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Pacific Islands Monthly, 22 June 1938Vol. VIII, No. 11

"Tiarf Taporo " May Fly

p. 42 · Read in the full issue

The Tricolour

Prom Our Own Corresnondent.

Rarotonga, May 16.

the “Tiare Taporo” arrived from Tahiti rpcentlv. Cant,am Ben son relinauished bis command and returned to New Zealand hv tbe “Matua".

His niace has been taken by Canta.in Cambridee. who is well-known in N.Z. shinnine cireles. He was at on* time in command of the brivantine “Ysabel”.

It is rumoured that in about three months’ time th,e “Tiare” will return to Tahiti to make her headquarters there and sail under the French flag.