E. Samoa’S Tireless
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Governor
THE tireless Governor of Ameri can Samoa, Colonel Phelps Phelps, has been recently in Washington, urging acceptance of an offer by Pan American Airways to make a regular call at Pago Pago, reports the Honolulu Star Bulletin.
He also is trying to induce Wash ington to make 1 290,000 dollars available for his Territory in 1953, which is nearly 700,000 dollars more than the current year’s bud get.
American Samoa’s only regular communication with the outside world, says the newspaper, is a monthly call by the 5,000 tons steamship Tofua, which travels via Suva and Apia. Is this a new ser vice, or does the newspaper refer thus to the new motor-vessel Tofua?