Still With Pim
p. 11 · Read in the full issue
Hundreds of Pacific Inlands residents have written for the Pacific Islands Monthly since it was established 21 years ago; scores have acted as regional correspondents; but the only regular correspondent who has made the com plete distance of 21 years is Mr. A. M. Gurau, MLA, pictured above. He has been Western Samoa correspondent of the PIM since 1930.
Mr. Gurau was born in Berlin in 1885, and when 21 he went to Russia and Poland as accountant for timber firms. In 1910 he was in South-west Africa as a native labour commis sioner and English interpreter. In January, 1914, he went with the late G. Kronfeld to
Samoa; and in Samoa he has been successively accountant, plantation overseer, commission agent and cocoa-planter. He has taken a keen interest in public affairs, has filled many posi tions, and, only this year, he contested and won a seat in the Legislative Assembly. In 1926, Mr. Gurau married Mrs. Elizabeth Ruland, daughter of a well-known Apia merchant, and most of their ten children now live in New Zealand.