Cook Is. Labour Party
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Grows
From Our Own Correspondent.
Rarotonga, Nov. 14.
A S a result of the Organising Secre tary’s visit to Aitutaki last month, the Cook Islands Branch of the N.Z. Lab our Party recruited a further 420 mem bers, bringing the present total to over 900.
The Branch, which grew out of local enthusiasm generated by the recent Par liamentary Inquiry into the fruit trade, has as its objective the political enlight enment of the IslaViders so that they will be enabled to take an intelligent interest in the public affairs of their Islands, and through participation in these obtain for themselves a more prosperous condition generally.
Endorsed by the National Executive in Wellington, the local Branch is the first to have been formed officially outside the Dominion.
Mr. Samuel H. Meredith, an old and respected resident of Samoa, died re cently after a long and lingering illness, at the age of 59 years. Mr. Meredith, a former merchant and once a member of the Legislative Council, took much in terest in the social and sporting life of Apia. The funeral, at Tulaele cemetery, was attended by a very large and repre sentative gathering of friends and rela tives.