Samoan Scholar’S
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Seven Steps
To The University
A NATIVE of American Samoa is now at the University of the Philippines. He is Nikoloa I.
Tuiteleleapaga, who was awarded a United Nations Scholarship to study for one year in the Philippines Islands.
To get to the Philippines he went from Pago Pago (American Samoa) to Apia (British Samoa) by small ship; from Apia to Suva (Fiji) by plane; then overland 40 miles to Fiji’s airport at Nadi; then by Pan American plane to Canton Island; then to Honolulu; thence Guam; and from there to Manila.
As assistant to Dr. Herbert S.
Spencer (director of education in American Samoa) Mr. Tuitele leapaga is responsible for teacher personnel, pupil personnel, buildings and grounds. He received the first United Nations scholarship given to any native of American Samoa.
If Dr. Keith Barry, Programme Con troller of the ABC, visited Papua and New Guinea in July. A Children’s Session, Argonauts Club and School Broadcasts will be in troduced to 9PA and VLT before the end of the year.
The Rugby Union team of the Fijian Infantry Battalion in Malaya, recently beat a French Army team in Saigon, 70-0.