Popular Samoan Wedding
pp. 17-18 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent.
APIA, August 30.
TN spite of low copra prices and hard times, the Samoan still to celebrate his family feasts and chiirch festivities with due pomp and ceremony irrespective of cost.
A wedding is announced in the near future of a young local born boy and a Samoan girl of a high chief’s family from Manono Island, a taupou (village virgin) of high rank. For the taunafataga (the great wedding feast in midday) and for the dinner and dance in the evening in vitations have been sent out to hundreds of European and Samoan guests The families of the bride and bridegroom have collected £2OO each to pay for the ex pense of the elaborate celebrations.
A dividend of 6d. per share (equal to 10 per cent, per annum) for the quarter ended June 30 was declared payable by Messrs, Holden’s Air Transport Services Ltd. on August 31.