Visitors To Mangaia
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From Our Own Correspondent WE had a number of visitors on the first of this season’s two fruit ships to call at Mangaia, Cook Islands.
Sister Nancy Ellison, who has been for one term at Rarotonga Hospital, renewed her own connection with this island, which she last saw as a child of three.
Her father, Dr. E. P. Ellison, OBE, (for merly CMO at Rarotonga), who is of NZ Maori blood, beside his medical pursuits, was an ethnologist, and the Doctor traced a link here between local tribes and his own in NZ. Hence, the Sister’s visit, on her way back to NZ?, was a double re union, and she received a warm welcome from friends ashore. It is Miss Ellison’s intention to later visit Honolulu and Sir Peter Buck, another tribal relation. Island friends of Sir Peter will be sorry to hear that his health has not been good of late.
Another visitor was Mrs. H. McCarthy, the wife of Judge McCarthy of the High Court of Cl, who is connected with the well-known Framhein family at Mauke Island.
New Zealand “big business” was repre sented by Mr. P. Mounsey, of W. H.
Grove and Sons Ltd., a firm whose name has been famous here for some decades in the native cloth market.
The engagement has been announced of Miss Robin Mantle, younger daughter of the late Mr. F. W. Mantle and Mrs.
Mantle, of South Yarra, and formerly of Rabaul, to Mr. Michael Young, only son of Dr. and Mrs. J. Wilkie Young, of East St, Kilda. The marriage will take place at the Melbourne Grammar Chapel on November 17. The young couple are booked to sail for England on the Orontes and expect to be away about two years.