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From Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, Dec. 6.
COPRA is not being bought by Cook Islands merchants at present, owing to exhaustion of storage accommo dation. No appreciable quantity of copra has been lifted from this group since the outbreak of war in 1939.
Copra is the only exportable product of 8 out of the 14 inhabited Cook Islands, and the chief export of a further one (Penrhyn or Tongareva Island where the dwindling pearl-diving industry still holds out).
Mr. Clive Farquhar, of Ba, who was well known throughout Fiji, died in Sydney recently, aged 45. Born in Fiji (his father, Mr. Walter Farquhar, was mill manager for the CSR Co. at Rara wai), he was educated in Australia, at King’s School, Parramatta, and Sydney University. After a short period in New Guinea, he joined the CSR Co. and returned to Fiji where he served for the past 20-odd years. He came to Sydney in October to seek medical attention, fol lowing a severe illness.
Mr. Thomas Francis Tague, late chief officer of the Western Pacific High Com mission’s steam yacht “Ranadi” and formerly master of several inter-island vessels in Fiji, died recently in Auckland Hospital, New Zealand, aged 56.
Rev. Pierre Bochu, who had served the Marist Mission for many years in the New Hebrides, died recently at Vila, aged 75.
Mr. J. K. Brownlees, District Officer in the Solomon Islands, where he has served since 1933, has been seconded to the Tongan Government Service, accord
ing to a Western Pacific High Commis sion Gazette issued in November. He is a BA of Oxford University and at various times has been stationed in BSI at Malaita, Ysabel, and Gizo.
Rev. R, A. Nicholls, of Wangaratta, Victoria, has been accepted by the Aus tralian Board of Missions for work in Papua.
Mr. B. T. Griffiths, an Englishman who served with the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. in Fiji for nearly 30 years before retiring in 1940, died last month at Lautoka.