Warning System
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Rarotonga’s Hurricane Warning System
DURING December the Rarotonga Chief of Police, Mr. J.
O’Halloran, and the senior clerk, Mr. M. Hegan, visited all village safety committees on the island to refresh their memories on the hurricane warning system.
The preliminary warning is dis seminated by telephone-and-mes senger to ail points and the final warning is given by two motor vehicles encircling the 21-mile cir cumference of the island, in opposite directions, each continuously sound ing its horn.
Rarotonga has not been hit by a hurricane for a number of years, so, by the law of averages, one is now overdue. There has been one preliminary warning so far this season.
A number of Island positions were advertised in February. They included Inspector of Police, Fiji; Treasury Clerk, Tonga; Works Officer, Aitutaki; Station Electri cian, Nadi; Foreman Mechanic and Foreman Plumber, Nadi; loni sphere Observer, Rarotonga; Over seer, Rarotonga Printing Works; and Purser-Radio Officer, NZGS, Maui Pomare.
A proportion of the donkeys In the farqaesas Islands (French Oceania) _>re illed in an unusual way. There is much time in the food they eat, and this radually builds up into a solid mass In heir bladders, and causes their death, n this photograph, the Marquesan ativc is holding three round balls of me, taken from the bladders of onkeys after they had died.