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Suvarrow
From Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, Dec. 27.
AS a recent inspection of the hurricane shelters on Suvarrow Atoll, Northern Cooks, revealed them to be unfit for a storm emergency, the Cook Is. Govern ment vessel Ranui removed the native boys stationed there for meteorological observations, to another, atoll for the duration of the hurricane season.
The tragedy of the 1942 disaster on Suvarrow when the schooner Vagus was completely lost (a tale told most vividly in Frisbie’s Island of Desire) remains clearly in the minds of all Cook Islanders, and although it is unlikely that this atoll would be the centre for a second big blow, the native sages this season are wisely shaking their heads and saying we are “due for it.”
Maybe we are. They say that hurri canes go in seven year cycles.
At the last meeting of the Suva Town Council, Mr. D. M. N. McFarlane was re elected Deputy Mayor of Suva
Brother Feter, a well-known and pop ular member of the staff of the Marist Brothers High School, Suva. Fiji, has been transferred to New Zealand after 11 years of service in the Colony.