[?]Ok Islander Receives

Important Post

[R. TAKAO TINIRAU has been appointed Resident Agent of Manihiki, Cook Is. He is a lior Cook Islands Assistant dical Practitioner (graduate of Suva Medical School) and mber of a leading Cook Islands nily. He has been stationed in nrhyn, Puka Puka and Manihiki recent years and has been act ; RA at Manihiki since the resig tion of Mr. A. H. Brown some

time ago. This is believed to be the first time that a native Cook Islander has been appointed to the position of Resident Agent (a posi tion equal to that of District Officer in other Territories).

Manihiki, with its rich pearl shell beds, now exceeds every other island —Rarotonga not excepted—in value of exports, and, apart from Penrhyn,

is the only dollar-earner of the fifteen islands.

Sir Leonard Isitt, Chairman of Directors of TEAL, and Mr. R. W.

Marshall, general manager of the NZ Tourist Department, attended a conference of the Pacific Interim Travel Association in Honolulu in March.