Farewell Evening To Cook
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Islands Chieftain
NEARLY 200 guests, including Raro tongans, Samoans, Tongans, Maoris, and Europeans, attended a social evening at Symondsville, New Zealand, on May 17 to bid farewell to Makea Tini rau, paramount chief of the Cook Islands, prior to his departure by the “Matua” for Avarua, after a two months’ health visit to the Dominion. In the official party was Judge H. F. Ayson, formerly Resident Commissioner in the Cook Is. were various musical and dance
items by Islands performers, including a song of welcome (Ono Mai ra e taku Ariki) by Rarotongans in native costume.
The guest of honour, in a speech inter preted by Mr. Tiakana Potatai, said he would like to see the Rarotongans in New Zealand co-operate and form a Polynesian Club in Auckland, to welcome and assist any native who comes from the South Seas.
The Administration of New Guinea recently let a contract for the erection and completion of an administrative of fice and bungalow at Buin, Bougain ville, to Ah Ying. The amount was £1,275.