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Pacific Islands Monthly, 18 March 1947Vol. XVII, No. 8

"Matua" Passengers

p. 11 · Read in the full issue

AMONG those who recently travelled

on the “Matua” between Island ports

and Auckland, NZ, were:

Mr. J. B. Wright,, Treasurer and Comptroller of Customs, Apia, Western Samoa, shown with his two sons, when en route to New Zealand on leave.

Mr. J. N. Cocker, of Nukualofa, Tonga, who was on his way to New Zealand. Mr. D. C.

Brown, owner-skipper of the “Tahitienne”; he landed In Suva to pick up his schooner and sail her back to Rarotonga.

Mr, Biri Maoate, of Rarotonga, who will spend some weeks in Suva, Fiji. Mr. Robin Wilson, of Lami, Fiji, who was on his way to New Zealand.

Mr. Thomas Levy, of Fiji Post and Telegraph Department, who was going to New Zealand on leave. Mr. J. F. Hutchinson, of Tonga, where he settled in 1894; now retired, he intends spending his time between his property In Vavau and Auckland, and was on his way south when this photograph was taken.