Puka Puka Is Busy
pp. 97-98 · Read in the full issue
PUKA PUKA (Danger Island), most off-the-track of the Cook Islands, which usually receives a visit from the outside world at most twice in a year, had two visits in June.
The trading vessel Mahurangi called to load copra at mid-month and the LMS Mission ship John Williams VI, with the Resident Commissioner from Rarotonga aboard, arrived on the 26th. Mr.
Nevill’s first visit to Puka Puka was the occasion of a special entertain ment provided by the three villages.
Late in the month, Mahurangi, bound for Rarotonga, was again in the throes of one of her usual engine
breakdowns. With one engine “out” an d the other limping, she was making 2 knots towards uninhabited go ° n fOT anChOTage Qn the beach in Rarotonga they are saying “Some day Dick Brown will employ an engineer.’' The Fair mile has experienced engine trouble every voyage this year.
Miss tae Underwood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Underwood of Randwick, Sydney, and first white child to be born in Salamaua, New Guinea, will be married on August 9 at the Sacred Heart Church, Darlinghurst, to Mr. William Murray of Sydney.