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The works of Ta'unga: records of a Polynesian traveller in the South seas, 1833- 1896

Polynesian quarrying and adze production in southern New Zealand: Social organisation and manufacturing technology

Sport at one of Germany's lost colonies: the Administrator of Samoa, Colonel Logan, in the act of opening the new Samoa bowling green by playing the first bowl

Rescue work in the Pacific: passengers from the Maitai, which was recently wrecked on a reef at Rarotonga. Being taken on board a steamer

Ford car in Cook Islands

Untimely end to the steamer Maitai while on her voyage from San Francisco to New Zealand: the vessel hard and fast on a reef at Rarotonga, where she drifted on Christmas night

Niue islanders entertained at the Auckland Trained Nurses' Club by Nurse Nobbs, formerly of Rarotonga

Private Peni, of Niue Island, Died of wounds

Private Filitona, of Niue Island, Died of pneumonia

Corporal Hipa, of Niue Island, Wounded

Sergeant Pulu, of Niue Island, Died of wounds

Private Pineki, of Niue Island, Died of sickness