Police Commissioner Maara Tetava waves “bon voyage” to the crew of Samoan police patrol boat Nafanua, from fi shing charter boat the Clansman. He was accompanying the Queens Representative Tom Marsters for an offi cial sail past off the coast of Avarua yesterday morning. Patrol boats from the Cook Islands and Tonga are taking part in Exercise Ika Moana within this country's Exclusive Economic Zone. 17081008 PHOTO: Ronnie Siulepa
A centuries-old maritime tradition was honoured for the first time in the Cook Islands yesterday morning off the foreshore of Avarua, in a “ceremonial review of the fleet”.
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