Big Land Sale In Samoa
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Developments in Savaii
From Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Nov. 12.
WHAT may be termed the biggest land deal ever made in Samoa was com pleted on Monday last, when Hon. A. G.
Smyth, M.L.C., on behalf of a local syndi cate, bought a large area of bush land, the so-called “Cornwall’ or Brunt Estate, comprising over 6000 acres on the island of Savaii, near the villages of Sataua, Asau and Falelima, at the western por tion of the island.
Details of the deal, which was made between the Public Trustee (the land being former German property) and Mr.
Smyth, have not been made known.
According to a report, an area of 2000 acres in the Faasaleleaga district of Savaii is to be planted under coconuts by the N.Z. Reparation Estates. The large coconut plantations of the Estates in Upolu (Mulifanua, Yaitele and Vailele) are over-aged and decreasing in value and output.
Mr. C. A. Berendsen, LL.M., who is well-known in the Cook Islands and Wes tern Samoa, will arrive iis Sydney from Europe by the Narkunda on December 23. He is the Permanent Head of the Prime Minister’s Department in New Zea land, and Under-Secretary for the De partment of External Affairs and for the Cook Islands Department.