Ra Of Puka-Puka Now In

Rarotonga

From Our Own Correspondent Mangaia, Cl August

Mr. Reginald C. Savage, Who Was

Resident Agent at Danger Island for six years, has now left that island for a position in the postal service on Rarotonga, where he was previously a wireless officer.

Mr. Savage is a son of the late Stephen Savage, who, up to his death during the late war, was Registrar of the High Court of Cook Islands. A grandson of the famous Captain Piltz on his mother’s side, Mr. Savage is connected with prom inent European and Polynesian families in Rarotonga and Honolulu, and after he won a scholarship as a boy was one of the group of Cl pupils who were sent to St. Stephen’s College, in Auckland NZ, for training as Euronesian and Maori officials of the Cl Administration. The St. Stephen’s scholarships are now abol ished, but many holders occupy positions in the present Cook Islands administra tion.

Mr. Reginald Savage was recently at Niue Island, where the family of Mrs.

Savage, the well-known Heads of that island, have resided for several genera tions. It is a coincidence that both Mr. and Mrs. Savage trace their families back to master-mariners of the Pacific, famed in olden days for navigation and trading.

During his term of office upon Danger Island, the renowned Puka Puka of the Frisbie books, which is entirely unique among Polynesian outposts for its odd customs and absence of European influ ences, Mr. Savage instituted many im provements and did much to obtain for the hard-up Puka-Pukans a better living standard. In view of the hard and isolated life on that atoll, it is probable that Mr. and Mrs. Savage, and their family, find the new arrangement a pleasant holiday, though official duties on Rarotonga call, perhaps, for more of a rush than was the case on the remote Northern atoll.

A son was born on September 12 to Mr. and Mrs. Ben Dawson, of Melbourne.

She was formerly Miss Sheila Mantle, of Rabaul.