Maupiti Sees Its First 'Plane
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From Our Own Correspondent
Papeete, Jan. 2.
THE little island of Maupiti came into the news in December when the Governor of French Oceania made a visit of ceremony.
His Excellency went by aeroplane. The people of Maupiti had never before seen an aeroplane, and a chief magistrate of the colony rarely goes there.
Maupiti is a little mountainous island situated to the westward of Ra’iatea and Bora Bora. It is guarded by vast reefs, through which there is but one shallow and tortuous pass. Maupiti is, therefore, very rarely visited.