Local Timber for

Further Step

Local Timber for C.I. Fruit Cases

Tangata Simiona, Of Atiu,

Cook Islands, is now in New Zealand undergoing two years training as a woodsman in the Kain garoa Forest.

Simiona was educated at Raro tonga’s Tereora College, and it is expected that he will return to apply his knowledge to Atiu’s Forestry Scheme.

Mariri Paratainga, also of Atiu, will soon travel to New Zealand for a six months’ Forestry course

arranged by the New Zealand Forestry Service.

This latest example of local Cl boys making good is another feather in the cap of Mr. Ron Thorby, Re sident Agent of Atiu, to whose vision and energy is due the promising afforestation development now to be seen on that island, designed primarily to provide case timber for Cook Island fruit shipments !i Mr. G. S. Hill, who retired last year from the New Hebrides Con dominium Government, where he had been Treasurer, will return to Vila with Mrs. Hill in April. Mr.

Hill has been 25 years in the Hebrides, 20 of them with the Gov ernment.