The wife of a senior New Zealand police officer has drowned during a holiday in Rarotonga.
A close friend who tried to save Judith "Judy" Lorraine Palmer, 62, from a lagoon yesterday also drowned.
Mrs Palmer was the wife of Chief Inspector John Palmer.
Close family friend Robert "Bob" Groves, 64, was also there with his own wife for the wedding, police said.
The couple were neighbours in Auckland's Birkenhead.