THE SOCIETY ISLANDS.
COMMISSIONER’S INSPECTION. (by telegraph—press association.) WELLINGTON, April 12. Mr. Tyson, the Resident Commissioner of the Cook Islands, has just completed a three months’ cruise on a tour of inspection. At Palmerston Island he found that the coconut trees damaged in the hurricane of 1914 were coming into bearing again. At Lmvurrant Island the pearl shell and pipi pearl trade received attention. The bottom has fallen out of the pearl trade, owing to the situation, in Europe, and the decreasing use of pearl buttons. Money was still being earned for the latter, but the demand was not keen. Regulations were made to confine diving to limited periods, and it was decided that tests should be made with machines in deep water beyond the ordinary divers’ reach.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 12 April 1927, Page 5
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128THE SOCIETY ISLANDS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 12 April 1927, Page 5
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