LIFE AT RAROTONGA.
CRITICISMS OF A VISITOR. THE STATEMENTS REFUTED. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON. Thursday. While ho was at Aitutaki, in the Cook Group, Dr. Peter Buck says, Rarotonga was visited by tho English author, Mr. Robert Keable. On Dr. Buck getting back there, he fonnd the islanders very indignant at ■ reports of statements alleged to have been mado by Mr. Keable, in an interview at San Francisco, which were stated to be an abuse of the hospitality extended to him by the head ariki, Makea, who granted the author the use of his palace and food service. Dr. Buck says that Makea possesses all the best characteristics of the highest Polynesian lines of descent. Regarding allegations of drunkenness at Rarotonga, Dr. Buck says that if such an abuse really did come under Mr. Kcable's notice, it is strange that he did not inform the authorities.
Dr. Buck outlined the regulations governing tho use of liquor on tho island, showing that no abuse to the extent indicated in tho recent cablo messago conveying Mr. Keablo's statements was possible. Such statements were an unjustifiable slur on the administration and misleading to the public.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19471, 29 October 1926, Page 12
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193LIFE AT RAROTONGA. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19471, 29 October 1926, Page 12
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