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Tales from the Pacific Islands: 5: Mautake's Patrol

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by Sir Arthur Grimble

The late Sir Arthur Grimble has come to represent in the mind of his readers and listeners the prototype of the devoted and disinterested Colonial Governor.
The kind of disinterested devotion which he in his time inspired in the breast of Mautake, Chief Headman of Tarawa, is described in the fifth and final talk in the present series.

(The recorded broadcast of September 12, 1952)

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Sir Arthur Grimble

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