L. K. Pitt Retires

From Cooks

Confidence in the ability of mem bers of the Cook Islands Legislative Assembly to manage their country’s affairs, when a ministerial system of government is introduced in 1965, is felt by Mr. L. K. Pitt, Secretary to the Cook Islands Government, who retired in October.

Mr. Pitt’s association with the island territories began in 1939 when he became a clerk in the Fruit Control office on Rarotonga. After service with the New Zealand Army in the Pacific, he was Treasurer to the Niue Island administration from 1944 to 1947, relieving Deputy Resi dent Commissioner on Niue in 1948 to 1949, and Treasurer to the Cook Islands Government from 1949 to 1956.

For the past seven years, as Sec retary to the Government of the Cook Islands, he has been closely associated with the territory’s constitutional development. Since 1949 he has been a member of the Cook Islands Legislative Council and its successor, the Cook Islands Legislative Assembly.

Mr. Pitt.