Demoralising?

Is Tourist Trade

Heated Argument in Samoa

Prom Our Own Correspondent

APIA, March 26. j

r!ADE prospects are very goo The 1952 MOF copra pric will now continue. Cocoa pric( are high—£33s Stg. for First grad and £225 for Second. It now loot as if in 1953 we shall export t New Zealand a quarter-millio cases of bananas (compared wit 65,000 cases in 1952).

There is a heated controversy i the local newspaper concerning th value or otherwise of a large tourist traffic for Western Samoj Samoa is now on the TEAL rout between Fiji and Tahiti; all th other Groups are reaching oi eagerly for tourist business; an Samoa can fairly claim that it ha tourist attractions at least as goo as those of other Groups.

The Samoan people are amon the few Islands communities whic can be called “unspoiled,” and 1 section of our people fear that th introduction of a large stream c tourists might demoralise them, 1