Death Of Old Cook Is

Priest

From Our Own Correspondent

T Tt Rarotonga, Oct. 2.

HE death occurred recently in Auckland (NZ), of Father Joachim Kerdal, of the Cook Is. He was 68 years of age As a young Breton, he entered the Con gregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and volunteered for foreign mission service. After his ordination, he was sent to the Cook Islands, where he laboured for 41 years. He went to New Zealand for medical treatment last July, and was showing signs of a full recovery when he suddenly collapsed on the evening of August 8.

Many past and present Cl residents and travellers on Pacific schooners will remember kindly this old priest, who spent the greater part of his life on the lonely atoll of Manihiki, over 200 miles away from the nearest white man His funeral was attended by the Bishop of Auckland and many other dignitaries of the NZ Catholic Church.

Mrs. L. Jackaman, well-known resident of Levuka, Fiji, died last month, aged 67.