Fatal Fire at W. Samoan
pp. 57-58 · Read in the full issue
Trade Store
Apia, Jan. 12.
FIRE destroyed the trading station of A. G. Smyth & Co. at Vaitomuli, Savaii, Western Samoa, on December 31.
The trader, Fasi Scanlon, was
filling a bottle of benzine from a drum while Lega-aia, a Chief of Fa’ala, was holding a kerosene lamp.
The bottle of benzine exploded, set ting alight to the drum of benzine and a drum of kerosene. The chief was badly burned and died some days later on the way to Apia hospital. The trading station burned to the ground.
Mr. Charlie Quintal, who is well known in Bougainville, has recently returned there from Norfolk Island to take over the management of Kekere Plantation, near Kieta, for Mr. J. Joyes. Mr. Quintal was for many years with Lever’s Pacific Plantations in BSI.
Mrs. Elma Good, of Kesa Plan tation, Buka, New Guinea, left for Australia for a health and holiday trip in January. Mrs. Good has been managing her own plantation for three years without a break and residents of the district are full of admiration for her fine effort.