New Store For
pp. 55-56 · Read in the full issue
Rarotonga
From Our Own Correspondent.
Rarotonga, Sept. 7.
About two years ago the firm of W. H.
Grove and Sons Ltd. whose headquarters are at Auckland, had its store premises at Rarotonga gutted by fire. The firm has since conducted its business in a small building fitted up as a store until plans were decided upon to rebuild.
The company has acquired a new site adjoining the old one and it is under stood its new store is shortly to be erec ted. Messrs. Grove and Sons is one of the oldest established businesses at Raro tonga, with a wide connection in the Pacific.
Planter (addressing one of two idle boys): You no got work?
Boy: Yes, me no got work Master.
Planter (addressing the other); What about you?
Other Boy: Oh, me helpim ’im!
Mr. Frank Pryke, well-known in the Mandated Territory, left Sydney for Ra baul, New Guinea, by the Montoro on October 17.