Official American Visit to Apia
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From Our Own Correspondent.
APIA, June 1 THE station ship, Ontario, of the American Administration at Pago Pago. American Samoa, arrived at Apia on May 21 on one of her frequent visits.
The present occasion was an official or “state” visit, which took place amongst much salute firing, guards of honour, visits to plantations and an official visit to Government plantations.
The elaborate ceremony adopted seemed a trifle unwarranted when compared with the scant arrangements made on the oc casion of the King’s Jubilee, when a display of official ceremony would have been more in order.
A letter sent to the local paper by “Old Timer” very properly reminds the public of the splendid way the present King’s coronation was celebrated by the British residents of Apia in 1910 under German Administration, and which vividly con trasts with the very poor showing made by the New Zealand Administration in 1935.