Young People From Samoa
pp. 8-9 · Read in the full issue
Migration to New Zealand
From Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Feb. 28.
AN Increasing number of Euroneslan youths and girls are travelling from Samoa to New Zealand, in search of employment. There is already a large and growing colony of these attractive young Islands people in Auckland, and a smaller group in Wellington.
It is stated that most of the youngsters succeed in getting good and well-paid work in New Zealand and are adapting themselves very well to New Zealand conditions.
Ratu Deve Toganivalu, i. 5.0., died at Bau, Fiji, on February 21, aged 75. Join ing the Civil Service as a Native Tax Inspector in 1888, he rose to the posi tions of Native Stipendiary Magistrate and Governor’s Matanivanua, and was appointed Roko Tui Bua in 1909. He retired from the Service in 1927. After being a member of the Legislative Coun cil for 13 years, he resigned in 1938.
He was awarded the Imperial Service Order for faithful service to the Gov ernment in 1928.
A group of well-known Fiji residents photographed on the “Monterey” just before she sailed for Suva on March 3. From left: Mr. J. M. Aitken, of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co.’s field staff at Penang; Mrs. J. Scott; Mr. J. Scott, chief engineer at the C.S.R. mill, Nausori; and Mrs.
C. W. Pinkerton, whose husband is an employee at the Nausori mill. Mr. Aitken returned to the Colony after furlough in Sydney. Mr. and Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Pinkerton are at present on leave in Sydney.
Hon. C. J. T. Barton, Colonial Secret ary of Fiji, took part in a conference with the New Zealand Government in February which dealt with the price and quota system of Fijian bananas shipped to the Dominion. With Mr. A. B. Ack land, Inspector of Produce in Fiji, he re turned to Suva by the “Aorangi” late in February.