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On Pearl Shell
Penrhyn Island in the Northern Cook Group does not get into the world's news very often. But it was in the news in Rarotonga recently when the Cook Islands Legislative As sembly passed a motion re questing the United Nations Technical Assistance Board to look into the problem of wormy pearl shells there and elsewhere in the Cook Group.
Moving the motion, the Leader of Government Busi ness, Mr. D. C. Brown, said that divers at Penrhyn were now getting only about 25 per cent, good shells out of each sackful and were being dis couraged from diving.
He added that Australian divers, who had experience in eradicating worms from the shell, should be invited to Penrhyn to help the islanders.
Our picture, taken by K. R.
Bremner, of the RNZAF, shows a beach scene at Penrhyn.