Samoan Assembly
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Discusses Expenditure
Prom Our Own Correspondent APIA, Sept. 22. rnHE new Legislative Assembly of A Western Samoa which was elected on April 27 commenced its first session on August 20, and remained in session until Septem ber 6. The main business before the Assembly was the discussion of the Supplementary Estimates for the current year.
The Supplementary Estimates provide for the expenditure of addi tional £22,460 for capital develop ment and £31,295 on recurrent charges for the balance of the year ending December 31,. 1951.
The total vote for expenditure for 1951 stands now at £762,150; while the estimated revenue for 1951 is £558,540. To meet the excess expenditure the sum of £222,625 is drawn from the Reserves.
There is a probability that we shall see the famous amphibious jeep in which Australian-bom Major Ben Carlin and his American wife crossed the Atlantic. They are now in Britain, and plan to return to America via Europe, Asia and the Pacific Islands.
Australian newspapers of Sep tember 26 are responsible for the statement that, owing to local re sentment against his marriage to a Papuan girl, Mr. Cecil Abel has resigned from his directorship of the Kwato Mission in Eastern Papua, and has gone to live in a village about 60 miles away.