Rarotonga
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Airmail To Cook
Islands
Inaugural Plane at Rarotonga
riIHE arrival of the first plane to land X on Rarotonga (chief island of the Cook Group) was made the occasion, in November, of a public celebration.
It was a civilian plane, with a NZ Air Force crew, and it inaugurated what is hoped will become a regular weekly air mail service Auckland - Nukualofa (Tonga)-Aitutaki (Cook Is.)-Rarotonga.
Among civilian officials who made this initial survey flight was Mr. C. McKay, secretary of the NZ Islands Territories
Department.
Mrs. Hills, wife of Captain Hills, who was formerly on the LMS mission ship, “John Williams,” and now in the Navy, has returned to Fiji. She is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Dick, of Suva.
Mr. H. E. Snell, general manager of Morris Hedstrom, Ltd., who has been on a business visit overseas, returned to Suva in October,