£32 Stolen From Apia

From Our Own Correspondent

AN audacious burglary was committed in the evening of December 14 at the German School at Vaimea, when during the absence of the teacher (Mr.

P. Hessmann), a thief forced an entry into the locked residence and with a hammer opened a trunk where a sum of £32 in notes was kept.

Apparently the crime was committed by someone with a knowledge of the locality.

Prints of bare, muddy feet found on the premises point to native Samoans as the malefactors.

Mr. Richard W. Fugle, plantation man ager, Purdy Islands, Manus, died recently in New Guinea.