In The Lonely Northern
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Cooks
From Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, April 17.
rE Cook Is. schooner “Tiare Taporo”, which usually spends the hurricane season in Papeete harbour, laid up this year at Penrhyn Island, in the Northern Cooks. The most severe blow at this atoll for 45 years welcomed the ship, which was in time to render valuable assistance to the stricken natives. Over half the total number of houses in the two settlements were blown down.
On the return journey, to Rarotonga, in early April, the “Tiare Taporo” called at lonely Suwarrow Island to look up
Messrs. Bismar and Williams, who are in charge of the meteorological station recently set up there. Three more men from the NZ Public Works Dept, have arrived in Rarotonga, to relieve Bismar and Williams, who are due for a well earned rest after six months’ solitary confinement on Suwarrow, with no sight of a sail.
Mr. C. T. Duck, of A. B. Donald Ltd., Rarotonga, Cook Is., left recently for New Zealand, after seven years on the Island, for five of which he was captain of the European cricket team. He was farewelled at a cricket match between the Government and Traders, played 18 a side. He was accompanied by Mrs.
Duck and their three children.