Death Of Tinomana Tuoro,

Ariki

From Our Own Correspondent.

Rarotonga, June 15.

Tinomana Tuoro died at Arorangi, Raro tonga, on May 29 after having been Ariki of the Puaikura people for eighteen years.

He was a member of the party of Cook Islands chiefs that visited New Zealand in January last to take part in the Waitangi celebrations. He came back to Rarotonga a sick man and remained for some time an inmate of the local hospital. Realizing ,

the truth, Tinomana returned to his palace at Arorangi, and there quietly prepared himself to meet his renowned ancestor in the shadows —the great Tangiia-nui.

The chief was of an easy-going disposi tion ; an extremely courteous man; an Ariki who ‘supported what he considered to be progressive ideas. In the Islands Council, of which he was a member, he, like many another careful listener to de bate, gave the impression of boredom and disinterestedness. Then he would slowly rise and without emotion of any kind de liver his final word, definitely and with extreme care.

Tinomana’s death brought Island activ ities to a standstill and spontaneous tri butes from throughout the Group and New Zealand. The chief was 57 years of age.

Tino means absolute, and Mana power; hence the name Tinomana.

Matron A. Banks, of the Methodist Hospital at Ba, Fiji, returned to Suva by the Monterey at the end of June, after furlough in N.S.W.

Miss E. West, of the Sydney firm of Messrs. J. H. Smyth Ltd., will leave Sydney on August 3 by the Marama on a tour of Fiji and Tonga.

Bishop Aloysius Raucaz, who has been in charge of the Marist Brothers’ mis sions in the southern portion of the Solomon Islands Group, was taken to the Mater Misercordiae Hospital, Sydney, suffering severely from malaria and com plications, when the Malaita arrived in Sydney on June 24. Bishop Raucaz went to the Pacific Islands from France over 30 years ago.

Mr. H. C, Cardew, Assistant Director of Native Affairs in New Guinea, arrived in Sydney on June 20 by the Van Rees. He is on a holiday visit.