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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1956Vol. XXVII, No. 3

Brighten Aitutaki

p. 76 · Read in the full issue

Smart New Buildings

ANEW administrative building was officially opened a t Arutunga, Aitutaki, early in September. The building houses offices for the resident agent, post office, radio station, court room, and police station, and is a notable contribution—together with a new hospital, doctor’s house, dental clinic, pump-house, gaol, and laundry opened some time ago—to tidying up a very down-at heel village.

The official opening was performed by the Resident Commissioner, Mr. G. Nevill, who with Mrs ' Nevill and the Hon - Makea Nui Teremoana Ariki. CBE, leading Ariki of the Cook Islands, flBw across from Rarotonga by Civil Aviation Bureau aircraft for the occasion -

t A record number of ir vehicles entered New Caleo in the first half of the cu;j year - The total was 538 nt 90 a month. Ther total value: about 93 million francs. Fr sent 426, the United States 70( England 16. Germany, Japam Australia sent the rest.