New Council Member
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From Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, Sept. 12.
MR. WILLIAM H. WATSON has been elected European member of the Rarotonga Island Council, a position previously held by Mr. S. Bennett, mana ger for A. B. Donald. Ltd. Mr. Bennett will be leaving Rarotonga shortly to take un duties at Messrs. A. B. Donald’s head office in Auckland. He has had IT years’ service in the Cook Islands. ' Mr. Watson is an enterprising inde pendent trader who has built quite a substantial business from a very small beginning. Twelve years ago, when he started out. he had to sleep on the coun ter of his first little store.
His latest enterprises, in partnership with two other local Europeans, are two small factories—one for the production of pearl-shell ornaments, and another for the manufacture of sandals and shoes, which worn by the majority of people in the Cook Islands. Both factories employ all-native labour.