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Pacific Islands Monthly, 18 June 1948Vol. XVIII, No. 11

Samoa Trip Off

p. 52 · Read in the full issue

From Our Own Correspondent

Suva. May 23.

rE Maori Rugby team will leave Auckland for Suva in the “Matua” on July 19 and will return by plane about August 9Nineteen players and two managers are coming.

The proposal to extend the tour to Samoa has been abandoned.

The new post of Agricultural Educa tion Officer in Fiji has been filled by the appointment of Mr. R. L. Hartley, Senior Lecturer in Agriculture at the Durham County Council School of Agriculture.

He is exnected to arrive in Fiji in July.

His duties will include the supervision of agricultural education at the Teachers’

Training College and Government schools and the organisation of young farmers’ clubs in Fiji.