Fatal Bus Accident In

Western Samoa

APIA, June 1.

ON May 23, a passenger motor-bus of the Gold Star Co., Ltd., driven by a Samoan, Lui Hane, travelling from Apia to Falelatai, smashed into a coco nut tree at Peapatela Plantation (NZ Reparation Estates) and caused two deaths.

The bus took a curve in the road at speed, struck and killed a Samoan pedestrian, and hit a tree so hard that the left side of the bus was smashed and four of the passengers injured—one of whom, a child, died later. The cause of the accident is the subject of police investigation.

Fire At Faleolo Airport

DURING the night of May 10, the Radio Office of NZ National Air ways Corporation at Faleolo Airport, 20 miles west of Apia, was completely de stroyed by fire, with radio equipment and plant. Loss is £4,000. Cause of the fire is unknown.

Congestion Of Produce

SOME 5,000 tons of copra are accumu lated in Apia produce sheds, with a large quantity of cocoa beans, awaiting transport. An English cargo steamer is expected to lift some 4,000 tons of copra during June, while another 1,000 tons are earmarked for New Zealand.

The Norwegian motor-ship “Thor I” is expected shortly to lift a large quantity of cocoa beans, some 100 tons of which have been purchased by Syria at a price of approximately £l3O sterling per ton FOB Apia.

Recent abnormal heavy rains do not augur well for the incoming cocoa crop.

Wedding In Apia

THE marriage took place at the Apia Protestant Church on May 28 of Rev. Francis Auld, Resident LMS Missionary and Minister of Apia Protestant Church, and Miss Barbara Joy Fowles, headmistress of LMS Papauta Girls’ School. The ceremony was performed by Rev. H. W. Whyte, of Malua, and was followed by a reception and a Samoan feast and entertainment.

There was a large gathering of Euro peans and Samoans.

Lms Meeting At Malua

THE annual Meeting of the London Missionary Society took place from May 11 to May 21 and, as usual, was attended by thousands of Samoan

adherents from all districts of Western and American Samoa. The Rev. Nor man Cocks, Secretary of the South Pacific Conference of the LMS, was present and Rev. P. Kightley, of Tuasivi, Savaii, was elected Chairman of the Samoan Church.

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