W. H. Grove & Sons
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Rarotonga Branch Sold
From Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, Nov. 17.
AFTER 50 years of trading in the Cook Islands, the well-known firm of W.
H. Grove & Sons, Ltd., has disposed of its business and property in the Cook Group to a recently-formed companv called United Island Traders. Their manager at Rarotonga, Mr. Clem. Palmer, who is well known in Suva, is returning to take up a position with the Fiji branch of the Grove business.
United Island Traders is an Auckland syndicate interested in developing an Islands business. Their renresentative in Rarotonga is Mr. W. H. Watson, who is acting as manager temporarily.
Mr. Watson has himself built up a suc cessful business in the Cook Islands dur ing the past few years, and it is under stood that there will shortly be a com pany formed to merge the two concerns and perhaps to acquire others, including an inter-island trading vessel—if and when available.