Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 February 1944Vol. XIV, No. 7

Samoan Conditions

p. 13 · Read in the full issue

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From Our Own Correspondent

Apia, Jan. 6.

THE rainy season started in earnest during the holiday season so that residents of Apia were confined to their homes during the Xmas and New Year.

Copra and cocoa shippers were for tunate to have their sheds completely cleared just before the end of the year.

Sixteen hundred tons of copra and several hundred tons of cocoa beans were shipped.

Laughing Polynesian girls, on an island “Somewhere in the Pacifie,” put on a lively native dance for the entertainment of United States servicemen.

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