[?] From the Cooks

From Our Own Correspondent

Auckland, Aug. 20.

FOST of Auckland’s Cook Islands L community met the Maui Po mare from Rarotonga, when berthed in Auckland on Sunday rning, August 12. [er passenger list included re ng Resident Commissioner Wil n Tailby and Mrs. Tailby, and mlar Don Read and his wife and lily.

Ir. Read, for a good many years retary to the Resident Commis ler at Rarotonga, has more re tly been serving in the same acity at Niue. He now quits the mds —temporarily, it is hoped— a position at Islands Territories lartment, Wellington.

Iso aboard were the two sons of ;ran Cook Islands skipper Andy jmson—long associated with the nd schooners Tagua and Tiare >oro, and now master of A. B. lald’s latest acquisition, Char e Donald. Tony, war-time naval itor, has, like his younger ther Sammy, been following in father’s footsteps since the war, t in the Tiare Taporo, then on NZ coast, and lately in his ler’s present command. He now Les to Auckland to attend the igation School and sit for his ;e’s ticket. Meanwhile, Sammy

is getting in his time in the “Maui Pomare” as AB—and getting some free trips back home!

The Eldorado Consolidated (New Guinea) Options Co. has been formed in Melbourne to acquire an option over a dredging and sluicing lease at Edie Creek, New Guinea.

British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines, which operates an im portant service between North America, Australia and New Zea land, reported rapidly increasing business in the year ended March 31, 1951. Passengers carried across the Pacific totalled 13,976.

The Co. had an operating profit of £26,470.