Samoan Eagerness For
pp. 72-73 · Read in the full issue
Education
WHEN the Western Samoan Legislative Assembly voted £2,000 for a new school at Aleisa, the Samoans of Aleisa were so pleased that they offered to provide the labour for nothing, so that a bigger building might be erected.
Under PWD supervision, a schoolhouse oi 65 ft. by 25 ft. was erected, divided by a movable partition. It now accommodates 136 Samoan children, and four teachers.
The photographs show: TOP. —The new schoolhouse and the teacher’s residence, at the back.
CENTRE.—The younger children clear
mg the small stones from their play ground.
LOWER. —Older pupils cutting fire wood which they sold to raise funds for a concrete cricket-pitch.
Coconuts from Rabaul have for the first time since the war, been on sale in Bris bane for some weeks now. A favourite fruit with Brisbane youngsters, the coco nuts are sent by sea in monthly consignments.
Reg. Smith, at the Edmonds plantation. Haapitl, Moorea, French Oceania, warns his big brown hen that she must not let her ducklings go near the river, to be taken by eels. And the hen didn’t! She complacently watched them swim in a pool made by a leaking tap beside the bungalow.