Cook Islands

News Notes from the Cook Islands

'OLLOWING an application by the Cook Islands Industrial Union of Workers, ; Industrial Relations Officer, Mr. L. K. 1, awarded a general wage increase of per day. Earlier, agreement could not reached between the Union and the al employers. lakea Nul Teremoana Ariki, appealing contributions to her Makogai Christ s Fund, reported in December that re are at present 34 Cook Islands ients at the central leper hospital. he Savage Maori-English dictionary, copyright of which is owned by NZ nd Territories Department, is now be printed. The cloth-bound volume of at 500 pages, will sell at approximately NZ per copy. This dictionary of the k Islands Maori language is in the n Maori-to-English only. Orders may placed with: The Further Education artment, Rarotonga. arotonga broadcasting station is lually extending its hours with test :rammes. At present the station will ound on 5050 kc/s between 0430-0500 r on Tuesdays, and sometimes on r days. vo classrooms of the Tereora College nearing completion and work is slow np pending the arrival of plans for next block. ianwhile at Aitutaki the new hospital medical practitioner’s residence are ig shape, and eight 10,000 gallon water s have been completed in outer ?es. Pumping plant and pipes for tvater reticulation scheme are now on there.

Mangaia a new fruit control shed neroa is progressing, and two 10,000n water tanks are being built to Bt water from this new catchment On Mitiaro a roof-catchment, two ) gallon tanks, and a dispensary and are going ahead.