99-Year-Old Mangaian Dies

In Nz

A 99-YEAR-OLD Mangaian (Cook Islands) living in New Plymouth, New Zealand, died at the end of May. He was Ukinga Rau who has been living with his son Pepe in NZ since 1946.

As a young man in Mangaia he took a prominent part in public affairs and was one of those responsible for having the road built around the island. Later he went to live in Rarotonga where he married the daughter of a London Missionary Society native pastor, the Rev. Pare Ratu, who was for some time a missionary in New Guinea.

In Rarotonga Ukinga Rau set up a bakery business which he conducted until 1935.

He is survived by one son in NZ, another, Mato, in Rarotonga, and three daughters, Mrs. Tenga Taneao, Mrs.

Ngapoko Terei, and Mrs. Mangati Crum mer, all of Rarotonga.