Navy Ship Visits Apia
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A Apia, Nov. 20.
FTER visiting the Cook Islands and Tahiti, HMNZ Corvette Arbutus arrived here on November 6. She left again next day to take the Admin istrator, Colonel F. W. Voelcker and his party on an official visit to Pago-Pago, American Samoa. They returned on November 10, and after spending two days in the port left again for Niue Island.
During the stay of the ship, officers and men were entertained by residents in the traditional Samoan way.
Noumea’s new racecourse at Anse Vata beach, which will replace the old course at Magenta (which the US Forces turned into an airfield) is 1,600 metres in length and 16 wide. A tot ahsator is being provided with 16 win dows, and other buildings include a grandstand capable of seating 1,500 people.