Sad End To American-Samoan Romance

Mr. H. Moorhouse, well-known in Suva, Fiji, as manager of the Queensland Insurance Company, has been guest-of honour recently at many farewell parties.

He has been transferred from the Suva to the Calcutta office, where he will be come manager for India and Burma.

Mr. F. M. Bateson, lately of the RNZ Navy, arrived in Rarotonga in February to take up duty as general manager for the Cook Islands branches of A. B.

Donald, Ltd. Mr. Bateson was accom panied by his wife and two young daughters.

Lieut.-Colonel D. F. McCraig has been appointed to act as a member of the Committee of Management of the Fiji Servicemen’s After-care Fund during the absence from the Colony of the Rev.

S. G. C. Cowled.

THE young American naval officer, Lieut.-Commander Richard Warren Robinson, who married Miss Ruth Turnbull, daughter of Mr. A. C. Turnbull (Administrator of Samoa) and Mrs. Turn bull, last year, has been killed, while serv ing aboard an American aircraft carrier in the Pacific.

Commander Robinson, a 1939 graduate of Annapolis, was commanding officer of a squadron of fighter planes at the time of his death. Interment took place in an Allied cemetery on an island in the Paci fic, pending the end of hostilities.

Commander Robinson was serving aboard a destroyer at Pearl Harbour at the time of the Japanese attack. Shortly after, he was returned to the States, and took flight training at Pensacola, Fla. He then served a year as commanding officer of a Samoan air base, before returning to the west coast, where he was in 'charge of training naval air squadrons. He had just returned to the Pacific with one of his squadrons.

It was while he was stationed in Samoa that he met and married Miss Turnbull.

His wife is now making her home in Columbia, South Carolina, with her hus band’s people. She is not yet 21 years old.

This photograph of the couple was taken in Apia last year.

One of the largest shipments of bananas (24,000 cases) arrived in Auckland from Fiji, Samoa and Tonga, on May 19. The banana season in the islands is said to be very good this year.

Commander and Mrs. Robinson.