Prepared To Fight

Prom our own correspondent DAPOTnNrpa 0 f „„™ T n ttAKUiuiNUA, uct. ih. 117 HEN a European War seemed im }/} minent, on September 29, the mem bers of the Cook Islands Returned

Soldiers’ Association held meetings in all the Islands and the following radio was sent by the president, Captain J. D.

Campbell, to the Prime Minister of New Zealand: — “All of the Cook Islands returned sol

their about 300 ■ again offer Empire” any ca Pacity to the p re • A reply was received from Mr Savaee as follows: “Offer of services from rlw/S ed s ? ld f ie . rs of Cook Elands received with grateful appreciation”.

Besides the returned soldiers manv of the young men of the is Inds offered their services. as onered

Rev. P. Clark, of the Methodist Mis sion at Nakanai, New Britain. New Guinea, with Mrs. Clark, arrived in Syd .J? 16 “Neptuna” on October 31.

TJjSI y lll spend furl( >ugh in Western

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Mrs. A. E. Barker, whose husband is A/Iw? ess • n^^ ager . for Methodist rStSS arr ,i ved * n Sydney by the October ‘Mariposa”. She has been suf fering from ill-health for some time.