Death of Widow of Rarotonga's
pp. 49-50 · Read in the full issue
Makea
Rarotonga, June 16.
THE death occurred on June 14 of Makea Vaine, aged 69, wife of the late Ariki Makea Nui Tinirau. The funeral was attended by all sections of the community. • * q Major Clive Brewster, for many years managing director of Brown and Joske, Ltd., Suva, and more recently head of W. R. Carpenter and Co.. Ltd., Suva, arrived in Sydney in July from Fiji and proceeded to Melbourne for the pur pose of joining the R.A.A.F. Major Brew ster served in the Great War and since then continuously has been an active member of the Fiji Defence Forces.
The “Fiji Times’’ reported recently that Mr. Oscar Wright, when fish ing off Beqa, captured a black marlin swordfish, weighing 210 lb., and measur ing 8 feet 6 inches from the tip of his sword to his tail. The fish was taken on an ordinary trolling line, and it had to be played for an hour—a remarkably good performance, in the circumstances.