"Tiare-Her Life And

Loves”

Colourful Biography of a Young Cook Islander

From Our Own Correspondent

Rarotonga, May 17.

MRS. D. MUIR, who has spent the last three months in Rarotonga, returned to San Francisco by the May MaTcura, tak ing with her the manuscript of what may easily prove a best-seller.

Working in collaboration with a young Rarotongan woman whom she had recently taken on a visit to the United States, Mrs.

Muir completed in record time a full-length biography written from an entirely new angle. So many books have set out to portray the South Seas as seen by Euro peans that it is refreshing to learn of' an attempt to reverse this procedure. Those who were privileged to see the manuscript entertain the highest hopes for its suc cess. All agree as to the vividity and virility with which it is written.

From Jcikau hut to wife of a European planter, on through the passionate con fusion of divorce and disillusion, past the love-lottery of life in Papeete, the story races unflaggingly to Hollywood and back finally to Rarotonga. “Tiare —Her Life and Loves” should be a work well worth whatever the bookseller may ask for it.

Dr. H. lan Hogbin, of the Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, who recently carried out research work in Melanesia, returned to Australia from England in June. He has resumed his duties at the University.

Mr. R. G. Box, formerly connected with Colyer, Watson and Co.’s branch in New Guinea, recently sailed from Rabaul with his wife for Salamaua en route to the Morobe goldfield where he has transferred his interests.