Lively New Year’s Eve at Apia.
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From Our Own Correspondent.
APIA, January 30.
THE Costume Ball at the Tifaga Play house attracted a numerous and merry crowd, who celebrated in a good spirit into the early hours of the New Year, trying to forget their troubles and the hard times passed through in 1931.
Unfortunately, some of the merry makers had imbibed too much of the seasonal “spirit” and caused some ugly scenes, with brawling and fisticuffs, as a result of which they had to spend the first hours of the New Year in gaol, from which, after having sobered “up,” they were bailed out by their friends.
A further result was several court cases. The police proceeded against the director of the Tifaga Playhouse (Mr.
Moors), for assaulting a policeman, but the charge was dismissed by the Chief Judge, who considered that Mr. Moors had been justified in hitting the police man in question.