Death Of Sister Cecilia

57 Years’ Work In Samoa

APIA, June 28.

THE senior member of the Marist Mis sionary Sisters, Sister Cecilia, died recently, aged 79, at the Catholic Mission at Moamoa, near Apia. Sister Cecilia, bom in Australia, was a member of the St. Julian family, well known in Fiji, and came to Samoa at the age of 22, in 1892, to organise the religious and educational activities of the Marist Sisters in Samoa.

Together with the late Sister Joseph (a member of the Swann family, also well known in Fiji and Samoa) she founded the Marist Sisters Girls’ School at Savalalo; and, later, from 1905 to 1933, she taught at the Marist Sisters School at S’alelavalu, Savaii. Prom 1934 to 1942 she again taught at the Savalalo (Apia) school, retiring in 1942 to Moamoa, where she spent the last years of her life.

Sister Cecilia was greatly respected by the European and Samoan communities and revered by generations of girls who had been educated and influenced bv her during her long residence of 57 years in the Territory.

Mr. J. B. Wright, after acting for several months after the departure of the former secretary to the Samoan Government, Mr. W. R. McCulloch, was recently ap pointed secretary to the Samoan Govern ment. Mr. L. M. Cook, formerly of Raro tonga, Cook Islands, succeeds Mr. Wright as Collector of Customs.