Samoa’S Visitors
pp. 63-64 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Aug. 19.
QUITE a number of overseas travellers have visited Samoa during the past few months and spent an enjoyable holi day with friends and relations.
Among them were: Miss L. Penn, of Stratford, N.Z.; Mr. F. I. Jones (who stayed with his son at Vaitele Planta tion); Contessa Airoli, of Rome (a guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Bruce); Mr. W. H.
Fortune (a former school teacher in Samoa in 1919-20 )j Mrs. J. A. Paul, of Los Angeles: and Mr. W. C. Lishman (formerly wireless operator in Samoa).
Several of the prominent tourists
aboard the cruise liner Maunganui, which has just called at Apia, were: Hon. T.
O’Byrne, M.L.C. (who made the trip for the second time and who has been men tioned in the N.Z. press as a candidate for the position of Administrator of Samoa); Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Kelliher, of Auckland, N.Z. (who took the opportunity to visit their many Islands friends); and Mr. J. B. Grove, of Auckland (head of the well-known Islands firm of W. H.
Groves and Sons Ltd.), accompanied by his daughter.
Mr. E. M. Turner, of the Salamaua Carrying Co., returned to New Guinea early in September after a visit to Australia.
Mr. Ellis H. Davies, chief engineer of Messrs. C. Ruwolt Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, returned to Victoria from Fiji by the Mariposa on September 7, after inspec tion of the new treatment plants for the Emperor and Loloma goldmines at Tavua.