Samoa Also

From Our Own Correspondent

Apia, Nov. 19.

AFTER abnormally dry weather condi tions, the drought broke in October, and we are now having ample rain fall. July, 1943, was the driest month since 1930; and the June-August period this year had the lowest rainfall for any three months’ period since 1925. Fruit crops suffered appreciably.

The beginning of the rainy season coincided as usual with the rising of the “Palolo”—the famous coral-reef worm of the South Seas.

A New Zealand manufacturing firm has just sent its first shipment of peram bulators, sulkies, and children’s chairs to Fiji. This appears to be evidence of the growing population of white residents in the islands, says an Auckland paper.

More likely a case of population follow ing the flag—or something.