School Days In Samoa
p. 46 · Read in the full issue
rERE seems to be a spate of mission publications recently. The latest is a book_by Miss Evelyn A. Downs, which tells the story of the London Missionary Society’s Girls’ Boarding School at Papauta, in Western Samoa.
Miss Downs was 21 years with the school there, and has now gone to Papua to undertake similar work.
Her story of Papauta (“Daughter of the Islands”) tells the history and pur pose of the school and gives, as well, an insight into the normally simple life of the Samoan, the pattern of which is re tained in the IMS school.
The book has two coloured plates and 48 reproductions of photographs taken around the school by US Marine Corps photographers.
The story is pleasantly written and will be of value to those interested in native education and progress.
The Indians of Fiji urge that the sugar industry of Fiji should be nationalised. But they strongly oppose the suggestion that the bus services of Fiji (largely Indian-owned and operated) should be taken over by the Govern ment.
Small Indian to Small European: I hate you! You won’t give me your sugar mill to play with, and now you want my motor car!