Hibernation

Cook Is. Paper

Comes Out Of

Latest in the ever-grow\ stream of Islands newspape< newsletters, etc., is the Co Islands Review, a monthly mar

zine, published by the Deps

ment of Social Development

Rarotonga.

IT is not really a new publication is the resurrection of a magazs bearing the same name, which v first published in December, 195 and which appeared irregularly u;i May, 1961, when it went il hibernation.

The Cook Islands Premier, I Albert Henry, says in a messages the first (January) issue of the m series that publication of the Revw has been resumed to give Co' Islanders a better knowledge Government activities.

The Review will also help keep 7,000 Cook Islanders in New ZealsJ informed of what is happening ; their homeland.

Radio sets scarce

Mr. Henry says that the Co' Islands are already served by Ras Rarotonga and the daily Co' Islands News, but radio sets scarce in the outer islands and 1 the News is restricted to a sim sheet in those islands, it can:c always give a full coverage to o rent events.

“It is important that the peoo of the Cook Islands understs] Government policy and the decisid that are made as a result of U policy,” he adds.

The January issue of the Revu\ comprising 44-pages, was distribuu free.

Printed in English and Maori,.! contained a message from the HP Commissioner, Mr. L. J. Da T £ feature articles on housing, agrioi ture, local history and decimal ca rency, news from Rarotonga and 1 the outer islands, and local adv/1 tising.

On the cover, the issue is descriHi as “Vol. 7, No. 6,” which v probably make a few librarians hd and there throw up their arms in c»o sternation until they realise that ■ new Review continues the number* of the long hibernating old one.