Dateline Pacific evening edition for 29 August 2018

The mayor of Penryhn in the northern Cook Islands is pushing for more water to be sent to the island as a water shortage reaches critical level on the island; PNG's Lands Minister says properly registered Incorporated Land Groups or ILGs are the answer to the country's problem around land leases; thirty centuries of Samoan tattooing have been chronicled in a new book 'Tatau' released earlier this month; the founder of the Samoa Observer says the paper has been through a lot over its 40 years of being published; young tangata Maori and Pasifika aim to revitalise traditional Polynesian wayfinding skills on a training voyage from Auckland to Norfolk Island.