Radio Station For

Puka Puka

To Be Operated By Rarotongan Native

From Our Own Correspondent

Rarotonga, July 23.

A FURTHER link in the chain of radio stations throughout the Southern Pacific will shortly be added by the in clusion of Puka Puka, Northern Cooks.

The new r station to be powered by a wind-charger set, and will be operated by Puri, a young Rarotongan native.

For some years past radio plant on several of the Cook Islands has been in the charge of native or half-caste opera tors. That inter-island communication has always been satisfactorily maintained is a tribute both to the instruction given locally by Superintendent George Robin son and to the capabilities of those in structed. ] * [ At this rate it will soon be impossible to find a really isolated spot in the South Seas. From an Imperial point of view', in the event of another war, that maybe fine, but for those who have hitherto regarded the midget atolls as a haven of uninterrupted peace, it’s just “heck.”