Rarotonga's Club
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Interesting Visitors To
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, Feb. 27.
FOUR guests at the Rarotonga Men’s Club on February 5, provided mem bers with an interesting evening.
Lieut.-Colonel F. W. Voelcker, new Ad ministrator of Western Samoa, who was visiting Rarotonga en route to Apia, gave a graphic description of his experiences with the Fijian battalion in the Bougain ville battles.
Mr. F. W. Bateson, of the NZ Astrono mical Society, spoke on the subject of “sunspots,” which have been much in the news of late, and Mr. S. Kinghan, direc tor of the Rarotonga Experimental lono sphere Station, collaborated with a talk on the cause of sunspots and their re lation with the present radio disturbances and silence.
Mr. Montgomery, a NZ official who has been investigating labour conditions in Rarotonga and Makatea, rounded off the evening with anecdotes, both dramatic and amusing, from his war experiences in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Captain E. D. Robinson, MC, after hectic years and distinguished service in the Allied Intelligence Bureau —In the course of which he won the Military Cross —has received his discharge from the AIP. He left by the “Ormlston” on March 27 for Rabaul, to resume service with Burns Philp & Co., Ltd. He will be Chief Plantations Inspector in the New Britain-New Ireland districts. He and his assistants will have plenty to do in the next few months.