COOK ISLANDS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18072, 14 May 1924, Page 9

COOK ISLANDS.

NOW CHIEF m POST OFFICE. 00, isSOCUTIOS TELEGRAM.) ' .May 13. ■ -immure. Minister for the Sir has received the followC# °V? radiopra® from the Resident ing 0 { the Islands at Rarotonga created a " Foßt - * rtffice from to-day." i, it is a short and simple > nevertheless marks a very B**** B .' * _ nd important development JS***- f "" Jes,W°TK attached to and f?UfJ £ chief Post Office at ? While this W aUim . + Wa tAuckland. trom the point ot p° stal siness ? 1 °t 80 in connexion with savings ffSJ » ot "J. Not only Rarotonga, bank ® ft f „ t 'w islands in the group bo t all tho ew Aitutaki, Mangaia, -to >»® e tia Pen'rhyn, and Manihikisimilar status as sub-dis-hate WP i trict o®®),' fheir business transacted by way of RaroA B y S tem meant that the fcnga, have been pracpjople ia , -jjytJjjng in the nature *S.S££K »««• They of °« hle of course, to pay mat jMreh# o :*, ' not to withdraw, exB i?Sr reference to Auckland, iLrallv has meant long and It vas therefore deconcurrence of the New » Post and Telegraph DepartRarotonga a Chief 5 e rJL for all purposes, port. change over to he To «fi ly an d expeditiously, the v loaned Mr H. M. TremeBepa w fl of its experienced accounting *»"• «*• Cook Islands Administremewan went down hv the Tahiti, and the riral.

, Samoa Taught Thrift. • surprise most people to learn thSSng the four years in which * Ssavings Bank has been m in Westerii Samoa, no less has been paid in to the SS^osito^ 1 : The experi- » ! 1M was entirely new, and - fi ws nothing to guide the authorian estimate of the busii Spf ste » » OTident a, 6 P' ri t of tI J . iatoSp tbe people of Samoa, which awerMispected, _ ?go'.successful has been the Post Of- : ■ A?t _the tas recently opened branches at Alilaextreme eastern end of Sarii, to give greater fac- ' iliti&tothe Saih6ari people for savings. f 'lt is wiy expected, from the experiHice : inlSaiDoai''.that the granting of , fall savings lank fatalities will result irftsinujairsubstantial increase m the m Offi.oe Savings Bank business > there; -In addition, these fuller facility'trill'4o much to assist trade and ana outside the fcrorfp. > 1 '