Samoan Volunteers

Prom Our Own Correspondent

Apia, Aug. 23.

THE second contingent of men who have enlisted for service overseas will shortly leave for training in NZ.

They are Messrs. L. Aspinall, P. Foster, J. Hancock, L. Jessop, R. P. and F. J.

McFall, and they will leave in charge of Sgt.-Major T. Bott, of the Samoan Defence Force.

Apia Patriotic Society organised a func tion at which each man was presented with a wristlet watch.

The following New Guinea men have left the Territory to join the AIF; — Rabaul: Messrs. L. McMahon, McKee, McMillan-Kerr and I. Downs; Wau: Messrs. G. Selle, R. Whitbread, C. Duffy, J. McDonald and S. Watson.

Mrs. Krutli, wife of Mr, O. C. Krutli, a Papuan Government surveyor, died in Pt.

Moresby, on August 22.

Mrs. Lucy Friend (wife of Mr. L. C.

Friend, well known in Fiji as a member of the staff of the Bank of New Zealand in Suva for many years), died in August at Napier, NZ. She was a sister of Mr.

L. E. Austen, officer in charge of Native Coffee Plantations at Sangara, Papua.