War And Rarotonga
pp. 33-34 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, April 17.
A LARGE party, 52 men, to serve with the Free French Forces, passed through Rarotonga recently, on their way from Tahiti to New Zealand. Most of these had friends on the island, and they spent a happy day renewing old acquaintanceships.
Enlistments in Rarotonga for overseas service with the NZ Military Forces under the new volunteering scheme closed on March 31. It is understood that a small Defence Corps, probably on the lines of that in Tonga, will be recruited shortly.
Recently in Sydney on a health trip was J. T, Boyd, well-known business man of Honolulu. For the last 18 years he has been associated with Lloyds’ (of Lon don) in that city in connection with marine damage surveys. An Australian by birth, he has resided in Hawaii for 32 years.
Mr. P. Hawes, formerly of Wau, New Guinea, is now occupying a position with the Department of Civil Aviation at Archerfield aerodrome, Queensland.
Mr. T. Rea, who has been on the teach ing staff of Ifi Ifi College in Western Samoa for the past few years, arrived in New Zealand in April.