Some Of The Dexters Of Tahiti
pp. 35-36 · Read in the full issue
MRS. GEORGE DEXTER, of Tahiti, and some of her children photo graphed just before leaving Papeete for Auckland, New Zealand, on April 2.
She with daughter Moko, will have six months’ holiday in the Dominion which is the country of her birth. She has lived n Tahiti for 31 years, having left NZ as i young wife with her husband and eight months old daughter Olga in 1919. She has not been back since. Mr. George
Dexter is the son of the late Captain G.
Dexter of Papeete.
Mr. and Mrs. Dexter have 10 daughters, two sons and 15 grand-children.
Noumea's Societe Touristique et Hoteliere placed its Anse Vata villas at tne disposal of the South Pacific Commis sion for its recent conference. Each fur nished villa was let at the rate of 30/per day, including breakfast.
Mr. R. H. (Bobby) Gibbes, owner of r B hfs'S ed He^r^d e opeStio P n?n the Territory 3i years ago with one Auster aircraft. Most of his passengers are native labourers and most of his freight is foodstuffs and other supplies for isolated outposts. Mr. Gibbs now 35, was a Whig Commander in the had service in the Middle East and the Pacific where he won the DSO and DFC.