Dynamiting Of Fish In
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Samoan Waters
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Apia. Apr. 20.
MANY complaints have recently been made about the large-scale dynamit ing of fish on the coasts of Savaii and South Upolu.
Supplies of gelignite, imported by the Government for blasting on the new roads, now in course of construction, have found their way into the hands of unauthorised people who use it for large-scale fishing, thereby destroying large numbers of im mature fish and affecting the future fish supplies in waters around Western Samoa.
It is hoped that in the interests of the Samoan people, the Samoan Government will take energetic steps to stop this illegal practice.
Mrs. Gordon Harris, formerly of Djaul Island plantation, in the New Ireland sec tion of New Guinea, arrived in Sydney from London in April, after an absence of ten y ears - In 1939 » when war came, Mrs. undertake war service. They were in the forces for a long time—Mrs. Hams was a WREN for over six years—and now they have transferred their interests to Kenya. Mr. Miller was lost in the Jap invasion—his fate in not known, exactly— and his estate has been somewhat of a muddle, and the Djaul plantation of some 30,000 coconuts (half of which have sur vived) has been sadly neglected. Mrs.
Harris intends to spend some time in Australia, looking after the interests which she and her husband still retain in the plantation.