YOTJN G RAROTONGANS BEING EDUCATED AND TRAINED IN NEW ZEALAND. The first Cook Island boys sent from Rarotonga to learn various skilled trades in New Zealand At tVie request of the Cook Islands Administration these boys are now m the pmnlnv of the Post and Telegraph Department. Wellingrton. Chosen from the Rarotonga Technical School, they have aU passed a medical test to stand our climate. By having lids trained in New Zealand the Administration ii tends to provide the necessary supply if artisans for the Islands. The first scholarship boys sent from Rarotonga. schools to St„ Stephen's Co.lege, Auckland. Each boy lias von an Admimstration Scholarship entitling him to two years board and tuition at the College. It is honed that these boys will become teachers m their own schools m the Cook Islands. lhe Cook Islands schools have 26 teachers (nearly all Europeans) and more than 1000 pupils..

Free Lance, Volume XVIII, Issue 988, 11 June 1919, Page 18

YOTJN G RAROTONGANS BEING EDUCATED AND TRAINED IN NEW ZEALAND.

The first Cook Island boys sent from Rarotonga to learn various skilled trades in New Zealand At tVie request of the Cook Islands Administration these boys are now m the pmnlnv of the Post and Telegraph Department. Wellingrton. Chosen from the Rarotonga Technical School, they have aU passed a medical test to stand our climate. By having lids trained in New Zealand the Administration ii tends to provide the necessary supply if artisans for the Islands.

The first scholarship boys sent from Rarotonga. schools to St„ Stephen's Co.lege, Auckland. Each boy lias von an Admimstration Scholarship entitling him to two years board and tuition at the College. It is honed that these boys will become teachers m their own schools m the Cook Islands. lhe Cook Islands schools have 26 teachers (nearly all Europeans) and more than 1000 pupils..