A native woman, Mrs. Taria Marsters, died by strangulation at Rarotonga yesterday. Her husband has been arrested. This is the first violent death at Rarotonga since 1926. A steady influx of Swiss migrants at the rate of 50 a month into Australia has been arranged between the Commonwealth Government and the Swiss Consul-General They will include farmers and highly-skilled mechanics. The visit of Sir Edmund Ironside, British Inspector-General of Overseas Forces, is described as a continuation of the contact of the British and Polish Staffs, says the Warsaw correspondent of the Times.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4812, 19 July 1939, Page 8
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