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According to “Cook Islands Vews”, Johnny Frisbie, daughter )f the late Robert Dean Frisbie, he American writer, and now Mrs. Carl Hebenstreit, of Hono ulu, intended to visit the Cooks n January. Main purpose of her nsit was to see her maternal irandmother, Tala, of Puka mka, and to complete a lictionary-phrase book for the bishop Museum in Honolulu.

The “News” also had word of Ir. Tom and Mrs. Lydia Davis, tow living at Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA. Dr. Tom, a nedical officer in Cl before the ~)avis family sailed their yacht .cross the Pacific to the US a ew years ago, has since been loing research there.

At present he is visiting Eng and, France and Sweden and us current hobby is sports-car acing.

Tom and Lydia Davis have to heir credit, three sons (John, he eldest, now going to college, tm, born in Rarotonga, and lobby aged six . born about the ime of the yachting adventure), wo Pekinese dogs and two books. ’he first of the books, “Doctor o the Islands”, had some in eresting things to say about zedical practice in the Cooks nd caused a few pained com lents from certain quarters then it was published.