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