COOK ISLANDS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 27, 27 October 1920, Page 7

COOK ISLANDS

j UEW RESIDENT APPOINTED.- » It was recently announced that Mr. . Platts. Resident Agent at rot ° n i a ' . was ieturning to New , end of the year, and that, he would be i appoi ited to the Magisterial bench. -, ! was also stated in the House by the Prime Minister that the Government had . in view the appointment of another man 5 who would worthily discharge the duties 3 conuected with the local a lairsi of the 1 Cook and otfter islands lho Hon D. . .Pomarfl, interviewed yesterday, stated that tho position had been offered to Mi. JG L Hewitt, S.M., who is at piesent in England, and who had intimated his willingness to accept the positwn. Mr. Hewi't has now received the appoint meat. The new Resident at Rarotonga passed his law examinations m Dunedin. I As a young man, when his prospects did ' not seem very bright, he sUped on a Home-going vessel to . En j;, lan if ard. and on arriving in the Old■ Countiy , earned his living as an a^ st ; J?" water-colour paintings will be familiar to New Zealanders. toi tox* years he. was apprenticed to Mr, s&r. of Dunedin, and for several vea-s he was lecturer on commercial law to ;ha Dunedin Technical c jf sses ,-* sso " cia'ion. He was recommended for a position in the Magistracy by some of tho leading barristers m the Dornimion, and in 1910 was .appointed Waiden and Ma"Wrate at Greymouth. In 1915■ lie was to the Marten and lahnne district? and .quite recently lie ob tamed leave to visit England to see lus son. «ho is in the Navy. Jr HCTitt hns also acted as chairman of tlie Han way Appeal Board since tho retirement of Mr Uaselden. The. new Resident is a man of strong character, _ and in addition !o being an artist he is also musical S « defeuul ■ raconteur. . One verv eood etorv is told of him during a visit toDunedin after he had been anpomted C Vrlaistracy. A former shipmate whoVnew him as a steward on °^an linnr in which made his tot usitro the" Old World, accosted him on the D ned n wharf,'and noting an air of prosperity about him, remarked, ffH,caV? ?l re£lthe worthy Magishim n successful career in his new posisecretary to .the tr TV Pomare will no as secretary to heVSent! Mr Foster ia a returned soldier who wont away with the Main —a-