Wedding In Samoa

Apia, March 3 ON February 25, the wedding took place at the Anglican Chaplaincy, Apia, of Millicent, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Cobcroft, of Vaipoto Plantation, to Michael James O’Reilly, of Palmerston North, New Zealand. A reception was given in the evening at the Tivoli Theatre, when the Adminis trator and a representative gathering of some 200 guests spent a most enjoyable time.

Mr. Edgar Wright, who in 1945 won one of the Nuffield Scholarships which are being awarded to junior officers in the service of Colonial Governments to enable them to qualify for appointment to higher posts, passed in three of the four subjects for which he sat in the Sydney University examinations for the

Bachelor of Science degree last Decem ber. * ] Colonel F. A. Williams of Suva Fiji, celebrated his 81st birthday there on February 14. He is living in retirement now, but was formerly a member of the firm of Williams and Gosling. He is a World War I veteran.

Salialevu's Christmas Whale

During the Christmas holidays, a 54-ft, sperm whale (dead) was washed up on the beach at Salialevu, east coast of Taveuni, Fiji. The Fijians in the neighbourhood set to work and obtained 10 gallons of oil from the carcase before burning it in a spectacular blaze.

The whale was 6 ft. 6 in. at its thickest part. Photograph (by Caine’s Studios) shows some of the local children standing on it.