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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1951Vol. XXI, No. 9

W. Samoa Election

p. 13 · Read in the full issue

From Our Own Correspondent APIA. April 6.

THE election of the five European mem bers of the Western Samoan Legis lative Assembly will be held in the Territory on April 27 —a day before the Australian elections.

The campaigning of the candidates —of whom there are, so far, nine nominated — is just beginning. The election is being fought on non-party lines. Two of the candidates are Mr. A. G. Smyth and Mr.

A. M. Gurau, both well-known men in the Territory.