"Calling the Islands"

ANOTHER interesting talk to the Paci fic Islands, by Sir Harry Luke, lately Governor of Fiji, was given through the BBC on March 9. He dis cussed Pacific subjects in an informative way, and transmitted several personal messages to people in Fiji and Tonga.

Before Sir Harry spoke, Mr. Alistair Lock sent best wishes to Queen Salote, of Tonga, on the occasion of her birthday (March 13).

Word has been received in Apia from New Zealand that an ambulance pur chased with funds raised by the Apia branch of the Red Cross, has been shipped to Egypt.

Tapusoa Ese, a native of Safetu, Savai’i, was convicted, on February 5, of having murdered a fellow villager, Saua, on December 16, 1942. Chief Judge J. R.

Herd sentenced him to death.