Cook Islands aid goes up
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New Zealand s financial aid to the self-governing Cook Islands is still going up. Mr Duncan Maclntyre, NZ Minister of Island Affairs, announced on January 22 that the Cooks would receive $NZ6,900,000 for the next three years about $500,000 more than in the previous three years.
More , than . two-thirds of this will ?? -? n i admi P ls tration expenses. Main projects are $380,000 for Rar °tonga hospital and $lBO,OOO for a new teac bers’ college on Rarotonga.
A new hos P ita l at Aitutaki gets $85 > 000 and $90,000 goes towards improving water supplies.
A special loan of $225,000 will go towards the extra international commumcations necessary when the Rarotonga airport opens, and another $75,000 will be allocated to a new electric power generator.
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