Death of Paramount

Ariki Mrs. Love of Rarotonga and New Zealand

THE death was announced in Raro tonga on September 15, of the high chieftainess, Makea Nui Takau Ariki, known also as Mrs. Love, widow of Colonel E. T. Love, who commanded, with distinction, the Maori Battalion in World War 11.

The Ariki spent the war years in New Zealand, where she was a well-known

worker for patriotic funds. She was the eldest daughter of Makea Nui Tinirau Ariki Paramount Ariki of Rarotonga, and on his death she succeeded to the title.

She was educated at Hukarere Maori Girls’ College, Napier.

Shortly after the death of her husband on active service in 1942, she returned to Rarotonga to take up her position as Paramount Ariki and as a member of the Island Council. She remained there with brief visits to New Zealand, from that time and took an active part in Cook Islands affairs. She was in ill health for a considerable time before her death.

She leaves a family of four young daughters, Mokoroa, Veia and Myra, who are living with their father’s parents in Petone, New Zealand, and Ina, who was visiting her mother in Rarotonga at the time of her death.

It is not yet known who will take the title of Makea, as there are a number of claimants.

High Chief of Arorangi Dead

ANOTHER high chief of Rarotonga, Tinomana Ariki, died during Sep tember. He was high chief of the

Arorangi district.

A large number of Maoris and Euro peans attended his funeral on September 3.

Mrs. Love and one of her daughters taken some years ago.