Typhoid Kills 40 At Atiu

From Our Own Correspondent.

Rarotonga, May 3.

MR. D. BROWN, Resident Agent at Atiu Island (Southern Cooks) radio’d in April that there had been a serious outbreak of typhoid, and that 40 natives had died. This is the first occasion that there has been typhoid on Atiu—according to Dr. Ellison, C.M.0., some carrier from Rarotonga must have taken it over.

Luckily the schooner “Tiare Taporo” had arrived from Tahiti, and when she left on April 22 on her first trip this season around the Cook Group, she carried a Fiji-trained N.M.P., Mr. Tau Cowan, and his wife, Princess Tere', Makea. They will reside on Atiu until the outbreak is quelled.

Rt. Rev. Dr. J. Darnand, S.M., Vicar Apostolic of Western Samoa, returned to Apia in April after attending the Catholic centenary celebrations in New Zealand.

Mrs. Andrews, wife of Dr. L. A. An drews, formerly of Nukualofa, Tonga, died suddenly at her home in Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, on May 5, aged 64.

Dr. R. Asmis, Consul-General for Germany in Sydney departed from Cairns, Nth. Queensland, by the “Mon toro” on May 20 on an official visit to Papua.

Mr. W. Goodsir returned to Suva from Auckland by the May “Aorangi”, after furlough in New Zealand and Aus tralia. For several years manager of the Fiji Kauri Timber Company, he'has just been appointed managing director of the concern.

Count and Countess von Luckner have been invited to be guests of honour at the Pacific Islands Club gathering at the Hotel Carlton on June 1.

A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. W. V, Helton, of New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., Wau, New Guinea, in April.

Dr. M. Ross left Samoa by the last “Maui Pomare” for New Zealand. His place at Apia Government Hospital has been taken by Dr. H. Lange, who arriv ed by th,e same vessel with his wife and family.

The three-years-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Marks, of the S.D.A. Mis sion in New Britain, collapsed and died on April 17 when her parents were tak ing her for medical treatment into Ko kopo from their home at Putput.

Mr. D. R. McDonald, formerly Chief Magistrate and Legal Adviser in the Brit ish Solomon Islands, has been transfer red to Tanganyika, British East Africa, to occupy the post of First Assistant Land Officer,