Cook Is. Trading
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Schooners Busy Again
From Our Own Correspondent.
Rarotonga, April 20.
FOLLOWING their annual hibernation in Penhyrn Lagoon, the trading schooners Tiare Taporo and Tagua arrived back in Rarotonga last week. The Tagua came direct from the Northern Group, and Tiare Taporo via Tahiti, where for the second time during the past year she has undergone extensive repairs.
Both schooners left almost immediately for Mangaia, where they will ship 3000 cases of oranges, returning again in time to connect with the up-going mail steamer.
Considerable dickering took place by inter-island radio before the shipment was arranged, but this was finally affected on a satisfactory basis.
The Resident Commissioner, Judge H.
F. Ayson, C.M.G., was a passenger on the Tiare Taporo, paying one of those swift visits of inspection which have enabled him, over a period of 13 years, to keep his finger so unerringly on the Cook Island pulse.