Tomb Of Rls
p. 13 · Read in the full issue
Road Being Beautified
UNDER instructions from the Admin istrator of Western Samoa (Colonel F. W. Voelckner. DSO), steps have been taken to make the path which leads from the Vailima Road to the tomb of Robert Louis Stevenson, on Mt. Vaea, be hind Apia, a thing of real beauty.
A local botanist, Mr. Charles Reed, is planting up the area with selected varieties of hibiscus, crotons and frangi panni—shrubs and trees which should soon make a fine show.
It was a happy thought by the Admin istrator. The tomb of the great British writer almost certainly will be visited, in long years to come, by thousands of world travellers, and it has not been well cared for in the 60 years since Stevenson died.