Ketch For Cook Is.

THE NZ Islands Territories Department has taken over the ketch. “Ranui,” and is sending her from Wellington to Rarotonga, to maintain a trading and passenger service in the Cook Islands.

She will sail at the end of April.

The death occurred on March 19 of Madame Pierrot Coulon, formerly Margot Lehartel, a young and popular resident of Papeete. She was involved in a road accident on the island of Tubuai some three years ago, and injuries she then received eventually caused her death.

Her grandparents went to Tahiti in the old sailing ship days.