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Cook Islands
Judge Ayson Returns To Rarotonga
THERE has been an unexpected change in the position of Resident Commis sioner in the Cook Islands, controlled in New Zealand.
Mr. H. F. Ayson, who for the past year has been Judge of the Waiariki Native Land Court with headquarters at Roto rua, returned on July 4 to resume the position of Resident Commissioner of the Cook Islands and Chief Judge of the High Court and Native Land Court in the Cook Group.
With the exception of a short term as a Judge of the Native Land Court at Rotorua in 1922, Mr. Ayson served in the Cook Islands from 1919 until last year.
He was succeeded in 1937 by Mr. S. J.
Smith, formerly secretary to the Cook Islands Department, who is returning to New Zealand.
No reason has been given by the N.Z.
Government for the recall of Mr. Smith and the reinstatement of Judge Ayson.
It is presumed it has something to do with the inauguration of the fruit con trol scheme. Mr. Smith threw himself into the work with great energy and eagerness, but it was not exactly a suc cess.
Mr. S. J. Smith