Radio Broadcasts For Western Samoa
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Western Samoa
From our own correspondent , „ Apia, October 1.
AMONG Administration projects an nounced at the recent Fono of Faipule is the creation of a Samoan Broadcasting Service, and the installation of receiving sets with loud speakers in all Samoan villages. The receiving sets are to be paid for by the villages, but the administration will undertake in stallation and upkeep.
It is intended to broadcast official announcements, debates of the Legisla tive Council and news in the Samoan and English languages, besides Samoan music and dancing, singing by individual artists
and choirs, band music and transmissions from records.
The superintendent of Apia wireless station has already commenced broad casting more or less as an experiment, and the results have been encouraging.
The Administrator (Colonel F. W. Voel cker) and the Fautua (High Chiefs) have given addresses over the radio.
Up to August 21, £4,788 had been raised in Fiji for the Fiji Gifts to Britain Fund. The Fijian natives are showing their customary generosity—no less than £620 has been subscribed by natives living in Suva. . Lieut. R. Genge, Flying Officer Theo Hansen and Trooper W. Sachs, returned recently to their homes in Fiji.