Rarotonga's Leading Chief
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From Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, Feb. 2.
IT is expected that the important question of who is to be the successor of Makea Nui Tinerau Ariki, 0.8. E., who died on January 26, 1939, will be stated in a judgment by the Native Land Court on Febru ary 7.
Makea Tinerau Ariki died unex pectedly and the question of a suc cesssor to the title (which is equal to that of paramount chief of Raro tonga) has been the subject of much debate.
Mrs. M. Forsyth, of Gavit Plantation, Bainings, New Britain, arrived in Syd ney bv plane at the end of February.
She will spend several months’ holiday in Australia.
Francis Bowie, a Torres Strait Islander, was recently ordained to the priesthood by the Bishop of Carpentaria, at St.
Paul’s, Moa Island.