News From The Cooks

Two new wards for the Rarotonga mitorium were completed in November.

I further ward, wash rooms and a motor wage were under way.

To Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Caldwell a »n. on November 22 at Rarotonga •spital. Mr. Caldwell is a clerk in the wrthouse.

In preparation for the building of a overnment school on Rakahanga Is., N. ooks two lime pits were prepared by lie people in November. The site for a ew school on neighbouring Manihiki was Iso surveyed during the month.

Matnia Teokotai Williams, of Manihiki, nnounced her engagement to loane iaitera last November. The marriage as planned for mid-January.

Foundations for A. B. Donald & Co.’s ew store at Aitutaki were laid in early lecember.

Ngaie Tou, CIMP, left Rarotonga for hie Central Medical School, Suva, in lecember to undergo a post-graduate »urse in surgery. By the same aircraft -om Aitutaki went John Tapaki, of itutaki, Tingika Tere, of Rarotonga, and Drse Vaine Tangata, of Mauke, for ■aining at the Medical School.

The NZ Meteorological Service plans to istal radar upper-wind measuring equip lent at Rarotonga during the present ear. Wind-measuring balloon-flights are t present limited to the visual method, seless in conditions of low cloud.

Golf history was made for the Raro mga links (the now unused airfield) in lecember, when Mr. Ted Estall “holed in Be”. If the feat had been made in a impetition match, Mr. Estall would have rawn a £lO jackpot.

Two of the inter-island vessels— harlotte Donald and Inspire—have de arted from the Group for the hurricane eason. They will undergo refit in apeete. The third craft, Mahurangi, wlil emain in the Group, based on Penrhyn, nd will make runs south to Rarotonga I intervals.

The Administration has received a umber of requests to organise, in Raro >nga, night classes In elementary book eeping. Subject to sufficient people be ig interested, Mr. L. K. Pitt, of it Administration, is prepared to offer his trvices as instructor.

Mr. Temana Ngatama, elementary school 6acher attached to the Administration ehool at Mauke Is., has been selected to roceed for a teacher’s training course Auckland, NZ, commencing February.

Vero Tora, a leading mataiapo of lauke Is., died there aged 63 years on •ecember 13. He was a member of the sland Council, a church deacon, and lember of a family famous as composers t religious hymns. He is survived by ‘is wife and by one son who succeeds ® the title of mataiaoo.