War Revives an Old Industry
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From Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Nov. 1.
rE shortage of wrapping paper has revived the Samoan wicker-weaving industry. Shoppers in NZ and Australian towns want Samoan hand baskets—strong, light, handy things— and large orders for them have been placed with an Apia firm.
The copra industry is depressed, but the cocoa and banana industries are flourishing.
Mrs. Louise Floyd Murray, of Hong Kong, member of the Polynesian Club of Sydney and well-known in Tahiti, whose sudden death in Sydney was reported in the October “PIM”. Mrs.
Murray, whose Tahitian name was Manuura (Bird of Paradise), came of an old Tahitian family, and, through her father, Edward Chap man, was related to most of the families on Tahiti. Mrs. Murray arrived in Sydney in Sep tember, with a party of women who had been evacuated from Hong Kong.