Ariki Nui Returns
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From Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, Oct. 8.
fTIHE paramount chieftainess, Mrs.
A Takau Rio-Love, has returned to Rarotonga for a visit of several months.
Shortly after her arrival she made a brief tour of the outer islands of the Group, where she was given a royal wel come, and carried shoulder high from one feast to another in the traditional manner.
Her first public move was to engage in a determined battle to raise the rate of pay for Rarotongan labour from 4/- to 5/- per day. Her efforts met with even
tual success and now all Maoris engaged in public works receive the advanced rate; several private firms have followed suit.
The Ariki Nui intends returning to New Zealand at the end of the year in order to wind up her affairs and. terminate her patriotic dutiqs, to which she has devoted so much time and energy throughout the war. She will then come back perman ently to the Cook Islands and devote all her time to the welfare of her own people.
Miss Emily Tangitane Taripo, of Raro tonga, has recently become engaged to Staff-Sergeant C. J. Kealiher, of the United States Army. Miss Taripo is at present living in New Zealand.