Albert Henry Ends
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Cipa
Resurgent?
Albert Henry Ends 8 Years Exile
BACK in the Cook Islands aga; after eight years absence, M Albert Henry, leader of the Coc Islands Progressive Associate demonstrated that he is still ; popular as ever.
He has been in Auckland sim shortly after the industrial disturl ances in Rarotonga in 1948.
At that time a detachment ■ police was flown to Rarotonga restore order when the CIPA suj porters clashed with the registen waterfront labour union workers.
When originally formed, and aga now, the ideas of the CIPA c< incided with those of co-operatr societies now widely established ar prospering throughout the Pacif But somewhere along the rou political trouble-makers in Ne Zealand exploited a situation of e: treme discontent that existed in tl Cooks in immediate post-war yean To date, through misdirection, ar little official support, all GIF producer co-operative plans ha T gone awry, and a substantial su: of money contributed by the mar members has been frittered away But the faith of Henry’s suj porters has not waned, as ws amply demonstrated in June, whe umukais and speeches of welcon were held all round the island ar a substantial contribution to tH leader’s fare from Auckland cc lected.
Persons who should know, est) mate that at least 75 per cent. < Cook Islanders are still enthusiast supporters not only of Albert Hem but of the CIPA idea.
With a view of introducing tH well-proved co-operative societi. into the Cooks, the Administratic last year belatedly appointed highly qualified and experience Registrar of Co-operatives, M Noakes, who has done a good de: of preparatory publicity work sim his arrival. Unfortunately, he ws at an outer island during M Henry’s visit, but Mr. Henry wr well received by senior Administn tion officials in what could be rapprochement move.
Though the CIPA news-sheet hs been critical of what it wrong looked on as an Administration c» operatives’ scheme, there was thoughtful look in Mr. Henry eye when he returned to Aucklaru There appears now to be n reason at all why the CIPA com not form itself into a series of c* operatives under the guiding han of the Registrar of Co-operative That way success is almost certaii If Mr. Henry is wise he will II bygones be bygones and throw h clearly powerful influence in ti
andly based plans to help his ople help themselves.
Mr Henry announced on his re rn that he would be quitting his o, at least temporarily, with a big nckland mail-order house, to re irn to his home island of Aitutaki, August. He would plant up land th Malayan dwarf coconuts and her produce. Meanwhile he would ady explanatory literature given him by the office of the Registrar Co-operatives to see if their ethods and his coincided—JPS.
fl Mr. A. M. Greenwood, new Solicitor-General, Fiji, arrived in Suva with Mrs. Greenwood on June 26. Mr. Greenwood was formerly Registrar of the Supreme Court and Crown Counsel, Uganda. t Some of the displays that went to make the £1,000,000 French Ex hibition, held in conjunction with the Sydney Royal Show, at Easter, were later taken to New Caledonia and figured there in a “Week of the French Empire.”