W. Samoa’S Road Scheme

Another Section Opened

From Our Own Correspondent

Apia, Feb. 25.

A MONSTER Samoan feast on Febru ary 11, attended by 2,000 visitors from all parts of Samoa, and by European and Samoan officials marked the completion of another portion of the new Samoan road construction scheme— the Sa’anapu Hospital road section.

The Acting High Commissioner, Chief Judge C. C. Marsack, complimented the people of Salanapu on their contribution to the construction of the road and their unselfish co-operation with the Govern ment.

The traditional feast that followed the speeches included over 10,000 taros, 120 bunches of ripe bananas, 120 large fish, 250 fowl, about 100 pigs, 30 head of cattle, 15 kegs of salt beef, 12 cases of pilchards and numerous lobsters and crabs.

A collection made by the visitors to wards the village fund for hospital, school and welfare work brough liberal con tributions amounting to £7OO.

Mr. and Mrs. E. V. O'Brien of Mililat, plantation, Madang, New Guinea, spent a few days in Brisbane recently en route to Sydney, where they intend staying for 'Some months.

Queensland bom Archdeacon G. D. Hand, Bishop Coadjutor-elect of New Guinea, will be consecrated in Dogura Cathedral, Papua, on June 29. He said recently in Brisbane that the Anglican Church intended to introduce to New Guinea better methods of agricultural and animal husbandry. It was trying to get from Australia missionary agriculturists and others to help develop the natives’ own economy. He said Anglican nuns would soon be sent to New Guinea for the first time. They would be from the Sisters of the Holy Name, Melbourne, and would assist in the education of the New Guinea women and children.

Mrs. Eileen Leyer, after spending many weeks in Queensland recently returned to Madang, New Guinea. A pre-war resi dent of Port Moresby, she was evacuated to the mainland early in 1941. During her temporary residence in Brisbane, Mrs. Leyer, was a popular and active re presentative of the AMP Society, and at the latter period of her stay in the Northern Capital, was attached to the British Naval Forces at Bulimba. Asked her opinion of life in the Islands, as com pared with that in Australia, Mrs. Leyer said she “did not care if she never visited Australia again.” Madang, she though, offered as many attractions for tourists as most Australian coastal towns. She predicted a big tourist trade to the Islands if and when ample ships and ac commodation became available. Many Brisbane people had expressed to her a keen desire to visit the Territory, es pecially those who had lost relatives during the Pacific War.