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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 October 1938Vol. IX, No. 3

Earthquake in Samoa

p. 32 · Read in the full issue

APIA, Sept. 13.

A STRONG earthquake tremor was felt in Apia at 1 a.m. on August 25. The shock was the most severe experienced this year and originated 20 miles north west of Apia, at Mount Tofua, an extinct volcano.

Mr. Julius Kruttschnitt, chairman of dir ectors of New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., has been nominated president of the Austral asian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy for 1939.

IVDss Mary Mills, of the New Guinea Mission, arrived in Sydney from Papua by the September “Montoro”.