COOK ISLANDS.
NEW COMMISSIONER'S ARRANGEi . ,MENTS. :.'; Final arrangements have been niado for Captain Northcroft to tako.up tho position of Resident Commissioner of tho Cook Islands. • Captain Northcroft is at present' in Wellington, arid will leavo for the islands at the end of this month. ■;,.
Tho new Resident Commissioner informed a Dominion-reporter on Saturday evening that he hoped to return to Auckland to-day. Tho brief delay that has occurred in taking up his appointment has been duo mainly to the illness of hie wife, who lately underwent an operation, but is now on tho road to ; recovery. Mrs. Northcroft will*remain in New Zealand until sho is fully restored to health, and will pin her lnubnnd in Rarotonga, probably' in April or May next. Captain Northcroft- visited' Karotonga in May and Juno last year; as a tourist. He had never previously visited the Cook Mauds, but he has an acquaintance with Maori manners and customs which should stand him in good stead when he takes up his now duties. 1 Ho landed in Now Zealand in 1851, when ho was-five years' of ago, served right, through the.-Maori wars, and has always lived in outside districts. For many years Captain Northcroft was District Magistrate in the Wnikato.' •■.'*'. , ' n " The Maoris of the Cook Islands, Caplain Northcroft mentioned, bear an- extremely close resemblance to the Natives of • the Upper Wanganui district. Save for a few letters, the languages of these widely-separated tribes are 'indistinguishable, and anyone acquainted with the Maori language heating a Cook blander speak from a short distance away might easily imagine that the utterance was that of an Upper Wanganui Native. Captain Northcroft retired from' tne magistracy about two years ago. He has sinco lived at ICihikihi, near Tokaanui, where ono of his activities has been the cultivation of an orchard. :■ An honorary oflico in.which he served the State during his period of retirement was that of ■ inspector of the Tokaanui Mental Hospital. ' ' ' '■' '' :■■' ' :■.'
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1670, 10 February 1913, Page 4
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322COOK ISLANDS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1670, 10 February 1913, Page 4
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