R.A.F Plane From Western
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... , , a . pUb^ lC tr mee^P g TT r an 2, worth SS a b comm?ttee n representing all sections in Western Samoa, began to collect funds wherewith to donate an aeroplane to the R.A.F.
The Administrator, Mr. A. C. Turnbull, is chairman, and the arduous work of col lecting is under the direction of a well
known and popular lady, Mrs. A. G.
Smyth. The committee includes three Samoan High Chiefs—Tamasese, Mataafa and Malietoa. Europeans and Samoans ar e co-operating heartily in raising money - A notable gift is £lOO from the little Polynesian community of Fakaofo, L n T°kelau Islands, attached to Samoa. Fakaofo’s total population is 575, a nd these Polynesians are entirely de pendent upon their production of the, at present, unsaleable copra.