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WE do not challenge one word of what Mrs. Grey has said. She is famous in two continents, and a lot of Islands, for having taken a ramshackle old building and turned it, by her lovable personality

and a genius for management, into a colourful Apia institution and an exceedingly pleasant place in which to live.

The waiter of our article, quite properly, was laying emphasis on the fact that, if Western Samoa ever is to develop the luxurious

tourist traffic that includes rich Americans with endless dollars, Western Samoa will have to provide something in the way of top-level hotels, Mrs. Grey’s is a place with atmos phere, remembered with pleasure by many travellers; but neither Mrs.

Grey’s hotel, nor any other estab lishment in Apia, is in the luxury class, so well known in the West Indian islands, Hawaii, and similar tropical holiday resorts. That was what our contributor said, in effect.

Maybe, he could have said it more tactfully; because Mrs. Grey, in building up her hotel in the face of much official indifference, has done a valuable public service for Western Samoa,