In Rarotonga

Doctor's Ashes Buried

From Our Own Correspondent

Rarotonga, Jan., 26.

\ N unusual ceremony took place in Rarotonga on Saturday, January 25, when the ashes of a former Adminis tration official were interred on a hill overlooking Avarua harbour.

The ashes were those of Dr. A. J.

Brass, who died in Auckland on Sep tember 22, 1946. He was medical officer in Rarotonga from 1928 to 1931. During his term he formed a strong sentimental attachment for the island and its native people. When he returned to Auckland he continued to befriend Cook Islanders resident in NZ.

Upon his death after a long illness,

his parents complied with his wish that his ashes be sent to Rarotonga for burial at a chosen spot on Signal Hill at the back of Avarua.

Europeans and Rarotongans, friends and former patients of Dr. Brass, climbed the hill to attend the burial service, con ducted by the Rev. W. Murphy, of the

Lms.