Tokelaus
pp. 27-28 · Read in the full issue
Record Copra Crop In
From Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Oct. 20.
MR. E. E. DUNWOODIE, Postmaster of Apia, has just returned from a round trip of the Tokelau Islands, a few hundred miles north of Samoa, which are administered from Apia.
He reports that the islanders have for tunately been spared from the various epidemics, which have ravaged Samoa during the past six months. A new wire less station has been installed in the group. * Mr. Dunwoodie reports that the Toke lau people are cutting a record crop of copra.
Judge H. P. Wood, Chief Justice in American Samoa, arrived at Auckland by the Mariposa on a brief visit to New Zealand in October.
Mr. Harold Gatty, representative in Australia for Pan-America Airways, re turned to Sydney by the Monterey on November 2 after attending a conference in New Zealand on trans-Paciflc air ser vices. He said that P.-A. Airways are definitely going ahead with their earlier plans to connect the United States and New Zealand, via Hawaii and Samoa, by flying-boat.