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Pacific Islands Monthly, 23 March 1937Vol. VII, No. 8

Still No Administrator

pp. 21-22 · Read in the full issue

In Samoa

From Our Own Correspondent

Apia, Feb. 20.

WESTERN SAMOA is still without an Administrator, as the New Zealand Government, for reasons unknown, has not appointed a successor to General Hart, who relinquished the position in August 1935. The Acting Administrator, Mr. A. C. Turnbull, has departed for New Zealand, and Dr. P. J. Monaghan, C.M.0., is Acting Administrator pro tem.

Mr. R. W. Walshe, of Domara Planta tion, Kauru, Papua, arrived in Sydney with his wife by the February Montoro.

Captain N. S. 1». Kidson, Secretary to the Solomon Is. Administration, who re cently has been Acting Resident Com missioner at Tulagi, arrived in Sydney by the Malaita on February 28. He was on his way to England on furlough.