Distinguished Visitors At

Cook Islands

From Our Own Correspondent.

Rarotonga, Sept. 5.

Captain Michael Greaves And

the Baroness von Bruckner, who are en route to Honolulu via New Zealand, have been staying here for the past month.

Whereas Hawaii and Tahiti are consis tently favoured by the decorative and amusing, people of this type are infre quent visitors to Rarotonga where their clothes and whole manner have a dis tressing habit of reminding us that the world is still turning and that our own particular speed is a lap or two behind the rest.

The Baroness is typical of that smart post-war Germany which made a cult of health and a fetish of physical perfection.

Captain Greaves has a distinguished military record. Attached for several years to the Allied Police Commission in Constantinople, he later, as a member of the British Secret Service, played no small part during those turbulent days which pre ceded the forming of the Irish Free State.

Fired at and wounded in a Dublin hotel, he exchanged shots with his attacker, a brother of the notorious rebel leader, Daniel Breen, and both men were subse quently driven to the hospital in the same ambulance!

Suva residents will remember Captain Greaves as Government fruit inspector, a position which he held for five years.