THE COOK ISLANDS.
WELLINGTON, This Day,
• Sir Maui Pomare, Minister in charge of the Cook Islands, has returned from there yesterday by the Maunganui. With the under-secretary, Mr J. D. Gray, he spent a month in the group. Interviewed on his return the Minister said he had noted many improvements since his visit four years previously. The export trade now totalled, he said, about £136,000 and good progress had also been made at the experimental farm where tropical fruits were grown with the view of testing their suitability for cultivation in the islands. During the past year tomatoes valued at about £I7OO were exported to New Zealand. About 800 natives were attending schools where native arts and crafts, hat making and mat weaving were taught. The Minister found the natives happy and contented, but adequate shipping facilities were badly needed. The island could be made a winter garden for New Zealand.
Passengers by the Maunganui were impressed by the natives’ leave-taking of their Minister. About sixty of them gathered on the deck of the steamer and executed a spectacular native dance.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1425, 10 November 1923, Page 5
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