European Status
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5,000 Persons of European Status Final Details of W. Samoa Census
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, Afgust 13.
FINAL details of the 1945 Census of Western Samoa shows that there are 5,399 persons of “European status” in the Territory.
For census purposes these have been grouped as follows: Pure European 359 Chinese-Samoan 806 European-Samoan 4,171 Others 63 5,399 It is interesting to note that the Part- European population is composed mainly of members of a limited number of families, representing the descendants, to the third and fourth generation, of some old European pioneers. Twenty-two families, each with from 34 to 172 mem bers, provide 1,293 persons out of the total European-Samoan population of 4,171.
The largest family is the Stowers fam ily with 172 members; next is the Hunt family with 89 members, and the Fruean family and the Betham family with 81 and 70 members respectively.
It is reported in Sydney that Levers Pacific Plantations Ltd., have sold to the Solomon Islands Administration a large slice of their freehold lands at Lunga, on Guadalcanal, alongside the new admin istrative centre of Honiara. The ground is said to extend from the Manatanai River, to Kookum and Lunga,
Josua Bogidrau, a Fijian, is now on his way to England where he is to be at tached for a year, and possibly longer, to the London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies. He will help to prepare a course in the Fijian language for Colonial Service appointees, and will also with preliminary arrangements for linguistic research work which the school intends to undertake later in Fiji.