Commissioner’S Visit.
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From Our Own Correspondent.
Raratonga, May 18.
JUDGE AYSON, Resident Commis sioner for the Cook Group, left Raro tonga on May 17 on the schooner “Tiare Taporo” to visit the island of Mauke, after which he will proceed to the most northerly islands of the Group —Penrhyn, Manihiki and Rakahanga.
In filmland the Governor of a tropical territory is more often than not pictured lying stretched out on a lounge-chair with his feet up and a native boy fan ning him. In reality he is frequently to be found roughing it for weeks on a copra schooner on his way to or return ing from an official inspection of some remote part of his territory hundreds of miles away from his headquarters.