Cargo Pillage At Niue

May 9, 1952 WO Niuean policemen were dis • missed and sentenced to two onths’ imprisonment for their part pillaging cargo on Feb. Tofua.

A case of shoes was apparently cached in the hold and several of e ship’s labourers were detected ming ashore in new shoes.

Some of them had lightly smeared e shoes with cement in order to ceive the authorities.

All the labourers implicated were 50 sentenced to imprisonment.

The Acting Resident Commissioner, r. H, Hickling, took a serious view the fact that the Police were in- Ived. Practically all the labourers >rking the ship were dismissed.

With this clean sweep of the “old nds” and their replacement with w labourers the Tofua was worked record time on the April trip. The rgo was shifted at a rate of over tons per hour, which is excellent >rk considering the long lighterage d the fact that there are only four hters in use.

At the May meeting of the Rabaul wn Advisory Council Mr. V. F. arson was re-elected Chairman :h Mr. W. B. Ryan Deputy Chair n.

The Critic

Suva Girls’ Gram mar School pupils played Sheridan’s play “The Critic’’ at Suva Town Hall recently. The photo graph shows a scene from the play and (left to right) Valerie Lee, Agnes Gibson, Margeurite Spitz, Leno ra Schierling, Lesley Cato, Brenda Smith and Ruth Delbridge. —Photo by Stinson Studios.

The secretary of Western Samoan Affairs, Mr. F. J. H. Grattan, and the General Manager of NZ Re paration Estates, Mr. D. R. Eden,' left Apia by air at the end of May for Noumea where they represented W. Samoa at the June meeting of the Research Council of the South Pacific Commission. The proposed economic

survey of Western Samoa was dis cussed at the meeting.

Mr. Pat Gardiner, of Apia, Samoa, formerly employed as a radio operator at Nadi Airport, Fiji is now operating a photographic business at the thriving young milling town of Tokoroa, central North Island, NZ.