The steamer Taluno, which trades from Auckland to the Cook Islands and Tahiti, recently landed at Aitutaki two motor cars which she had carried from Rarotonga. The natives of that island —a largo atoll of the Cook group —have already embarked upon .all the delights of “joy rides," and the taxis aro expected to establish a very profitable business. The one difficulty about motoring at Aitutaki is that there is only one place to go to—the end of the one road, so that the native who wants to do the outing on a grand scale goes several times. Light-haired people, it is said, as a rule live longer than those having dark
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Otago Witness, Issue 3111, 29 October 1913, Page 11
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