Cook Islands Dictionary
p. 45 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent.
Rarotonga, Sept. 23.
MR. STEPHAN SAVAGE, who has been working for a long time on a dic tionary of the Cook Islands, has com pleted the job, and it is now in the hands of the New Zealand Government Printer.
Those who have seen the manuscript de clare that it is the finest that has been compiled on the subject.
The engagement has been announced of Miss Ela Gofton, of Wau, New Guinea, to Mr, Chas. W. Blake, who has a gold claim on the Bulolo River.
The barquentine “Cap Pilar” (200 tons), which sailed through the Pacific, west to east, at the end of 1937 and early this year, reached Falmouth, England, in Sep tember, after a round-the-world voyage.
The youngest member of the crew was Jessica Jane, daughter of the owner skipper, Captain Adrian Seligman; she was bom in Auckland, N.Z., in July, 1937, and was “signed on” as a stewardess!
With Mrs. Marion Rice Hart, an Ameri can, in command, the 73 ft. auxiliary yacht “Vanora”, which left England two years ago. arrived in Noumea, New Caledonia, in September. Mrs. Hart has with her a nephew and a crew of two. The next call will be Auckland, N.Z.