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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1955Vol. XXV, No. 12

Private Garage for Rarotonga

p. 51 · Read in the full issue

MR. J. PRICE, who formerly owned and operated the picturesque “Blue Lagoon” dancehall at Muri, Rarotonga, will shortly open his new garage at Avarua.

A privately owned garage has been needed in Rarotonga where the numbers of new trucks, cars, tractors and motor cycles grow every year. t Three years old, New Caledonia’s agricultural college at Point Laguerre, 30 miles from Noumea, has 31 native and 10 European students. The school provides a solid programme of agricultural theory and practice. Last year’s dux is now in Australia studying under a scholarship provided by the Australian Government.

Mr. W. A. Deutsher, a retired Mel bourne engineer, left in June to