Still Lying on Foreshore
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Letter to the Editor IN May “PIM” appeared an article from your Samarai correspondent headed: “20-years-old Monument Wrecked to Get Brass”; I am afraid your correspondent has not stated facts.
The guns were in front of our Memorial Hall, which is controlled by the Samarai Library Institute Committee. They have never been cared for, and the wheels on the larger one (mostly of wood) were in very bad order. The Institute’s com mittee decided, therefore, that the guns should be removed to a reclamation being carried out on our foreshore.
It was while the guns were on the fore shore waiting to be put into the reclama tion, that someone discovered there was brass in the fittings of the larger gun and made an offer for the brass the money to be given to our Red Cross Fund It was at this stage that Mr. Russell took an interest in the matter, but so far nothing has been done, and the guns are still lying on the foreshore.
I am, etc..
Percy J. Wood.
Hon. Sec., Samarai Library Institute.
Samaral, E. Papua 19/6/’4l.
Captain Tlwi Love, husband of Makea ariki-nui-elect Takau, of Rarotonga, Cook Is., was reported missing after the recent fighting in Greece. It is now learned, however, that he is wounded Captain Love fought with the Maori Battalion, which suffered severely Sir Apirana Ngata former Minister for the Cook Islands, had two sons in the same engagement. One is reported missing the other wounded.