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W. Samoa
From Our Own Correspondent . APIA, June 14.
GREAT preparations are being made for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the first Roman Catholic priests in Samoa and the beginning of their mission work in the territory.
Several important functions are plan ned at the centres of the Roman Catholic Mission in Samoa, Mdamoa, Leauva’a and Apia. Numerous visitors from all over the islands and abroad are expected, and
thousands of mission adherents will gather in Apia to attend the festivities.
From Ameritan Samoa alone are to come one thousand visitors. Amongst important church functionaries from abroad who will attend are the Arch bishop of Wellington, and the Bishops of Fiji and Tonga.
Mrs. Alice Bowring, who served with the American Red Cross in Noumea, New Caledonia, for about 16 months, returned to Australia early this year, and is at the Red Cross station at Brisbane aero drome. She was formerly a well-known resident of Edie Creek, New Guinea,