High Commissioner
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W. Samoans Welcome New High Commissioner
From Our Own Correspondent THE new High Commissioner of Western Samoa, Mr. G. R. Powles and Mrs.
Powles, accompanied by Captain Whitlock and Mrs. Whitlock arrived in Apia on March 1 on HMNZ frigate.
“Hawea.”
They were given a traditional Samoan welcome, with European and Samoan re presentatives assembled to be presented and a Samoan ceremony including dances, songs |&nd speeches of welcome at the Samoan capital, Mulinu’u The new High Commissioner, who, as announced from Wellington, will follow the same policy as his predecessor, Col.
F. W. Voelcker, has so far made few pub lic appearances and is busily investigating Government activities and getting ac quainted with the various problems of the Territory.
Captain E. Olsen, who has been in Sydney recently in command of the Matson freighter “Ventura”, is the same Captain Olsen who was in command of the American ship “Golden Bear”, which helped evacuate citizens of Rabaul when the volcanoes erupted in 1937.
Monsieur Borgeau, Administrator of Colonies Ist Class, and New Caledonia’s wartime Secretary-General, has been made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour