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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1956Vol. XXVII, No. 4

[?]ildings at Aitutaki . . .

p. 153 · Read in the full issue

ninistration building at Aitutaki [?]cially opened on September 6 ill. Cook Islands Resident Com 40 ft. coral-lime building con office, mail-sorting office, radio fice, police office, liquor bond

and courtroom. Behind the building is a small prison cell.

Last year Aitutaki's eight-bed, coral-lime hospital (left) was opened. Located nearby are the CIMP's house of 1,250 sq. ft., and the Dental Clinic. The hospital laundry and bulk store rooms are still in course of construction,

and are sited near a pump room which con tains a deep, natural well which never runs dry. Water from the pump room is piped down to the communal laundry near the beach.

Mr. Frank Borrell, PWD foreman in charge at the work, is at present erecting a new citrus fruit gassing room.

Photos: W. H. Percival.