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Tahiti Notes
esentation of Decorations
, N February 9 a large crowd witnessed the presentation of Decorations outside Navy ice, Papeete. The decorations in ded Legion d’Honneur, Medaille litaire, Croix de Guerre and tents* WCTe, S ßobert S Terve\ e Marquand, Marc Danois, Marcel urienne, Lucien Neven, Albert Le naff, Jean Costa, Anuu, Tapeta, nson. pRTRfTTF in rrttkh ktvr
. Ribute To British King
Tahiti paid its respects to the late ig George VI on February 15, en a service, which was very gely attended, was held in the •testant Church. The Protestant arch of French Oceania, affiliated the Church of England, has the gest following of any church in ;nch Oceania. The flags of com rcial and government buildings •e flown at half-mast for 15 days.
Ew Tourist Attraction
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•aret within Papeete city limits, 1 been transformed and renamed irroll’s Tahiti”—after Carroll’s of ’is and Carroll’s Beach on the lera. l new four-man orchestra leader, ou de Maeyer, arrived on the
Changchow late January from France. The official opening on February 2 was attended by the Governor and his wife and most of the population, the festivities carry ing through until daylight next morning.
Carroll’s Tahiti is conducted by Madame Cowan and should provide a further attraction for tourists.
Protracted Murder Case
Two years ago a Rarotongan living on Tikehau Island, in the Tuamotus, was found dead with his head in a small cave. Recently an inquest into the death was opened for the third time. A small boy has accused a man of striking the Rarotongan with a shovel during a dispute over a share in some copra.
In January, a Judge and members of the French Department of Justice, accompanied by Mr. Deven ish, British Consul, proceeded to Tikehau in the Government schooner Tamara to re-open the case.
Nothing definite could be es tablished on the spot, but the body was again exhumed and the skull brought back to Papeete for examination.
General
A 13-ft. tiger shark, weighing nearly a ton, was caught off Panaauia, popular residential dis trict of Tahiti, in January. Its liver
weighed 200 lb and its stomach contained several chunks of beef, bones, and tin cans. It is said to be the first tiger shark caught in Tahiti waters.
The Tuamotuan diver Tara, famous in the Tuamotu pearling lagoons, died in the Colonial Hos
pital. Papeete, on January 24, after a short illness. His age is not re ported. Tara was said to be capable of remaining under water in a dive for four minutes. He also held the record for depth.
Mr. Otto Degener, well-known botanist, of Honolulu, will spend several months in Tahiti, climbing around the mountains of Papara, from May of this year.
Rev. Gordon Young of the Methodist New Guinea Highlands Mission was in Victoria in February, studying languages to aid him in his pioneering work.
Rev. J. F. Goldie, veteran Methodist missionary of the Solomons, was reported to be seriously ill in St. Andrews Hospital, Melbourne, in February.