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23 Per Cent. Increase
Population of Lower Cook Group
From Our New Zealand Correspondent
Auckland, June 2.
r TVHE provisional census returns for the Lower Group of Cook Islands, as announced by the New Zealand' Govern ment, show an increase of 23 per cent, in population since 1926. The returns for the Northern Islands may not be avail able for several months. Details of the figures are as follows:
Mr. and Mrs. J. Probert returned to Fiji from furlough by the May Mariposa.
Mr. Probert is a Sub-Inspector of Con stabulary in the Fiji Civil Service.
Mr. John Warbrooke, an old identity of Levuka, Fiji, died at Levuka Hospital on May 12, at the age of 85. Mr. Warbrooke went to the Colony in 1873 as a drill ser geant instructor under the Government of King Cakobau. For over 60 years he car ried on a wheelwright business in Levuka.
1936 1926 Increase Rarotonga 5054 3936 1118 Aitutaki 1719 1431 288 Mangaia .. 1455 1249 206 Atm 1086 933 158 Mauke 652 511 141 Mitiaro . 265 238 27 Manuae and Te-au-o-tu 8 23 15* *Decrease. Total 10,239 8,321 1,918