Detection, Journalism, Etc.

Versatile Samoan Tries Law,

P’rom Our Own Correspondent

Apia, Feb. 25.

A YOUNG Samoan named, appropri ately, Napoleon A. Tuiteleleapaga, has proved to be an outstanding representative of the younger generation of present day Samoa, and a pioneer in fields previously unexplored by Samoan youth. * Napoleon, who is at present employed as interpreter and Samoan editor of the monthly news-sheet “O le Fa’atenu” at Pago Pago, American Samoa, in 1948 completed a correspondence course in law at the University of Hawaii with an elaborate and interesting thesis on the “Legal System of Samoa” describing traditional old laws and legal practices of the Samoans and the impact of Euro pean law on the Group.

Napoleon also successfully completed a correspondence course of the American Detective Training School of New York and received a certificate of graduation.

He knows shorthand and has devised a method of writing it in Samoan.

Though he has no intention of going into law professionally or being a detec tive, he says that he wants to prove to other Samoan youths that bv study, hard work and “follow through,” Samoans, like Europeans, can achieve success in any profession.

Napoleon is a former student of the Teachers’ College of the University of Hawaii. In addition to his other ac compliments this versatile young Samoan is also a self-taught musician and com poser.

Miss Joan Beglen joined the staff of the Melanesian Mission Mothercraft School at Pamua, San Cristoval, BSI, in February.

The appointment has been announced of Mr. R. A. Malone, former Treasurer and Collector of Customs in the Western Samoan Administration, as the first Public Service Commissioner of the Samoan Government. An assistant Public Service Commissioner will be appointed later.