"Tagua" Back In Central
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Pacific
From Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, Oct. 21.
THE Cook Islands schooner “Tagua”, long-owned by the Cook Islands Trading Co., and used in the South eastern Pacific trade, is now under charter to the New Zealand Government for general services. After some months in New Zealand and Suva, for re-fitting and the installation of a new engine, she re-appeared at Rarotonga in Octo ber.
The “Tagua” will transport lepers from Rarotonga and Aitutaki to the leper concentration island, and carry out cer tain other duties in the Northern Cooks.
Before the present Government charter, the “Tagua” had been chartered by Mr. Richard Damon, of the famous Honolulu banking family, and the for tunate crew spent a happy three months chasing rainbows around the Eastern Pacific.
Mr. V. A. Florance, solicitor, who has been practising at Wau, New Guinea, for several years, has transferred his practice to Rabaul. He has taken offices in the WRC building, Rabaul.
Mr. H. B. Gibson, European Elected Member for the Eastern Division in Fiji, went to New Zealand in November where his father, Mr. A. B. Gibson, was gravely ill.
Mr. S. H. Ellis, of Suva, left Fiji for New Zealand recently for a holiday, after several months of indifferent health.