Donning Flippers!
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Plans For Attack On Cooks'
Coral Reefs
PREPARING himself for a pro jected programme of harbour and reef-passage improvement work, the Cook Islands energetic Public Works Department chief, Mr.
W. H. Ryan, was undergoing a two weeks’ frogman course at the RNZN base at Auckland during February.
The Cook Islands plans call for the laying of explosives under water; and experience in the Cooks has shown that there is a great deal more in the procedure than meets the eye.
The problem is to make really effective use of the explosives, which often kill plenty of fish but shatter very little coral.