Tragedies In Samoa
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From Our Own Correspondent
A Apia, May 25.
S a result of growing sophistication, suicides amongst Samoan natives, rarely heard of in former times, are on the increase. Recently, a young Samoan woman, a medical nurse, Fiti Faamoe, committed suicide at Salailua Sayan, by poisoning herself; and a man,’ resident at Saleufi, Apia, committed suicide by hanging himself on a bread fruit tree.
A Samoan woman, Faapusa Faumi, of Savan, killed her newly-born baby and buried it. A Samoan, Seko, of Faasale leaga, killed another Samoan, Lokeni, by chopping his head off with a knife. Three murder cases are to be heard by the Apia High Court in June.
Dr. J. T - Gunther, Director of Public Health in Papua-New Guinea, who at tended the session of the South Pacific Commission in Noumea, paid a visit to Suva in May.