More Money
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Apia Govt. Hotel Loses More Money
THE Casino Hotel, Apia, operated by NZ Reparation Estates (a Government agency), lost £BOO on its operations in the last financial year.
Built in German times, and later converted to use as a hotel, the Casino is probably the largest com mercial building in Western Samoa.
Most of its permanent residents are Government employees.
There are no licensed hotels in Western Samoa.
II Miss Judith Staff, of Sydney, re cently announced her engagement to Mr. Peter Day, a Papua rubber and copra planter. Miss Staff has studied singing for five years at the Sydney Conservatorium and four years ago she won the Sydney de Vries scholarship.
II Miss Gendowati Prasad, a young Indian school-teacher, returned home to Suva, Fiji, on January 10
after two years study leave in Aus tralia. During her stay she taught primary school children in Adelaide.
She will continue similar work in Fiji.
If Mr. and Mrs. Alan De Groen left Sydney in the Bulolo on January 12 for their home at Port Moresby.
They had just completed three months’ holiday in Australia, spent mostly at Orange, NSW.