Samoan Church Funds
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"Evaporate"
From Our Own Correspondent Apia, September 24. fT\HE Samoans have collected large X sums for new churches in the last few years. In some cases, the funds have evaporated into thin air. In one case a village congragation deposited £BOO with a local trader who when asked for it could repay only £5OO. In another case, the village community had hidden a large amount of church money in a hole in the ground, but when they wanted to dig it up again all traces of it had disappeared.