Uncle Sam's Money

Big Trickle Into W. Samoa

From Our Own Correspondent

Apia, Nov. 20.

WESTERN Samoa has benefited sub stantially from the expenditure of a huge sum of money on the construc tion of a naval base at Pago Pago, Ameri can Samoa. A large number of our crafts men and labourers are profitably engaged there; and, in recent months, we have found, in Pago Pago, a very good market for many of cur products, especially bananas, taro, pineapples, avocados, mummy-apples and vegetables.

Sixty American officers and marines from the naval base came over to Apia early in November, on a three-days’ visit.

They were royally welcomed and enter tained —and they left many welcome American dollars here.