L.M.S. Samoans Deprecate
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Sunday Work
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, December 5.
IT seems that the necessity to work the last Hauraki, which arrived at Apia on a Sunday, has wounded the religious suscep tibilities of the orthodox in Samoa. Though Roman Catholics and Mormons accepted the Sunday work as a necessity in a case of emergency, some adherents of the London Missionary Society had consider able scruples and sent a deputation to the Acting Administrator to voice their objec tions.
The banana shipment if left standing on the wharf till Monday would probably have suffered considerably by the ripening of a portion of the fruit. The working of the Hauraki on Sunday, therefore, was abso lutely necessary and public opinion sup ported the Administration in this regard.
Mrs. Gunther, wife of Dr. C. E. M.
Gunther, Medical Officer of Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd. in New Guinea, will return to Australia with her son by the Mon terey on January 27 after a holiday in the United States.