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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 March 1940Vol. X, No. 8

Rarotonga's Donation

p. 56 · Read in the full issue

Prom Our Own Correspondent

Rarotonga, Feb. 2.

rpHE sum of £250 is being forwarded by JL this mail from the people of Raro tonga as a donation to the New Zea land Red Cross for war purposes. This is Rarotonga’s first contribution in aid of the British Empire in the successful prosecution of the war against Nazi-ism.

Mr. T. Bowden, a New Zealand sur veyor recently arrived in Fiji to prac tise his profession on Vanua Levu. He was in Fiji prior to the Great War, and enlisted with the N.Z. Forces. After the armistice, he took up a post in Uganda, serving for 11 years, before returning to New Zealand to engage in farming.