RAROTONGAN CHIEF
Visit To New Zealand By Telegraph'—Press Association. Auckland, March 21. A passenger in the Matua,. which arrived from the Islands to-day, was Makeanui Tinirau, irriki, paramount chief, or king, of the island of Rarotonga. He is on a health trip, and will probably spend several months in Auckland. He is a grand-nephew of the late Queen Makear, who ceded the island to Britain. Another passenger was Mr. R. Hyne, formerly Chief Justice of Tonga, who has been appointed Judicial Commissioner of the Solomon Islands.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 150, 22 March 1938, Page 8
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86RAROTONGAN CHIEF Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 150, 22 March 1938, Page 8
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