Vice-Regal Tour
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Argument in Samoa
APIA, July 1.
PREPARATIONS are being made now for the visit of the Governor-General of New Zealand, Sir Bernard Freyberg, on July 12. A large Samoan ta’alolo is planned for the occasion; but there seems to be some hitch now, as the people of Savai’i are reported to have declined to come to Apia for the occasion.
The argument is that the visit would involve thousands of them in great ex pense, especially as they would have to bring their food with them. They main tain that if the Governor-General can go to the Tokelau Islands (with about 2,000 inhabitants) he can just as well visit the island of Sava’ii, with 25,000 people. The whole of the Cook Islands group has only 20.000 inhabitants—less than Savai’i. (See also page 28, this issue).
Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Byrne, who recently were married in Queensland, have now made their home in Lae, New Guinea.