French Phosphate
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Cook Islanders For
THE Makatea Phosphate Co.’s schooner Oiseau des lies, com manded by Captain Argod, brought 172 Cook Island labourers back home to Rarotonga and Mauke early May, and returned to Makatea (French Oceania) with about the same number of single men who had signed fresh contracts. She was expected to make another voyage, with more labourers.
By coincidence. PlM’s represent ative, visiting Aitutaki a few days later, came across the bell of the Norwegian barque Triton— formerly the British ship Kintyre —hanging at the entrance to the Free Church there, and in use as a church bell.
Triton was wrecked at Rarotonga in 1913 while landing guano workers, who wer? being returned from Malden Island. No lives were lost.