The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 25 January 1933Vol. III, No. 6

N.Z. Psychologist.

p. 11 · Read in the full issue

Research in Austral Islands.

From Our Own Correspondent.

Papeete, Dec. 15.

DR. SUTHERLAND, Ph.D., of the Wel lington University, was a passenger by the schooner “Tiare Taporo,” which arrived in Papeete early in No vember. Dr. Sutherland is pursuing his researches in psychology among the na tives of the Austral Islands.

Captain Viggo Rasmussen, of the “Tiare Taporo,” reported having run into exceptionally heavy weather on the voyage, about 200 miles from Tahiti.

Considerable damage was done to the schooner’s standing gear and sails and he was forced to shelter in the Leeward Group.