Weekly Paper For W. Samoa

FIRST issue of Western Samoa’s new bi-lingual weekly paper made its appearance in Apia on November 3.

This date was also the 50th birthday of its proprietor, Western Samoa’s most energetic businessman, Mr. Eugen Paul.

Western Samoa’s last newspaper, the Western Samoa Mail, edited and published by J. W. Liston, went out of existence early in the Second World War years and there has keen no local news-sheet since.

Mr. Paul’s new paper is called Samoan Times —Tusitala Samoa, and is printed in English and Samoan.

Mr. Paul is of mixed parentage. His father was German, his motnejr an American Samoan. In World War I he served in the American National Guard and when he returned to Samoa in 1925 started the now prosperous Gold Star bus and taxi transport service. In 1935 he founded Samoa Theatres Ltd., and in 1945 he bought Mr. Liston’s printery from which the new weekly will be issued.

Unlike previous Apia papers (there was one in the German days, too) Samoan Times will be sold by newsboys in the streets.