Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 19 March 1948Vol. XVIII, No. 8

Historic Mount

pp. 30-32 · Read in the full issue

Page 3030Page 3131Page 3232

This photograph was taken in the Parapara district of Tahiti. The mountain overlooks Papara Bay, and it was from that point that the famous canoe, “Tainui,” sailed, 600 years ago, to take part in the Colonisation of New Zealand by the Polynesian Maoris. Hawaiians de clare that this mount bears an extra ordinary resemblance to their famous Diamond Head, near Honolulu.

Mrs. N. Sinclair, formerly of Wau (NG), placed her home in Brisbane at the disposal of a number of ex-Territorians who held a Christmas party there last Decern

ber. Each guest was presented with a shoulder-spray of frangipani by Miss Daphne Mills, an ex-resident of Witu.

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