Much Diving Activity

Before Manihiki Closes

rO allow the MOP shell beds to recuperate the Manihiki lagoon in the Northern Cooks is to be losed for the calendar year 1956, nd possibly for longer (as reported reviously in PIM).

Meanwhile, however, diving is roceeding apace with the close own looming. In October, a small rea of the lagoon which had not een fished for some time was de lared open for two weeks. In one ay, the island’s champion skin iver, Tekake Williams, and his ompanion, Rivao Tekio, fished £5O forth of shell. A machine-diving nit, limited to waters below the 5-fathom level, fished 15 sacks of iiell in three days’ work. The divers r ork only a few hours in the middle f the day when the light is at its est.

A party of 44 students and teach rs of Tereora College, Rarotonga, limbed Te Manga, the island’s highest peak (2,140 ft) on October 20.