Murder In Samoa
pp. 63-64 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Oct. 23.
ON the afternoon of Saturday, October 21, a Niue Islander named Foupa, who was employed as labour fore man by the Apia Stevedoring Company, was mysteriously murdered while work ing on his taro plantation, just off the Siumu Road, south of Vailima, near Apia.
The death was caused by severe knife injuries on the neck. The murdered man was working by .himself on his taro patch.
No motive for the murder is known.
The Apia police have the matter in hand. This is the first murder which has occurred in the Territory for many years.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. R. S.
Ridgley, of Nasinu, Fiji, on October 18.
Mr. Ridgley is a master at the Fiji Boys’
Grammar School.
Miss Alice Pigott, Melanesian Mission worker in New Britain, has returned to Australia after serving for a year at Kumbun. Her withdrawal from the mis sion field is the result of restricted sup port caused by the war.