Dateline Pacific evening edition for 7 October 2016

Australia's administrator on Norfolk Islands is said to be courting support in London; Samoa's deputy prime minister says perceptions that politics is a man's world is hampering women's participation; New Zealand tradesmen hand over houses to cyclone affected families in Fiji; A former Nauru President, who has been denied access to overseas medical care, is hospitalised after collapsing; French Polynesia's government puts its case for the territory to be removed from the United Nations decolonisation list. And, Hawaiian Airlines says its controversial seat selection policy for American Samoa flights is about an engineering issue.