Wanderlusting Niueans

Stranded In Samoa

From Our Own Correspondent

Niue, Oct. 9.

SHIPS’ passages to New Zealand are hard to come by for Niue natives as there is a long waiting list.

Most of the six berths available for

the Island are taken up by Europe;; The Niueans have now discove that it is comparatively easy to passages to Apia and Suva, and more affluent are taking deck passs to these points and then going on Auckland by air.

Many Niueans are stranded Apia and Pago-Pago and are uns to get passages home either via S 5 or direct. With a few Niue: travelling deck to Pago-Pago every trip of the Tofua the probl* is becoming serious. So far the A ministrations of American Samoa i Niue have taken no steps to restl travel and the result is that famii of the Niuean wanderers are s jected to pleas from them for mo:< and food to support them American Samoa, where work : food are hard to come by. (Ed. Note: There seems reason—outside of unbridled wane lust—why Niueans should go Pago. Recently 900 Amerii Samoans migrated to Hawaii becaf of economic conditions in their ha Territory; and 1,000 more skil workers are waiting to migrate soon as jobs and transport can found for them.) Mrs. L. Searl, of Talasea, N Britain was visiting her mother Sydney in October.