Samoa’S “Old-Timers”
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Are Disappearing
From Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Mar. 18.
The small band of “old-timers” and * pioneers in Western Samoa is disap pearing fast. There are only compara tively few left now, and each month or so sees the loss of another of these hardy people. During February and March, two more passed on—Mrs. A. J. Tattersall and Mr. C. Boysen.
The wife of Mr. A. J. Tattersall, Apia’s photographer, and one of the oldest iden tities on the beach, Mrs. Tattersall had been prominent in Apia social and church circles for many years. She had been ill for some time past and her end, on February 23 at the age of 65, was not unexpected. The funeral was very largely attended, Rev. H, S. Perkins conducting the impressive service at the graveside.
Two sons, who are in the Government service, and the widower, were the chief mourners.
The other old resident who passed away was Mr. C. Boysen, aged 67 years.
He settled in Samoa before the Great War, and lived on a small plantation on the West Coast.