Oceania
pp. 59-60 · Read in the full issue
W. Samoa’S New Stamps
Prom Our Own Correspondent APIA, March 16.
A NEW issue of pictorial stamps for Western Samoa were placed }n sale on March 10. The new sets :omprise denominations of id, Id, 16, 3d, sd, 6d, Bd, 1/-, 2/- and 3/-.
Great interest in first day covers )f the new stamp issue has been shown by stamp collectors all over :he world and thousands of the new »ets were ordered before the date of ssue. Large quantities of the old ssue, which had been in circulation since August, 1935. were also pur chased by local buyers.
Oceania
THE latest issue of Oceania (December, 1951) contains the usual quota of articles of interest to the amatuer or professional anthropologist.
A long article containing Mekeo poems and legends is supplied by A.
P. Allan Natachee—apparently a native of Mekeo. If the editors had supplied an introduction to this item it would have been more interesting for the reader. But apparently be-
lieving that science needs no ex planation, they have published Natachee’s contribution as supplied.
Mrs. Elizabeth S. Williams, war time chief of American Red Cross in New Zealand and Solomons, and later well known in Fiji and Tahiti, is going to work for two years at the Ambala Mission hospital and lepro sarium, near New Delhi, in India, Since leaving Tahiti she has travelled extensively in Europe.
Mr. David Ragg this month will retire from the post of General Manager of Northern Hotels, Ltd., Fiji, but will remain on the direc torate. Mr. S. Hollander, who joined the Co. from NZ a year ago, takes Mr. Ragg’s place.
The Administrator of Papua-New Guinea, Colonel J. K. Murray, “as a distinguished visitor,” was given a seat on the floor of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, Hobart, on March 26. The Administrator is in Australia on long leave.