Transplanting of Cl Pearl She[?]

Cl Pearl She[?]

MR. VAN PEL., the Fisheit Officer for the South Facii Commission, took 320 lit pearl oysters from the Penrhyn au Manihiki lagoons and successful! transplanted them in 17 and fathoms at Rakahanga in ean.

May.

Shell will also be taken fro Manihiki and planted at Puli Puka in an effort to expand tld pearl shell industry, which 1 already an important dollar earm for the Cook Islands. 17 Mr. and Mrs. Neville Adairr who were married at Sydney ; May, left early in June to majf their home at Labasa, Fiji. Tl r bridegroom flew from Fiji for tla wedding. Mrs. Adams was formerr Miss Shirley Anderson, of Wolloic gong, NSW.

Public Relations Office’s Newsletter should be heard in New Zealand in future, a rearrangement of pro ies a third transmission of the ;tter came into force on May ednesdays at 9.15 p.m. Fiji which is the same as New

Zealand time. The Newsletter is thus now transmitted at 6.15 p.m. and 9.15 pm. on Wednesdays, and at 1.10 on Thursdays. The new later evening transmission should be heard much better in New Zealand, especially during the summer months.

Qantas Travellers from Sydney

[?]e passengers from Sydney to the Islands in May included: Mlle. Joesette Lenormand Maurice Lenormand (Deputy to the National Assembly and Vice-President of the Legis ouncil of New Caledonia) who returned to Noumea from Paris. Brigadier H. Flaxman, Resident Commissioner, New Hebrides, who returned to Vila after a period in a Sydney M. Emile Laffon, president of Societe Nickel, New Caledonia, who was returning from [?]ss trip to Paris. He was met at Sydney by his nephew, Mr. Henry Chaverot, formerly [?]ea and now living in Sydney.